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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Jaboticabaholics Anonymous
« on: October 05, 2016, 10:21:44 PM »Myrciaria sp. escarlate
Beautiful and rare variety.I hear this variety is an early bearing just like the red jabo
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Myrciaria sp. escarlate
Fine looking tree!! Do you know if it is a know cultivar? Where did you obtain it? Thanks! JWell i dont know what cultivar it is.I bought it for 28ringgit or equivalent to 7 dollars at a weekend flea market in Kuching
Tree looks happy now.
Beautiful tree, looks very healthy now. Thank for sharing!
Simon
Yes seems like it needs to be protected from the afternoon heat when the trees are young
.By the way three of the seeds already have roots sprouting
Hi, I dont know what species are them... but 2 years old and so big, is difficult to believe.
Also, that big tree should be much more than 6 years old
You should ask Adam from flying fox fruit
or else you gonna have fruits with rotten parts infested with maggots
Well if your backyard is small maybe you can try to prune it to make it compact and shorter.Most seedling here are planted in full sun in our countryI have fruited B. Dulcis from seed after about 5 years. Here, I would plant them at about 8m although they might work a tad closer. I prune the male back heavily. I would be kind of surprised if it was easy to get inter specie pollination. The fruit reminds me of duku though not as good.Thanks, that's very helpful. So it seems from Peter and Arvind that there's no need to shape the tree by pruning as it grows; just let it grow up? Would you provide some shade for the small seedlings or full sun from the beginning is ok?
Peter
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In Malaysia the largest sapodilla is ciku mega or CM19 .Wonder if it is the same species
Is the production prolific/productive and reliable year after year?
while you would think that related families would thrive in similar climates, that is not the case in my experience. For example, breadfruit, jackfruit, marang are all artocarpus...BUT, we can grow jackfruit like weeds (in South FL), while the other 2 are too sensitive to cold really attempt without serious provisions.
Cherimoya and sugar apple are related, but California has awesome cherimoyas and we aren't able to fruit them here in the humid lowlands. We, however, have no shortage of sugar apples, atemoyas, etc.
I guess it's kind of like people....I am closely related to my brother, but he prefers cool (COLD) weather and staying indoors all day during 2/3 of the year, while I thrive in a climate wear shorts are never packed away in storage bags.
This big boy is known as the village cucumber and is grown here on the ridges around wetland rice. It is used in soup. I asked if it is just a mature version of a regular cucumber and the vendors said it was not.
Raw, it tastes pretty much like a cucumber. No bitterness but significant acidity.
When I scooped out the seeds, they were very wet so I put them in a strainer and ...
got this much juice.
I added salt to the juice, but didn't taste very good.
I added some sugar to cut the acidity, but still didn't taste so good.
I added an ice cube and gave to my wife.
She drank some, added another ice cube and gave it back to me.
Strangely, we both sort of like it, but don't seem to be able to drink much of it. It is more like tomato juice than a tree fruit juice.
The soup we made has the entire village cucumber (minus the seeds), half a chicken, lots of moringa leaves, some salt and onion. It is very nice.
Vendors said that if I planted the seed fresh, it would be eaten by ants. They advised me to dry the seed before planting it.
Citrus and White Zapote belong to the same family.....I guess it could produce well in your area !!
