My Edible Fruit Trees: Asian Trees QLD

carambola

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Growing well, with new growth and flowers. I have two for cross-pollination (one Kembangen, one unknown). No fruit yet, although both have flowered last year too.

Planted: 2008

Height 2.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: compost

When I Fertilise: Spring

Comments

Your leaves look green and lucious

Thanks, Michael. I have got in the habit of giving it half a watering can full before I leave for work every morning (and the bananas and fig, and anything fairly new).

Carambola ^6/10

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I would love some seeds to plant.

Carambola grafted-LongPolyLane5 (Grafted)

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This tree would produce fruit every year in the long poly house. As it became to large for it's pot, Greg gave it to me to plant out at my place, back in 1997. Twelve years later it finally produced fruit again (2009)

Planted: 1997

Height 3 metres

First Fruited: 2009 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Carambola Starfruit ^5/10

Height 1.5 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Dimocarpus australianus - Native Lychee

Dwarf Lychee ^7/10

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I don't like the taste of lychee but my I know a lot of people who do so this tree is for others enjoyment. Dwarf from so I can fit more trees in! It's looking a bit scraggly and may be due to lack of water.

Planted: 2009

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: No

eriobotrya japonica loquat (Seedling)

Comments: - Purchased yesterday and planted today - 25 March 2010

Planted: 2010

Height 0.6 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

jakfruit

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One fruit in December, but went mouldy and fell off in January rain

Planted: 2008

Height 2.5 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

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

jakfruit - sherbert

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does well

Pollination: Self Pollination

Loquat (Seedling)

Planted: 2009

Loquat - Champagne (Grafted) ^10/10

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I've heard good things about this variety and it is slightly different to the 4 others most easily available. It has just gone in the ground, but it is a beautiful little tree!

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2011 - Had a large crop of fruit (around 200) in its first year in ground. Taste is fantastic - a cross between pear and peach with a little tang. Must bag from fruit fly. This is a vigorous grower, but quite dense compared to other loquats.

Fruiting Months September and October

Planted: 2010

Height 1.6 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pruned By: 10% in After Fruiting

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Pest Control: Bag for fruit fly

Comments

Where did you manage to find the Champagne variety? I like my Nagasakiwase but had a few other varieties including Champagne that I'd Iike to taste/grow.

The only person i know who still stockes them is Bob McGuffin. He usually has a stall at Chandler markets? and the bogi fair, which is coming up next weekend at Albion.

lychee

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Put some good growth on this past year, though some of the new growth has been damaged after a particularly heavy frost this week.  It's living in it's big pot up against the north facing side of the house and gets some good warmth through the day. 

Pollination: No

Lychee (Grafted) ^9/10

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this is some rare delicious type I will check what it is later on. Fresh lychees are sooooo much better then supermarket lychees. The trees are stunning features in a yard too.

Height 70 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: mulch

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Organic Status:Organic

Lychee ^5/10

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 3

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Lychee (not sure what variety) (Grafted)

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(2011) So far all fruit has fallen - maybe too young.

Shaded from winds and too much sun in a banana grove.

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: blood and bone

When I Fertilise: Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Comments

NO water given - it rains enough!

Lychee - Kwai May Pink (B3) (Grafted) ^10/10

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This lychee is doing awesome in the ground.

Turns out they like slightly acidic soil, so it's been planted next to our blueberry hedge to take advantage of the work already done to acidify that area. It suffered shock and stress when we first planted it, lost all its leaves and appeared dormant over Christmas, however it's green, leafy, happy and thriving now.

Still too little t produce, but it attempted to fruit last year (kept our local bees happy!) but dropped all its fruit. Maybe this year or next year we will get a harvest but, even if not, patience is key. 

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic lifter

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Carambola Starfruit - Arkin ^5/10

Carambola Starfruit - Arkin (Grafted)

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Delicious fruit that's juicy, sweet and tangy, and very attractive too. I've grown it before, and had to have another.  A very productive tree once it starts to fruit. 

Planted: 2010

Height 1.6 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Manure

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control:

None required yet.

Comments

Carambola Starfruit - Daleys Sweet Gold

Planted: 2009

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Carambola Starfruit - Daleys Sweet Gold ^6/10

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This has been a difficult tree. I've had to transplant it three times. First it was too shaded, then the soil wasn't right and too shallow, but now the soil is deep, free draining and obviously suited to the tree. Its now about 1.8M tall and looking much better than it was. Its only flowered once in the 3 or so years I've had it.

Planted: 2008

Height 1.8 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Carambola Starfruit - Giant Siam

Carambola Starfruit - Giant Siam

Carambola Starfruit - Kary

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It is only young. I did actually get 1 fruit first year but the possum got it. I have tasted this variety from the orchard in Daleys Nursery and it is very juicy and incredibly tasty. They crop really well but fruit fly may be a problem if you are not onto it.

Pollination: No

Comments

I found that fruit fly is not the problem, but moths which lay eggs and small grubs then enter the middle of the fruit.

Carambola Starfruit - Kary

Carambola Starfruit - Kary (Grafted) ^6/10

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photo taken 2009. Topped dressed has responded with faster growth.

Fruiting Months June and July

Planted: 1997

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control:

Organic Status:Organic

Carambola Starfruit - Kary

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have just bought another plant because of pollination problems. does not appear to be self-pollinating

Planted: 2008

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

no pests yet

Organic Status:Organic

Question:

the leaves are yellowing, don't know why?

Carambola Starfruit - Kary

Carambola Starfruit - Kary (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - I dont mind the fruit, and the flowers are lovely when they smother the brances. i had to move this plant during the wet in 2010-11 floods. It handles transplanting quite well and is powering away in new spot, putting on lots of flowers summer 2011

Planted: 2010

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Carambola Starfruit - Kary