I have here a plant, well developed shrub type (4 years old or so), which they said will be a pitanga without ribs (just round) maybe in the next spring will bear,

eugenia pitanga or eugenia uniflora? How to distinguish?

When harvesting a tamarillo? I have to wait to take an entire red? this looks a bit violet, could it be a purple variety?

I have to wait for the skin to sag with finger pressure?



more photos

http://www.huertasurbanas.com/2013/07/10/tamarillo-madurando-cuando-estara-listo/

Hello, I know few fruit trees which I can harvest fruits in winter, citrus,  here in my city we have oranges, lemons, tangerines and grapefruits that are harvested in winter, and also know the loquats.

What other fruit trees can give us fruit in winter? (tropical or not tropical ones)

Hi! here is a big question to the forum:

With a friend we plan to create a "food forest" in approximately one acre.

The climate is subtropical with frost usually -2 º C but sometimes -6 º C and rarely -9 ° C. In summer temperatures sometimes reach 39 ° C, but the maximum is 34 ° C generally.

There are methods with water (ponds), rocks, buried organic matter to heat up and stuff to lower the incidence of frost damage, we may apply, perhaps pitanga could survive there (say that resists -7 º C), but would it yield right?

which trees would you choose? Would you use an anti-frost?
I thought of the following sub-tropical:

name (frost hardy)

feijoa (-11 º C)
guabiju (-10 º C or so)
pitanga (-7 º C)
cherry of the rio grande (-6 ° C?)
strawberry guava (-6 ° C?)
guava (-4 º C mmm ... maybe not possible)
setecapotes (-4 º C?)
Uvaia (? the same as pitanga?)
Ubajay (?)

These are all native fruit trees from the north of Argentina. Then we would plant also all traditional fruit: crítrics, peach, apricot, plum, pear, cherry, apple, etc..

That's 1/3 of what is important in a forest of food in relation to trees, then the other third would be perhaps trees with edible leaves do you know some?

the other third would be devoted to walnuts, almonds, chestnuts, etc.. What do you recommend?

[fukuoka_farming] Mango experience
De: Harish Amur <harishamur@gmail.com>
  Para: fukuoka_farming@yahoogroups.com
  Fecha: 28/05/13 02:20
   
We have a few mango trees in the farm and we have tried to maintain them
naturally.

Typically the soil below the mango tree is ploughed(tilled). The dry litter
is sometime burnt too. Leaves of the mango tree dry due to this heat and
the tree goes a little dry for a season. Chemical and farm yard fertilizers
are provided. Drip irrigation also is practiced. When the tree flowers,
several pesticides/fungicides etc. are sprayed. On plucking the fruits, the
ripening is hastened by throwing calcium carbide tablets in the fruit heap.

We did none of the above. However we did spray 'jeevamruta' sparingly on
the flowers. Fruits were plucked and ripened by placing them in paddy straw
for a few days.

I have a tree at home, which is also growing naturally. In addition to not
doing anything, I dumped a lot of leaf litter and coconut fibre underneath
the tree. The mulch grew upto a foot and half. Red ants have formed a
nest(kind of thing) in the tree. Result: The mangoes grew to a size unseen
thus far. The size grew to almost 2 times the usual size. We had insects in
less than 5% of the fruits. We have no sightings of a white fibre deformity
inside the fruit (when cut). Of course a small percentage of the fruits did
rot. This tree was pruned due to an unavoidable reason. The pruned side has
been growing vigorously and the half tree yielded close to 150 fruits.
These are ratnagiri alfonso variety.

Hi, just that, What fruits are the richest in iron?

Hi, photos, here:

http://www.huertasurbanas.com/2013/04/15/cuando-transplantar-un-guaviyu/

Hi, a man from Spain asked me for help, he has a strawberry guava tree:




lack of ferrum?

It was great my surprise when I went out today in the late afternoon to the front yard to show the fruits of feijoa to my nephew and instead of being hanging like several months ago, were on the floor. Sign that had ripened and were ready to be devoured!




The "guayabo del país" (so-called "false guava", feijoa, etc.) is very important to me for several reasons: it was the first indigenous fruit I got, withstands -11 º C, so it can be cultivated in Junin even outside the urban environment ( in a field) and is grown commercially in several countries such as Australia or New Zealand, where they have produced varieties with highly desirable characteristics.

My feijoas (3 plants in garden soil and another ones in familiar's pots) were obtained from seed, so the flavor, size and other characteristics of the fruit are not identical, thus I could expect any surprises, even the fruit could be ugly.

In other countries they call it "pineaple guava" (feijoa), but I did not find any resemblance to the taste of pineapple in my fruits.


The size of the fruits of this plant is not the greatest, but not bad.
I cut it in half and prepared a spoon to remove the pulp:






It has several subtle seeds, pulp oxidizes rapidly changing color to light brown from crema.
Perfume is like a cross between kiwi, banana and lemon, the flavor seemed very similar to kiwi, sweet, sour, nice! It also reminded me a bit to red arazá (SG).



I was not disappointed at all. It's a strong flavor without being too, with moderate acidity but not leave you indifferent, say it's a bit less tasty than the red arazá (Psidium cattleianum), but it has nothing to envy. The pulp had a texture similar to apple perhaps, firm. Regarding arazá, has the advantage that the seeds of feijoa are very tiny.

I liked the taste more than the kiwi, but I will have to try other times to "get it" better, imagine a feijoa jam would be very appetizing, as in juices or other preparations, but mostly I'm excited by the fact that the fruit is good to eat naturally.

One more detail: the shell is not bad, has a more pronounced flavor and bitter taste very similar to the petals of the flower (which are delicious), but identical: more good news! Next time I'll try whole shell and all.

Hi, reading this from Uruguay:

http://www.guayubira.org.uy/monte/bibliografia/INIA-frutales5.pdf

It seems that they managed to do hybrids with them



("arazá rojo" = strawberry guava=psidium cattleianum | "arazá amarillo"=psidium cattleianum  var Lucidum)

Does someone has some experience about this? or, what do you think, can it be possible?

Hi, just opening a new page:

http://www.huertasurbanas.com/seeds-exchange

is this the right place in the forum?

Hello, I have a tree of Psidium cattleianum 3 years old this summer gave several fruits. When should I harvest them when they are soft or when they fall from the tree?