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| About the Author Thithi MELBOURNE,,NT 27th May 2015 6:33pm #UserID: 10139 Posts: 193 View All Thithi's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Bangkok thailand 18th July 2015 2:14am #UserID: 11594 Posts: 370 View All Bangkok's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Manfred says... I am saddened that no-one has responded to this earlier- I was waiting for those with more expertise to cover the ground. I would be surprised if there were any black sapotes which are not sweet, but there is a fair bit of variation in taste from tree to tree. I only have one named variety and a number of seedlings. Some are chocolatier and some are creamier- all are sweet. I don't pick any until one or two have ripened on the tree. If yours don't ripen on the tree it may just be too cool in your area for them to develop sweetness. If you don't let them soften enough, either on the tree, or after picking hard, they taste like a mixture of chocolate and compost. Not recommended. | About the Author Manfred tully 19th July 2015 11:17am #UserID: 9565 Posts: 243 View All Manfred's Edible Fruit Trees |
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MIke T1 says... There is only modest variety in taste between varieties and they are not like chocolate mud cake only in appearance being more caroby.None are substantially sweeter than others but should be eaten well ripened to maximize sugars.The 8 or 9 top cultivars vary between 100g and 2 kg when ripe but most are around the 400g mark.Eating them with ice cream,yogurt or cream can improve the taste. | About the Author MIke T1 cairns 19th July 2015 12:04pm #UserID: 10744 Posts: 250 View All MIke T1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author ivepeters CARINDALE,4152,QLD 19th July 2015 2:02pm #UserID: 6741 Posts: 527 View All ivepeters's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author sternus1 Australia 19th July 2015 2:06pm #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Bangkok thailand 19th July 2015 8:23pm #UserID: 11594 Posts: 370 View All Bangkok's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Linton says... Black Sapotes are in the fruit shops here at the moment but they are still hard, not soft. Last year I bought some which were soft and quite good to eat. I sent the seeds from them to India where they readily germinated and can be seen growing there in this picture. Therefore they should be easy to grow in Thailand if the climate is similar to south of India.
| About the Author Linton Springvale, Vic 19th July 2015 9:04pm #UserID: 2286 Posts: 994 View All Linton's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author sternus1 Australia 20th July 2015 7:56am #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Bangkok says... It's always exciting to grow a fruittree when you have never tasted the fruit before. Almost all the fruit that i grow now (around 75 tree's) i have never tasted or seen before. But black sapote is one of those that i want to taste first. I read there are many different black sapote variety's so i hope the Thai grower has the best one (and picks it at the right moment from the tree). So Starling you consider black sapote better then black jaboticaba ? (since you won't grow jabo's). | About the Author Bangkok thailand 20th July 2015 8:23am #UserID: 11594 Posts: 370 View All Bangkok's Edible Fruit Trees |
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sternus1 says... Yes, I definitely consider black sapote superior to jaboticaba, which is so, so overhyped--but you have to give them a chance, and they have to be very ripe to develop a good amount of sugar. You might not immediately like them because they aren't a subacid fruit, and we're just not used to eating purely sweet fruits. I do really recommend adding coco powder to them at first. | About the Author sternus1 Australia 21st July 2015 6:58am #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Thithi says... Thanks everyone, Nice to hear that black sapotes are sweet. Since 1 of my persimmon trees probably died, I think bs could be good since the seasons are different. I am worried that bs fruit may not be ripen in Melbourne cold weather. Does anybody know roughly how long it takes from flowers to ripe fruit? | About the Author Thithi MELBOURNE,,NT 21st July 2015 5:03pm #UserID: 10139 Posts: 193 View All Thithi's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Grant Lennox Head 21st July 2015 6:37pm #UserID: 6119 Posts: 156 View All Grant's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Grant says... Mine is a seedling which had me worried at first but fortunately it has turned out to be a great tree. Fruit in 3 years, taste excellent, very fast growing, no seeds, i cut the top off each year or it would get too big to check and pick fruit.
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