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| About the Author Tommoz Dural 8th March 2013 2:29pm #UserID: 7219 Posts: 340 View All Tommoz's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author nicg 9th March 2013 3:49pm #UserID: 7627 Posts: 65 View All nicg's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author John 9th March 2013 5:05pm #UserID: 1758 Posts: 99 View All John's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Db Brisbane 9th March 2013 7:00pm #UserID: 6427 Posts: 470 View All Db's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Tommoz says... I've heard it tastes like a cross between a pineapple, guava and strawberry. Indeed the feijoa also goes by the name "pineapple guava." I'm surprised many people say it tastes so good and yet I just can't buy the fruit anywhere in Sydney. Same situation with jackfruit. Perhaps it's the short shelf-life of feijoa. | About the Author Tommoz Dural 9th March 2013 8:10pm #UserID: 7219 Posts: 340 View All Tommoz's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author ivepeters Brisbane 9th March 2013 10:01pm #UserID: 6741 Posts: 527 View All ivepeters's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author ivepeters Brisbane 9th March 2013 10:07pm #UserID: 6741 Posts: 527 View All ivepeters's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Db says... Ivepeters, all of my guava trees are very young and I've not tasted any fruit yet from my trees, mexican cream guava is currently loaded with fruits in its first season but all fruits are small at this stage so I have yet to taste. Hawaiian also has one fruit but is small. Other varieties are recently planted in ground. | About the Author Db Brisbane 10th March 2013 12:13am #UserID: 6427 Posts: 470 View All Db's Edible Fruit Trees |
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VF says... Db and Tommoz, last year you could buy Feijoa fruit at Coles. I think it was April-ish. Shouldn't be long anyway, as I've been getting some at local growers market for last couple of weeks. But they don't all taste the same though, so don't judge by the first one you taste - some I bought last week had a too strong perfumey taste for me (my husband liked them though). The ones I got today are lovely. I don't know if they're different varieties, or just that the first crop was a bit unbalanced in flavour being first off the tree. | About the Author VF Wongawallan 10th March 2013 11:01am #UserID: 6795 Posts: 736 View All VF's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Db Brisbane 10th March 2013 12:11pm #UserID: 6427 Posts: 470 View All Db's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Boris Spasky says... Tommoz, I would definitely try them first. I find that they are a polarizing fruit--people either love them or detest them. Forget the supermarkets. Harris Farm sell them when they are in season. Last year I think the ones I bought came from NZ though. They don't keep too well and I'm not sure the demand is there on a commercial basis. A heads up, they are a fruit fly magnet here (Sydney). | About the Author Boris Spasky 10th March 2013 2:33pm #UserID: 7085 Posts: 184 View All Boris Spasky's Edible Fruit Trees |
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VF says... Here's an ok article about a Qld based organic feijoa orchard http://www.strayedtable.com/2013/01/19/local-farmers-sally-hookey-hinterland-feijoas/ . Db, if you then click on the highlighted green link in the article, it will take you to the growers website, and who sells their product (incl. Brisbane). | About the Author VF Wongawallan 10th March 2013 3:25pm #UserID: 6795 Posts: 736 View All VF's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Db Brisbane 10th March 2013 9:54pm #UserID: 6427 Posts: 470 View All Db's Edible Fruit Trees |
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LJW says... I generally don't advertise the feijoas I have for sale as the locals know where I am - since however I am growing them as both part of a long term experiment (16th year - about to start grafting favourites in readiness for PBR registration) to develop Australia-suitable cultivars, and as a community service (mostly for desperate Kiwis like myself who were raised on them), if you want some you can contact me on 0438726701 OR if passing 1985 The Northern Rd Luddenham NSW 2745 (main road between Campbelltown and Penrith, 50 minutes from city) come in (I sometimes put signs up, not Sundays) - I sell them by the bucket (abt 7kg) for $40, or $10 for a smaller container. It basically covers my annual water bill. I have about 70kg in the fridge at the moment. I should be harvesting about another tonne over the next 3-4 weeks. Demand, however is high, so probably best to call me! Potential growers welcome - I will give you a rundown on the ups-and-downs, and tips garnered over many years. Thanks,Leon. | About the Author LJW Luddenham, NSW 8th April 2013 1:28pm #UserID: 7891 Posts: 3 View All LJW's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author JohnMc1 8th April 2013 9:00pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Db says... Couple of weeks back I paid top $$$ to taste feijoa fruit for the first time ($14.50/kg). Personally I didn't liked the taste at all (but that's just me).. All the fruits that I bought tasted exactly same and had weird turpentine kind of taste... Today again I tasted feijoa in one market here (so mostly different source from first one) and it again tasted same like before... Looks like feijoa is not for me... | About the Author Db Brisbane 10th April 2013 3:48pm #UserID: 6427 Posts: 470 View All Db's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author kim14 perth 10th April 2013 5:17pm #UserID: 6755 Posts: 97 View All kim14's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author MaryT Sydney 10th April 2013 5:31pm #UserID: 5412 Posts: 2066 View All MaryT's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Tommoz says... @ John Mc Leon has written a fairly lengthy post about growing feijoa on another blog: http://feijoafeijoa.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/places-to-buy/ | About the Author Tommoz Dural 10th April 2013 10:12pm #UserID: 7219 Posts: 340 View All Tommoz's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Jason says... The next town up from me has Feijoa's as a street tree in one area!:). You can take a stroll and do a variety selection from a 100 trees right there and then and grab some buckets of fruit while you are there. Some of them are very large and good. I'm amazed some people haven't tasted such a common tree and old fashioned fruit (mostly grown for an ornamental here). Not many people eat them so there's plenty around | About the Author Jason Portland 20th April 2013 8:08pm #UserID: 637 Posts: 1217 View All Jason's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Mummytobe Perth 25th April 2013 2:25am #UserID: 7951 Posts: 2 View All Mummytobe's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Danny333 Perth 28th April 2013 11:10pm #UserID: 7962 Posts: 93 View All Danny333's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author jessiemay Karrinyup 7th May 2013 5:31pm #UserID: 7978 Posts: 1 View All jessiemay's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Anonymous says... How to Grow Feijoa's from Seed. - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBvURTgBqyM | About the Author number81 kn_ll@yahoo.com.au 7th May 2013 7:59pm #UserID: 5197 Posts: 18 View All number81's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author snottiegobble South of Bunbury 8th May 2013 11:43am #UserID: 3468 Posts: 1458 View All snottiegobble's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author rachelisakiwi landsdale 15th May 2013 3:36pm #UserID: 7998 Posts: 2 View All rachelisakiwi's Edible Fruit Trees |
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rachelisakiwi says... my mother is postsing up photos of the biggest, most yummy looking feijoas on facebook! we would use so much money ifwe were to buy the fruit here. and it still wouldn't satisfy the craving for it! we have seven in our family, I think the best way would be to just by some trees! | About the Author rachelisakiwi landsdale 15th May 2013 3:41pm #UserID: 7998 Posts: 2 View All rachelisakiwi's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author nicg 16th May 2013 12:12pm #UserID: 7693 Posts: 46 View All nicg's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Mummytobe 22nd May 2013 7:43pm #UserID: 7951 Posts: 2 View All Mummytobe's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author freddyg 27th May 2013 8:41pm #UserID: 7954 Posts: 5 View All freddyg's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Boris Spasky 28th May 2013 7:55am #UserID: 7085 Posts: 184 View All Boris Spasky's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Izzi Dole says... Tommoz:I have never tasted a Fejoi. But once about 10 years ago I bought a plant from Bunnings mistaking it for a gauva plant because the name tag said Pineapple gauva and the branches and leaves very much resembeled a gauva plant.It grew very quickly and reached about half a metre in less than 18 months but was disappointed that there were no fruits yet.Frankly speaking I spoke to the plant one day and said that if I don't see any signs of fruit soon that I was going to chop you off.Eventually one day when I decided to remove it to my dismay I found there were young fruits hidden away but it was too late.Even today I am still baffled as to where did those fruits come from nowhere and I still feel very guilty.But now the Indian Gauva tree has taken that spot and bears abundant of large fruits the size of a tennis ball.You can buy ripe jak fruit as well as for cooking from the Flemington Markets in Sydney on a Saturday before they close the gates by 2.00pm.There are two vendors a Vietnamese and a Fiji Indian selling it somewhere midway inside the markets itself parallel to the overhead car park bordering the western side.I think the season has just ended but you might still be able to get it if you are lucky.I saw a Jak fruit tree laden with fruits on a visit to Kuranda on the steepest railway in Cairns. | About the Author Izzi Dole Georges Hall 28th May 2013 1:16pm #UserID: 8017 Posts: 14 View All Izzi Dole's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Chris Sydney 31st May 2013 1:37pm #UserID: 2281 Posts: 263 View All Chris 's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author casper sydney 2nd June 2013 9:20am #UserID: 6863 Posts: 13 View All casper's Edible Fruit Trees |
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LJW says... Hi All, The feijoa trees in the orchard have finally finished fruiting (there are still two with fruit on though), and I'm down to the last 30kg of fruit in the fridge (not for sale, sorry). The year has been good - Squashed into less than 1000 square metres, a quarter acre, the trees produced nearly an even tonne of fruit which were quickly snapped up by the locals (and a few who made pilgrimages to get some). So many have asked how to get fruit out of their trees that I am likely going to run some workshops in Spring - please email me at leon.wilson@pf1.com.au to register your interest. | About the Author LJW Luddenham, NSW 11th June 2013 10:52pm #UserID: 7891 Posts: 3 View All LJW's Edible Fruit Trees |
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LJW says... Hi Chris, I'd plant them out now - and if they are big enough/old enough to fruit (approx. 17mm diameter trunk, 10cm above the ground, at least 3 years since graft or 6 years if a seedling) apply a high potassium fertiliser at the end of winter (late August). My feijoa trees enjoy 4 growth spurts per year - approximately one per season, and putting yours in the ground will help them to settle down before the spring growth spurt starts (and flowering, if any, occurs)... | About the Author LJW Luddenham, NSW 11th June 2013 11:00pm #UserID: 7891 Posts: 3 View All LJW's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author TMary Neutral Bay NSW 23rd March 2014 12:35pm #UserID: 9334 Posts: 159 View All TMary's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author TMary Neutral Bay NSW 23rd March 2014 12:42pm #UserID: 9334 Posts: 159 View All TMary's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Chris Sydney 23rd March 2014 10:10pm #UserID: 2281 Posts: 263 View All Chris 's Edible Fruit Trees |
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MaryT says... Chris I have them in organza bags so they were safe from fruit flies but I do have fruit flies about and anything that is not bagged gets stung. Worst is my rocotto chillies; every single chilli gets stung multiply times; I am not sure if I should get rid of it because they attract ff or if I should keep them to be the sacrificial fruit. My quinces also got destroyed because foolishly I took the bags off them after some heavy rain and the bags were stuck to the fruit. Luckily I have been able to eat most of my figs; the damage is minimal - they were bagged; ditto the guavas. | About the Author MaryT Sydney 24th March 2014 6:20am #UserID: 5412 Posts: 2066 View All MaryT's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Emmakw Luddenham 8th April 2014 1:06am #UserID: 9767 Posts: 1 View All Emmakw's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Chrismata Bunbury 13th May 2014 4:33pm #UserID: 9933 Posts: 1 View All Chrismata's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author nicg gwelup 14th May 2014 1:38pm #UserID: 7693 Posts: 46 View All nicg's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author AdamH kogarah 1st June 2014 10:00pm #UserID: 10020 Posts: 2 View All AdamH's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Waterfall says... In Sydney Canley Vale nursery has a lot in stock at the moment, good size too. Also sunrise nursery at Helensburgh has them quiet cheap. I bought one last week from them and ordered a grafted one from Daleys this week. The plan is to plant them next to each other as a edible hedge and hope for some cross pollination. | About the Author Waterfall Waterfall 3rd June 2014 11:17am #UserID: 10026 Posts: 422 View All Waterfall's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author AdamH kogarah 24th June 2014 10:09pm #UserID: 10020 Posts: 2 View All AdamH's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author MalS Caversham 31st January 2015 10:54am #UserID: 11201 Posts: 1 View All MalS's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Bron357 says... Hi, we have a old giant tree (8 meters or more) in our backyard. For years these "green bombs" have been falling into our garden. I have just realised what they are. If anyone in Sydney's inner west would like the fruit when it's ready, email me. We were going to have it cut down because of the hundreds of "green bombs" landing onto the roof/ garden but kept it cause the lorikeets feed on the flowers. Didn't know it was an edible fruit that people might like! Cheers
| About the Author Bron357 Croydon 14th February 2015 2:37pm #UserID: 11284 Posts: 3 View All Bron357's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author nicg gwelup 15th February 2015 6:32pm #UserID: 7693 Posts: 46 View All nicg's Edible Fruit Trees |
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GoneTroppo1 says... G'Day I'll be back in Canberra next week where my grandparents have a few Feijoa trees that were starting to fruit a couple weeks ago. I'll be bringing back bags of fruit to Sydney as of about the Thursday following and can bring you some cuttings along with fruit if you need them. Please feel free to pop me a message and I'll sort out getting you the cuttings and plenty of fruit. Cheers Paul - Sydney | About the Author GoneTroppo1 BEROWRA,2081,NSW 15th February 2015 8:35pm #UserID: 11286 Posts: 2 View All GoneTroppo1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Tommoz Dural 15th February 2015 9:42pm #UserID: 7219 Posts: 340 View All Tommoz's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author cinterella lakelands 23rd February 2015 1:54am #UserID: 11352 Posts: 1 View All cinterella's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Feijoa joe says... My name is Joe , I live in Perth and after lots of frustration trying to get good feijoa fruit IV decided to start my own orchard. It might take a couple of years to get going but I will be able to supply bulk fruit and I plan to make jam soap ice cream and anything else feijoa. I intend to also be organic certafied. So if you are in Perth keep me in mind for the years to come please
| About the Author Feijoa joe Morley 18th April 2016 10:21pm #UserID: 13754 Posts: 3 View All Feijoa joe's Edible Fruit Trees |
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