Engkala? But its pink, not red. And the pulp isnt coloured. Probably a green sapote then, as the skin is green/grey, not that far off the big WI avos.

Last week I saw a few around that size north of Cairns smothered in flower buds. I've also seen giants dripping with fruit on Thursday Island - 10o South.
My brother moved into a rental property not long ago where the owner had just cut down a whopper of a Bowen mango tree. Its stump is now a 6-man table.

I thought the fruit looked a little m stringipes x e vitoriana, with the apparent striations and flattened ends (as far as I can tell by photos), but the tree is a bit garcinia looking.

Happydays tomorrow as I pick my first Rollinia - 3 years from seed. They are such a wickedly beautiful fruit!
What is extra special about them is that my wife and son dont like them, so this is the one fruit i get to keep all to my self! 

I would be interested in knowing more about how you use a seaweed solution. Is it a spray?  Or root drench?  Once or twice?

Quote from: BMc on May 15, 2012, 06:38:25 AM

I dig up my plants all the time, up to around 3 yrs old. Most recommend doing it in the winter, when they are dormant, but I've had best success during rainy monsoonal weeks in summer. Most don't even notice they've been uprooted. You should be okay to do it around these times, provided the cloud cover is good and you've got enough moisture about. Seaweed solution works great in rehab of any plants with pruned roots.

The one most often used here is 'Seasol', which is a concentrate. its mostly used a drench tonic. It also works well to sit plants in it for a while to let the tonic get into the roots before planting/replanting, as it is supposed to work well on transplant shock and i've had extremely positive results. Some people use it every two weeks! In these cases it is used in a spray on nozzle you fit to the end of your garden hose.

I dig up my plants all the time, up to around 3 yrs old. Most recommend doing it in the winter, when they are dormant, but I've had best success during rainy monsoonal weeks in summer. Most don't even notice they've been uprooted. You should be okay to do it around these times, provided the cloud cover is good and you've got enough moisture about. Seaweed solution works great in rehab of any plants with pruned roots.

mike, I arrive Wednesday night and drive up to Port Douglas. We'll be up and back to Cairns all week. I think the RFA AGM is on in Mossman at the same time, so maybe a bit of a fight for the fruit available?
I've been in Canberra this week freezing away in -2c. Have a chat to the weather for me to see if you cant persuade it to be hot and humid to thaw me out and clear the sinuses. What a terrible place to put a capital city 

Native longan is very close to longan. Fruit is same, but smaller. Like a few of the other Dimocarps it suffers from a poor flesh to seed ratio. Some selection could make it a popular edible native here. Also why grafting to Longan sounds interesting. Also fruits at a different time to other longans, as does issau (later). I cant rememebr when alupag fruits, but it would probably extend harvest further. Maybe making a giant Dimocarp cocktail tree could be a fun project, in a fruity frankenstein kinda way.

I've heard the giant seedless lychee grafts easily, so its one you might be able to top work other trees with once it arrives on your shores (surely not long with the relatively relaxed quarantine laws there?)...

Bocah, your nasi-nasi looks interesting. It looks a lot like a few of the native Australian Syzygium, especially S. forte ssp. forte, even a little bit like a small S. pseudofastigiatum. I like the taste of many of the native white apples better than most of the ones from Asia that we have - though we dont have the best ones here, so can only really talk about the regular red, white and pink jambu and rose apples. I'm partial to a good chilled Malay apple though.

Hi Bocah. Is that the Java Blue? I picked one up a few years ago and gave it to my father. He hasnt looked after it well though and its not fruited as yet. I'll have to go over and baby it to see if I can coax it into producing some nice Indonesian mangoes in the coming season. 

They are a super fast grower. I've had at least 12ft in first year in ground (second from seed). If you prune it back the following spring it slows down a little after that.

He said it was really large, so Im guessing A4. I'd say they will rename as A4 sounds like printer paper. Still wouldnt mind an erdon lee though as the size alone would make it of interest - and harder for a bat to run away with!

Oscar, I'm unsure if myrtle and guava rust are the same. It may be, but Im sure we've had guava rust for a while, but the myrtle rust is a recent introduction, that hammers native plants here. This one and Backhousia are write offs. it eats the fruit  and is bright orange and super aggressive. Below is an idea of what it did in the early stages, in the later stages the tree was a mosaic of black and orange. This is also the reason we are unable to import anything myrtaceous - so as much as I may want hybrid red and blue jaboticaba seeds, I'll have to wait for this to naturalise. 







I have a lemon scented myrtle that I have to chop down over the weekend because the infection is too far gone to treat.