Found this great video on youtube, great to see this guy planting thousands of achachas, as i feel this fruit has more potential.
https://youtu.be/3dkd04sMQnA
,William
William, thanks for posting the video! I love these pioneering spirits that are willing to take a risk with new crops! Without testing new varieties of fruit we would still only be growing what we know and that everyone around us is already growing.
This guy made a huge investment and I hope it pays off for him and his family. I know next to nothing regarding Garcinias and it’s relatives and MikeT, Oscar, Adam and several others have a great wealth of information they can share.
I especially hold to high esteem what Mike has had to say and perhaps that farmer in the video would be willing to risk using some of his Achachairu seedlings as a rootstock and top work just a few trees of the Genus/species that Mike has recommended in order to find out for himself what grows best, fruits the best, tastes the best and is most easily brought to market.
This of course assumes that the different fruits can be grafted into Achachairu but I know at least that Lucs Mexican mangosteen can be grafted onto Achachairu.
What an awesome venture that farmer is going into and I wish him success. If he is able to top work several trees with the different varieties that Mike mentioned, he could eventually use those top worked trees as a scion source to top work the rest of his Achachairu if he decides that Mike’s recommendations are better.
I for one, have never tasted an Achachairu and I’m dying to taste this fruit! I’ve seen all the Australian commercials for this fruit and they are quite entertaining but the Achachairu is relatively slow growing for me and it will be many years before I get fruit off my tree and hopefully this farmer will be successful in his endeavors and can reward the US rare fruit growers with a taste of this currently exotic fruit.
I’ve read that the Achachairu is relatively sour with some sweetness and I bet the juice will make a refreshing lemonade like drink. I’m hoping it will be sweeter but from reading threads on this forum, the varieties that Mike mentioned are sweeter.
Thanks to MikeT for keeping it real!
Simon