Fruit Overload

[Mike T]

I have big boxes of fruit from chums showing up when I am already overloaded with fruit.The fridge,benches and freezers are already covered and I need urgent help to eat or process fruit.I only wish my forum buddies were here to help consume or take away some fruit.

[fruitlovers]

What a problem! Life is rough for you, isn't it?  It's at times like this that i become fruitarian. Don't go fishing for a while Mike! 

[Ethan]

If my private jet wasn't in the shop I'd be there in a heart beat to help you out Mike, you poor fellow. 

[Mike T]

Ethan I will leave the light on for you. A champion banana, jackfruit and papaya eater would is needed to do some hard yards.

[BMc]

I'll be up in Jan!

[omarudy]

I am applying to Australian National University this year, if I get in save me some fruit! It will be a heck of a drive though...

[BMc]

I am applying to Australian National University this year, if I get in save me some fruit! It will be a heck of a drive though...

Yep, three solid days. 😜
Still, you can always wing a sale fare for a few hundred if you keep an eye on the specials.
Canberra is brutal though..,

[huertasurbanas]

I have big boxes of fruit from chums showing up when I am already overloaded with fruit.The fridge,benches and freezers are already covered and I need urgent help to eat or process fruit.I only wish my forum buddies were here to help consume or take away some fruit.

I can help you to consume a lot of your seeds

[omarudy]

I am applying to Australian National University this year, if I get in save me some fruit! It will be a heck of a drive though...

Yep, three solid days.
Still, you can always wing a sale fare for a few hundred if you keep an eye on the specials.
Canberra is brutal though..,

I figured, and I am such a baby when it comes to heat, that is why I work in the labs at Fairchild instead of outside. But for the sake of fruits, I can handle it. Though I wont be seeing anything tropical grown in Canberra, if I do get in I will definately make monthly trips to Brisbane and Cairns. The tropical fruits is one of the reason I applied to schools in Australia.

[fruithunter]

Mike,
This is the first time that I saw this type of star apple, the skin color is special. How does it taste compared with purple and green type?

[Mike T]

Rock that is the juicy pearl and you can see the leaves have no bronze underneath. It is actually a different species and most have just one seed. They taste very nice I think better than regular green and purple starapples.

[Luisport]

WOW you are sooo lucky!!! 

[mikesid]

Rock that is the juicy pearl and you can see the leaves have no bronze underneath. It is actually a different species and most have just one seed. They taste very nice I think better than regular green and purple starapples.

Those starapples look like the ones Oscar was selling earlier in the year...are they the same or different species?

[Sven]

Mike,

Do you have any idea if those star apples can take any more cold than the regular ones?  The leavesin your picture look a little more stout than the ones on the plants I used to grow from seed and kill from cold.

Thanks,
Sven

[ScottR]

Darn it Ethan, your supposed to have that Jet ready for such overload opportunity, sorry Mike, your just have to go full on fruitarian for a while

[BMc]

Hmmm, the Juicy Pearl pictured looks different to the 'Pink' I have. They look larger and the 'pink' goes slightly pink, rather than the coppery colour. I might have to try to get a plant out of someone and put it right next to my 'pink' to see how different they are. 

These non-star apple, star apples are good and grow well in the sub-tropics. They seem to want to grow more as a bush than a towering tree. The 'pink' is super sweet and more milky, like condensed milk crossed with star apple. I've heard 'Juicy Pearl' is similar (In fact I heard it was the same as the 'pink') but from the images it looks a bit different.

[Felipe]

WOW!! I won't get to try these fruits... but at least I can recreate on the pictures

What kind of jackfruit and bananas do you have there?

[EvilFruit]

I was in Gold Coast, Australia in 1999 and I still have the plastic cups that I got from the Sea world. Such a lovely Place.

I never knew that tropical fruits exist Australia. I thought it was like Europe Cold and Snowy  .

Thanks for Sharing Mike.

[Mike T]

Felipe, the bananas are santa catarina prada and dwarf ducasse, the jacks are both ambers and the starfruit are C.argentium subs.auratum. They seem similar to Oscars' ones but I think are a little different.The grower insists they are C.argentium subs.panamaense but I haven't looked at the validity of his ID.

[fruitlovers]

Mike, do you call starapples starfruits down there? Or was that a typo?

[Mike T]

typo Oscar.

[BMc]

downunder they are usually refferred to as selppa rats... 

[Felipe]

Mike, thank you for the input. Do you have an idea where this starfruit was introduced from?

I'm currently growing one C. auratum from a batch of seeds Oscar send me some time ago. It appears that the leaves are different from the ones I see on your picture.

[fruitlovers]

Here are photos i posted before comparing leaf of regular starapple with auratum. It appears that the fruits Mike has in his photo are a bit bigger than what my tree is producing. It might be right that it is just a different subspecies of same species, as there are i think 4-5 subspecies in that species.

[starling]

Mike I have a Ducasse that I anticipate will fruit next year. How do you rate the fruit?