Dekopon fruit - tasty, heavenly fruit
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Comments (11)Do NOT get a Maypop, you will never get rid of it, and the fruit stretches the meaning of "edible" (paper towels are edible too!) I grew one for the grape-koolaid-scented flowers, which really are heavenly, but the vines grow everywhere, and the roots keep sprouting new ones. Mine grew 30-40 feet into my neighbor's crepe myrtle, in ONE season! I ripped it out 5 years ago, and I still have to clear out suckers every year. It's not at all what you were looking for, but I vote for Scarlet Runner Beans--the beans are delicious as green beans or dried beans, with beautiful flowers that hummers love, and the vines fill out nicely. Carla in Sac...See MoreSumo / Dekopon - Japanese cultivation techniques
Comments (9)Well I think backyard gardeners can emulate the thinning technique, that probably makes the most difference on sweetness and size. Regular watering is what we all aspire to, so not a problem there. The rest is for perfect looking fruit and harvest/marketing purposes. No need for the average gardener to wrap all their fruit in little bags on the tree, lol! I have heard before that some mandarins benefit from a bit of aging after picking to improve flavor. I would bet just picking a couple days before eating and keeping them in a paper bag in a cool place would be good enough. And as far as the fungicides, one would have to see if that was needed in their area. But yeah, this shows how much work goes into making those perfect looking fruit for those perfect gift boxes!...See MoreWhat's Your Top 5 Tropical Fruits?
Comments (128)1:White Sapote.It gets no good publicity because it's far best picked off the tree,chilled ,then eaten. Also the fact it grows best in the high tropics or coastal California means all those who list the zone 11 fruits don't know the greatness of this z9-10 tree. 2: Mango-if you can grow it-do it!. 3: Avocado..could be no.1 if I think more about it! 4: Lemon..just so useful. Goes pretty good with Avocado-lol. 5:Orange's.Hard to beat a sweet chilled Orange. close: Pineapple-home grown are mouth watering. NO.122: Agave tequila..you know why,wink,wink....See MorePredicting future fruit from seed
Comments (7)I know they do genetic testing for a variety of reasons, but I doubt to do a comparison to physical characteristics. I think it has been determined that physical characteristics are no predictor of fruit quality or flavor leanings. So, no sense in doing something that has been determined to be of no use. The fruit quality is not determined by tasting more "lemon-like" or "grapefruit-like". So, just because a tree is displaying more lemon-like leaves or graprefruit-like leaves would not predict tasty fruit. There are MANY qualities that a commercial grower would want to have in successful fruit beyond a taste palette: flavor quality, fruit quality including full vesicles, tender vesicles, tender membranes, low seed count, easy peeling, thick enough skin to protect during processing/shipping, storage qualities, heavy production, non-alternate bearing, etc. All of those could not be predicted by looking a leaf and saying, "Gee, think this may look more lemon-like". Way, way too many factors that need to be evaluated to find a successful cultivar. Right now, from what I know, you have to let a tree reach fruiting maturity, and not just first year, but out to 5 years in order to make that evaluation, and there would be no way to look at a leaf and say, "not worth growing out to fruit", thus culling potential seedings earlier prior to fruiting. Does that make sense? Patty S....See MoreDave in NoVA • N. Virginia • zone 7A
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