Hybridizing Artocarpus

[850FL]

Lakoocha and perhaps Kwai muk will survive in my climate zone long-term. However jackfruit, champedek, and others along those lines will eventually succumb to frosts. My question is, is it possible to impart fruit quality and size from a jackfruit/champedek into an offspring with the cold hardiness traits of lakoocha/Kwai muk through hybridization?

Also a long shot but what about hybridizing durian with artocarpus?

[Jaboticaba45]

jakfruit and chemps have been crossed and made cheena. Lakoocha and kwai muk are very different fruits than jaks and chemps. same goes for breadnut and breadfruit.

[850FL]

Of course not  I don’t suppose there’s any large artocarpus that’s even a degree or two more cold tolerant than a jack?

[Mike T]

Jackfruit are already one of the most cold hardy species in the genus. The few more cold tolerant ones in places like southern china are not close enough to the better fruiting species to be able to cross. Kwai muk is probably the most cold tolerant of the good edible species.

[Gogu]

Also a long shot but what about hybridizing durian with artocarpus?

Durian and artocarpus are not closely related at all, so no.

[Mike T]

Well that cross wont happen and there are only a few crosses possible within Artocarpus of a couple of closely related species I would think.

[lk095]

Is the Artocarpus lachucha as cold hardy?

[Jaboticaba45]

Lakoocha and kwai muk are the most cold hardy ones besides some rare ones in China that are extremely rare.

[850FL]

Is the Artocarpus lachucha as cold hardy?

That’s the same as lakoocha and they will take low 20s (F) and I believe even down into the teens F

[850FL]

Lakoocha and kwai muk are the most cold hardy ones besides some rare ones in China that are extremely rare.

How do you know about em? Do u remember scientific names or even common names but if they’re that rare I suppose they wouldn’t have common names

[Mike T]

Of the genuinely palatable Artocarpus kwai muk is most cold tolerant and lakoocha is next. Both can also be grown throughout the tropics as well.

[snowjunky]

Is the Artocarpus lachucha as cold hardy?
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That’s the same as lakoocha and they will take low 20s (F) and I believe even down into the teens F
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Are you sure they can take the low 20s F?  Kwai muk is supposed to be cold hardier than lakoocha and different websites say kwai muk is hardy down to 25F or 26F.
Does anyone know how kwai muk compares to mango or longan or some other mid-20s F fruit trees?

[850FL]

Is the Artocarpus lachucha as cold hardy?

That’s the same as lakoocha and they will take low 20s (F) and I believe even down into the teens F
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Are you sure they can take the low 20s F?  Kwai muk is supposed to be cold hardier than lakoocha and different websites say kwai muk is hardy down to 25F or 26F.
Does anyone know how kwai muk compares to mango or longan or some other mid-20s F fruit trees?
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It may have been ‘monkey jack’ but I saw a video of a large deciduous tree in north India and I believe they said it was lakoocha..

[850FL]

I have also seen multiple people say some Kwai muk seedlings will tolerate into the low 20s