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| About the Author KTV Mandurah, WA 14th April 2011 10:49pm #UserID: 5189 Posts: 3 View All KTV's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Peter says... About Mango: Kensington Pride (KP) has a bit of a problem with fruit setting in cooler areas (check past forums about KP fruiting south of Perth). Otherwise try to get an early harvest monoembryonic cultivar. The best might be Glenn or Early Gold (Glenn is a bit hard to source but possible to get, never came across Early Gold in Perth unfortunately). The | About the Author Peter36 Perth 15th April 2011 9:11am #UserID: 5034 Posts: 213 View All Peter36's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Peter says... Cherry, pear and avocado: Avocado will perform well, more important to choose which variety you want (taste, growth habit). Pear and cherry: There is a problem with not enough chilling hours, but if you really want to give a go, try to get the low-chill varieties, but I don't think there is a low chill pear. For the cherry it is probably 'Stella'. Let's see if there is more input coming from other people, especially about the pears. | About the Author Peter36 Perth 15th April 2011 9:43am #UserID: 5034 Posts: 213 View All Peter36's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Emilypos says... Check out the Brazilian Cherry .Its an attractive drought tolerant small evergreen tree ... abit like a sasanqua camelia. I have a 20 year old one in my front garden which bore a bumper crop last November and is in full flower again. Fruit is a bit tart but make fantastic jam . Dayleys sell these | About the Author Emilypos NSW Central Coast 19th April 2011 10:21pm #UserID: 5204 Posts: 1 View All Emilypos's Edible Fruit Trees |
| About the Author Peter36 Perth 20th April 2011 8:46pm #UserID: 5034 Posts: 213 View All Peter36's Edible Fruit Trees |
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BJ says... If you're after chilling hours with cherries there are new varities coming out in 2012 - the mini royal and the royal lee. They only need 300-400 chill hours so will crop in Perth. I'm not sure about soil however. If you hunt around there may be a few here in 2011. Other than that avocado and mangos seem happy ... My mangos are young, but the suburb is full of them and they seem to cope well in the climate and soil. The avocados get a bit fried by the sun in summer ... but they are loving autumn. Pears I'm not sure on, but WA has just developed a new apple (jazz?) so that could be fun - and it was developed south of Perth. | About the Author BJ11 20th April 2011 10:32pm #UserID: 3414 Posts: 215 View All BJ11's Edible Fruit Trees |
| About the Author Peter36 Perth 21st April 2011 2:13pm #UserID: 5034 Posts: 213 View All Peter36's Edible Fruit Trees |
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BJ says... Hi Peter, Back in October 2010 I contacted the fruit expert person a Flemmings a call. They were really nice and told me what was happening with the Royal Lee and Minnie Royal (dwarf low chill cherries - although they are 'dwarf cherries' so not tiny plants). The 'official scoop' is that the Royal Lee and Minnie Royal are coming ... they will be officially released in the 1st week of June 2012. Dawson's gardening centre are one of Fleming's main distributers and apparently woudl be taking orders around December 2011 to ensure sufficient cherries are purchased for the demand in 2012. If you speak with Joe at Tass-1-Trees I believe he's looking to get some too. These cherries have a pretty good wrap in the USA, and the lady I spoke with said they were actually pretty tasty (a benefit I guess of being the person in charge of fruit!) Optimally they need 350 - 400 hours of chill (a bit more than what Perth gets), but chill hours are an inexact science and Perth should still get some fruit. I believe Jimmy has managed to get cherries in Perth. These low chill cherries should be able to crop in Sydney or Perth (although not at commercial rates). I'm excited about the prospect - but still trying to figure out where I might put the plants! | About the Author BJ11 22nd April 2011 10:56am #UserID: 3414 Posts: 215 View All BJ11's Edible Fruit Trees |
| About the Author Peter36 Perth 22nd April 2011 7:45pm #UserID: 5034 Posts: 213 View All Peter36's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author KTV Mandurah, WA 26th April 2011 11:53pm #UserID: 5189 Posts: 3 View All KTV's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Jimmy Perth 27th April 2011 10:46am #UserID: 2548 Posts: 511 View All Jimmy's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Wazzbat Vic Park WA 9th August 2011 9:10pm #UserID: 5526 Posts: 166 View All Wazzbat's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author BJ11 10th August 2011 8:52pm #UserID: 3414 Posts: 215 View All BJ11's Edible Fruit Trees |
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BJ says... Hi Itdepends ... I imagine it would! There is a facinating case (in the US I believe) where pollen from some crops fertilised the neighbours crops and the courts found that the neighbours crops belonged to the licencer and thus the licencer could seize them (I think the finding was partially to ensure the innocent neighbour could secure compensation through other means without opening the door for people to 'acquire' propogation materials in the poor attempt at a joke I made above). PBR is big business these days! | About the Author BJ11 11th August 2011 3:14pm #UserID: 3414 Posts: 215 View All BJ11's Edible Fruit Trees |
| About the Author Jason Portland 11th August 2011 8:34pm #UserID: 637 Posts: 1217 View All Jason's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Jantina Mt Gambier 13th August 2011 10:57am #UserID: 1351 Posts: 1272 View All Jantina's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Marj. says... I grew a stella cherry here in a pot about 5 years ago. It got four cherries on it and we rarely go below 8 degrees in winter. I lost the tree because the roots rotted over our wet season as I didn't remove the water tray from under the pot. Now BIG BROTHER has decide (for some strange reason that the Northern Territory can no longer get any stone fruit up here. DARN) | About the Author marj2 5th November 2011 4:36pm #UserID: 6075 Posts: 1 View All marj2's Edible Fruit Trees |