Jackfruit tree shaping method & management 

Thank you, we find it works for us, and it makes picking the fruit so much easier.

So nice of you.

Thanks so much Martin! ☺

Thank you so much 💓

Thank you 😊

Thank you 😊

That's great Dante! Have you had any fruit off it yet? 😋

Thank you 😊

Glad you enjoyed it

You're welcome Thomas 😊 It should calm the vigour down and make for easier picking 😋. Our step by step video shows how to keep them maintained after the initial shaping. Good luck! 👍

Thanks so much, we really find it much easier to harvest the fruit when keeping the trees short like this.

Thank you so much Raju

Thank you. I'm glad you found it interesting

Thank you

You are so welcome!

I love your accent

Thank you so much 💓

Yes, die back can sometimes occur during wet cold periods, we are luck/unlucky in that it's hot and humid most of the year 😅

Thank you so much

I'm glad you like it

That's wonderful Llane 🙂 Enjoy! 😋

paano po ba pabungahin ung langka salamat po

Thanks 😊 We find it works so well, and the trees seem a lot healthier this way.

That's very kind of you.

No worries, thanks 👍

Thank you

Thank you

It is done for ease of harvesting and due to being in a cyclone area its best for us to keep the trees short.

Thank you 😊 We had already started putting this weeks video together, but we will definitely try and do a video on your suggestions very soon 👍 Thanks so much for watching and commenting 🥰

Do you use dried leaves or fresh?

It is used for a lot of fruit trees, I wouldn't use it on terminal bearing trees like rambutan, but it's certainly worth thinking about with other trees

Thank you

Thank you, our trees are 4.5 mtrs apart, in terms of spacing, the closer together they are, the more work, pruning there is, the further apart is less work. We went 4.5 spacing as we planned on keeping them short due to living in a cyclone area

We know exactly how you feel ACV. We wish we had grown them this way in the beginning also. We are now converting the orchard over to this style of growing and removing the trellised trees. Hindsight is wonderful isn't it!! 😊

@Meadowcroft Farm Qld ✅💯✅yeah! really!! As I love my plants very much, I will definitely follow these ideas in the youngest Jackfruit plants and also in those plants coming to my garden yet in the future ( not only to Jackfruit plants but also to all possible plants). I have seen many videos from many Jackfruit farmers. But I got this valuable information only from this channel. Even though these ideas came to my mind (when I saw these types of designed trees in some gardens before several years) I feared to apply this technique suspected that whether the plant may die or will face stunted growth. But your video is giving cent percent confidence to follow this amazing technique. Thanking you very much...🙏🥰🙏 💚💚🌹🌳🌳🌳🌹💚💚 315 varieties of Jackfruit plants collection - I think this have been the greatest collection of Jackfruit plants in the world. The video is in Malayalam, you may not understand this local language of Kerala, India. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vr7s3wUDvuM.html

Thank you ACV for your lovely comment 😊 Some of my work colleagues are actually from Kerala! Wishing you a very fruitful 2023 ❤

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If the trees ever stop producing, we would replace them with new trees.

​@@meadowcroftfarmqld8577 i don't think jackfruit stops producing . I thought it can produce up to 100 yrs

Each fruit requires a certain amount of foliage to drive the fruit, so we tend to restrict the amount of fruit on each tree. That being said we have harvested 10 fruit weighing 8- 11 kg off a tree 4mtr high.

We have posted older trees being pruned last year.

Thanks IROSE. There would be some amazing varieties in India I'm sure. Getting them here would be tricky though.

Sometimes seeds just produce a slightly slower growing tree, give it time, if in it still looks weak next year then maybe think about replacing it

Thanks Abdihakin. Our fruit goes to the Melbourne Wholesale markets but other growers send to other states. You may find it in some Asian grocers but the main season is over now.

Hi Alfian, no we don't. Have heard it's very nice though.

@@meadowcroftfarmqld8577 Cempedak jackfruit has a much sweeter taste than jackfruit varieties in general, the flesh is softer, and the aroma is more fragrant. but has a slightly smaller fruit size than jackfruit.

@@alfiankharismanto9461 Thanks 😊 will keep an eye out for them!

I believe people have been pruning seedling trees in this manner.

@@meadowcroftfarmqld8577 noted mam, thanks a lot!

Our jackfruit trees are all grafted

@@meadowcroftfarmqld8577 Can Jackfruit be amenable to cleft and veneer grafts instaed of approach grafts? We don't really have a variety of them here in Bermuda, so I was wondering if it's best to grow different varieties from seed, or use those as rootstock and graft scions...Thanks.

@twilitezn if you can't import grafted trees, I would say your best bet would be to plant a few seeds from a good quality fruit and then select the best from them to begin propagation. In terms of grafting, we found our wet season was our worst period in terms of success. Most likely, due to lack of sunlight and excess rain. As for which graft to use I believe its which ever you feel most confident with, I do one graft but Angela doesn't feel comfortable with that and has poor success yet she does a bud graft and has good success.

@@meadowcroftfarmqld8577 I was also looking for your video showing how you bud graft, but I didn’t see it.

@@twilitezn will do one in the next couple of weeks 👍

We are doing ours now, it is our summer, wet season.

We have jackfruit trees in our wind break that are in partial shade that still produce, whilst they don't produce as many as our orchard trees, in fairness we don't fertilise them.

@@meadowcroftfarmqld8577 thank you for the reply. I had planted a j33 in a super sunny area but had to replant it to another location due to low soil depth ,and the new location is somewhat shaded by my neighbours bread fruit tree.Hopefully as it grows ,it should get 90% sunlight 😄

Ours are 4.5 mtrs apart. Obviously, the more distance between them, the less pruning they require.

@@meadowcroftfarmqld8577 thanks

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They can develop brown soft areas, this is caused by a fungus, it will usually be during the wet season here. It's one of the reasons we keep our trees open to enable good ventilation.

Left to grow they can grow really tall but if you intend to keep them short by pruning then ours are 4.5 metres apart.

@@meadowcroftfarmqld8577 Thank you so much I really appreciate your help 🙏😊 So the distance from one tree trunk to another tree trunk is 4.5 m right Or Is it the distance from a trees crown spread Plz correct me if I am wrong 🙏

The distance of ours are 4.5 mtrs trunk to trunk, and we keep the height 3 to 4 metres high.

@@meadowcroftfarmqld8577 Thank you so much for your help it means a lot 🙏😊

Here in Queensland they start flowering approximately April-may and we start picking fruit October onwards.

Jackfruit trees carry both male and female flowers. The males are the ones that eventually turn brown and drop off.

Here in Australia they are grown at 750 mtr ASL, they do need some heat and humidity to help fruit to fully ripen.

@@meadowcroftfarmqld8577 thanks much for the reply

Do you know what your soil is like, ? Acid or alkaline

If we use natural fertilizers, what materials can we get?

We use chicken manure, our soil is acid so we add dolomite (calcium-magnesium) and when the tree starts to flower we spray the leaves with boron to help with pollination

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Good morning

Yes do well. 👍

@@meadowcroftfarmqld8577 Thank you very much for your reply May GOD keep you happy

I am from Indonesia

My a dress Jomblang Rt. 03 Rw. 29 Sendangadi, Mlati, Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 55285

For the sample i will try to plant in my country.

Sorry, we font sell seeds

That will depend on how warm your climate is, but it should be between 2 to 4 years

No

The flesh is a deep orange colour.

We are farmer's not a professional television production company.

so u want them to hire u as cameraman?! don't be too dumb giving comment it make me nausea.

Yes, but it is easy to harvest as can harvest at ground level, no machinery required or climbing. Also, there is less risk of losing a tree due to cyclone.

@@meadowcroftfarmqld8577 thank you

Thank you