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| About the Author Grant Lennox Head 29th June 2015 9:33am #UserID: 6119 Posts: 156 View All Grant's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Markmelb says... Grant can you put up a photo of their size? I picked my last lamb Hass around the end of December. The later you pick them the better they are - I have four too on a 3 year lamb Hass (fist fruit)and they look like they will get pretty big by the end of the year. Pic on right i took tonght - pic on left are 2 that I picked 30/12/14 - Its likely your will ripen a couple weeks earlier I guess - just ripen one at time to see?
| About the Author Markmelb MT WAVERLEY,3149,VIC 29th June 2015 7:25pm #UserID: 7785 Posts: 1192 View All Markmelb's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Julie Roleystone WA 29th June 2015 8:51pm #UserID: 154 Posts: 1842 View All Julie's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Markmelb says... Julie - more the skin - they lose their gloss but A types can still hang on tree till you need want to eat - Bs like bacon get to a point then will drop off as an indication. Also if you pick with a small stem will delay ripening until you remove stem and let air into the end and will ripen within a few days - if not sure push in a tooth pick thru skin. If easy its ready - if firm wait a few days more. If you cut too soon wraap in clingfilm and wait - will still ripen on bench. | About the Author Markmelb MT WAVERLEY,3149,VIC 29th June 2015 9:28pm #UserID: 7785 Posts: 1192 View All Markmelb's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Grant Lennox Head 29th June 2015 9:41pm #UserID: 6119 Posts: 156 View All Grant's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Markmelb MT WAVERLEY,3149,VIC 29th June 2015 10:32pm #UserID: 7785 Posts: 1192 View All Markmelb's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Grant Lennox Head 30th June 2015 9:08pm #UserID: 6119 Posts: 156 View All Grant's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Markmelb says... Cool Grant - good pic - nice to see your flowers about to start in background - mine are just fat buds still and not far away - maybe 4 weeks - do you see the dotty spots on skin? they dont change after pickng - but the background gets blacker if you know what i mean? Yours look about 4 weeks ahead of here in Melbourne? | About the Author Markmelb MT WAVERLEY,3149,VIC 30th June 2015 9:53pm #UserID: 7785 Posts: 1192 View All Markmelb's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Brendan Mackay, Q 1st July 2015 3:17pm #UserID: 1947 Posts: 1722 View All Brendan's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Grant Lennox Head 1st July 2015 7:38pm #UserID: 6119 Posts: 156 View All Grant's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 1st July 2015 9:46pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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sternus1 says... It's the cold. You have to remember that they are a tropical species. One of two things will happen: Either they will stay green until it starts to warm up, or they will abort--if we hit a an especially cold patch. If your vine is large, and needs trimming, you can cut them off and put them in the sun to ripen (works better if they are still attached to the limbs) as I am doing with these colombian reds.
| About the Author sternus1 Australia 2nd July 2015 8:37am #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 2nd July 2015 4:55pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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sternus1 says... Later than some John, not as late or as tough as the common viet white and definitely more cold sensitive. but again, it depends on your location. The more heat you have around, the longer the season will be. Up in cairns I've heard they will put out most of the year, can't personally vouch for it. | About the Author sternus1 Australia 2nd July 2015 6:21pm #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 2nd July 2015 6:26pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author peter30001 adelaide 2nd July 2015 7:30pm #UserID: 593 Posts: 293 View All peter30001's Edible Fruit Trees |
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sternus1 says... Well, that's true of all fruiting cactacea, not just dragon fruit--but as far as I'm aware of, it's still unclear as to how much light is needed and and what times, and how this relates to yields. Every commercial farm I've seen has them in rows in full sun--and by that, I mean they receive as much light as the day has to give. We're still in the dark ages in a lot of ways when it comes to dragons. The real trick is keeping the moisture level right--they like pretty much the same conditions as papaya. They're more like a succulent than true cactus. The types avilable now are pretty divorced from the pure Ocampaonis, Polyrhizus etc. Some have epi genes, even columnar cereus genes. It's all very confusing. Any selenicereus types take longer to ripen--including the yellow. One thing I can tell you for sure is that a sure fire way to get a lovely, massive, but very low fruiting vine is to give it nitrogen based ferts. Pretty much the worst thing you can do if you want a good amount of fruit--something I learned the hard way. In my semi-hydro setup I'm now using mineral nutes, no nitrogen whatsoever. | About the Author sternus1 Australia 2nd July 2015 8:15pm #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Grant Lennox Head 1st August 2015 6:51pm #UserID: 6119 Posts: 156 View All Grant's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Grant Lennox Head 3rd August 2015 10:19am #UserID: 6119 Posts: 156 View All Grant's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author sternus1 Australia 3rd August 2015 6:21pm #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Grant Lennox Head 3rd August 2015 7:28pm #UserID: 6119 Posts: 156 View All Grant's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Bangkok says... I'll see if i can find it but i had a list of dragonfruit and the conditions that they like. They were all grown in Chiang mai and the american variety's. Unfortunately the plantation got a virus and all dragonfruits died on that farm. If i remember well then American beauty (which isn't from america at all) is one of those who can get sunbur easy. I also have only seen them growing in full sun, there were some plantations of them near my house. Guess they are the white fleshed ones. | About the Author Bangkok thailand 3rd August 2015 9:19pm #UserID: 11594 Posts: 370 View All Bangkok's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Grant says... Just a little feed back on first Lamb Hass fruit picked a week ago, all looking good, almost whole fruit black/purple. Not ripe yet tho. Long awaited yellow dragon starting to colour up, very happy! And lots of big black sapotes picked today, thats a 50c piece on the left.
| About the Author Grant Lennox Head 9th August 2015 6:42pm #UserID: 6119 Posts: 156 View All Grant's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Grant Lennox Head 13th August 2015 10:29am #UserID: 6119 Posts: 156 View All Grant's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Markmelb MOUNT WAVERLEY,3149,VIC 13th August 2015 10:49am #UserID: 7785 Posts: 1192 View All Markmelb's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Grant says... My LH is covered in flowers at the moment Mark. So hopefully more fruit next year, only polinators i have noticed on flowers have been house flies and small flies. The taste of the fruit is fantastic! Rich and creamy, tried a shop bought Hass i had here for comparison and there was none. Perhaps the Hass i had had done it tough, but it had nowhere near the flavour and was watery by comparison. Certainly no scientific test but interesting. Hope yours fare well. | About the Author Grant Lennox Head 13th August 2015 7:55pm #UserID: 6119 Posts: 156 View All Grant's Edible Fruit Trees |
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