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Violet_Cactus starts with ... What is your favourite variety of APPLE - a supermarket apple such as Pink Lady? One of the heritage varieties such as Cox's Orange Pippin? And what is your favorite variety of PLUM, PEACH, NECTARINE, APRICOT, PEAR, CHERRY, FIG, QUINCE? Mine are as follows: APPLE: Opalescent PLUM: Santa Rosa PEACH: I have no favourite as yet NECTARINE: Goldmine APRICOT: Moorpark PEAR: Williams CHERRY: Don't know FIG: Black Genoa QUINCE: Don't know | About the Author VioletCactus1 Melbourne 17th August 2010 8:11pm #UserID: 516 Posts: 349 View All VioletCactus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
Michael says... Hi Violet - I don't know much varieties for your chosen fruits but if there was a thread on top 3 fruits then mine would be . 1) Mango - I can't find a person who doesn't like mangoes 2) Star apple - You have to try a chilled one to understand why it's second on my list 3) Jackfruit - Just the aroma on it's own would make your mouth water. Also have to be the crisp variety. My worst 3 fruits in no particular order are : Pepino - Comparable to a tasteless cucumber Babaco - So much expectations but failed to deliver on that "champane" name . More like eating on soft soap . Jackfruit ( Soft flesh ) - Spent $65 on a jackfruit while visiting a farmers market in QLD. Didn't release they come in soft and crisp varieties . Left for a week to ripen with great anticipation . Shock horrow when pulling out one piece to eat expecting the nice crisp taste but got a mushy bubblegum taste and texture instead.Wasted my $65. | About the Author Michael Wakeley 17th August 2010 9:25pm #UserID: 1746 Posts: 178 View All Michael's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Jason says... APPLE: Granny Smith (picked super late in July) no other common Apple I've tasted can match it, not even close. PLUM: easy, Elephant heart PEACH: Golden Queen NECTARINE: Any white fleshed (they are all about the same) APRICOT: Early Newcastle CHERRY: They are all good :) FIG: All figs are beyond good :) QUINCE/PEAR: All turns out the same when you stew them Worst fruits, Capulin cherry, everything else is ok. From a none drinking perspective babaco is 50000 times better tasting than Champagne. Talking about drinking stuff Chardonnay is probably my favorite grape at least my favorite wine making grape when eaten fresh, if I was a drinker I think that would be my poison. It's very good/complex, the granny smith of grapes :) | About the Author Jason10 Portland, Vic 18th August 2010 12:02am #UserID: 3853 Posts: 218 View All Jason10's Edible Fruit Trees |
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amanda says... Given the lack variety in regional areas - my faves are a bit dull.. :( APPLE: Fuji, Sundowner PEACH/NECTARINE: Anything white fleshed (and home grown) APRICOT: Anything better than the supermarket one's (Moorpark prob) CHERRY: All PLUM: Green Gage FIG: Black Genoa GRAPE: Black Muscats and Italia's PEAR: Still looking! MANDARIN: Arfour WORST: Cedar Bay Cherry, Lillie Pillies. | About the Author amanda19 Geraldton. WA 18th August 2010 9:14am #UserID: 2309 Posts: 4607 View All amanda19's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Aaron says... My fav fruits so far (I've only been here since Apr 2008) : Plum - Kelsey/Greengage. Sweet even with skin on! Pear - Beurre Bosc. Just love the vanilla tingle with every crunchy bite. Fig - White Genoa. Own tree Nectarine/Peach - White flesh Apple - Fuji & Gala Grape - Lady's finger Persimmon - Crunchy Non-Astringent. Will get tree this weekend Mango - Kensington Hopefully I'll get to taste more varieties to improve my tastebud! Cheers | About the Author Aaron Perth NOR 19th August 2010 12:26am #UserID: 3153 Posts: 18 View All Aaron's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Jason says... There's a lot of other plums around it, I'll ask my father in a couple days when he gets home what's the pollinator/s he used for it. He setup the stone fruit orchard before I got into growing fruits so he knows more about them. If he doesn't remember well then there's a plan with all that kind of stuff written on it that he drew back in the day, I'll find that. I'm sure it's the best plum in the orchard (it's also the biggest), greengage, coe's golden drop and santa rosa are all there too, so I'm not comparing it to rubbish plums :0. But it does grows in a weird way and falls to bits pretty often when it's a bit windy, lucky it grows back just as fast. Actually there's one other plum I really like but I'm not sure of it's name. It's very zingy but sweet at the same time, almost like good sherbet, I'll find out the name of that tree too since it's really worth having. Santa rosa makes by far the most fruit year in year out but I'm not much of a fan of it | About the Author Jason10 Portland, Vic 20th August 2010 6:45pm #UserID: 3853 Posts: 218 View All Jason10's Edible Fruit Trees |
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amanda says... Great info Jason - I am a big plum fan! Would be really interested to hear more about the zingy one too. Do u think you could post a pic of the elephant heart and the zingy one when the time comes....please? (I intend to attempt a multi graft tree when we have moved south) I only got my santa rosa as a pollinator (for Satsuma).I'm not a big fan either. (I have a Sunrise Gulf and Gulf ruby - which flower perfectly in sync (now actually) - and then 2 months later the Satsuma and Santa Rosa come on line together) Last season was a mess - so I am hoping to get a proper taste of them this year! | About the Author amanda19 Geraldton. WA 20th August 2010 7:36pm #UserID: 2309 Posts: 4607 View All amanda19's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Jason says... Amanda ok, you remind me in Summer and I'll take some pictures, elephant heart isn't a big cropper but the fruit are massive, apple sized pretty much. it's really deep red inside and sweet. The other one I like is totally different, yellow inside, dark purple outside and a long kinda of shape and zingy:!P. Amanda if you search up Elephant heart on google, pretty much everyone says it's somewhere in the top few best plums. We have one called Ruby, must be the same tree you have, it flowers first before anything else we have. (has been flowering for around a month now allready). The weird thing is it's one of or infact the latest to ripen :!) Santa Rosa here is kept small, maybe 8 feet and it has had literally bucket fulls of fruit every year for the last 10 years. But a lot of the other plums don't have much fruit at all, like the gage's and prunes often only have a few fruit here | About the Author Jason10 Portland, Vic 21st August 2010 8:00am #UserID: 3853 Posts: 218 View All Jason10's Edible Fruit Trees |
amanda says... Awesome - thanks Jason. I wonder if the zingy one is like a President prune - sounds similar(they are quite delicious too) All of mine are low chill Japanese plums (at least that's what I was told) which supposedly bear heavily. I got loads off the santa rosa too - but they were not very nice. The others had lots of fruit last yr too - but I lost most of them with the boron deficieny I had :( One of them looked like a promising fruit - can't remember which one now though. I don't know much about plums but I wonder why u don't get much fruit off the others? Do they get pruned etc? Are they the European ones? Maybe we need a plum thread - we don't talk much about them. | About the Author amanda19 Geraldton. WA 21st August 2010 11:01am #UserID: 2309 Posts: 4607 View All amanda19's Edible Fruit Trees |
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amanda says... Do it Violet Cactus! Also out in Woolies 2day was the Afourer mandarin - maybe it's just me but I can't get enough of them...can't wait to get my hands on a tree. Have also heard a lot of praise about Mirabelle plums. peter - I think I know which plum u mean (maybe D'Agen?...not sure about spelling either) I am hoping to be able to grow prunes and european plums further south..they need a bit of chill don't they? The plums in the shops are just so sad..bit like the awful apricots... | About the Author amanda19 Geraldton. WA 21st August 2010 8:41pm #UserID: 2309 Posts: 4607 View All amanda19's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Jason says... Hey :0 my father says the zingy plum I like is "President". I looked it up on the net too and a few people say it's rubbish, but I say the same about a few people too... so :). I'm still saying it's good :) Don't know if it's technically a prune? it's quite a big fruit and the prunes we have are much smaller, anyway they are all the same thing. Maybe my taste buds like a bit of acid in with the sugar because I'm a really big fan of Cherry plums (Prunus cerasifera) and you have to eat the ones growing on the side of the road not quite ripe to beat the birds to them. I also saw this "ELEPHANT HEART - Late season. Introduced by Luther Burbank in 1929, unknown parentage. A large, dark reddish purple conic fruit with purple-red sweet, juicy flesh. It is a freestone, and useful for fresh eating and canning/bottling. The tree is vigorous and healthy, but crops are poor in absence of the right pollenizer. Heavy bearing when the right pollinizer variety is available, and hangs well on the tree for an extended harvest period. Pollenizers are 'Santa Rosa', 'Burbank' 'Redheart', and 'Laroda' (introduced, but possibly not now in NZ)." As to why some of the trees don't have much fruit, I think some, especially the greengage is just like that? it's never really had more than 20 or 30 fruit a year and it's a pretty old tree then again none of the stone fruit have ever had fertilizer so they could probably be improved. D'Agen is my fathers favorite I think, I'm sure I've heard him saying it's the best :), I'm not even sure which tree it is but if it's a smaller prune it must be the big tree near the water tank :0 because that's the best tasting prune there | About the Author Jason10 Portland, Vic 23rd August 2010 5:51am #UserID: 3853 Posts: 218 View All Jason10's Edible Fruit Trees |
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amanda says... Thanks Jason - sometimes our local F&V shop gets President prunes in - I love them. I guess it's like many things - it depends on how well it's been grown? I have had mandarins from supermarket that look lovely - only to peel them and find them dry and awful indside...you need to try things a few times I think.. I don't know about the Green Gages...but maybe a bit of dynamic lifter might help things along?.. :) | About the Author amanda19 Geraldton. WA 23rd August 2010 10:13am #UserID: 2309 Posts: 4607 View All amanda19's Edible Fruit Trees |