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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Ross is the boss.
« on: March 03, 2012, 04:52:35 AM »
I call Lucuma ''Maple syrup Fruit'' they are excelente! I don't know, But I can't eat the whole fruit, it's to rich for me!!!

I got a Grafted Lucuma that flowered profusily last year, But did'nt set fruit!!! Does anyone know why? Should I have more that 1 Tree?

Here the pic's from Last year!!!





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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Better Eugenias than Surinam cherry
« on: March 02, 2012, 05:50:26 PM »
Hi to all :),
I recently found a Black Surinam cherry tree in Funchal! The taste was fantastic, very sweet better than the normal Red Surinam cherries!
I Planted over 25 Black surinam seeds and they are starting to germinate! I'm going to try to grow atleast 5 tree! Each will be planted in a 25gal pot and the rest I will give them away!















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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: videos of exotic fruits
« on: February 14, 2012, 06:37:24 AM »
Part 2

Dia de Campo na TV - Propagação de fruteiras da Amazônia - parte 2

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: videos of exotic fruits
« on: February 14, 2012, 06:33:48 AM »
Hi Lycheeluva,
Here's a vid on native Amazonian fruits! But It's in Portuguese!!!

Dia de Campo na TV - Propagação de fruteiras da Amazônia

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: How To Improve Jackfruit Pollination
« on: February 14, 2012, 06:25:16 AM »
Quote from: FloridaGreenMan on February 13, 2012, 07:59:34 PM
You can also just take a 5 gallon bucket, drill a bunch of holes so it drains and fill it with discarded fruits & peels and place under your tree. This will attract pollinators like crazy but not cats. This method is used by annona growers to help attract annona pollinators (Nitidulid beetles). It is not so necessary in Florida since we already live in the BUG capitol....     

Hi FloridaGreenMan
Those Nitidulid beetles also help to pollinate my Cherimoya trees, I have also found them in over ripe Guava's! But I don't know if they are the same as the Annona seed borer?
 
Thanks for the tip, I will try it  :)

 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / How To Improve Jackfruit Pollination
« on: February 13, 2012, 06:58:46 AM »
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mini yard review-----1/28/2012
« on: February 12, 2012, 11:00:30 AM »
Quote from: HMHausman on February 12, 2012, 08:07:42 AM
I haven't ever seen the fruit from the Mai 3.  I am growing a jakfruit that is probably a seedling of Mai3, which was given to me as a purported grafted Mai 3 by Noel.  Well, it was given to him identified that way and he gave it to me with the same representation that was given to him by someone....can't rememeber who exactly or what, if any the relationship was for this person with Excalibur, but I think there was some relationship. Maybe Noel will remember.  Its got to be 12 or more years ago. Anyway, it has fruited a couple of years and it is obviously not a Mai 3 based at least on what I have heard about Mai 3.  The fruits have been sparse in production and  having poor pollination and therefore funky shape.  I was going to cut the tree down this year when I see now that it bearing much more heavily and normally this year.  So, it got a reprieve.  I really like the look of this round jakfruit pictured.  My alleged seedling of Mai 3 has much more elongated fruits.

On the grafting front, I haven't tried a lot of grafting.  What I have tried has been approach grafts and they have been pretty succesful.  I did three Borneo Red grafts and got two out of three to take.  I killed one after planting it out, but the other is still doing OK.  It is actually flowering now.  Its still too small to carry any fruit, but the blooming is a good sign.

Harry

That Great! I will try some my self :)

Regards

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mini yard review-----1/28/2012
« on: February 12, 2012, 05:23:21 AM »
Quote from: HMHausman on February 11, 2012, 08:07:51 PM
Quote from: Jackfruitwhisperer69 on February 11, 2012, 05:34:37 PM
The reason why I asked about your J.F Tree seedling is that I'm going to grow some Jackfruit tree's here my self! As you know Jackfruit is a must in any back yard orchard! Here the Jackfruit will grow very well! Here some pics to prove it!!! This Tree is in private resort 'Quinta Jardins do Lago'  The tree is about 13 ft tall and it's growing very well in a Subtropical garden! Near by the tree you will find White sapote, Coffee, Heliconias...  It really feels like you are in Forest! :)

Really very nice jakfruit pictures.  The fruits are very round shaped.  I haven't seen too many like that.  Are you saying these are seedlings?

Harry

I got a couple of Jackfruit seedlings, Maybe when they are big enough I will graft one of the seedlings with this variety! Have you tried grafting Jakfruit?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mini yard review-----1/28/2012
« on: February 11, 2012, 05:34:37 PM »
Quote from: HMHausman on February 11, 2012, 03:39:42 PM
Thanks for the kind words. That jakfruit tree has been in the ground about 15 years......but, it got accidentally hit with Round up, when my then lawnman was trying to stop the weedwhacking of my small trees' trunks when he was doing the grass trimming around my trees.  The tree almost died.....but then had a virtual resurection. So, I feel that this tree has some miraculous comeback staging properties and I am hoping, after all of these long years,  that eating the fruit will be an equally miraculous experience.

Harry

Harry,
WOW 15 Year's :o !!! You will see that all those year you looked after the tree!!!  Will pay off with the first BITE :),

The reason why I asked about your J.F Tree seedling is that I'm going to grow some Jackfruit tree's here my self! As you know Jackfruit is a must in any back yard orchard! Here the Jackfruit will grow very well! Here some pics to prove it!!! This Tree is in private resort 'Quinta Jardins do Lago'  The tree is about 13 ft tall and it's growing very well in a Subtropical garden! Near by the tree you will find White sapote, Coffee, Heliconias...  It really feels like you are in Forest! :)



















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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mini yard review-----1/28/2012
« on: February 11, 2012, 12:25:11 PM »
Hi Harry,
How long did your Jackfruit seedling take to produce?
BTW, The Pics look Great!!! :)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: videos of exotic fruits
« on: February 10, 2012, 05:52:51 AM »
Hi Lycheeluva,
Thank for sharing this Vid's :)!,  There's also a full version of this documentary on You Tube!

Regards
Steven

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dragon Fruit thread.
« on: February 08, 2012, 06:08:41 AM »
Quote from: siafu on February 04, 2012, 08:54:01 PM
Quote from: amrkhalido on February 04, 2012, 08:06:46 PM
i grow few yellow dragon fruit from seeds ,,, will they bear true to type ,,

Very much doubt it, from my experience, yellow dragon fruit seedlings produce decent quality fruit.
Mine were sweet but a little smaller than a selected variety.

Siafu
Did you grow your's from seeds? I got 9 1 year old seedlings! How long do they take to produce?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Introduce Yourself
« on: February 07, 2012, 06:22:45 AM »
Quote from: siafu on January 31, 2012, 03:53:52 PM

Hi Steven,

I'm from Algarve. We are practically neighbours, give or take 1000 Kms of ocean ;D
I've noticed that you selected zone 10b for your location? Surely, unless you are at some elevation,
Madeira is a solid zone 11b or even 12. What do you say?

Again, unless you are at some elevation, there's loads of species that you should try
at your favorable location. I suggest you give mamey, ilama, a bunch of Garcinias a try...

regards,

Sérgio

Hi Sergio
Sorry for the late reply, I only saw it Today!

Yes, we are Neighbours :D, The elevation is about 220-230m above sea level! And The climate in Calheta rarely drop's below 13ºc, Some of my fruit tree's grow year round like the Kei apple and longan, In Santo Antonio I grow more cold tolerant fruit's like lucuma, Pitanga, Avo's, Guava's,cattle guava's,persimmon's...,  I also got 2 Garcinia Xanthochymus seedling's which i will graft with Budwood from a huge Bearing tree from Funchal!
This year I will try to get grafted Fruit trees from a web site That Felipe suggested!

By The way, I saw your Green house pics and it look's AWESOME!!!

Regards
Steven   

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Marula (Sclerocarya birrea)
« on: January 31, 2012, 05:02:41 PM »
Quote from: nullzero on January 31, 2012, 04:44:23 PM
Quote from: Jackfruitwhisperer69 on January 31, 2012, 04:41:49 PM
Hi Nullzero
Here's the Pdf document I was talking about
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/fileadmin/bioversityDocs/About_Us/Hosted_Services/SAFORGEN_leaflets/Sclerocarya_EN.pdf

Yes Siafu, this is the Pdf doc. about the selected varieties, Thanks for helping!!! :)

Saving it thanks, I have a few other PDFs on Marula. Found some seeds available from GRIN system; http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/acc/display.pl?1108600

Still don't know where to find a source of budwood from the named varieties you listed Jack.

I'm going to try to get some seeds from South Africa this year!,  I also don't know where you can get Marula Budwood!  What I have read, It's easy to graft them and it will produce in it's first year!!! :)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Marula (Sclerocarya birrea)
« on: January 31, 2012, 04:41:49 PM »
Hi Nullzero
Here's the Pdf document I was talking about
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/fileadmin/bioversityDocs/About_Us/Hosted_Services/SAFORGEN_leaflets/Sclerocarya_EN.pdf

Yes Siafu, this is the Pdf doc. about the selected varieties, Thanks for helping!!! :)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Marula (Sclerocarya birrea)
« on: January 31, 2012, 02:21:39 PM »
Quote from: nullzero on January 31, 2012, 11:13:55 AM
Quote from: murahilin on January 30, 2012, 10:40:18 PM
Quote from: Jackfruitwhisperer69 on January 30, 2012, 05:33:22 PM

Here's the selected Cultivar's from South Africa

Pharulani
Swarula
Toularula
Mpandlarula
Chopperula
Mphodorula
Mametjierula

Grafting is done in spring with terminal grafts covered with a sealant was highly successful!


Do you eat the fleshy part of the marula? I just googled it for the first time and it sounds interesting. Do you think they would grow in South Florida?

They should grow in Florida, as long as the temps don't go below 28 degrees. They are native to the sub tropical areas of Africa, so they can tolerant heat, dryness, and humidity. I am waiting for fresh seeds to come in, was going to put an order in for 20-100 seeds.

I will try to find the Pdf document for you to see, Marula has other sub -species that grows in tropical climate, they are found  growing from east and west Africa , Sudan to S.A and S.A to Nigeria!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Multiple rootstock grafting
« on: January 31, 2012, 08:07:09 AM »
I glad you liked  the pics! :) This year I'm going to graft two rootstocks on a orange tree that I grafted last year!

 I saw that you done alot multi-root grafting! have you tried using Garcinia xanthochymus for an approach rootstock for Mangosteen?

Regards
Steven

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Multiple rootstock grafting
« on: January 31, 2012, 05:48:43 AM »
Hi Ohiojay,

I done an approach-tongue graft on the White sapotes!, the two seedlings with an extra root system are growing very well!



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Marula (Sclerocarya birrea)
« on: January 31, 2012, 03:55:04 AM »
Quote from: murahilin on January 30, 2012, 10:40:18 PM
Quote from: Jackfruitwhisperer69 on January 30, 2012, 05:33:22 PM

Here's the selected Cultivar's from South Africa

Pharulani
Swarula
Toularula
Mpandlarula
Chopperula
Mphodorula
Mametjierula

Grafting is done in spring with terminal grafts covered with a sealant was highly successful!


Do you eat the fleshy part of the marula? I just googled it for the first time and it sounds interesting. Do you think they would grow in South Florida?

Hi Murahilin

Yes, And you can also eat the nut that is inside of the seed!

They will grow very well in South Florida and they can also take a bit of frost when they are dorment! :)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Marula (Sclerocarya birrea)
« on: January 30, 2012, 05:33:22 PM »
Quote from: nullzero on January 30, 2012, 05:16:43 PM
Wish I could get my hands on a high pulp to seed Marula variety.

Here's the selected Cultivar's from South Africa

Pharulani
Swarula
Toularula
Mpandlarula
Chopperula
Mphodorula
Mametjierula

Grafting is done in spring with terminal grafts covered with a sealant was highly successful!


mod edit: fixed the quote

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Marula (Sclerocarya birrea)
« on: January 30, 2012, 05:22:54 PM »
Hi Felipe,

I consumed them in Natura! It's much better before they are processed! The native people always ferment the pulp to make an alcoholic beverage! I have tried it and it will give you a buzz :), But the distilled Marula is Jet fuel!!! 

 You must try to grow them!, They will grow very well in th Canary Island!!!

Regards
Steven

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Marula (Sclerocarya birrea)
« on: January 30, 2012, 05:03:27 PM »
Nullzero

The Marula tree grow's very well in a Subtropical Climate and will take about 8 year's for them to produce, The tree is Dioecious and In South Africa they have several selected varieties with high pulp to seed ratio!

With a bit of Patience they will produce!
Good luck :)

Regards
Steven

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« on: January 30, 2012, 03:53:31 PM »
Well, There are so many to choose from! :)

My Top 5
1.Marula
2.Lychee
3.Fig's
4.Cherimoya
5.Watermelon

In South Africa, Marula is king and the rest follow's :), They are absolutely Fantastic!!! Has anyone tried Marula?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Introduce Yourself
« on: January 30, 2012, 07:46:40 AM »
Hello Everyone!!! :)

A friend told me about This Forum and I joined immidiatly, But only now had the courage to post something :)! 
My name is Steven, I'm Subtropical Fruit grower and collector here in Madeira Island. I grew up in South Africa and My favorite fruit in South Africa was Marula!

My climate is Subtropical and Frost free, Which permit's me to grow several Tropical to Temperate fruit's, Being a fruit collector, it's really addictive! ;D I'm alway's collecting and looking for new fruit trees and I also got some Orchid's like Cymbidium's,Stanhopea's,Dendrobium's,Cattleya's,Coelogyne,Epidendrum's,Phalaenopsis,Paphiopedilum,Phragmipedium and Zygopetalum.

I'm Currentely Growing:

Tropical to Subtropical:
Cherimoya
Lucuma
Surinam cherries and Black surinam cherries in the seed bed.
Longan
Jabuticaba
Natal Plum
Tamarind
Grumichama
Yellow Dragon fruit
Giant Purple and yellow Passionfruit
Granadilla
Blue Passionfruit
Kei apple
white sapote
Papaya
Guava's
Yellow Cattle Guava's
Red Cattle Guava
Fig's
Banana's
Coffee
Avocado
Pineapple's
Tamarillo
Mango-Tommy Atkin's, I'm this Spring Glenn,Tolbert,Henderson,Rosa(Brazilian Var.), and Osteen. later on Keitt Mango.
Macadamia nut
Suger cane
Carambola seedling
Citrus:Eureka lemon
          Sanguinelli Blood Orange
          Lan-late Bahia Orange
Malay Apple seedling
Sour mangosteen seedling's

Temprate:
Kiwi's
Plum's
Peaches
Apple's
Blueberries
Raspberries
Strawberries
Prickly pear's

Thanks to all Administrators for Making this Forum Possible! It's Absolutely Fantastic!!!! :)

Regards
Steven





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