My Edible Fruit Trees: South American Trees

Feijoa - Mammoth (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: -

Loved eating these as a kid. Pineapple,strawberry like taste but more fragrant and less acidic..

Texture is more like a kiwifruit but flesh is slightly grainy.

My two trees spent a few years in pots in the cold Adelaide hills and were not happy.

They went in the ground when we moved to southern Adelaide. Sat there for the first two seasons but has great fruit set and leaf growth this 3rd year. With good deep regular watering, the fruit size and harvest has really improved, up to 5cm long and egg shaped. Mid to late April and they are not ripe yet. Survived our VERY harsh summer this year with 0% leaf or fruit burn due to decent watering.

Flower petals are delicious and can be eaten without affecting the fruiting body.

Fruiting Months April and May

Planted: 2016

Height 1.5 metres

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Nazematze

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Pelletized manure, blood and bone, potash

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control: None

Organic Status:Organic

White Sapote - Kampong (Grafted) ^9/10

Planted: 2016

Height 53 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Organic Status:Organic

Comments

Fast grower, the only problem I've had is with scale.

White Sapote - Wilson (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: -

Pot size: 65L
Water frequency: 1-2 times a week
Harvest time: April
Pruned By: 10% in spring

Planted: 2015

Height 1.6 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Fruit Harvest: 20 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Ortega

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Gyganic for Fruit and Citrus

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Pest Control:

Organza bags (Caterpillars)

Organic Status:Organic

Guava Yellow Cherry ^10/10

Comments: -

Bought this a few years ago at Green Harvest up at Maleny, and until this last week, I THOUGHT it was the Strawberry Cherry Guava. It is not.

I bought it as a tiny thing, but grew sort of okay once I got it into the pot. Not in a massive pot, 35L I think, but it did okay.

Came out in a weird pattern of red blotches that I couldn't quite match to any photos online to any disease/pest that I researched. Couldn't see anything else wrong but these blotches, so I left it be. It kept growing? Not well, but kept growing.

All of a sudden, September 2018, it put on a mass of growth, most of the red blotches disappeared, it came lush and green and bushy and it flowered! Every flower set fruit (the native and european bees loved them) I have a dozen fruit on it! It's January 2019 now, and they're still green, but the plant is holding well, no fruit drop. It's getting quite a bit of sun, until about 2-3pm, and gets watered every second day. It shares a pot with parsley and a rando violet that popped up, and a lovely red geranium cutting I shoved in that has grown well, and mulched with sugar cane mulch. Just in compost and coir soaked in molasses, seasol and worm wee to get it started. I think I gave it a toss of blood and bone earlier last year? 

Never pruned, never done anything to it, just seemed to really enjoy our cooler, very mediteranean spring we had here last year. Now if the fruit would only ripen so I can try them....

EDIT March 2019, the fruit have began to ripen, and nope, not the strawberry! Definitely the gold/yellow cherry guava, and I can't say I'm disappointed, because it is WONDERFUL. Not in the slightest bit resinous, just really beautifully flavoured. Not overly sweet, not acidic at all, just slightly soft, and a delightful flavour that is sort of part tropical pineapple, part 'apple', part something else I can't pinpoint. Very hard to explain, but I adore them. I let them fall off the plant for the perfect fruit- not too soft, juuuust firm, and very aromatic.I just check it every morning for dropped fruit. Seeds are soft enough to eat the whole thing, skin and all. Good both sun warm and also chilled. AWESOME with vanilla icecream. Despite the flowers setting fruit all at once, the fruit are ripening a few at a time, which is great, as it spreads out the feed. I'm planning to allocate some of my prime pot space to a few more, as I can see myself happily eating these all autumn long for the rest of my life. They also seem to ripen as soon as we get cooler weather, and so I've not seen a single pest near them, so I think these would be great to grow if fruit fly is a problem.  

I've given it just one or two liquid feeds of seasol and liquid fish emulsion plus worm tea and molasses, and one week I added a bit of liquid gypsum so I could do the pumpkin vine nearby as well. Despite very little care the fruit are amazing, and the leaf growth has not suffered at all for it. Plan to top dress with a bit more blood and bone and some rotted sheeps manure at the end of fruiting, with the plan to repot every three or four years.

WARNING: I have since discovered that these are on several city council weed lists, with my own being quite fussy about them, so if fruit bat/possums/fruit eating birds are a problem at your place, net your plants! I'd hate to see them banned from sale because of excessive weed issues, since they are just so good! 

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

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 0.5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 18 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Pest Control: No pesticides, etc. I've left it to battle sickness and such on its own, and it has been a real trooper. Definitely worth the prime space in my yard!

Avocado - Bacon (B) ^8/10

Comments: -  Doesn't seem to be bothered by the Melbourne winters, but do not like the dry hot summer days at all. Tip pruned to encourage the new growth. Flowered this spring (2019) and had to be removed until the tree was matured.

Planted: 2016

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Feijoa - White Goose (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: - Yummy!

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Duffy, unique, apollo

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Sudden impact by neutrog

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Pest Control: None

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Comments

22 April 2019 - growing nicely and vigorously as an espalier.

Feijoa - Duffy (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: - I love feijoa coz they are yummy.

Planted: 2019

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: White goose, unique, nazemetz

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Sudden Impact by Neutrog

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Pest Control: None so far

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Black Sapote - Chocolate (Grafted) ^6/10

Comments: - Espaliered. Takes a few years of growth before trunk is thick enough for tree to hold fruit. Only one fruit last summer at 4y mark. I see both male and female flowers, female come out later (early november when I spotted this). Rainforest tree, roots do spread in yard in cool/wet/mulched spots so I would be careful to not plant too close to a structure as not sure if roots would expand and damage. Must trim regularly in summer to keep it small. Was told grafted versions grew shorter and less aggressively than seedlings. Hope I get more fruit this year, a pretty waxy leaved plant.

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 4 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn and Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Certified

Dwarf Custard Apple - Tropic Sun (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - Espaliered, looks awesome - took well to this and friends have commented. Love the fruit, not gritty/grainy like some other custard apples and small seeds too. No need to hand pollinate. Downside is that all of the fruit comes at once, quickly over a month from mid-feb to march in Brisbane. Must bag/net to protect from fruit fly - unripe fruit drops leading up to harvest as a natural thinning method so I bag by Feb and find fruit only start to get stung two weeks after the very first fruit drops. I harvest fruit to freeze the pulp to use later. Amazing with vanilla ice cream. I took a gamble with limited info online when I got this tree - it is a winner!!! I don't know why someone could not like the taste.

Fruiting Months March

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Fruit Harvest: 3 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn and Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Certified

Dwarf Avocado - Lamb Hass A (Grafted)

Comments: -

Too early to comment as only planted a few months ago. Facing north-east with house shading tree from hot western sun in summer. Planted half in the ground and on half mound, built up soil bed to increase drainage as have clay soil.

I want to get pinkerton and wurtz to extend the harvest period further. Dwarf/semi dwarf was a must for me.

Planted: 2017

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Certified

Dwarf Avocado - Wurtz (A) (Grafted)

Comments: - Dwarf

Planted: 2017

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting, Winter, Spring

Cherimoya - Bays (Grafted) ^9/10

Planted: 2018

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Hand Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Organic Status:Organic

Canistel Aurea (Grafted) ^8/10

Planted: 2017

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Jaboticaba Large Leaf (Seedling) ^9/10

Comments: - Wanted to try something different. Growing much faster than expected - think the secret is constant moisture. I use old plastic bottles with dripper like attachments to deliver a drip system in the pot constantly - quite a bit of new growth which has been great.

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Guava Hawaiian (Seedling) ^9/10

Planted: 2017

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Feijoa - Apollo (Grafted) ^9/10

Planted: 2017

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Avocado - Reed (A) (Grafted)

Comments: -  

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Cherimoya - Seedling (Seedling) ^8/10

Planted: 2017

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 3

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Hand Pollination

Cherimoya - White (Grafted) ^8/10

Planted: 2017

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Hand Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Dwarf Avocado - Lamb Hass A (Grafted) ^9/10

Planted: 2017

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Jaboticaba - Yellow (Seedling) ^6/10

Comments: -

 Very slow growing, delicate tree. Withstands cold Sydney nights reasonably well. Has produced flowers every year but only in winter and so the immature fruit drops off every time. But finally got a crop in 2017. Interesting sweet fruit. Not much flesh so need to eat several fruits in oder to appreciate the taste.

Fruiting Months November

Planted: 2010

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 10 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 7 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Feijoa - White Goose ^10/10

Comments: - Little bit feijoa obsessed over here this is my fourth purchase from daleys. Arrived so healthy and looks strong. Anticipating a lot of new growth for next year as it has great foundation branches. 

Planted: 2019

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Rollinia - Brazilian Custard Apple

Comments: - Looking forward to trying this fruit , a cross between soursop and custard Apple flavours.bought from a local market from a dwarfing plant ,we will see.want to grow it in a pot.

Planted: 2018

Height 0.6 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Pollination: Self Pollination

Red pawpaw

Comments: -

Bisexual red pawpaw grown from seed of supermarket selection of red pawpaws .

Looking for a tough bisexual red pawpaw that is black spot resistant.

I like to make green pawpaw salad ,som tum.

Planted: 2015

Height 3 metres

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 30 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control: spray Eco oil and Eco mold and mite spry.

Canistel

Comments: - Yellow sapote , it's getting tall , multi trucked tree about 2.5 m tall and pot . About to go from 50l pot to 85l pot , may end in ground . This fruit is nice eaten with ice cream , may taste a little bland ,eaten out of hand . I don't mind it ( with ice cream ) .

Planted: 2014

Height 2.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Pollination: Self Pollination