First fall of the season - excluding the one runt of Kaiteri I got earlier. Arhart variety
Avg weight 90g
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Kakariki has now started dropping in early November. Fruit slightly smaller than Arhart. Still a large fruit!
Arhart flavor has improved a lot this year. Good sweetness with excellent feijoa flavor. Comparable to very good California grown feijoas
Kaiteri is also very good. More tart skin which I like to eat. sweet inside.
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These are not my New Zealand varieties. But my cold-resistant seedling varieties.
The elongated fruits are the Feijoado variety, with a weight between 105 and 175 grams. The ones I sent seeds to last year are from this variety pollinated by Arhart and Kakariki.
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How is the flavor of these large varieties?
In my experience so far, the large fruited varieties have inferior flavor compared to the Albert varieties that are smaller. I believe his varieties have their origin in France (Besson strain)
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That’s a bummer to hear. One of my seedlings fruited for the first time this year and they are massive. I was hoping they’d be flavorful like the nakita and waingaro. I make membrillo from feijoa so I’m sure these large ones will be fine for that with added sugar. I’ll just treat try em like I do the quince. Do you think there’s a good chance they are the type you described from France?
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Do these look like the feijoado type? From a seedling that fruited this summer for the first time in 5 years. They are huge and elongated. Haven’t tasted them yet. They are at least 3x larger than the other 3 named cultivars and seedlings that I grow.
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Yeah, that’s huge! I was shocked that this seedling produced such big fruit. Was not expecting it. Only made about a dozen this year. Hopefully it will produce many pounds once it gets going.
So you’ve found that the larger sized feijoa aren’t that good tasting? I’ve never encountered them this big before. Even if they aren’t phenomenal, I’m still excited to see such large fruits dangling from the branches. They look super cool.
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I have not tasted this one yet.
I’ll let it sit on the counter for a few days. Maybe it will get even more ripe?
And then post details including brix.
The variety is Kaiteri.
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the seeds are from French ornamental varieties. No name or selection.
the fruits are very good and the average weight is higher than the latest varieties from NZ.
I am a little disappointed with varieties like Anatoki that I find too bland, lacking in flavor. Finally I prefer my seedlings.
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Nice. When do they ripen relative to others?
My eyes try to decide if those apples are small or the feijoa are huge.
192 grams is impressive!
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A bunch of Arhart fell today.
Nikita is later for me as it grows in part shade but has turned into a very productive bush
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I’m interested to see the inside of a nicely ripened Nikita for you. My early ones had very little jelly. I didn’t check outside for a few days and there were none on the ground after finding a few a day for a while.
So something(s) decided that they are good eating.
The biggest fruit are on my runty Mammoth. It only had 2 set and they are the only good sized fruit I’ve ever had so far. Although there are still fruit hanging on my other Mammoth and the Nikita.
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I added you an egg and a small fruit of 40 g that many people have at home. So you should visualize better. The apples are medium sized, not small, but not big either.
I should have bigger fruits that will fall. When I think of the difficulties I had to bring the varieties from NZ and I tell you the result of these seedlings, it was not worth the effort, nor the investment.
As for the maturity period, it is identical to Arhart. We can consider that it is very early. Only 15 days after Kakariki for example.
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Did you do all the way to New Zealand to get cuttings? That’s commitment.
very nice!
Storytime? So did you import the budwood with phytosanitary process or did you go to NZ yourself?
I think a lot of us are not so impressed with the flavor of these NZ ones.
Early maturity yes, size yes, but there are seedlings with better flavor. Where did your seedlings come from originally?
You will allow me not to reveal how I did it. But NZ is for me the strictest country in terms of customs on this planet. Whether to enter or exit…
Because of the failures, my first Anatoki cost me $200. This was before it was in the USA.
At home, we only had 6 varieties marketed.
I always thought that I could not grow feijoas in my climate.
I bought grafted plants that I kept in pots.
During my other holidays I found a bush of several ornamental seedlings in front of a castle. I collected the fruits and sowed the seeds. These are the trees that produce these fruits.
I wanted to practice grafting.
At the same time a friend here contacted me to direct us towards feijoas from NZ, larger and especially earlier.
We each succeeded on our own.
In terms of taste, Kakapo remains the best for me. Wiki-you should not ripen here. Pounamou has not yet produced fruit…
Anyway, I did not have any scionwoods to graft. The rootstocks have grown. I was going to get them. My wife wanted a hedge, it was an opportunity for me to see what seedlings would give…
out of 33 trees in front of the house 5 are interesting. A sterile tree that flowers abundantly with flowers 2 times larger than normal.
I have just harvested all the fruits 1 of the trees.
The fruits of the same tree to make statistics. I harvested and weighed everything.
Average weight: 108.82 g
Largest fruits 185 g
Smallest fruit: 66 g
Percentage of fruits over 100 g: 62.8%
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