jackfruit questions (forum)

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Are there and seeds of amber or other good cultivars around? If anyone has access to the fruits I'm more than willing to pay for a fruit if you pass the seeds along. Also has anyone been able to sit down and compare tweed crisp to these improved varieties? I know the tweed crisp performs well around here. I only have space for 2 jacks, trying to decide if chasing things like excaliber red and amber seeds to fill the spots is worthwhile, or if I am better off getting a grafted tweed crisp and or brinsmead. Does anyone have first hand experience as to the amount of latex in the special?

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Time: 18th May 2015 8:05pm

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Julz_T says...
I have a few jackfruit trees but I'm not sure of the variety as they were planted long before I bought my property. When they fruit again I'd be happy to pass on fruit/seeds to you. To be honest I don't know much about them except for the eating of them!

Time: 18th July 2015 7:31pm

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echinopora says...
Thanks, I now have a young grafted jackfruit tree to fill one of the spots but was looking for one with darker flesh for the other. Hopefully I can find some once the american jackfruit season gets going.



Time: 18th July 2015 9:56pm

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MIke T1 says...
Really those ones like bring mead and tweed have not taken off and are not grown commercially.The gold series are alright but not sensational.There are more good varieties here than in the US.The elite firmer fleshed types include amber,NS1,berry,j30, j31, j33,t tabouey, cochin and various thai crisp types.Galaxy is famous for being the worst in Australia.

Time: 19th July 2015 8:55am

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Bangkok says...
Don't get fooled by agressive salesmen.

I ate the red fleshed one Suria Daeng 2 years ago and it was no good at all. My wife even refused to eat after 1 piece.

Now give us a bowl of crispy supersweet/flavourfull phet raa chaa jackfruit and for sure i have to drive back to the market 10 mins later to get more.

I don't know many jackvariety's but you can't go wrong on phet raa chaa or thong prasert. They taste the same to me. Those are sold all over Bangkok.

Time: 19th July 2015 8:28pm

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echinopora says...
The grafted one I got was a tweed crisp, mostly because I know they crop well here and grafted jacks seem quite limited here. I am willing to take the lottery for my second jack and try a seeding. I managed to buy a couple of brinsmead, tweed crisp and random seedling fruits this last season and they were all over the shop in quality. I bought 2 crisp fruits and they were orange, sweet and firm, but not as good flavour as the best seedling fruit I had, which had very pale juicy flesh, only enough latex to make my fingers slighty tacky, not as sweet but very bold flavour. I think I prefer them with some kick or acidity over sweetness and texture. I didn't much care for the ones that were soft and ultra sweet. Trouble is I can't just go to the store and buy 10 named varieties to compare so I have to go on descriptions. I had asked about amber because mike had a high opinion of it on his post on tff.

Time: 19th July 2015 9:09pm

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Bangkok says...
If anybody wants jackfruit seeds from Bangkok then let me know.

They are on the market 9 months a year.

Some phet raa chaa seedlings are growing in the warmest part of Spain now and grow very slow. Just to let you know.
I have a grafted phet raa chaa but it never bloomed so far.

Those red variety's i 've never seen again, only 1 time at the or-tor-kor fruitmarket for 10 us$ a small pack (very expensive). That was 2 years ago and they are orange, not red.



Time: 19th July 2015 11:38pm

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Bangkok says...
Has any of you already tasted a red (read orange) jackfruit?

I haven't seen them for 2 years now. Or they are being exported or they stopped growing it.

Time: 27th January 2017 1:43am

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