The Tropical Fruit Forum

Yes as a general rule the crisp ones taste a bit better but not always and they store better. The Viet Sherbet as we call it here is one of the best. Thick yellow fairly crisp and a bit fizzy on the tongue.

I never had a crisp one with the fizzy tongue sounds amazing. I have only had two before with that quality and its such an interesting mouth feel. I had it before I was trying to grow fruit trees and now am on the hunt for one like this.

Do these fruit get sweet? I hear people rave about mulberries but around my area they are juicy and dark purple with almost no taste

Four acres is pret. good size really. Lots of commercial durian farms in Malaysia are about that size and they are doing pretty well.
Fortunately durian is easy to top work and thus very agile. Superior material can easily be used to convert trees that don’t show a lot of promise. I think 2-3 years to be back in production at a commercial level. This last year I’ve planted 15 select seedlings from Penang, hoping for something fantastic!
I have 3 trees older than 25 years in production. From those 3 I harvested 600kg the last season!
Peter

How you get the seedlings from Penang?

I don’t have Tithonia but I do have a lot of vetiver. I use a blade similar to Brad. I know Shane said he had a good experience, but I found the tri blade style to be very average and changed to the circular blade style with good results. Either will cut straight through fencing with a decent trimmer (ask me how I know, doh!). I imagine results would be similar for the Mexican sunflower.

Vid here if you are interested - https://youtu.be/So113KLVInk

Sorry Brad I don’t have any chipper advice. I would have assumed it would be fine with a decent chipper but don’t know the plant.

What you using the vetiver for? Thinking about get some for chop and drop action. Also I have a pond that collapsed last flood season so I wanna make sure I dont lose more land into the pond.

Most of the time, flavor is about the sugar content of the fruit. Red, white, purple fruits all have specific undertone flavors, but its the sweetness that makes that fruit appealing. Think of the difference between lemons and lemonade. Low sugar white varieties tend to taste 'floral', where the very low sugar ones can taste off, like perfume, like eating the flowers themselves. There are a wide range of reds and purples though, many with unique flavors and tones. I grow a wide range of varieties, each with its own use. I eat some, juice others, cook with a few and ice cream for others. Like apples, its all about application and tastes.

Taste good in ice cream? never tried but gonna try and make some. Also whats the difference between red and purples? Juts a dark red color?

Let it have some fruit and then just top it at about 8 or 9 feet. Remove uprights until it knows it wont get tall.

Looks super nice. How old is that tree?

Hey there I have a super nice open area besides a long drive way to my house. I have been digging up the area besides it prepping beds for some fruit trees. I am wondering what trees are recommended with roots that won't destroy the concrete driveway? I am going to be planting several generic jaboticabas (really wish I could get seeds shipped to Nam but customs is really thorough searching through international packages) as anything but normal Jabos are like 90 usd plus to buy non generic black fruited ones, some surinam cherries/pitanga, roses, feijoa and a miracle fruit. Heard these all should have roots that wont destroy the concrete but I thought I would ask here. Also these should all stay fairly short, hopefully. Wondering about other tropical fruit trees that would fit in and not destroy the concrete and remain small or medium height.

I have a lot of hope for Kwai muk.  I pick fruit on a Friday to sell Saturday morning, I’m hoping I can make that work with this fruit.

I ate fruit from the tree at Tenom and that really convinced me on the quality.  I have two developing trees that we are trying to shape like we work Jakfruit, not letting them go over about 4 meters.  They do seem to want the drop lower branches and go up.  I’m thinking that with the seed material I got from Tenom that I will snip the tips, starting lower down.  That tree there was very easy to

What you do for you jackfruit tree pruning wise?

Have you considered planting on a mound?  I have clay soil and half my yard stays soggy for about 2 weeks after several consecutive days of rain.  I planted all my plants on that side of the yard on mounds and everything is doing great so far.
Simon

Been a long time since you posted this but How did your fruit trees do on mounds? Have a section of land much the same as you describe

By stunted growth do you mean for the first few years or for the life of the tree? And after a few years dont you want a more stunted Jackfruit tree? I am trying to keep my trees like 4 or 5 meters high. I have some that are like 20 or 30 meters and half the fruit or more is in accessible

Edit: Also one other thing I would mention, not sure if it has been tried or talked about on this forum, but there is a guy in Vietnam working with Vetiver grass and he has tried with several different fruit trees, guava, jack fruit and a few others, planting vetiver like 5 cm from the base of the plant when he plants it. The vetiver roots grow super deep and the theory is that the fruit tree uses the deep roots of the vetiver to go deeper. Here are a picture.


There is a user on this forum called Tho Ngo and he has several photos of vetiver companion planted besides a fruit tree, and then a photo take one year after and the fruit trees that have vetiver grass planted besides them are all much bigger than without. Here is a link to one such thread. https://www.facebook.com/groups/vetivernetwork/permalink/10158382660487760

I plant seedlings in the ground and let them do their thing. Two or three trees in close proximity, 2ft apart or in a row 5ft apart. I have never fruited jakfruit in a pot.

Quote from: fliptop on August 11, 2020, 07:49:05 PM

Brandon, were all your experimental seedlings grown in containers or in the ground? If in containers, what was the setup like (i.e., container size, soil type, fertilizer regimen)?

Thanks!

Do you find that a few trees grown together works better than the rows?

Quote from: Finca La Isla on January 15, 2018, 08:43:43 PM

Those are some good ideas.  We also use hemigraphis which is tough and tolerates both shade and sun. 
For dealing with difficult grass where the fruit trees are already well developed you might consider macuna.  Macuna will dominate anything but can get deep.
Peter

Ah, FLI how drought tolerant is the hemigraphis?
https://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/OF-7.pdf

This discusses the Mucuna, a non-itchy variety does exist. I sourced some seed which came from South Africa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucuna_pruriens

One other I am trialing for shade is 'Wild Thai Pepper'  (Piper sarmentosum) it is also edible, leaves used in Thailand for a snack-wrap called Miang kam.
Trails and roots easily, it seems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_sarmentosum

That piper sarmentosum is used in vietnamese cuisine as well. great with beef bbq. how you find it as ground cover>?