Most RecentApple trees in raised beds. - I am espaliering two Apple trees in a raised bed (south coast NSW). I planted them from bare rooted stock in August 2023 in new raised beds. The trees are going great but my problem is the soil in the...
By DennisB 3 days ago (0 responses)  Wanted: Mexican Flamevine cuttings? - TyalgumPhil, the amount of times I did that, but to no avail. It appears that "S confusus" is still the more commonly used name. ...By Senecio 4 days ago (2 responses) Asimina - Have a need to brag. After 18 years from purchase of seeds in Kentucky USA. I now have a crop on my American pawpaw. The tree about 3 metres talll has 15 fruit. I need suggestions on naming each one....
By Velella 4 days ago (0 responses)  Fiddle leaf powdery mildew - It doesnt look too severe, and your plant is healthy otherwise. Ive heard that a little diluted milk in water can be effective - I use that on vegetables with mildew in humid or wet weather...By TyalgumPhil 6 days ago (1 responses) Passionfuit, no pollen on flowers? - I have this problem. I bought a purple and a yellow passionfruit at a nursery. Both grew at the same rate and both produced flowers. However the yellow passionfruit had no pollen on the anthers requir...
By applegrower 13 days ago (4 responses) Concord Grapes - I have some fox grapes, i took a bunch of cuttings off a vine a neighbor was pulling out. As best I can tell they are either concord or delaware, i wont know until they have fruited. Either way, I wan...
By CaptainSlow 13 days ago (5 responses)  Wanted Cuttings: Mexican Sunflower - I found about that eBay store. The seller is so nice. Already bought a few cuttings two months ago. And they're exploding. :)...By Senecio 17 days ago (14 responses) Feijoas for cooler places - Hi Mark,
Do you still recommend the Feijoas for Canberra in the order above?
I'm a NZer, looking to finally have my own supply here...
By Sandrew2023 19 days ago (14 responses)  Apricot trees in Sydney? - Fireball fruits for me without much of a cross pollinator. But even though it is on dwarf rootstock, it is a pretty tall tree.
I have a Divinity also, but it is newly planted so has only a solitary f...By QRcode 23 days ago (29 responses) citrus bugs - The best spray I have found after many trials, is one containing Permethrin, which is a pyrethroid. I haven't tried Mavrik (also a synthetic pyrethroid), which is another expensive watered down ...
By QRcode 24 days ago (31 responses) mata kucing - It's a green longan from Borneo. Can anyone please help me get one?
It was a favorite fruit of mine, growing up in Sarawak in 1950s. It grew wild. No plantations then.
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By Chek 26 days ago (0 responses) White shahtoot espalier - I have the White variety facing sun all day (8+ hours) with no issues. Didn't do much 1st year but has really picked up growth in 2nd year....
By Maali 27 days ago (1 responses)  Cotton candy - Old thread but was anyone able to get these vines? I had these grapes from Woolies and they did have a nice cotton candy flavour. Would be fun to grow anyway....By Maali 27 days ago (8 responses) Autumn crisp grape cuttings Wanted - I would also like one if anyone has any!
Also in Perth...
By Jelliss 27 days ago (1 responses) gold nugget mandarin - Just a small note to jakfruit - cam xanh is an orange (cam means orange and xanh means green). This is a popular variety grown in Vietnam....
By Edward3 30 days ago (5 responses) OB1 Blueberry - Syd/NSW - Hi Group,
Any one with OB1 Blueberry Plant(s) to ship to sydney..
Many Thanks...
By Brutus 34 days ago (2 responses)  Free fruit Trees in Public Places - Ooh, Roger! where are the public guava trees?!? Such a yummy fruit. Admittedly the fruit flies love them too, and I almost never see any that aren’t stung these days… I was also told by an Indian ...By El. 44 days ago (74 responses) Macademia Drop - Hi, I have had a problem with my macadamia nuts dropping off when they get to half-size. I get a very good fruit set with hundreds of nuts and about this time of year (October) Most of them drop off. ...
By John Corney 46 days ago (0 responses)  Mexicola Avocado - You need to see fruit as Bacon is a massive flowerer and has anise leaves but Mexicola is much stronger si wait till you see fruit next spring as Mexicola goes black skin and is thin skinned and edibl...By Markmelb 47 days ago (46 responses)  AVOCADO ,Interesting shape , ' RUSSELL' variety , FLORIDA , U.S.A. - Yep thats the one. Hope your grafts are progressing. I have possibly 2 fruit set on my tree this year but have been disappointed before so fingers crossed. Last season was a shocker. Even the Secondo ...By Pimpernel 47 days ago (44 responses)  Fig tree variety ID - I’m hoping someone can help me identify the variety of fig tree in my yard. I’ve owned this place for 11yrs & it’s only borne fruit last year & this year. The tree is at least 50yo accor...By Eat Some Fruit 51 days ago (0 responses)  Avocado Fuerte help - Any update on your Furete? How is it looking?...By Avo L134 53 days ago (5 responses) Sapotes Grafting - Thank you, so like Now should be about the right time to try,, thank you...
By Angelko 56 days ago (4 responses) Carmen Hass Avo - Hi guys,
Has there been any progress on Carmen avos in Aus yet?
A Carmen sounds like the perfect fit to allow us to eat good tasting home-grown avos for much of the year.
Seems like trees have bee...
By davewastech1 60 days ago (8 responses)  Pea Eggplant Seeds - Hey JohnMc - yes for sure cuttings would be great. What's the best way to contact you? I've just joined the facebook group if you're on that?...By Chillihilli 64 days ago (151 responses)  Onion Weed - Are we talking about allium triquetrum here?? It's edible and delicious! We use it for everything - chopped in salads, soups and stirfries, made into pesto, blended with sheep's cheese to ma...By Bethany 67 days ago (113 responses)  PAW PAW DISEASE - Rather late :( but perhaps this will help someone else.... You have pawpaw black spot - it's a fungus.
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...By Linda 68 days ago (80 responses)  Double grafted cherry pruning and grafting - I think the plant looks nicely balanced now. Good job.
I am also playing with multigrafting. I have a morello cherry tree 14 years old, and I have just grafted 6 other varieties of sweet cherry ont...By Edward3 70 days ago (2 responses)  Borers? - Thanks, I've looked up "citrus gall wasp" on the internet and that certainly is what it looks like. Many thanks for your reply....By bzh 77 days ago (2 responses)  Stripping bark - Thanks, yes I'm thinking possum(s). Might have been running/accessing it from the adjoining fence, have cut those branches so well clear of the fence and netted it, we'll see what happens. C...By bzh 80 days ago (2 responses)  Unstable plum tree - The tree looks good and I would definitely leave it. It will grow new roots fine....By Edward3 81 days ago (1 responses)  Splotchy Mandarin Leaves - Its a good time of year to add some trace elements, you can get specialised citrus additives but don't be too heavy handed...By TyalgumPhil 82 days ago (1 responses)  Iluka Blood Plum - Do you think it's a type of scale, and is your tree deciduous...By TyalgumPhil 82 days ago (1 responses)  Two morphed leaves - Ive never seen anything like it either. ...By TyalgumPhil 82 days ago (1 responses) How to take care of plants in summer ? - Is ladyfinger the same as Okra...
By TyalgumPhil 83 days ago (1 responses)  Sick lemon tree - Ah yes after googling lichen, I reckon that's what it is - thankyou!
reading some articles on Lichen - or really the lack of growth supporting Lichen forming... The first two things they sugge...By auscrash 85 days ago (2 responses)  Help with extreme root bound loquat - Agreed. Sometimes you just have to cut through roots to save the plant....By MelbFruit 86 days ago (2 responses)  Lemon Tree leaf curl - Ooh, I'll follow this, I have the same problem with my mandarin. I tried watering more, watering less, an dputting it in the shade, but to no avail. Could it be nutritional? I only recently learn...By MelbFruit 86 days ago (1 responses) Pruning Feijoa in very early spring - Yes youre absolutely right, the flowers and fruit develop on new growth. I find they need very little pruning except to make sure you train your feijoa to a single trunk. They do tolerate being cut ba...
By TyalgumPhil 91 days ago (2 responses)  Bael Seed - Has anyone in Melbourne had success keeping the plants alive for more than a few years? I had seeds from India. They did germinate. The growth was really slow and after 2-3 years, the plants would die...By bhirani 91 days ago (76 responses)  pouteria lucuma - Hi Scot. I am interested in Lucuma plants. Can you send me the details via email to tareqhsa at yahoo dot com please ...By TareqMelbourn 93 days ago (404 responses)  Avocado tree advice - I'm having great success doing this....By JohnMc1 95 days ago (2 responses)  Is this rootstock? - No it seems to be coming from above the graft union, so not rootstock. Also the rootstock looks like Poncirus trifoliata from the bark, that has 3 leaflets per leaf, so not likely rootstock....By jakfruit etiquette 110 days ago (1 responses) Keeping Seedless seedless - I noted a comment in the description the Nules Clemantine that is was 'seedless when grown by itself'.
Does this mean if it is grown amongst other Citrus that cross pollination will cause i...
By HughS 112 days ago (0 responses)  Orange tree desease - Hi.
We have an old orange tree. It was healthy last years! However this year some of the branches dead and it didn't produce many fruit s! I've attached some photos and I hope some one c...By Pomona 113 days ago (0 responses)  Dwarf Low Chill Cherry - Hi Gus and Wazzbat,
I have just bought a fleming's mini royal crimson cherry tree and was following this thread. I have noted in your earlier threads(2012), both of you were commenting that yo...By lionel_llc 113 days ago (82 responses)  carambola - Hi Yong,
I am new to this forum and with Carambola/starfruit. Was reading this thread and followed your discussion between yourself and Shaun. You had updated earlier in this thread that your fruit...By lionel_llc 113 days ago (138 responses) Fruit Fly Netting - Hi,
Back again after a few years of break. I'm after a good fly net to throw over my 2m tomatoes (I'm planning) - can anyone recommend one? I saw this at Bunnings?
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By Qldwazza 119 days ago (0 responses)  Problems with White Sapotes *Pics included* - Hi Amanda, I am looking to plant a white Sapote in Canning Vale. Am wondering if they get attacked by fruit fly here in WA?...By Southacre 126 days ago (520 responses)  Avocado bark disease and stunted growth - Yep, looks like sunburn. But on the bright side it also looks like there is a fair amount of new growth coming through.
My experience with nursery purchased avocados is that the sun just about alwa...By brad16 127 days ago (1 responses) Red Dacca Banana - I was able to get fruit in 2nd year of planing here in Blacktown area (Western Sydney). Smaller fruit size and taking it's sweet time to ripen off the tree. Don't know the taste yet.
I ca...
By Maali 127 days ago (3 responses) |
Not Yet Answered - Can you help?mata kucing - It's a green longan from Borneo. Can anyone please help me get one?
It was a favorite fruit of mine, growing up in Sarawak in 1950s. It grew wild. No plantations then.
...
By Chek 26 days ago (0 responses) Asimina - Have a need to brag. After 18 years from purchase of seeds in Kentucky USA. I now have a crop on my American pawpaw. The tree about 3 metres talll has 15 fruit. I need suggestions on naming each one....
By Velella 4 days ago (0 responses) Apple trees in raised beds. - I am espaliering two Apple trees in a raised bed (south coast NSW). I planted them from bare rooted stock in August 2023 in new raised beds. The trees are going great but my problem is the soil in the...
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Most Popularpouteria lucuma - Hi Scot. I am interested in Lucuma plants. Can you send me the details via email to tareqhsa at yahoo dot com please ...By TareqMelbourn 93 days ago (404 responses) Problems with White Sapotes *Pics included* - Hi Amanda, I am looking to plant a white Sapote in Canning Vale. Am wondering if they get attacked by fruit fly here in WA?...By Southacre 126 days ago (520 responses)  Growing avocado in Melbourne - I have a dwarf Wurtz in the yard, last year 2022 we shared 260 avocados with the next door neighbour. This year will be down under 100. Have no complaints at all about fruit taste. Growing Illawarra ...By Ray15 135 days ago (419 responses)  Tropical fruit trees successfuly grown in Melbourne - Why are you unenthusiastic about KP? I have only had my tree for one season so no winters yet. I have a fruit on there that must be 15 cm. Alyssa's Tropical Fruit Trees seems to have some that ha...By MelbFruit 264 days ago (858 responses)  Gac Fruit anyone? - Hi I am growing 12 seedlings and two female cuttings ok - Collombatti Rail - about 20 km inland from South West Rocks, Mid North Coast, NSW. I will work out which vines are male and female and reduce ...By HUTTO 377 days ago (201 responses)  maqui berry - Thank you! Can you provide any information please on where to obtain such seeds/plants/cuttings? I know it's easily obtained in WA but they cannot send to QLD. I've written to several nurser...By T&P 481 days ago (215 responses)  jujubes - wzis, I have a Shanxi Li jujube tree which was also producing somewhat shrivelled fruit in earlier times, but his year it produced nice large tasty fruit which I attribute to the copious amount of rai...By Edward3 506 days ago (185 responses)  Mango Tree Disease - You could do a hard prune of the tree. Cut the limbs at about 2 metres from the ground and apply steriprune over the cut ends. Dispose of the cut off limbs which might be affected by anthracnose. You ...By Edward3 506 days ago (439 responses)  drumstick tree - Hi, Drumstick trees have lot of health benefits.Both drumstick and its leaves are good for health.
...By Farsana 658 days ago (233 responses)  ackee tree - Hi Anne 1, yes I saw Ackee trees around Cairns many years ago, good to hear some still around....By jakfruit etiquette 714 days ago (179 responses)  Cuttings/ seeds/ seedlings Swap - Does anyone have any fruit seeds that will do well in Mackay QLD that they are willing to sell/giveaway. Happy to pay for postage costs as well....By Kimeau 755 days ago (755 responses)  Panache Fig Tree - Here’s a few pics of some Panache marcots I potted up this weekend. I prefer marcots over cuttings if I have access to the tree and the amount of available wood is limited as the success rate is alm...By Danny333 765 days ago (161 responses)  Tropical Fruit Trees Successfuly Grown in Sydney/Wollongong/Newcastle - good to know you still get fruit even with a bit of dieback. I've just planted another actually and i'm going to try and espalier it in a protected location. Hoping that will help lessen the...By bspargo 794 days ago (182 responses)  Red bayberry - Bayberry season in Yarra Valley Victoria now - watch for them in Asian Groceries etc...By Markmelb 1061 days ago (192 responses)  Chiku / Sapodilla - bhupi - Chiku / Chicu is Sapodilla ...By Markmelb 1078 days ago (223 responses)  Guava tees in melbourne - Thanks for the advice based on your experience!...By PAVEL 1100 days ago (317 responses)  Rare Fruit Swap/Sale in Melbourne South/East? - Anyone for exchaning?...By TareqMelb1 1112 days ago (213 responses) Pandanus amaryllifolius - Did you make your own potting mix? I just repotted mine a week ago. This evening I found my premium potting mix has not been drying out. Worrying about root rot, I repotted them after adding 10% - 15%...
By KhienDFW 1194 days ago (670 responses)  Curry Leaf Tree in Melbourne - Linton thats the best ive ever seen especially in Melbourne ~ cut it to a metre above ground now it will grow back ~ shame you cant sell it to restaurants? ...By Markmelb 1196 days ago (286 responses)  LYCHEE TREE - Hi Aaronkoe,
Your Lychee looks like got white mite. see attached link for more info. Cheers.
[Link]...By David01 1257 days ago (227 responses)  Milk Kefir Grains - Hi Joy, I have had pretty bad allergies for last couple of years and I have noticed significant improvements ever since I started taking probiotics. I am ready to start making some kefir at home. I li...By K Crace 1412 days ago (347 responses)  acha cha fruit seeds - Good luck Farouk, patience is the key here! Very slow growing tree from seed...By bspargo 1424 days ago (308 responses)  duriun trees: have you seen any - Hi, this is not a Durian but a Jack fruit ;)
...By Luc Lison 1497 days ago (209 responses)  Pruning Passionfruit - Alberto,
From personal experience, I don't know anyone (myself excluded) that has a Passionfruit vine under 10 years of age. I've been planting one about every three years. My fourth is go...By Kephas 1514 days ago (503 responses)  Passionfruit - Oh and here is the vine growing far bigger than I'd expected.
I cut it back and now it's twice the size.
Woopsie daisy..
...By chickenSniffer 1589 days ago (634 responses)  Garlic - Just planted my garlic in Sydney and looking good so far.
I am needing to know how garlic does in North West Tasmania. Anybody from those parts and growing garlic successfully?...By mick777 1718 days ago (311 responses)  asimina tribola/American pawpaw/ temperate custard apple - Hi Carolyn
Yamina Rare Plants Nursery in Monbulk, Vic sells Asimina Triloba "e;Pennsylvania Gold"e; a named variety and seedlings too of an unnamed cv. Go to their website and give them a r...By Fruitylicious1 1834 days ago (277 responses)  Black Sapote not growing - My Black Sapote is about 8 years old and is now at least 7-8 metres high. It fruits yearsly, sometimes poorly but it's covered in new fruit now. It always looks very healthy and is in sand 300m from t...By Neil 1847 days ago (221 responses)  graviola tree or soursop - We supply soursop leaves and tea bags to Australia and overseas.
Our websites are [Link] and [Link] for more information....By SoursopAustralia 1872 days ago (358 responses)  Blueberry - @David01 @Jez
Hi guys and thank you so much for all your help!
Im very much looking to be an active member in this forum.
thank you so much again 😊...By aura 1945 days ago (526 responses)  Banana - Hi superbrudd
Between 1.2-1.5 meters to allow the mat or stool to grow healthily.
Happy gardening :-)
...By Fruitylicious1 2032 days ago (443 responses)  Coffee - Hi Mark,
Thanks for your help, i cant see any spider mites on it but ill have another look just in case. ill check out the eco oil too
Thanks
Steven...By Steven 2071 days ago (274 responses)  Fruit fly control - Glennis, I have no idea if the Qld ff is healthier than other flies' but the only way of getting a decent harvest from your garden or trees is to exclude them from the fruit, either by covering the wh...By Slicko 2117 days ago (597 responses)  gardening in Perth sands - Hi Kath
I wish you all the luck in your new fruitopia journey. As avid growers we all know that there will be bumpy roads ahead but most of it will be a pleasant and oftentimes sumptuous journey. I...By Fruitylicious1 2130 days ago (314 responses)  Wolf Berries - Thank you Fruitylicious, I definitely have Chinense according to your pics. I have a Barbarum struggling too but not doing a lot as it may be too shaded.
I will prune it hard this year and see if tha...By chookie2 2149 days ago (187 responses)  Babaco - Back in 1985 I was a commercial grower with 1000 babacos in Mullumbimby. Great success and first supplier to Sydney markets. Now looking for a young tree on the Gold Coast. Anyone close
want to sw...By KeithL 2212 days ago (393 responses)  custard apples - Thanks for the suggestion. Had already tried Perry's.....but no, can't....By Linton 2238 days ago (260 responses)  Fruit trees in Perth WA - Anyone in the Rockingham/Mandurah area have a kaffir lime I could have a cutting from to try grafting onto one of my citrus trees please? Can swap for eggs....By KathK 2316 days ago (162 responses)  Paw Paw - For those above after Papayuelo seeds or plants I noticed some of these plants fruiting today at Coffs Habour community garden, labeled as mountain paw paw, and incorrectly as Vasconcellea pubescens....By allybanana 2342 days ago (221 responses)  Mango tree not fruiting - Pruning will do wonders for a Mango that has already been fruiting for at least a few years. From my limited observations it is best to allow Mango trees to grow somewhat wild. In their first 'frui...By Gregory 2393 days ago (355 responses)  Market day - I 've never heard of the mamoth sapote, is it just a mamey?
And for the jackfruit they could at least have mentioned the variety.
Many people think all the yellow crispy jacks are great..last w...By Bangkok 2513 days ago (157 responses)  Veggie garden - People I visited some time ago made their whole veggie garden of slabs on edge. I can't remember how they were held together - maybe with wire? They were dug part way into the ground and were a good d...By Julie 2730 days ago (513 responses)  bee hives - Fulham gardens. Thanks anyway mate. Il check the gummy add...By ben from adelaide 2752 days ago (202 responses)  I have a cherry tree - Whoever thinks birds won't eat cooking cherries..please tell the local mynahs who tear them through the netting on my tree....By cherrygirl 2912 days ago (171 responses)  mandarin tree - I have a imperial mandarin tree in my back yard it's about 3 year old now and going good!! I'm pretty sure the whole was 25cm wide and 35cm deep, they are supper yummy and get about 6 mandarines in o...By Ellie 3085 days ago (259 responses) |
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