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| About the Author ivepeters CARINDALE,4152,QLD 24th February 2015 11:38am #UserID: 6741 Posts: 527 View All ivepeters's Edible Fruit Trees |
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denise1 says... Here is a similar account in different words. W. angustifolia is the smallest but nice sweet/sour balance whereas the W. sarawakensis has a large pear shape that is sweet but somewhat bland. I suppose both worth growing. As they are quite lofty I wonder if they would grow on a trellis system similar to that used for kiwifruit. | About the Author denise1 auckland NZ 24th February 2015 12:03pm #UserID: 6832 Posts: 688 View All denise1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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denise1 says... Here is a similar account in different words. W. angustifolia is the smallest but nice sweet/sour balance whereas the W. sarawakensis has a large pear shape that is sweet but somewhat bland. I suppose both worth growing. As they are quite lofty I wonder if they would grow on a trellis system similar to that used for kiwifruit. | About the Author denise1 auckland NZ 24th February 2015 12:05pm #UserID: 6832 Posts: 688 View All denise1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author ivepeters CARINDALE,4152,QLD 24th February 2015 12:42pm #UserID: 6741 Posts: 527 View All ivepeters's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 24th February 2015 1:01pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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ivepeters says... Hope they all sprout, the more I can give away. Only ever keep two of everything ,just in case I kill it. Currently have spares of 5cm tall of 4 'blue' Jab Myrciaria vexator 2 Hybrid Jab Myrciaria cauliflora X 3 Sapodilla Sawo Manila seedlings This week only 4 MARMELADA(Purui) Alibertia edulis have popped out,early yet. | About the Author ivepeters CARINDALE,4152,QLD 24th February 2015 1:20pm #UserID: 6741 Posts: 527 View All ivepeters's Edible Fruit Trees |
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JohnMc1 says... I have an affinity to Jabs since mine fruited for the first time last season. I have some red Hybrids growing well, thanks to Mike, not sure if they are the fast to fruit variety, only time will tell. One of those 'blue' Jab Myrciaria vexator would be an excellent addition, ive, do you have a wish list? I have A. Squamosa sourced from east Java with two beautiful fruit not far off ripening. I could post up a pic of the fruit when it ripens for enticement purposes. | About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 24th February 2015 5:43pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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sternus1 says... Nah, I don't like jaboticaba or similar fruit. I don't really go in for the ultra obscure tropical stuff, I mainly chase rare cv's of popular tropicals like mangoes, lychees, etc. some Asian stuff, like bayberries. At this point it has to be something really, really special to earn a place in my patch, in the ground at least. | About the Author sternus1 Australia 24th February 2015 5:57pm #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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MIke T1 says... I have a few vexators (blue) growing and they look like Ficus Benjamina.Red hybrid is a dwarf and the other side of the family is the green jaboticaba.Escarlate,phitrantha,coronata,trunciflora are the ones I have in pots that I value the most.Various Plinia like cambuca,rivularis and several from Ecuador look like they are well worthwhile also.I have a number germinating now. | About the Author MIke T1 cairns 24th February 2015 6:20pm #UserID: 10744 Posts: 250 View All MIke T1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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JohnMc1 says... I plant and grow nearly everything in coco-coir. The fruiting sugar apples are still in pure coco-coir. All the way from seed to fruit, being fed a soilless nutrient mix. Super sensitive seedlings like red bayberries are in coco with zero nutrient supplied, nothing but tank water. I have lost most of those suckers to the smallest amounts of liquid fert. | About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 24th February 2015 9:42pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Slicko says... Hey Ivepeters, I can't believe that you have so much in a 620 block.. must be a little house or no grass in the backyard lol. JohnMc1, I have been using coir for the past year but I find with striking seed in it the fertilizer added to it means I don't get the seed strike that I expect as I suspect that it burns the emerging roots. Perhaps I should wash it before I commit seed to it? | About the Author Slicko CARINDALE,4152,QLD 24th February 2015 10:41pm #UserID: 1775 Posts: 227 View All Slicko's Edible Fruit Trees |
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JohnMc1 says... Slicko, I think they released one coco product with a slow release added, I wouldn't use that one for seed raising. There is a couple of things that don't agree with coco but I'm working on it. The Dwarf Cashew is one, just can't get the colour into the leaves no matter what I do. Zinc and manganese is helping but I'm going to pot one up into regular potting mix to see if anything improves. | About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 25th February 2015 8:00am #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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sternus1 says... John, I was recommended this stuff by a hydro store. It's designed to work specifically in coir. Aussie made and pretty cheap. I'll be using it on my semi hydro dragon grove which is getting close to being finished ( see pics below link). http://aquagardening.com.au/product/bloom-coco-flower-ab/
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JohnMc1 says... If you are going to use that mix you will have to get this: http://aquagardening.com.au/?s=truncheon I wouldn't use bloom, go for grow till next August then start with the bloom formula. As a starter you won't get into any trouble if you start at 30ml A+B/9 litres. That will give you dilution rate of around 14cF, which is a use daily not burn mix for DF. As you get use to the dilation rates you can add more or less according to the plant response. I make my own part A and B concentrate from my own formula. Costs around $5/50L, well, not even that, I was handed 100's of kilo's of chemicals from a mate who closed up his commercial hydro tomato farm. | About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 25th February 2015 7:06pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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JohnMc1 says... Yeah run to waste is the cleanest, and saves power if you are timer pumping from a reservoir. Half my set-ups are run to waste, but minimal. Enviro's would pick a fight with you though.. If you have to buy your nutes, one is as good as the other, personal choice there's very little difference between the most expensive and the cheapest on the shelf. They all work very well, and forget about buying bloom, when the time comes, just add 10 to 20% more part B of your grow. | About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 25th February 2015 7:57pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Markmelb says... Iv been using 30cf for my Autopot setup for cucumbers - only has female self pollinating flowers - had so many made a 80%cuc and 20%tomato relish - very Tasty Recipe ------- Cucumber Ketchup ripe cucumbers 1 red capsicum, chopped 2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup chopped onion 4 cups vinegar 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cloves 1/8 teaspoon pepper Peel enough cucumbers to make 2 litres after seeds and soft centres have been removed. Add onion, capsicum, and enough water to prevent sticking. Cook slowly, stirring frequently, until tender. Add remaining ingredients. Cook slowly, stirring frequently, until thick. | About the Author Markmelb MT WAVERLEY,3149,VIC 25th February 2015 8:43pm #UserID: 7785 Posts: 1192 View All Markmelb's Edible Fruit Trees |
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sternus1 says... Well, you tell me. But I'll address some issues: A) low light in cooler months. Not sure if this will be a problem yet or not. I've got some fruiting in virtual total shade. If it is a problem I'll cut some limbs off the eucalyptus. B) if you're thinking they'll fall over, think again. Those posts are filled with liquid concrete with rebar running the whole length and set into the hole and are set three feet into the ground( concreted in).When they are totally finished they will be supported at 4 intervals around each pot with aluminium pickets anchored 4 feet into the ground. This will also stop the rims tipping over due to uneven growth as I'll swage wire between the pickets and the rims. Everything is stainless or aluminium and nothing is vulnerable to water damage. The bolts set inside the concrete are m12 stainless and run 100 mm deep. The pressure exerted on them will be downward force and they are never going to pull out-- take it up with the master concrete I consulted when doing this. C) spacing is fine. There's actually about three metres of clearance between each row of trellises. I want them to grow into one another a little bit but also want to keep each variety well manicured. D) I don't care if they stick to the pipe with aerial roots as these do nothing anyway. There are countless ways of tethering them as they grow and when mature they support themselves anyway. E) I'm growing cosmic Charlie, neon, natural mystic, makisupa. Dark star, Arizona purple, rixford, zamorano, condor,Halley's Comet, physical graffiti, purple haze, American beauty, frankies red, pink panther, voodoo child, sin Espinas, red Jaina, Florida red sweet, Costa Rican sunset etc. So by all means enlighten me. | About the Author sternus1 Australia 26th February 2015 8:44am #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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JohnMc1 says... Yes I'm a massive fan of the auto-pot system. Expense is the only drawback. I have just converted a grafted Soursop into the auto-pot system, something not for the faint hearted, because you have to wash the roots completely free of the soil medium it came in. I'm experimenting with a mix of medium sized clay balls and the Auto-pot only because the soursop will outgrow it's container in a very short period of time. I will need to eventually move it on to a hydro "monster system", sort of future proofing the container size. DF go ballistic in these systems. You would naturally think, huh? a cactus with it's roots submersed in water? They absolutely love it, and I think they could be permanently kept in a 12" autopot, and I know how big they get. | About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 26th February 2015 8:47am #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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sternus1 says... You can make one of these for about 100$ dollars assuming you don't have to buy a hand sauger. You can mix the concrete yourself easily, you really just need cement and sand and can literally just pour it down the pipe. This is a new grove, I have several other much larger mature and producing plants. I just wanted this grove to plant out the worlds best after years of collecting. I still have more to plant out but that will require another grove. | About the Author sternus1 Australia 26th February 2015 12:04pm #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Waterfall says... I have to put mine on a paved area as its the only space left. I was given 2 large glazed ceramic pots around the 150L size. I'm thinking of building the trellis out of timber so it is around the pots and resting on the pavers so there is no soil contact but then using pvc pipe like yours for the DF to climb up to the trellis. | About the Author Waterfall Waterfall 26th February 2015 1:40pm #UserID: 10026 Posts: 422 View All Waterfall's Edible Fruit Trees |
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sternus1 says... Actually the kind of space you have available is ideal. All you'd need is a steel post ( you can buy power coated ones which look cool) with some brackets welded to the bottom and you could Dynabolt this directly into the concrete. It would never move. Slipping the ceramic pot over would be tricky, well cutting the bottom out would be. No idea how this would be done, I guess you'd need a tile cutter. Maybe there a bit you can get for a grinder I'm not sure. If you can get away with not using wood than do it honestly... Especially things like treated pine which is soft and full of nasty chemicals which leech into soil over time. | About the Author sternus1 Australia 26th February 2015 2:15pm #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Waterfall says... It is pavers though, not concrete so I don't think you could dynabolt to that. I need to draw a picture to explain it better, the wood would not be touching any soil, it would just be like a rectangular frame resting on the pavers, almost like a work bench without the top. Then just bury the pvc pipe in the soil in the large pots and have it attach to the wooden frame at the top. | About the Author Waterfall Waterfall 26th February 2015 2:24pm #UserID: 10026 Posts: 422 View All Waterfall's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Waterfall says... The pipe would just be buried in the dirt inside the pot, depth is about 0.7m and at the top I'm thinking something more secure to bolt it to the timber. The PVC pipe would really just be there for the DF to climb up, once it reaches the top the trellis would take all the weight. I probably don't need the PVC at all as my DF are already about 1.5m tall just tied to bamboo posts jammed in tall plastic pots at the moment. | About the Author Waterfall Waterfall 26th February 2015 5:52pm #UserID: 10026 Posts: 422 View All Waterfall's Edible Fruit Trees |
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sternus1 says... Yeah I'll get to planting them. I probably should have done this before Ponting out in them but after the amount of bullshit I had to go through building it I was at a point where I needed to see something for my time investment. I had to make all that biochar. Christ knows how much wood I had to burn, but it was shitloads and I don't ever want to make any ever again. | About the Author sternus1 Australia 26th February 2015 7:28pm #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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JohnMc1 says... Yeah, you certainly have gone to a lot of trouble, nothin's goin nowhere. just wondering what is the benefit of having the post going through the pot instead of sitting the pot next to the pole? My only concern has already been mentioned re the durability of the pots, but they can be replaced at any time if need be. | About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 26th February 2015 8:00pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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JohnMc1 says... Out of interest I'll leave a special Dragon Fruit permanently in a soil-less 8" pot and see how far we get. Here's an A, Diversifolia and a very recently converted grafted Daley's soursop in an 8" auto-pot system. The A, Diversifolia is over 2.7m tall, circa ~2+ yo. Other pic is an east Javanese sugar apple that has spent it's entire life in coco and is now producing fruit of it's own-could be 3yo. Need a better labelling system. Sorry, there's a problem uploading will try again later.
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peter30001 says... when i did my 1000 ltr natural coloured pots i went to a paint recycling store and got 20 ltrs of bitumen based paint. i think just any old black exterior paint would last for years, and then you could just repaint. i have a lot more 100 ltr pots i have to do, which are thick and blue and am going to wrap them in two layers of black builders plastic. | About the Author peter30001 adelaide 27th February 2015 6:05pm #UserID: 593 Posts: 293 View All peter30001's Edible Fruit Trees |
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echinopora says... I don't know if they are available around your way sternus and waterfall but 200L olive barrels can be had for 15-25 buck here and would last some time cut in half for a pot (sternus) or for waterfall you could set a 1.8m pole in 25cm of concrete in the bottom, add drainage holes, 25cm gravel, 50cm coir mix. That way the dragons would only have to climb 80cm to get to 1.8m. I imagine the 120kg of ballast at the bottom of the barrel would avoid tipping well if the cactus doesn't get real lopsided. On a side note, how long would a gal post hold up to having something growing against it? | About the Author terranora 28th February 2015 12:51pm #UserID: 10023 Posts: View All 's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Linton says... Hi Sternus - that's a lot of concrete you must have used. I'm sure the posts will be more than strong enough to support the load of the dragonfruits. Hello JohnMc - got your seedling today thanks. Please put the pictures again of the dragonfruits and athertonias growing in autopots and how you will support the df as it grows big like those of sternus. I need to see this. Thanks. | About the Author Linton Springvale, Vic 2nd March 2015 7:44pm #UserID: 2286 Posts: 994 View All Linton's Edible Fruit Trees |
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JohnMc1 says... yes, if I'm energetic, usually at the onset of the cold weather, I'll light the slow combustion stove, but after a month or so I get lethargic and fire up the industrial thermostatically controlled electric heater. All I want to achieve is above 10°C. Still undecided how to heat the new polyhouse under construction, maybe line the back wall with a dozen or so 1,000lit IBC's? don't know yet. | About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 3rd March 2015 6:28pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Waterfall says... I'm building a small lean-to greenhouse now just big enough to house my soursop to fruiting size over winter and maybe a couple of seedlings. The plan is to place a low profile black plastic tub, something like a caravan water tank or under bed storage box under the plants, this tank will be insulated from the concrete slab by a layer of thick polystyrene foam and filled with water. Inside this tank will be a standard thermostat controlled aquarium heater set to around 23 degrees, this should cost no more than about $35 to run over winter. The whole thing will be well insulated with a temperature actuated lid at the top for warmer days and letting some fresh air in. Its all just ideas in my head although I've started building it already, time will tell if there will be sufficient heat inside. | About the Author Waterfall Waterfall 3rd March 2015 9:11pm #UserID: 10026 Posts: 422 View All Waterfall's Edible Fruit Trees |
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JohnMc1 says... Set at 23° it would probably run 24 hours a day over winter, What's the current (no pun intended) per KWH rate? .35c? At 100W, that amounts to 2.4KWH per day, 72KWH per month, 216KWH over winter, multiplied by .35c is $108. I'd be happy to pay $108 if it did the job. I ran a fishtank heater fulltime in one of my hydro reservoirs last year, only pushed the temp up a couple of deg over ambient, but was enough. I'd be interested in the outcome. | About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 4th March 2015 8:19am #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Waterfall says... I'll keep you posted John, I'm hoping that since the plants will be literally sitting on top of this mass of heated water and the whole thing will be smallish and well insulated that temps will be ok. I have a couple of temp sensors that log to SD card so I'll stick one in the greenhouse and one outside to see how its performing. | About the Author Waterfall Waterfall 4th March 2015 3:19pm #UserID: 10026 Posts: 422 View All Waterfall's Edible Fruit Trees |
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