The Tropical Fruit Forum

I call sunset the redder denser ones like this but there is no doubt a range sailing under the banner of solo. I think hey are from the early 1960's in Hawaii with sunset and solo from the same cross. I wonder if they are the same as how they started.
They are still one of the best and can hold their own with some of the fanciest bisex reds.

Better than the bisex reds, IMO. I can't remember the last time I bought a bisex red which taste like anything but sugar water.

When I  say sitting in a bucket of water, I mean literally sitting in a bucket of stagnant water. I have even topped up the water that has evaporated (note that 85% of the roots were still submerged in this situation). No aeration, nothing; an old  steel bucket, water, and whatever soil is clinging to the roots.

You will never drown this tree.

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I saw Linday and her partner (Rob?) at Rusty's eyeballing some second rate durians today and had breakfast with BMc after doing a few laps of Rusty's. The king and queen were present and those who say mango is queen are just plain mistaken.
There is no need to defend durian it is a heavy hitter and maybe a cultured palate is required to appreciate its cache and finesse.
Zimmern mad a fuss about a crunchy soursop,over-ripe black sapote and a paxton prolific that looked like an over-ripe runt.He obviously has no moral high ground on fruit.

Finesse, you say? Durian has all the finesse of a blackjack, of a unwashed football sock which has been buried under a chicken coop for two years.

You had me until 'very low fiber.' Nevertheless, it's a beautiful looking and all around good fruit variety.

Pearl is very slightly more fibre-y than KP, but seems to be juicer.

Green sapote are better than mam. S by a long way.

Picked up eight of these yesterday. Smallish size,but extremely good flavor and excellent flesh to seed ratio. Firm jelly like consistency with Very low fibre, with whatever there is being closest to the skin. Kind of like a cross between an NDM and KP, with the former flavor occurring in the flesh nearest to the skin. A little piney, but this is something I enjoyed. Better than calypso, with the same or better sized seed, which is small and flat. Cosmetically appealing, too.

Have kept the seeds and will plant.

Not sure if you do overseas postage Null but I would love more Opuntia. Cuurently I have compressa ( Nopales) and the burbanks, and that's pretty much it. I have heard of a variety called crystal which is supposed to be very good, green skinned, white fleshed fruit.

Hi natural,

have you ever heard the euphemism 'tired and emotional' used to describe somebody who is completely tanked?

Well, the euphemisms 'purple apple berry' and 'climbing blueberry' are far, far more linguistically generous than that one will ever be.

In a word, no; it doesn't taste anything like apple or blueberry. The consistency is somewhat like apple.

This is a Tasmanian species which is mostly ornamental. Yes, you can eat it--the question is, would you really want to? They have a mealy turpy taste which can be acrid. I believe they are cooked more than they are eaten fresh.

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Cold stress will cause mine to drop its leaves.  So far this season, I have a nice crop, unfortunately it looks like I have about 25% leaf drop.  Hopefully the fruits will  develop good flavor.

How long from seed did you have to wait for your first crop? I have green and white types.

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I wonder if they taste like Kiwano.

Wish we really had good raspberries here..would love to hear about new varieties for south florida.

I grew mysore and it grew like crazy- the canes were like razors though- you needed to wear armor just to prune the darn thing.

And the berries tasted really bad- I pulled out the whole thing.

I planted some blackberries- 2 varieties- its the second year and the canes finally grew - hopefully Ill get to taste some fruit before the squirrels

Have you tried growing the black raspberry? Not sure on the scientific name, but it isn't mysore.

That is mis-identified starling as the leaves can be as big as dinner plates, runners can be as long as a house and the can stretch up to the rainforest canopy. Leaves should be pale centred and fruit are full of fibre. The grow just up the road from me. The pictured one is a standard edible species perhaps from the same source as mine.
Qld raspberry is usually meaning the wild Atherton raspberry that is a small non caning prickly bush in the mountains around here, Fruit can be gritty and have little taste.

Yeah I figured it must be mislabelled. I wonder if it is the same variety?

Whatever you've got, it's a good.My heritage doesn't start to flower until really late summer/ early Autumn, raspberries at the height of summer would be a real treat. Will be interesting to see what it does as things start to cool down, an extra crop would seal it as one of the best out there. I'm experimenting with Mysore (R. Niveus) at the moment, but it will be while before I have anything to report. I know that this is successfully grown in Florida. My experience of the Atherton was that it was very sweet and lacked the complexity of the standard types. I didn't find it bad necessarily, just not up there with the others and nowhere near as heavy cropping.
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