@turoidownunder8410 Tu has been growing Tropical Fruit in Melbourne for 20 years! In this video, Jaboticaba, hog plum, pomelo, lychee, mango, jakfruit.
Hi Paul, it was nice meeting you today, we have some common interests like gardening, boating, fishing… Anyway, thanks for coming over to visit my garden.
Hi Sang La, yes I saw his fruit trees firstly on your videos. I was really happy especially to see the Lychee tree have fruit. So amazing. I also loved the taste of the roseapple and now I have a tree from Su in Dandenong
So happy for the lychee tree happily bearing fruit! My dear mum was not able to make her lychee tree bear fruit, but we had the following fruits at our disposak from our very yard: pomelo, coconut, avocado, sugar apple, soursop, lanzones, jackfruit, star apple, santol, rambutan, guava, cashew apple, and many more. Wishing Tu all the best!
@@UrbanBounty You are correct. My dear old Mum has a green thumb, but I guess it wasn't able to create magic with the lychee tree since we live in the hot and sunny Philippines. Thanks once again for your videos, and this one on Tu's inspiring tropical fruit garden. Wishing you the very best. 💚😊
That was awesome @UrbanBounty and thanks for sharing! Full credit goes to Tu on his success growing Mango, Lychee, Jackfruit, Longan etc in a challenging cool temperate climate environment... hope it could shed ideas & inspire other growers in Melbourne to achieve similar results
@@frasercoastfoodforest3092 that's awesome mate, Jackfruit is a favourite. Yes the jackfruit had flowers in this video but last here he fruited an almost full sized fruit with a proper taste. I think this year he might get a couple but they grow through winter
An amazing garden for sure specially in Melbourne. Great to see so many tropical fruits actually fruiting. Now I have no excuse not to try more plants here in Sydney. Off to order more 🤭
A great looking tropical fruit garden in a warm temperate zone, i suspect his plants are thriving because of his local microclimate ? And he may have not have crammed too much in which causes too much root competition sometimes ?
Most of the garden has been in ground for 20+ years. He put me onto a guy close buy to buy some plants and he actually had fruiting starfruit which was another inspiration to keep trying
I plant tropical fruit trees in my backyard according to the orientation of the sun. Also, on one side of the property there is a huge deciduous tree that I planted many years ago which regulates the air temperature in the surrounding area. This creates a microclimate for my tropical plants. Most trees can be acclimatised, but still only to a certain level. Tropical plants love hot and humid weather, but unlike cities in northern states of Australia, Melbourne summer is hot and dry. In a 40+ degree day, the heat will burn the trees if they are exposed to too much sun. Therefore, having a big tree that gives some shades will definitely help. In winter, these trees need a lot of sun especially early in the morning after a cold night. My big tree will have already dropped all the leaves by the end of Autumn allowing the sun to shine through. Melbourne winter is also wet which can cause root rots. So, I planted ALL my trees in a raised garden bed. Every tree is different, one spot is good for the pomelo, but the very same spot is not suitable for a mango. So, I have been moving them around the yard, it’s just trial and error, I guess 😂 Another option is to grow them inside a greenhouse.
I thought a couple ofy lychees had died. I still have them in pots in one of those cheap greenhouses. The other day when o was watering i noticed they are both putting on new leaves. I was really happy about that..
The lychee mainly has problems with their roots getting too hot. The tree itself can handle the sun, but until they get that nice dome shape to keep the roots cool, they struggle. They need a very thick layer of loose mulch until that happens.
G'day Mark! Yes it was awesome to see, I walked around for 3 hrs. I think the jacks are all seedlings but from which variety I dont know, the lychee is wai chee. I tried to edit the video afterwards to add the names but it wasn't possible. The visit gave me more confidence with Lychee for sure!
@@melbournesubtropicfruits9474 maybe the first time you get flowers they will hold because the tai so is earlier than the wai chee and your trees are strong and advanced
@UrbanBounty yes correct I spoke to growers and B3 and Tai So are the earliest - theres a pretty big B3 in Adelaide -vis Tu near Deer Park ? Truganina? a mates.ate knows him
Hi Mark, how are you doing ? Yes we used to talk on Viber, way before Covid started 😂 I also came to your house to look at your plants. The jackfruit plant in pot is the crispy type that I bought from Daley 8 years ago. It shot up to about 3m, but left it outside last winter, and top half died. The I don’t know the name of big jackfruit because a friend bought it for me from someone’s backyard.
@@sabisingh1045 yes mate, there were lots and I wanted to keep the video short so I couldn't mention because it is his private space. The main thing he told me with mangoes is to spray the flowers with fungicide in a wet flowering season to improve fruit set. With the jakfruit keep them raised and well drained and build an enclosure each winter until established. Do not put the lychee in %100 sun in Melbourne were a few that I can remember
Hello, the easier to fruit one was described as the "Thai" one and the other one was described as the "Vietnamese" one. I looked on Marketplace and there are some for sale with Thai in the name so I am presuming they are the ones. Cheers