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Fruit Tree Forum ContributionsTrikuslaptop1 Forum ContributionsJicama - IO had great success sowing Jicama over winter here in the wet tropics ..I got small tubers with no climbing foliage .. and plants took off very well once it warmed up ..2907 days 10hrs Fruit tree spacing - pick a number between 2 and 5 and make that your spacing distance in meters .. be prepared to prune a lot if you choose a lower number ..2916 days 10hrs Buk buk - New Guinea fruit may have been discussed here recently .. search gives no results , though I thionk that only works for the title of the post . Some were sold at Rustys and Mike T mentioned it . ..2945 days 11hrs Cupuacu1 - DUH ... silly me added pic of Theobroma bicolor ... it was planted same time as T grandiflora and has produced nearly as well . ..2985 days 12hrs Cupuacu1 - Fruit Forest Farm has had them bearing for a few years now , as well as a few other people in Whyanbeel Valley ...2986 days 4hrs |
Fruit Tree Forum LikesTrikuslaptop1 has LIKED the following:Cupuacu1 - I'm not so sure and I have offloaded them to Peter and I don't think Mr Carle has them fruiting but I could be wrong.The picture there is of a T.bicolor by the way not capuassu...Liked Answer 2984 days 11hrs Cupuacu1 - I have sprouted a few and passed them on. Cupuassu come in different varieties with different flower colours. Theobroma sp. San Lorenzo is similar and better...Liked Answer 2987 days 12hrs What fruit is this4 - Marketing or stage names for a very ordinary tree...Liked Answer 2999 days 10hrs Where to buy plantains - Plantains will grow in Sydney. I grow a few, such as Bluggoe, Pacific Plantain. They do well To people north of Brisbane who feel it necessary to constantly tell us we can't grow anything please remember Sydney is not in the Antartic we can grow Mango..Liked Answer 3048 days 3hrs Rollinia species - Now that is a whopper trikus.I think Peter S. from Feluga is in the RFA and I bet you know him and Trina who maneges the nursery.I reckon he would have some good ones...Liked Answer 3052 days 13hrs Can you purchase pitangatuba seedstree in australia - After speaking to DAFF about the possibility of import, I think I might wait until one of you guys has some success and decides to sell seeds. The quarantine requirements for this bad boy are pretty strict!..Liked Answer 3077 days 14hrs Can you purchase pitangatuba seedstree in australia - They can take a couple of months but fresh seeds usually are germinating within a month.My 35cm plant had one flower but it didn't set.Alan Carle is the only one I know who sometimes sells plants . Melbourne might be pushing it for them. ..Liked Answer 3077 days 14hrs Myristica fragrans - I got half a dozen Myristica insipida or globosa (no-one knows which they are) from the council nursery at Tully yesterday, to pot up and get actively growing over the next week or fortnight, then will try to graft material from the Cairns M. fragrans mot..Liked Answer 3155 days 11hrs Looking for colocasia gigantea - The giant elephant ear? I havent seen it around for a long time as it can go rampant and people try to get rid of it.I can keep an eye out.They are not in the jungle here just a few Allocasias. They are called suckers and one is born every minute, or is ..Liked Answer 3170 days 10hrs Rare fruit in maket - True, but none of them offer the unique brand of unmitigated olfactory and general sensory insult that Durian does. Another difference is that all those you mention actually are popular with consumers--Durian will never achieve this. Irregardless I respe..Liked Answer 3175 days 14hrs Sapodilla - Ponderosa and brown sugar are not bad but too shy at producing and fell out if favour when tested here.Prolific is a fraction better but I chopped down my 10 tear old tree a couple of weeks ago as it didn't cut it with the other varieties.Just Krausey an..Liked Answer 3183 days 12hrs Bluggoe plantain banana - Psychic Laisla.Trikus I think the bongs are a smoking banana...Liked Answer 3189 days 13hrs Chokos - Hey Phil, the Choko is a very, very pale cream colour. The chooks like them, and I use them in cooking. They are lovely picked small, around 2 inches, steamed and coated in garlic butter. No need to peel at this size. Good texture and delicate flavour...Liked Answer 3267 days 12hrs Etlingera elatior edible pink torch ginger in - I know paradise distributors carry Nicolaia elatior (etlingera elatior) in red and pink. They also carry some other ginger varieties. They are in queensland but they batch their orders together so the bill is split and it only costs $30 to get them. I ord..Liked Answer 3299 days 1hrs Bush turkeys - Oh my goodness I have one very annoying turkey take over my yard. It has been driving me crazy for months now I take its nest apart and the next day it's built it again. I came across another forum that said they are territorial. I got a box and put mirr..Liked Answer 3300 days 5hrs Attractive artocarpus - It is what is inside that counts...Liked Answer 3336 days 8hrs Myristica fragrans - I just can't remember what time of the year that one fruits but it isn't the wet season.There are male branches grafted on to the larger female.There really should be more around and that goes for cinnamon, star anise and other spice trees...Liked Answer 3346 days 14hrs Graviola tree or soursop - http://www.hoax-slayer.com/soursop-cancer-cure.shtml The studies by real medical researchers actually used soursops.Ther author of this site does have a medical degree but is more of a new age author.He has copped a flogging for his views and advice but ..Liked Answer 3354 days 15hrs Aracaarazaeugenia stipitata - They are pretty acidic and in Brazil Eugenia pyriformis is held in higher esteem.It grows in cooler areas as well.This would be a great alternative in Australia if they were more widely available...Liked Answer 3371 days 6hrs Durian lovers around the world1 - I'm in the middle of building a largish poly-tunnel now, hope to have it completed before the onset of the cooler weather. I'll be trying to keep an Abiu alive before I attempt anything like a Durian...Liked Answer 3381 days 14hrs Yerba mate - Re Yerba Mate: The scientific name Ilex paraguayensis would suggest that the plant is a holly and there is a good chance that it could be grafted on to a holly root stock.The fact that the plant appears not to grow out of its native range suggests that th..Liked Answer 3384 days 12hrs Durian lovers around the world - I ate a durian last week that Colin Gray of Cape trib gave me.Many trees have fruit south of Cairns that are half sized at the moment. Macranthas and red prawns are shaping to have good seasons and these special types will be in demand...Liked Answer 3384 days 14hrs Palm id - It looks like one of the native Cordylines and they have similar red fruits to the round fruited Linospadix and can live in the same areas...Liked Answer 3385 days 2hrs Indonesian bay leaf - Oh cool, Trikus. Hope they seeds well. Nasi kuning with sambel goreng ati and telur dadar and urap ? Planted two kunyit rhizomes yesterday. I hope they grow for making nasi kuning and soto. ..Liked Answer 3401 days 14hrs Plants must be watered and fertilized - Sorry, besthomegadens, Some of your observations must be challenged. I can agree with half of your watering tips and none of your fertilizing tips. Adding fertilizers on a daily basis to a newly planted tree will end in disappointment, guaranteed. Addin..Liked Answer 3416 days 9hrs Plants must be watered and fertilized - In the main, your quoted text is hogwash...Liked Answer 3416 days 9hrs Plants must be watered and fertilized - Boris hogwash is a generous appraisal...Liked Answer 3416 days 9hrs Star apple phillipine gold - Juicy pearl is C.argentium var.auratum so is a different species.Grimal green is one of 3 or 4 green varieties of true starapple in Australia and is not the best.There are reds,philipine gold and various purples.The dwarf Taiwanese yellow star apple appea..Liked Answer 3468 days 2hrs Red dacca banana - Red Dacca can revert to Green Dacca as the colouration is only a single gene mutation. Have seen clumps of Red Dacca revert over time. Fruit quality and eating experience are still the same..Liked Answer 3492 days 14hrs Melicoccus bijugatus mamoncillo or spanish lime - Not really Mary I have been practising being greedy lately and even saying no in the mirror.It have extended my tentacles a little further of late also...Liked Answer 3585 days 15hrs Coconut palms in nsw - 'Malay dwarf' and other simmilar dwarf varieties may be , so I've heard, more sensetive to cold. Their compact size however, would enable a southern grower to protect them more easily with climate shelter, and also potentially longer fruitful life dow..Liked Answer 3656 days 24hrs Falling baby mandarin - The fruit name is derived from Mandarin Orange just as Tangerine is derived from Orange of Tangiers. Mandarin is a bit too derived and Mandarine is strinised.It is a bit hard to argue about which is the correct common name as long as we know what we are t..Liked Answer 3678 days 1hrs Panama gold passionfruit2 - No GM passionfruit here. Panama Gold is from an old line of sweet yellow flavicarpas that is hard to trace.They are really just a tropical form/subspecies of edulis that even has the Brazilians confounded as to weather yellows occur naturally there. Nearl..Liked Answer 3683 days 7hrs Dragon fruit23 - Some pics of yellow dragonfruit flower opening as I left work tonight and a red cutting that has decided to try And flower in its pot..Liked Answer 3694 days 24hrs Abelmoschus manihot linn - Hi all, I have been in the rural Solomon Islands a couple of weeks ago. All of the leafy vegetables we ate there were really tasty (and all the food was). I think sliperi kabis is supposed to be Abelmoschus manihot, but it was much nicer there than the..Liked Question 3696 days 15hrs |
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