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This just doesn't seem possible. A tree with an excellent lateral growth habit is one thing, but I don't see how the goats at the top of the tree got there.
This will be my first time in India. Doing some research and came across 2 separate dates. Is anyone else going or have gone can give me a reputable site to refer to? Also stoping in Thailand and possibly Vietnam on this trip. Would love any tip on where to get some fruit as well! Thank you!
If you are feeding it lots of fertilizer, you might want to hold off on that as well as excessive watering. I had 2 Kiwanos last year, one in beautiful, composted soil that I watered and fertilized regularly and another that I planted in poor soil that I did not water like I probably should have, even in the extreme heat. Never fertilized it either.
Good question - I got plenty of fruits in near full sunlight. I can see it is about to reach the roof with more sunlight - perhaps then it will flower?
YOUTUBE: Cutting down a very big tree ( Artocarpus hirsutus / Wild Jack ) manually. The timber is pretty costly and is very much suitable to make good furniture. They are cutting down the timber manually instead of using a machine, is to get minimal loss of useful parts.
Tipping is the practice of cutting off the terminal buds of all the branches. One only cuts off the very tip to encourage branching.
I don't know if tipping is recommended for soursop but i did anyways.
I got a small angle between the two branches and the both basically remained vertical. (same thing happened with my Malay apple)
An excellent companion plant, when grown in orchards it can increase yields from the fruit trees by up to 10%.
Did you taste the fruit ?
It is a small, attractive shrub. The fruits, as in the correct photo on this thread, turn black when ripe. The paper-thin skin and the extremely thin pulp are edible and taste quite alright, to suck off the one large, hard, globular seed.
I still plan to try grafting a twig from one of the century old ones next time I go on a family hunting trip up north where they grow. Hopefully will come back with a freezer worth of meat and biltong and a crate full of fruits
The leaves are pretty tasty when young too:).
"Flower and fruit production usually only takes place once a tree is a certain size. Baobab tree growth is dependent on access to water. Where trees grow in high rainfall areas (+1000mls …per year) baobabs can reach maturity much more quickly than in arid areas. We have worked out that in Venda where rainfall is 350ml per year it can take a ‘young’ baobab 200 years before it produces its first baobab fruit ! Here is a picture of a youthful 180 year old tree. It gives you a real sense of how easily we take the resources of nature for granted without appreciating the energy and time nature puts into the creation of what we harvest."
Some seeds which in the wild normally pass through the digestive system of an animal can be very slow to germinate without this passage, or a simulation of it. I saw a report on how Enterolobium seeds extracted from horse manure germinate within days, while the same seeds planted straight from the seed pod took over a year to germinate, I think. For especially slow seeds, might be worth trying to figure if some animal normally eats those seeds in the wild, and if there is a way to simulate passage through that kind of animal.
How would one simulate this?
