The Tropical Fruit Forum

Strigipes fruited this year.

I got one very small seedless runt fruit, and two small/medium sized fruits.

i think the fruits were a bit small because they developed over the winter.

I suppose I ate them a bit too early, slightly green, but they were still good.  It taste just like cabelluda (only the slightest difference in flavor can be detected)...but the seeds are smaller and the skin is thinner.  Also, cabelluda fruits are fuzzy, whereas strigipes were hairless, and also have a punctate appearance with pronounced glands in the skin, (they look like dots.)

here are the first fruits my tree has produced...pictured with red jaboticaba and Grimal fruits.

looking forward to tasting more of these!

Adam, if you had to chose between these and a vexator for your last in-ground spot, which would you go with?

You could get raw pumice by the truckload from the beaches around Caloundra. But you'd need to chuck them into a cement mixer for a few weeks to get the salt out.
You must be in tough ground to need to go to those lengths to grow cereus and optunia.

There is a commercial farm at Samford, so its definitely viable in the NW.
It depends on your target consumers. I know that the top hotels go nuts for good vibrant dragons for their fruit platters and fruit salads. If you come up with good sized pretty purples you could probably hook an agreement with a few of them and get a decent return.
AG seems pretty productive for me. Its a great fruit and can be easily peeled and eaten straight like that as its a great small serve size. With a bit of small scale marketing (farmers market sampling and the like) you could easily build up a cult following for it. Lots of small producers under 2 hrs from town have been quite successful with this recently and their small 2-3 day per week farm gate businesses have gone nuts.

Hi Vitor.
The seeds arrived last week and are all settled into their special pots for the winter.
Thank you!

Quote from: Tropicaliste on April 23, 2015, 10:50:10 PM

My goodness, that's a jackfruit size soursop. I don't know whether to grow it or avoid it. Thanks for sharing.

That soursop is big enough to give a whole village atypical Parkinson's disease! Carlos should be arrested for spreading "dangerous substances". HAHAHA 
Sorry, these kinds of statements are not typical of me, i know. I just had to make an atypical kinda of statement. I get pretty fed up about all these fruit scares supposedly based on "science" that the nerds keep bringing up.

Looks suspiciously GMO to me  Hahahahahaha

Some are not bad. The pinkish native one. Tastes a bit like sweet orange peel. Can be very aromatic. I think growers on the Sunshine Coast have been collecting and propagating the better ones.

Pink dragonfruit is pretty good.

Im unhappy to report that the 'curly sue' monstrose Epi has very ordinary fruit. Like clag glue. Plus, they are a magnet for a boring insect and ants, so are hardly worth the trouble if you are after the fruit.

They are very true from seed in the sense that if you plant a sapodilla seed you are more likely to get a sapodilla than an anaconda.

On the other hand. seedlings often suck. A good number seem to never set fruit at all. A small percentage will be similar. If you have the space and time, have a crack as they are tough, but I wouldn't have high hopes for a seedling sapo. There are quite a few in the BG that look to be 20yo and never seem to flower or fruit.

Prices for grafted trees have skyrocketed in the past 3 years here.

If I just saw the fruit I'd be sure it was Maclura cochinchinensis, but on seeing the images of the tree, I'm not as sure. I'm used to it as a thorny scrambler, but I think the asian forms could also include thornless trees?

My "bernicker" is a few weeks off harvest. Unfortunately, it seems to have been mislabeled. Fruit is better than normal bernicker, but they are half the size and have lots of seed. Maher should be ready in a few weeks too.

Yes, looks correct. Don't know how they came to name it anything mangosteen. There are big heavy bearing trees not far away and they look great in fruit, but I don't see any flesh among the seed mass.