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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Sputnik Aussie Biriba Cultivar...
« on: April 27, 2012, 07:38:11 PM »
Yeah rollinias have had a bit of backyard selection here at the outpost.Some of the best don't look like that one in the video but are smoother skinned and quite citrussy.I tried a selection of about 20 in recent times and the the two 2 winners' seeds scored scored a one way trip to chums houses in southern australia.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: favorite tropical/subtropical fruit poll
« on: April 27, 2012, 07:28:05 PM »
Longkong is just the best of the Lansium domesticum fruits closely follwed by duku-langsat,duku,langsat and then kokosan.Langsats are the most cold hardy with duku and kokosan being equatorial.These 5 lineages embrace several hundred varieties.L.domesticum is really a composite of several species and seeds are really nucellar inclusions as it has been domesticated so long.
Voting on favourites cannot change a fundamental truth.Durian is the king and mangosteen is the queen and that's just the way it is. They were the first species for my yard quickly followed by longkong.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Air layering artocarpus
« on: April 27, 2012, 07:15:12 PM »
I have never heard of those abiu cv's.I have a very productive Z4 and E4 and have tried Z2's,Z3's, the T series,Gray, inca gold and varoius seedling selections.They are pretty easy to cleft or approach and fruit in 2 to 3 years from seed.I suppose marcots are ok in pots.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dragon Fruit thread.
« on: April 27, 2012, 06:02:31 PM »
You guys are so lucky to have access to the Mattslandscapes and Pine Island nursery selections.In this parellel universe we make do with lesser entities and almost no hybrids.I have about 10 varieties and my most glamorous type is a giant self fertile columbian red.It is no doubt pretty ordinary compared to physical graffiti.I could plant the seeds and wait 4 years I suppose.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Air layering artocarpus
« on: April 27, 2012, 05:55:05 PM »
Marcotted artocarpus never develop good root systems.Since Cyclones yasi and larry wiped out the air-layered jacks,chempadaks,marangs etc in my neck of the woods no ones propagates that way here any more.Like breadfruit trees some other artocarpus have root suckers once in a while and these are great for propagation from seedlings (don't want rootstock pups of course).

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: How to Germinate Salak Seeds?????
« on: April 27, 2012, 05:47:16 PM »
Well howdy long john my salaks are in the ground.Only 2 species are worth growing for fruit ie salacca and wallichiana and then only a few types of each.Of 25ish Zalacca salaccas gula pasir is the best and most cold hardy with pondoh,thai honey and the 3 lowland balis coming in next.Zalacca wallichiana in thailand has a classification according to quality and 'level' of development with only the sala clade worthy.In sala suimalee is best and noen wong second best with smaller less spiny trees as well.They are more cold tolerant than the indonesian Z.salaccas because they are tropicals not equatorials, except gula pasir because it comes from altitude.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Help Identifying My Mango Tree!
« on: April 27, 2012, 10:12:20 AM »
Hey Max could it be just a keow sewoy.If it gets huge it could be one of the elephant tusk types are favoured for eating green in salads in SE Asia.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Introduce Yourself
« on: April 27, 2012, 09:43:11 AM »
BJ you are the source as i saw your link.These look like friendly shores for a cyber refugee.Thanks for the welcome Harry.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: How to Germinate Salak Seeds?????
« on: April 27, 2012, 08:32:33 AM »
I forgot to add that S.wallichiana especially sala rather than rakum and sakum have only 10 days of viability.Unlike balis males and females are seperate and proportion of sexes in resulting offspring depend on locule number.Double loculed are 30% female,single locules are never female and tri-loculed are around 50% female.The only other besides S.W var. sala sumalee that kicks backside is the bali highland gula pasir S.Z. amboina and it is bisex.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mango Flavor
« on: April 27, 2012, 07:18:13 AM »
Julie has a bit of a coconut flavour and ok rung has a bit of a pineapple taste about it as does kensington pride.If your chasing the finest in the parade on all taste characters I'd give the tiara to one of the thai polyembryonics.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Introduce Yourself
« on: April 27, 2012, 06:56:25 AM »
Hello folks after finding this site just now I decided to contribute immediately.I am Mike T of Cairns, North Queensland and grow about 80 fruit trees of 60 species with a variety of herbs and vegetables also.The species and varieties I have are weighted in favour of the tropical and equatorial asians but I do have many of the meso and southern americans as well.I have been careful to select the finest varieties and routinely swap plants and seeds with other enthusiasts around australia,having mailed off 20 parcels of mixed species in the past few months.Anyway, here I am and lets get down to it.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: How to Germinate Salak Seeds?????
« on: April 27, 2012, 06:45:07 AM »
I have Salacca wallachiana var sumalee and var. noen wong as well as Salacca zalacca amboina var.lowland grown from seeds and it is pretty easy.Yours look like S.w and a sala type so just plant in  potting mix at 25 to 32c and wait 2 months.

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