I want to encourage and inspire you to grow subtropical & tropical fruit in a temperate climate. With 20 years hands on experience, I demonstrate in simple terms what many believe to be impossible. Growing zone 9b. Melbourne Australia. Subscribe to this channel for the latest videos and follow my Instagram link below for regular updates.
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I don't believe any of us truly die but have eternal life in another reality beyond this world. You may disagree, which is okay.
Nae sayers never get off their butts and do anything at 76 I am starting a new veg patch/food forest and my 9 bananas are just starting to clump 😊😊
What is that? Looks like both a Honeybell and a Sugar Belle. In Florida Honeybells get about grapefruit sized and Sugar Belles (a Honeybell Clementine hybrid) is more mandarin sized.
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Thank you so much for all the information about tamarillo. ❤
Most welcome 😊
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Where are you?
It was great to see you again. And especially good to see you walking around where I had been the day before on bus 142.
We enjoyed our time with you and glad you made it to our favourite park. Thanks for watching and sharing!
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Absolutely loved the tour. I bought an air layered mature cutting of achacha just before winter so far it is very happy but it is in my hothouse
I need a mature achacha. Where did you get it from? The gardens are a must visit when in Cairns.
@@RealLifeFruitopia definitely on my bucket list. Very limited availability on the achacha and it wasn’t cheap I will pm you
Everytime you visit those botanic gardens I'm blown away George, just incredible. And the snack looked great 👍
It's an amazing place for sure, Brett. I'm always excited to return.
Did you find the fruit garden behind the doctors surgery on the opposite side of road to the slides but not on the servo side of the road. They have marang, breadfruit, jackfruit and chempadek among a bunch of others
I wasn't aware of a garden on that side of the road. I'll look it up next time. Thanks for the heads up!
@@RealLifeFruitopia the big breadfruit tree leaves will be the biggest indicator. It’s not a huge garden/forest but it’s still worth a Quick Look while you there
look how cheap gas is
That's litres, not gallons.
In my fruit garden, pomogramate tree is flowerig well but don't leading to fruit. Is anyone have any idea or suggestions about how pomogramte flowers turns to fruits??
Plant your next achacha in full shade. Here in Florida they seem to do much better when planted under a tree that gives them more shade and also helps to protect them from radiative cooling during the winter. They also benefit from a lot of consistent daily irrigation for the first few years until their tap root is more developed.
Thanks. I've planted a couple in mostly shade, currently having their first winter.
Hello my mate my friend George that wasn’t a cola nut cola acuminata that was lepisanthas amoena it’s in the sapindacea family native to south east Asia in the sapindacea family just like the lychees and that wasn’t a yellow mangosteens garcinia dulcis that was just a boring hog plum spondias dulcis fallen from those massive trees they are everywhere on the ground,you went there the wrong time of the year the best time to go there is summertime come to the feast of the senses in around late march for the big festival l will be there l get a special invitation every year there and you will see the biggest display of wild rare jungle fruits on the planet and at the end there is a auction you can bid and by the fruits so you can taste them it’s good fun you will love ❤it and l could take you guys to private rare fruit farms hope to see you guys there cheers from Eddie the wild jungle fruit hunter.
I'm going by the labels put out by the gardens, not very clear. We don't get away until April, as Melbourne is still hot enough in March for daily swims and ripe fruit going off. Which festival and where?
@@RealLifeFruitopia Hello my friend George and Kim the festival is called feast of the senses it’s Innisfail far North Queensland just on the river banks were the mall is on Friday there is the northern cassowary cost tour and Saturday there is the Southern tour cassowary cost tour or vice versa every year it changes will will be going to tropical rare fruit farms all over Far North Queensland and then Sunday is the big day festival day and plus l can take you guys to private rare fruit farms that l know . Luckily l know a lot of people there with out me they won’t except you guys they don’t like strangers or on lookers we have to make special appointment’s farms are getting fewer and fewer because the young generation don’t want to do farm work cheers mate from Eddie the wild jungle fruit hunter .
Ok, I'm familiar with those festivals through Instagram accounts. Thanks for the heads up.
What country did you emigrate from?
My parents emigrated from Greece. I was born and have lived all my life in Australia. I don't speak with a typical "Aussie accent" as English wasn't my first language at home.
June plum
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The Chupa Chupa or Matisia tree will grow in my area near Newcastle in New South Wales by the sounds of things on the Ross Creek Tropicals website because we only get the occasional frost which does kill off the leaves on my cassava plants which I will drag out from underneath the house in about 4-5 weeks time. I just have to keep the Matisia tree away from the house that I will live in, that's all. Alyssa seems to be having a little bit of difficulty with her Cempedak & Jackfruit trees getting frost burn despite having them under cover (plastic sheets), she says it has got down to -2°C overnight in Melbourne where she lives. Mine have taken the cold quite well although my largest jackfruit plant had mold issues due to water dripping on the leaves & not drying off on the cold & wet days because my greenhouse has holes in its plastic roof now so it leaks. It has only got down to 2°C on a couple of occasions overnight this year at my location but it has been 5°C on average overnight this month,it doesn't get as cold as Melbourne does overnight unless you go further inland by about 100 kilometres. During a sunny 18°C day my greenhouse plants could be forgiven for thinking that they're growing in Cairns during the day because it got up to 27°C inside of the greenhouse today. I am sure that I smelled spring in the air today, spring is going to make a good attempt at arriving on Thursday with a forecast of 23°C during the day which means that I can wear shorts that day but we get a wet change on Thursday followed by a few 17°C days which isn't what I am not looking forward to !
The Hunter Valley has multiple growing zones. You're lucky to be on the subtropical end and not around Cessnock, which gets colder winter nights than Fruitopia 😉
nice , interesting upload👍👍
Thanks for the visit!
Its a game changer when you live somewhere citrus can be grown outside, here in the UK there are no fresh fruits available in the garden for at least 6 months of the year from late Autumn until early Summer 🤪
True, Brett! On another level, it's a game changer to have frost free conditions for growing tropicals! 🥭
No close??
Close of what?
@RealLifeFruitopia Sorry, wrong parkland ✌️ next time must look closer 😉
@stevemacerak6168 Sugarworld is in Cairns, QLD, surrounded by nearby sugar cane fields.
Its hog plum
It seemed there were two different fruit species in my hand, hog plum and yellow Mangosteen.
G,day. New subscriber from nth west slopes & plains nsw. I went looking for how to prune an adult Fig Tree & found your 2020 pruning tips. Thanks very much for that.😀
No worries 👍
Good idea to start some portable compost bins, throwing fruit under the tree is how you spread fruit fly. The black compost bins double as thermal heat mass and wind protection for subtropicals too,.
That's a great idea, I might get some new bins. That fruit will be mostly decomposed by summer, not much left for maggots but plenty of nutrients for the tree.
Yes looks like your wish come true. They are now selling in Melb, and we just love them. Can't get enough of them. After buying from supermarket hard to get them to go yellow. Got advice to put them in a paper bag with a banana. Hope for the best. Cheers
Calamondin is a cross between tangerine and kumquat
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Thanks for the video. It’s interesting that your potted Bougainvilleas always have some flowers even in peak of winter.
Yes, they do. Good catch 👍
which variety would you plant if you only got space for 1 tree ?
Lemon gold
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only 1 and half month of winter left!!!
2 and a half months left for the tropicals 🥭🍍
Evry one, happy, did you ask Kim? What I 👀 it is nice 👍👍 maresi
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Thank you 👍
Good to see you protecting the Pink Guava. Worth the time
It's the only choice I had.
@RealLifeFruitopia I know you like to relax and enjoy retirement but it's motivating to see. I break my back to protect my Tropicals, nice knowing I'm not alone
Nice share(❁´◡`❁)❤❤(❁´◡`❁)Beautiful views
Thanks! 😊
W. Murcott Afourer mandarin has a seedless mutant called Tango.
Abiu is looking better than mine at the moment. I’m getting the possums eating my paw paw Leaves 🍃 now. Have to spray Chillies 🌶️ spray on the leaves left when this rain 🌧️ stops to get the possums to piss off! Like I said with the ice cream bean you had that needed spray but like that when the tree gets large who has time for that in winter 🥶 when it rains off the chillies spray ? They have not killed it but they are working from the top to down eating the leaves. Any advices what you would do with this problem ? The tree is to big to net now I really don’t want to have do that ? But it’s taking some a fluke to work I don’t want to lose it to possums. The younger southern red paw paw that covered by a greenhouse bag over underneath it is going ok I need it to make it work and alive with the larger one to set fruit as all I got last season was flowers.
3 months of frosts to go. Good luck to us both!
I don’t think your trying hard enough to get rid of that ivy. I’ve had success in getting rid of ivy.
I've had success along a brick garage, but this one is different being attached to a living Fern.
You lucky in Australia, can chuse variety of grafted white sapote. Here in India only unnamed seedlings available.
We are a lot more organised in many ways, but everything is so expensive compared to India.
What species of tree is that in the background? It looks huge
Pine tree.
I might have to grow a tree.
Get Lamb Hass or Bacon if in Victoria.
I wonder if putting a black compost bin around the star apple with a top on it would help, as the black could radiate thermal heat from the sun, and protect from wind, but then it would suffer from lack of light I suppose.
I'm not sure, but one is still hanging on.
Are you in Australia?
Yes
Phew ! That was a marathon ! Shame about the 2nd caimito but no great surprise I guess 😁
Hey! What’s your favourite tasting guava variety
Lemon guava!
you could probably remove the lemon tree for another subtropical in the future
Maybe. Greeks can't get enough Lemons!
I love your long videos George 👍🏼
Your the best! ♥️ Positive feedback is always welcome. Tall poppy syndrome not!
I left my rollinia unprotected, big mistake lol!
Oh man, cover the next one!
We have two Wampee and two white sapote trees in the backyard (in the Greensborough area) and they are all sooking at this moment...all of their leaves turned brown and crispy/leathery and scratch tests confirmed they are still alive but looks like it's a start from scratch deal next year. We had a -4 degrees hard frost a couple of weeks back and my lawn froze over! Didn't remember it being so cold in the night before.
Wow! That's harsh. Best to cover young subtropical trees if minus 0 Celsius is expected. My white sapote trees are over 10 years old and can now take hard freezes. Protect young trees!
I don't have critters eating my avocado leaves, but maybe there is a spray, nothing poisonous, that would taste bad that could be applied to the leaves?
It rains every other day throughout winter. Sprays would wash off.
Trust me, we notice when the weather changes when were busy 😂 like the optimistic perspective of how we function though. Love that your able to grow your own fruit etc successfully. Could you not give unwanted fruit to neighbours that are nice. Better that then them to be spoiled if you and friend cannot eat them all.
Thank you!
Here in Malta it's blazing hot and humid