My Edibles: Stone Fruit QLD

Guava - China Pear

Comments: -

This variety is supposed to have outstanding flavour.

Planted: 2012

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

Guava is a fruit fly magnet - exclusion netting is the best, and it keeps the birds out too.

Mango - Bowen (Seedling)

Comments: -

Another of my favourite fruits, that has true mango aroma and great flavour. The seeds of these grow true to parent. Have 2 growing, one of which is a red skinned variety. Lovely big trees eventually.

Height 35 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Citrus feed

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control:

Nil needed yet.

Mango - Bowen (Seedling) ^5/10

Comments: - This tree is much too big for my garden, and needs constant cutting back.  May try to lop it or top work other varieties. Received it as a gift, rescued pot bound from a local nursery.  Have grafted two Nam Doc Mai to one limb with success.

Fruiting Months January, February, March

Planted: 2001

Height 5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Water Given in: Autumn

Pruned By: 25% in

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Never

Pest Control: cue-lure amulet and organic bait spray

Mango - Glenn

Comments: - Set quite a few fruit this year, but they fell off during the dry spell in November. Putting on a lot of growth now that it's wet.

Planted: 2008

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Flacourtia (cape plum) ^10/10

Comments: -

I grow this native because it is a host plant for the australian rustic butterfly . The plant flushes with new growth most of the year and the butterflies hang around the garden most of the year . You need a bisexual one if you dont have male and female plants if you want fruit . It is a rainforest plant so it needs lots and lots of mulch . I read that jam is made from the fruit . The 2 large plants i have are not bisexual so will not have fruit . Thats ok because i bought a bisexual one but it will take 5 year to get big enough to fruit 3/2/2012 .

Planted: 2003

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Eco88

Davidsons Plum - QLD ^10/10

Comments: -

Height 1 mts (18/01/2012) I also have a red bopple nut but i dont have much hope in it doing anything like growing or surviving . They are not easy to grow .

Planted: 2010

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

tropical nectarine

Comments: -

Very vigorous and lush. Growing in a sheltered, fairly moist but slightly sloping spot next to a fence. It has grown taller then the fence in ~ 10 months. No flowers or fruit yet.

Pollination: Self Pollination

Angel Peach - Subtropical

Comments: -

Prolific delicious fruit in its first year, and a nice looking plant. Needs vigilant bagging against fruit fly.

Planted: 2010

Pollination: Self Pollination

Davidsons Plum - QLD

Comments: -

In a pot in a shady spot. Looks healthy and growing fairly fast.

Planted: 2011

Growing: In a Pot

Pollination: Self Pollination

Natal Plum

Comments: -

Making a small hedge. Flowers after rain in early summer. A few fruit after two years.

Fruiting Months December

Planted: 2009

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Pollination: Self Pollination

Plum - Gulf Ruby (Grafted)

Comments: -

Next to a gulfgold for pollination. Both are prolific, but the Gulf Ruby is a bigger tree. Plums taste absolutely gorgeous, rich and sweet. Gulf Ruby ripens in November, Gulfgold in December. Fruit need early bagging from fruit fly.

Fruiting Months November and December

Planted: 2009

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Fruit Harvest: 2 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

Fruit fly mesh sleeves

Smooth Davidsons Plum ^10/10

Comments: -

Davidsonia johnsonii 
I planted this because i wanted to taste the fruit . No sign of any fruit yet (18/01/2012) .

Planted: 2003

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn, Winter, Spring

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting, Yearly, Winter, Spring

Mango - Kensington Pride grafted

Comments: -

Great tree with great fruit.......full of flavour and no fibre at all.  I keep all my mango trees at about 3 metres tall (I have 4 all together, and cut back 1 each year).  This one is in amongst my vege garden, and has a compost bin sitting right underneath, so gets all the nutrients it needs from there.

Pollination: No

Mangosteen Purple (Seedling) ^5/10

Comments: -

Yes i know this is brave of me in Brisbane but i'm stubborn and i just CRAVE the fruit, ever since i tried my first one, and unsuccessfully planting the seeds, i must have more! And we get such sad old hard fruits in the supermarket from Thailand, i will die happy if i can grow my own fresh ones.

Planted: 2011

Height 0.3 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Comments

optimistic of me i know but i trimmed the top two leaves to encourage branching and thought i would try a leaf cutting. It's still green after 3 weeks so you never know!

Make sure you keep it out of any and all sun. The sun is much more of a problem than the cold.

Cape Plum - Flacourtia sp. Shipton\'s Flat (self-fertile) (Cutting) ^10/10

Comments: - Very handsome little tree. Has nice little plums similar to Governor's plum but the tree is nicer and has no spikes. Nice red blush to new growth.  this is the self pollinating type.

Height 2 Feet

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Garcinia warrenii - Sour Plum (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: - Quick growing Garcinia native to northern Australia. It it easily the fastest garcinia in my yard and should be considered as a vigrous and hardy rootstock for grafting other Garcinia on to. The fruit themselves are not too bad and good for jams etc.

Height 2 Feet

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Peach - Tropic Beauty

Dwarf Peach - Standard

Mango - Alison Red Kensington Pride (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - This is one of Birdwood's limited release selections. It is a bowen mango on a dwarf mango tree with a beautiful red skinned fruit. Very very nice tree.

Height 3 Feet

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Wongai Plum - Manilkara kauki (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: - I dont mind Wongai fruit. the trees seem to grow okay in Brisbane. I have one in the ground and a few in pots, one of which seems very well adapted to our conditions. the one in ground is a slow and very compact, bushy grower. Very ornamental leaves, especially as they are thrown and open like a sheath.

Planted: 2010

Height 2 Feet

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Eugenia myrcianthes - \'Tropical Apricot\'

Comments: - Flowered spring 2011, no fruit set as yet. It is a fairly ornamental plant with furry leaves. Moderate growth rate. 

Planted: 2010

Height 2 Feet

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Angel Peach - Subtropical (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: -

One of the best tasting peaches, and it grows well and fruits well in Brisbane!

Have had 2 dozen fruits spring 2011

Fruiting Months September, October, November

Planted: 2010

Height 1.7 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 25 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Organic Link

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Dwarf Mango - Irwin ^7/10

Comments: -

It had about 8 mangoes growing nicely until three weeks ago when they all fell off during very high winds.

Fruiting Months November and December

Height 2 metres

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: at planting

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

hasn't had anything after it yet.

Organic Status:Certified

Mango - R2E2 (Grafted) (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: -

Update 09-Dec-2011: Got around 2-3 tiny fruits which dropped before they matured. Just one fruit remaining which is as big as a closed fist at the moment. New pic attached.

I love mangoes, my favourite being the Alphonse variety. But unfortunately we do not get it here in Australia. Daleys is seeking propogation material for the last 2 years :( The variety closest to alphonse i believe is the bowen variety. But I have planted the R2E2 variety which produce a larger fruit and is equally sweet.

This tree was in my apartment balcony in a pot for about a year before i planted it into the ground last year. And about a month later it flowered and produced 3 lovely fruits :)  

This year it has already started flowering profusely (pic). I might have to prematurely remove the fruits in december coz i dont think this little tree will be able to bear the weght of the fruits if it holds on to 3 or more.

Fruiting Months December

Planted: 2010

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Spring

Peach - Florda prince (Seedling)

Comments: - First one died so bought a new one which is going very well. Nice and healthy, no fruit until next year as I've missed the opportunity this summer!

Planted: 2011

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Peach

Mango - Kensington Pride grafted

Mango - R2E2 (Grafted)

Mango - Keitt

Mango - Glenn