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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Vegies with your fruit?
« on: May 13, 2012, 09:54:05 PM »
I also have very large vegetable gardens, where my most common crops are heirloom tomatoes, turnips, golden beets, sugar snap peas, rampicante squash, various greens, and peppers.  Much of this is in earthboxes, though I also have raised beds for perennials such as yacon and swiss chard.  I have high hopes for my three baby moringa trees. 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Rank your Durian eating experience
« on: April 29, 2012, 04:27:57 PM »
I've had both fresh and frozen/imported durians in the past, and generally I loved them all except for the ones which were extremely dry inside for some reason.  My only complaint is that, like jackfruit, they are very addictive and it has sometimes been difficult knowing when to stop eating. 

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I bet CK1 and most other petrochemical-based perfumes, colognes, aftershaves etc. are much more than "3 times smellier" but people still go around wearing them and stinking up indoor places.  Meanwhile, I find the scent of durian to be pleasant, it reminds me of the delicious taste, has no relation to fecal matter and usually won't fill up a room either. 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Is there annonacin in Cherimoya flesh?
« on: April 24, 2012, 07:18:43 PM »


I also think that negative effects were casued by drinking tea made out of soursop leaves. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone. Another problem is eating products of soursop, like juices, were ground seeds may inadvertently get mixed in.

Yes! Once I accidentally neglected removing a soursop seed when making a smoothie in my vitamix blender, and it made me extremely ill for days.  I will never try to blend another annonacae fruit again after that experience; those seeds can hide very easily.    But I have to concur that the fruits are safe so long as you eat them correctly. 

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I set the seeds under plastic in my greenhouse for months, but they still don't germinate.   The paper towel method isn't working either.   Perhaps I have to wait until summer when there is more sunlight?  I'm not accustomed to using growlights here. 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cherimoya taste-testing
« on: March 17, 2012, 01:59:44 AM »
These pictures are mouth-wateringly beautiful; I've never seen so many cherimoyas in one place!   I have two grafted selmas (the only variety I've ever seen in nurseries here, actually; I don't think many cultivars have made it over to the islands) and four seedlings that I'm now very eager to learn how to graft.  They definitely are the best annonas I've ever tasted too. 

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Bet the stolen longan fruits end up in Chinatown on Oahu or on Maui. Kind of hard to fence 1200 pounds of longan where you stole them.
There was a story also about a month ago of someone stealing 3000 to 4000 pounds of coffee berry they picked off the trees.  This was in Pahala. Farmer figured some team of pickers spent 3 days stealing his whole crop! Some folks are getting desperate here?
Oscar

I heard about the stolen coffee crop too; I think you'd have to be desperate to harvest something so tedious in that amount under clandestine circumstances.  I feel much worse when it's a food product meant for local consumption that is stripped, though.    You're likely right about the longans; the fruit will have to be sold quickly before spoilage, and far away from the farm of origin. 

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...They aren't that expensive to begin with.   This is a bizarre story.  There hasn't been any massive influx of longans at the farmers market I go to, but I did buy a bag today that had an amazingly large fruit size--as big as a lychee.  I still wouldn't want 1,200 pounds of them at once, though. 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: fruit you are dying to taste
« on: March 04, 2012, 06:41:15 PM »
Fruits I really want to taste are:

Chupa Chupa
Champedek
Green Sapote
Peanut Butter Fruit (hopefully my tree will produce this year)
local island durian
Red Mombin
Fruit from my mountain soursop seedlings

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