Rusticular's Edible Backyard

Lime - Kassia (Seedling)

Fruiting Months January, February, March, November, December

Planted: 2014

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 2016 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Custard Apple - African Pride (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: -

(rootstock Annona cherimola)  No fruit set 2016. Grafted some Cherimola on which is flowering in january 2017.

Fruiting Months March, April, May, June

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 10 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pruned By: 30% in Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Pest Control: pick off caterpillars

Organic Status:Organic

Lemon - Lisbon (Grafted) ^4/10

Comments: - Annual prune.  Vigorous growth with water shoots after rain. Very thorny, few fruits. Prone to white citrus louse, leaf miner, and citrus shield bugs. Have grafted Myer lemon, Citron, Buddhas Hand Citron, Villa Franca lemon on. Has produced Myer and Buddhas hand citron fruit. Has not fruited very well, limited pruing this year seems to have produced more (Lisbon) fruit.

Fruiting Months April, May, June

Planted: 2001

Height 5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 2 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pruned By: 20% in Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Poultry manure, kelp spray

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Pest Control:  Myer graft prone to scale. LIsbon aslo suffers from leaf miner. Nature oil. Has some borer, skeletonise day pruning and paint trunk white Sept 2020

Organic Status:Organic

Babaco (Grafted)

Comments: - Planted in inverted pot (bottom cut out) Oct 2014.  Survived the winter but lost all foliage, new growth started September 2015. Had three small fruit which hung overwinter then fell off. Had some good fruit late 2016 - early 2017. Have taken cuttings from this plant and moved onto our new property, again in inverted open container.

Fruiting Months January and February

Planted: 2014

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Organic Status:Organic

Tuckeroo

Planted: 2018

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Blue Quandong (Seedling)

Comments: - Good timber but disappointing fruit. planted by previous owner.

Height 20 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

Abiu (Seedling)

Planted: 2012

Height 0.6 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Fig - Picone Green

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 3 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 30% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Pest Control: Keep in pot in chicken mesh covered chook run to keep pests off. Beetle borers have got in in and destroyed the trunks. 

Araçá-boi

Comments: -

Eugenia stipitata -  Araca boi

Planted: 2013

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Bamboo - Oldhamii

Comments: - I like fresh bamboo shoots, has medium sized corms, makes good mulch.

Planted: 2011

Height 15 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Never

Nastus elatus

Comments: - Good mulch, but small corms.

Height 15 metres

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Never

Guava - Brazilian (Seedling) ^9/10

Comments: - Guisaro, Psidium molle

Fruiting Months January and February

Planted: 2011

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pruned By: 30% in

Pollination: No

Mulberry - Unknown var. (Cutting) ^6/10

Comments: - Removed.

Planted: 2007

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pruned By: 50% in

Pollination: Self Pollination

Jakfruit Seedling (Seedling)

Comments: - Most likely a Black Gold, seed from a friends tree. First flowering and fruit 2013 (but fruit got botrytis rot), now looking more like Black Gold. Prolific fruiting 2014. Watering regularly but first fuit has split. Pollination appears to be uneven.

Fruiting Months January, February, November, December

Height 6 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Never

Question: Why is the fruit splitting?

Burdekin Plum (Seedling)

Comments: - Planted by previous owners. Fruit much less astringent once ripe, more flesh than quandong.

Planted: 2011

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 20 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: none

Pest Control: None

Mango - Bowen Seedling (Seedling) ^5/10

Comments: -

This tree is much too big for my garden, and needs constant cutting back.  May try to lop it or top work other varieties. Received it as a gift, rescued pot bound from a local nursery.  Have grafted two Nam Doc Mai to one limb with success. Only fruit every two or three years due to climate, will remove it.

Fruiting Months January, February, March

Planted: 2001

Height 5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Water Given in: Autumn

Pruned By: 25% in Summer

Pollination: No

Pest Control: cue-lure amulet and organic bait spray

Joppa orange (Grafted)

Comments: - Excellent annual harvest of juicing oranges.

Fruiting Months June, July, August, September, October

Planted: 2001

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 40 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 15% in

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Pest Control: Organic%uFFFDWhite oil substitute.  Biggest pest is white citrus  louse which is present  on all our citrus except the citron and the  mandarin.

Dwarf Lemonade (Grafted)

Comments: - Slow growth at first, straggly, fruit turns to orange when ripe but can be eaten green skinned. Closer in flavour to orange than lemon when orange skinned. Straggly untidy tree, probably due to the dwarfing stock. Prone to some kind of brown rust which dessicates the skin, Fuit becomes dry.

Fruiting Months January, February, September, October, November, December

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 3 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 10% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Citrus

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Pest Control: Organic oil for leaf miner. Heavy infestation of cottony cushion scale 2012, used Confidore without much success.  Now trying high pressure water, seems to work better.

Organic Status:Pesticides Used

Dwarf Pummelo Nam Roi (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: - Variety unknown, lost cultural notes.  Small fruit but very juicy, and a lot sweeter than a grapefruit.  Not what I would call a dwarf, but I suppose it would probably have been a lot bigger from seed.  Good fruit but gets attacked by fruit fly.

Planted: 2004

Height 5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pruned By: 15% in Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Pest Control: Oranic oil for leaf miner, lime spray for white citrus louse.

Coffee - Arabica (Seedling)

Planted: 2012

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Jaboticaba Large Leaf (Seedling)

Comments: - First fruit 2017.

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 3

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Perfumed guava (Seedling)

Comments: -

Campomanesia lineatifolia

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Mulberry - Dwarf Red Shahtoot

Comments: - Purchased Jan 2014, planted out Sept 2015.

Fruiting Months September

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Carambola Starfruit- Seedling (Seedling)

Comments: - Don't really know what variety, but a heavy cropper of unevenn fruit. Unfortunately the fruit fly whack them well before they ripen.  Ants also seem to like them.

Planted: 2007

Pest Control: fruit fly traps, baits, spray.

Star Gooseberry (Seedling)

Comments: -

Phyllanthus distichus

Planted: 2012

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Grapefruit - Star Ruby (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: -

Moved and replanted 2008, good crop 2013, but no fruit set at all in 2014.

Planted: 2003

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 6 Years from purchase in pot

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Grumichama - Black (Seedling)

Comments: - Flowering 2014

Planted: 2010

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 3

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Star Apple (Seedling) ^1/10

Comments: - First solitary fruit this year saved its life.

Planted: 2002

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Monstera - Fruit Salad Tree (Cutting)

Comments: - Lots of good fruit., not really a tree bit a vine or creeper. Leave in a paper bag as it ripens.

Planted: 2007

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dragon Fruit - Yellow (Cutting) ^9/10

Comments: - Love the flowers and fruit.

Planted: 2009

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Pollination: Self Pollination

Mandarin - Fremont (Grafted)

Comments: - Swingle rootstock, acquired 2010 in pot. planted out 2013.

Planted: 2013

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Mandarin - Hickson (Grafted) ^4/10

Planted: 2007

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Pollination: Self Pollination

Achiote - Bixa (Seedling)

Comments: - Pretty flowers, seeds for spice colouring.

Fruiting Months November and December

Height 4 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Jackfruit - Unknown var. (Seedling)

Planted: 2011

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Question: Seedling, supposedly small and crisp. Moved it to sunnier spot 2013, seems to have transplanted sucessfully.

Jakfruit - Black Gold (Seedling)

Comments: - I whipper snippered this tree twice by chance when it was smaller, and it has survived. A bit leggy because it is shaded, on heavy soil, and never gets watered.

Planted: 2009

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Achacha (Seedling)

Planted: 2011

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Question: Very slow growing.

Japanese Raisin (Seedling)

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Curry Tree (Seedling) ^5/10

Comments: - Easy to grow, but suckers readily and seeds spread if fruit not removed. Current plant in pot is a seedling from a larger plant ripped out due to its invasiveness in the garden.

Planted: 2014

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Never

Mundoo (Seedling)

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Cocoa - Theobroma cacao (Seedling)

Planted: 2013

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Cinnamon Tree (Seedling)

Planted: 2009

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Soursop (Seedling)

Comments: - Unknown variety, but not fibreless.

Fruiting Months February

Planted: 2007

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 3 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Soursop Mountain (Seedling)

Pollination: No

Madrono - Garcinia madruno (Seedling)

Comments: - Lemon drop mangosteen, very very slow growing.

Planted: 2010

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Loquat - Nagasakiwase

Comments: - Variety unknown, seedling grown.

Planted: 2014

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Piper betel ^8/10

Comments: - good in stir fry, soups, salad. Good ground cover but can getr a bit weedy.

Planted: 2012

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Lakoocha or Monkey Jack (Seedling)

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Kwai Muk (Seedling)

Planted: 2010

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Kumquat - Nagami

Comments: - Best tasting fruit out of Meiwa, Calomondin and Nagami.

Pollination: No

Pest Control: Organic nature oil.

Organic Status:Organic

Kumquat - Meiwa

Pollination: No

Kumquat - Calamondin

Pollination: No

Dwarf Papaya - Col de Monte (Seedling)

Comments: -

Fruit very small and hard. Supplied by Daley's, don't know if it was a seedling or cutting as I didn't look closely at the root system, but presume it to be a seedling. Fruit set last autumn is still on. Trying to grow seed on from fruit. In a heavy clay soil, succumbed to root rot.

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Animal manures, urea

When I Fertilise: Spring

Question: Is this species self fertile?

Babaco Cutting (Cutting)

Comments: - Have tried three plants in different locations. Planted on gradual slopes on north side, but heavy soil. Root system rotted away. Have a new plant (tissue cultured) in a pot. It produced a few fruit then rotted. Potting mix was mixed with perlite and bark for drainage. Took cuttings but those all rotted eventually. 

Planted: 2012

Height 600 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

First Fruited: 4 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Papayuelo

Comments: - Soil too heavy, got root rot.

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pandanus - Edible (Seedling)

Comments: - Who knows? Soils too heavy, too cold over winter, over watered over winter? Tried several indoors in pots, and outdoors in pots and in the ground..

Qty: 3

Pollination: Self Pollination

Apple - Tropical Anna (Grafted)

Comments: - Poor fruit set, prone to fruit fly and moth, planted in same hole as Golden Dorsett, removed.

Pollination: Self Pollination

Apple - Dorsett Golden

Comments: - Few fruit, very dry and pithy, prone to fruit fly and moth, removed. 

Pollination: Self Pollination

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