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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Anyone kept their jackfruit tree pruned fairchild style?
« on: June 02, 2014, 10:37:24 AM »
I thought I've heard Campbell tell growers to not prune jackfruit until October. Has anyone else heard this?
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the jakfruit samples will have been frozen during jakfruit season and defrosted for eating at the festival. does not sound too appetizing.
We usually cook our greens by steaming them to softness. Then we toss them into a blender with some olive oil, a clove or two of garlic, and perhaps some curry powder or cumin. The result is a purče. We use mostly kale, collards, beet greens, spinach, or broccoli leaves. Often we mix several of those together. This is also a way to include moringa in our diet. It is nearly impossible to get the tiny moringa leaves free of the tiny stems. So this blender purée approach serves to combine the moringa nicely into the kale or collards or whatever - both tastewise and texturewise
Mine grew from a pencil thick twig to a HUGE tree in three years. It took me a whole day to get the trunk out of the ground when I axed it. It produced heavily and grew so fast I could watch it grow for real. The only thing was the fruit went from a bland green apple to a mealy rotted red apple with no stellar moment in between, add in the scant flesh and diamond hard seed in the middle, out with the axe!
Its a Day and flowered a couple of years sgo? That is really late timing wise f I r a Day to floeer. Did it flower at all in late 2013 or early 2014?
My SK flowered twice with no fruit. It grew quite fast though.
Now I am thinking about grafting Kari or another variety to one of the branches, hoping it will cross pollinate SK and also give two varieties.
Benders Grove has grafted soursop, "Miami" cv. of a tree that fruits regularly (in Miami), as i understand.
Even with other varieties around I question how prolific SK is. I dont ever see it setting lime any of the others.
Some peel like Dwarf but I feel it is consistently the most bland and least sweet of all the orange varieties.
I have never been overly excited about the taste of Fwang Tung. B-17 is too inconsistent.
Thanks!!
LOVE that picture Hollywood, she's SO cute