The Tropical Fruit Forum

Im just wondering if any qld members have or know of any highly productive sterculia quadrifida trees. Im convinced mine is a flowering dud. Id like to graft some better topstock to it. At the moment its almost an ornamental.

Hi all im chasing pouteria seeds of various species.
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http://oregonstate.edu/dept/NWREC/programs/berry-crops/grafted-blueberry-trial

Anyone else thought of trying this?

Tradewinds fruits list this species as edible, but after some googling I'm not so sure. The references either state inedible until fully ripe, inedible or toxic. Anyone have any other information on this?

I am germinating seeds of a few species of each of these seeds and wondered if there are any hybrids out there. These plants are generally dioecious and a few members here grow them in close proximity. It gives scope for some unusual combinations. Maybe lucs × imbe or lucs by achacha etc. The same for diospyros  maybe decandra x texana and the rest. Anyone come across this?

This is pretty cool. Shows how far the boundary can be pushed.

http://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/1515561/avocado-grower-has-the-golden-touch/

Hi Everyone, not sure if this is the place to post so please move if you have too. I am hoping to visit Queensland in January 2016 and am looking for reccomended places to see. I am going to try and split my time between the south and north. Whilst on the gold coast I am going to head down into northern nsw and see tropical fruit world, Daleys if possible, forbidden fruits, burringbarr nursery as well as a few others, in the north I am going to try get to limberlost and maybe get as north as cape tribulation tropical fruit farm. If anyone has any recommendations on places to visit, or are willing to share their experiences, gardens etc, I would appreciate any info anyone has to offer. PM me or post here.
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Just wondering which of the theobroma species is the hardiest.

There are low chill blueberries I know but when it comes to sub tropical and tropical climates, even some of these can be recalcitrant fruiters. I have aquired seeds of the maidera blueberry and am going to have a go  fruiting them. They have been used in hybridizing projects for commercial blueberry cultivars. They are supposedly almost evergreen and frost tender hopefully translating to no chill. they can also be pruned to one trunk. If i can germinate them I will give a few updates on how they are going.

I was curious about coconut cream, lemon zest and orange sherbert mangoes, Ive seen there are a few people growing the os from seed as it is polyembronic and supposedly true to type, I wondered if the others are the same as I would like to aquire some seeds and try them here.

Im new here but Im sure I have heard of Helton.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32048891

I have got a few pouteria seedlings coming up and I was wondering on their relative cold tolerance. from what I have read I have listed them from most to least cold tolerant. Im not sure its correct so If people could let me know their experience.


Pouteria Lucuma                   Lucmo
Pouteria psammiophilla large leaf lucmo
Pouteria viridis      green sapote
Pouteria australis                  Black apple   
Pouteria sp Ross                   Ross sapote
pouteria campechina            canistetel
Pouteria multiflora
Pouteria Sapota                     mamey sapote
Pouteria caimito                    abiu

I also wondered where some of the others sit. Pouteria hypoglauca, Pouteria laevigitata, Pouteria reticulata, Pouteria torta and pouteria ramiflora.
Edit: have changed order to reflect info below

The other australian eugenia. I got this at the same time as my eugenia reinwardtiana and dimocarpus australianus. As far as i can tell it is still an unresolved specimen. Its slow, in 6 odd years its still a small shrub. with small fruit its more a novelty than anything but I have planted the seeds hoping for some new ones, may even try it as a dwarfing rootstock.