The Tropical Fruit Forum

Good going. That's exactly how my back yard (except the patio) shaped out... totally shaded!  Even on the hottest day in summer it's 20+ degrees cooler.

I bought a "bistro" table, some armchairs (with cup holders) and ran a 12 volt line from my solar array for DC lights, a charge station for my phone, blue tooth speakers and two fans. I topped it off with ground orchids and bird feeders.

Let your imagination go wild!!!

Carambola are great producers, and anywhere lemon or orange is used in a recipe carambola can make a very good substitute. The juice on ripe fruit is great provided you take off any green tips, and also I skin and core them too before juicing. A bit home made of sugar syrup added and you're off to a great AM drink.

I have a Julie seedling which I got from the owner of the Julie parent tree. The owner planted the seed in a half wooden staved barrel and with the barrel rotting she pulled the 6' seedling from the ground and snapped the tap root. I got it home in 2012 and gave it a lot of care until it settled in and could survive without the tap root.

1) It is it Polyembryonic or Monoembryonic?
Monoembryonic

2) How long did it take the seedling to fruit(include location)?
After planting ~5 years.

3) Growth habits of the tree, especially compared to maternal parent tree
Medium size, I've never trimmed it. When I picked my seedling up, the parent was 15+ years old and was not much (if any) larger than mine is now.

4) Track production of the tree as it grows
She (Now called Juicy Lucy) produces so much fruit I have to abort some of it to keep branches from snapping. Over the years production increases proportionally to its size

5) If it’s a Polyembryonic seedling:
N/A

Notes on the tree and fruit

Fruit: They are smallish  (likely helped due to it bearing so much fruit) , have a typical Julie nose (a few have GINORMOUS noses), the fruits are a vibrant pink and orange when ripe and they are sweet and mostly fiberless.

Tree: Medium growth habit, spreading more than vertical. NO typical fungal issues as with Julie parent.  I have grafted this one several  times, so far all report it to be extremely prolific, and the fruit matches those of my Juicy Lucy.

My km was labeled at the nursery I have no idea if it was a seedling or if grafted what the root stock was.

Fairchild seedlings gone. The rest still available.

I have some Kampong Mauve sugar apple seeds, potted Sugar apple seedlings (4"-6" tall) as well as some in ground (you'll need a pots and soil to did them up) lemon drop mangosteen seedlings and Noble muscadine grape seeds also, and maybe a couple of Fairchild #2 seedlings.

Oh, scions of my several annona (Geffner, Kampong mauve, sugar apple, purple custard apple, San Pablo) are here for the taking too.

Again, free, in person, local pickup only in North Broward So. Flo. No shipping, don't ask :-)



 

Other than the horrid  appearance, how did it taste? :-) Just kidding... Outwardly it looks like a sort of fungus I've never seen before, inside it looks like fruit fly damage but I don't see any larvae. Weird.

Perhaps when the fruit outgrew the mesh the skin was damaged allowing it to rot? Was it only on that one fruit?

Yup, the one I had was sickly, and the fruits stayed white and got a fungus. I wish I had the advice you had... I pulled it long ago.

Carrie, I love them.

Very cool, how did they taste? My Rollinia has been flowering for months but it's too young to set fruit.

As a noxious species here groves of them can be on mangrove mus and in the intertidal zone. This is a legacy of their short career and rejection as atemoya rootstock many decades ago. They even infest lovely Melaleuca swamps.

"lovely Melaleuca" That the first time I heard that one.

But, pond apples may be eaten by starving wildlife, but never me... even IF I were starving :-) Thank goodness they're not very common in Florida, hard to find maybe but once you look, you find them.

Are these still available?

LOTS still available.

A friend who has been in Puerto Rico had some of my Sweetheart Lychees and she said quenepa is very similar. I've only seen pix and do not know anyone growing them.