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Is cheena (chempejack) easier to grow from seeds than the chempedak?My experience with chempedack has been shocking, 10 out of 10 seedlings died after just a couple of months for some unknown reason
Quote from: Lory on March 15, 2017, 07:20:16 AMIs cheena (chempejack) easier to grow from seeds than the chempedak?My experience with chempedack has been shocking, 10 out of 10 seedlings died after just a couple of months for some unknown reason I grew 4 chempejacks all from different sources. While they don't die as easily chempedak, they have all been very slow. My Amber jack seedling is fruiting again. It's just like chempajack and grows as easy as jackfruit. I'll send you the seeds for free. Maybe 2 more months to go.
Our champajak tree is five years old. It is a seedling that began production on its third year.Champedak seeds and marang seeds can have problems for us too. It seems that they germinate very easily but have trouble making the transition from being supported by the seed to living from the developing root system. I get champedak volunteers on my farm but never marang. The medium needs something and it works better with coco fiber and charcoal but I'm still not completely out of the woods on this. I'm interested in hearing more ideas on this issue.The Jakfruit seeds and champajak seeds do better. Consequently I am grafting champedak onto Jakfruit seedlings.Peter
ChempeJack seems to grow better than chempedak for me and more cold tolerance. Good to know you can graft chempedak onto jack, thank you Peter. Do you use cleft/wedge graft?