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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Vanilla persimmon
« on: October 27, 2017, 02:13:28 PM »Ty my names vincentNext year if you want please contact me on the end of August by PM.
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Ty my names vincentNext year if you want please contact me on the end of August by PM.
How does the taste compare to strawberry guava? Is it nicer?Hi! for me is totaly diferent. The flavour is like a chewing gum!
thanks
They look wonderfully yummy!Correction of my previous comment. I am unable to send the PICTURES I have taken of the 3 pawpaw plants loaded with fruits and the harvested fruits. Triphal
Another forum member sent me some of the pictures (thanks!) Here are the links:
https://postimg.org/image/h32jg46qd/
https://postimg.org/image/74hktmxat/
Just got home !That's great my friend! Congratulations!
Here's my mango trees after Irma !
We where lucky !
Ed
I'm going to be adding a few named varieties to my mini-orchard.KSU-Atwood is my next one...
I have ordered Lehman's Chiffon (offered only by Hidden Springs Nursery, I believe), KSU-Atwood, and KSU-Benson.
I'll probably also get Maria's Joy, and either Tropical Treat or Overleese or Shenandoah or.....I dunno
Hi! And i have Potomac too. My collection of pawpaw trees are growing untill i got 15 varieties. I will get KSU Atwood too.Just got two more trees: Susquehanna and Shenandoah! Collection is growing fast!
Susquehanna tastes awesome. Have not tried Shenandoah yet.
Dear all here go the pictures of what I belive is a Psidium longipetiolatumHi! Yes i confirm the first one is the ara็แ do campo or psidium longipetiolatum. It's like my tree.
And the Psidium guineense (?):
Grown wild along side of the river and creeks here. The higher water table should be easy for the tap root (main) to reach. Or else like I do, surface irrigate often.Thank you very much my friend. I think it's a bit risky to have seeds to enter in EU. They will be apreended on costumes service. But thank you any way!
Pollination will be a big problem. I planted two (2) grafted trees almost 3 feet apart and a seedling nine feet away from them. I put eight feet metal posts and covered with old cotton sheets from direct sun light exposure for nearly four years. They are about 20' tall.
Since bees don't pollinate I have hand pollinated + I have kept whole fish put inside metal nets to rot and thereby attract flies and other insects which help pollination. Fruiting has been heavy this year and I had to prune some branches and bunches of fruits.
Fruits are not marketable as the shelf life is a few days. MOREOVER you have to harvest only ripened fruits it is labor consuming and not economical. Fruit ripening will start in September / October. I may be able to save and send some seeds for you AT NO COST TO YOU if Portugal Agriculture Department allows importation of Foreign seeds.
I wish you good luck. Beautiful tree, beautiful flowers, great fruit. The problem with paw paw is that the fruit don't hold long after being picked. That is why it is not commercially sold in the USA.Thank you for your reply! Yes it's true, but i don't know what var are more durable. Even so we can always sell part of production locally and transform the pulp of the rest that will not be selled.
So, if you are looking for varieties to sell, need to find fruit with longest shelf life.
I'm on the way to get one potomac paw paw tree!By the way, anyone tryed or have potomac pawpaw?
