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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / For Trade: Pouteria Australis
« on: April 13, 2014, 05:32:50 AM »

Commonly referred to as 'black Apple'.

One seedling only. Will trade for certain mango varieties/others. PM.




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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Australian pack for trade
« on: April 11, 2014, 09:33:37 PM »
80x Good variety Rosella. Preserved rosellas are used in champagne, bubbles make them open at bottom of glass like a flower. Delicious raspberry taste.
10x pink cheek passionfruit (pink skin, pink pulp) very hard to get now, not sold by daleys anymore. A good passionfruit.
25x  Alphitonia excelsa-- Australian soap bush  ( leaves lather into a foam which can be used as soap, smells like aniseed). Only water and friction is needed to generate the lathering effect.
5x Burdekin Plum (Pleiogynium timorense) this variety is the purple/white skin, which is pretty much the only one good enough for fresh












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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Looking for US contact
« on: April 10, 2014, 03:35:33 AM »
Looking for US contact for swapping.

please PM me.

s

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Have a Bernicker Black Sapote (pretty much berated into getting it tbh) which wasn't doing well in the ground, have potted it up in 65l tub. Any chance of getting it to fruit a decent amount this way?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Avocadoes; worth growing in pots?
« on: March 25, 2014, 06:04:08 PM »

Avocados are a palaver to grow in the ground  my area of Australia due to uneven rainfall etc. I have mine potted in 65l pots and wondering if this is worth the exercise. Can I reasonably expect to get a decent amount of fruit this way? I have 4 trees potted, I'm hoping to be able to harvest at least 40-50 fruit i n the future. I have wurtz, lamb hass, pinkerton and shepherd.




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Anybody have any tips? Decent amount of water is being held in the soil, but it doesn't get watered every day.
 Fertilising with NPK.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / How to kill a healthy Wax Jambu in seconds
« on: March 06, 2014, 06:23:20 PM »
1. Leave ladder leaning againt roof after having replaced broken stormwater downpipe.
2. unwittingly Loop hose around foot of ladder
3.Pull on hose whilst watering plants, being too lazy to check what said hose is caught against
4. Watch helplessly as ladder crashes down upon Wax Jambu and snaps it at the stem
5. Shake fist at skies whilst swearing loudly for 5 minutes




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Exactly which cactus produces this fruit?
« on: March 03, 2014, 08:58:11 PM »

All I can find is a million references to the word 'pitaya'. That doesn't help me a lot. No doubt one of the columnar type cacti produce these, but which? What is the proper name? Is it worth growing--I.E, will it fruit within my lifetime  ???




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Opinion: Is this a Dark Star Dragonfruit?
« on: February 27, 2014, 02:12:28 AM »

Company over here in Aus is marketing this as 'Aztec Gem'.

Looks very suspiciously like Dark Star. Do you think it is actually Dark Star, and has just been  renamed?



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Some pics from my Patch
« on: February 26, 2014, 05:44:47 PM »
An as yet unidentified dwarf banana which was scavenged from a friend's place. He isn't in to plants (he's a mechanic) and has no idea what it is:


Collette Finger Lime. Has a lot of small fruit like the one displayed right now. Will be a while before they mature.



A couple of purple Dragon fruit. I build all my trellises this way now, using very large plastic tubs and hardwood posts. I ran out of UV resistant paint for this one, I'll get to doing that eventually.



My largest rollinia, which isn't big by any means but I hope this year to get fruit.




A raspberry trellis I build from an old wrought iron bed frame and some pine posts. Not sure how long it will last, but should be good for 5 years or so, I hope. I have tayberries and heritage raspberry planted out on it.



A white wax Jambu/ Jambu apple. It got damaged very badly in last year's heatwave, but is coming back strong. I have red and pink also. Not a lot of people like them, but I find them crisp and refreshing.



Some baby Z4 Abiu and Giant Thai Carambola. These, like a great, great deal of what is in my smaller hothouse, were gifted by Mike T, who helps out a lot of people nationally.



Wai chee Lychee. There are a lot better cultivars, but this one crops well in the subtropics.



You'll never see a macadamia tree bigger than this. It is truly gigantic. I haven't collected the nuts in years, but the cockatoos like them, and I can't be bothered bringing it back into some semblance of control.



Alstonville Fingerlime. It was a poor crop as a result of the plant being stressed by having been repotted.



The back paddock. Looking pretty grim right now due to the lack of rain. The bananas are blue Java and are ready to be fertilised, the dirt patch is where my neighbor's horse has claimed as a rolling spot.



I'm cheating a bit here: This isn't the river which forms the boundry of the property, and is salt. The one I intend to irrigate from is fresh, luckily. They do join however. This was taken at my local fishing spot. I catch some decent whiting here sometimes, and if I'm lucky mudcrabs. But these get scarcer as the years go by, due to overfishing.  I do catch a lot of bream here, but do not eat them. Many people do.



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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / WTB/Trade mango seeds
« on: February 26, 2014, 02:03:02 AM »

Looking for coconut cream/Lemon Zest and similar. Can buy or trade for virtually any Australian species.

PM if interested.

s

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Growing Abiu in Pot
« on: February 25, 2014, 11:01:33 PM »
Is anybody doing this/ has anybody tried? I have a giant pot and have a good variety gifted to me by a friend in Cairns  8)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Has anybody tried praying hand banana?
« on: February 23, 2014, 04:05:54 PM »


Wondering if this is a musa worth growing.

thanks
s

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