Pedalai (forum)

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I am wondering what experience people have growing Pedalai. I just got 3 trees, and am curious what sort of lighting they can tolerate. I'm planting my tallest one (4 feet) in 1/2 sun to begin with.

I have two others, and wonder at what age / height they may take full sun.


Any experience growing these artocarpus would be greatly appreciated!
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Time: 24th March 2009 6:49am

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trikus says...
Enormous tree and very little fruit . Unsure as to cold tolerance . I just got one little tree I am about to plant out . Protection for the first few years would be advisable for you in marginal area.

Time: 24th March 2009 8:34am

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BobnLisa says...
We had one in Darwin and it was spectacular! It grew so enormous and had plenty of fruit. The leaves are huge. Our tree was in part shade but once it grew bigger than the house was more in the sun. It thrived in the wet season. Some dumb tree lopper cut the wrong tree down while we were at work so she

Time: 13th September 2009 6:51am

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trikus says...
A friend may have some for sale in a few months , she had a fruit earlier this year .. It had fallen and bruised so I missed out on tasting it . Might the sub-tropics be marginal for this sp. ? My one litle seedling is struggling , hope we get some rains soon .

Time: 13th September 2009 5:20pm

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vsonhos says...
please if anyone knows where I can seed the fruat pedalai, please let me Avisse. this will come to Brazil.

Time: 1st October 2009 8:23am

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Isy says...
I have a Pedalai growing which would be at least 30yrs old - it is about 50ft and magnificent to look at, but has never set any fruit - only see shrivled brown tennis ball size droppings. I have been wondering if it needs a special insect for fertilization.

Time: 15th May 2011 1:13pm

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fruitist says...
A few years back, I tried in Brisbane (no frost here just minimum of 5C in Winter) 2 very robust seedlings of 2 ft tall. They lasted a couple of Winter and then perished.


Time: 15th May 2011 8:30pm

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trikus says...
Isy , do you have many other Artocarpus spp. growing around Speewah ? It could need cross pollination from another Pedalai tree .
Or severe pruning to allow fruits to be picked . A much lower more open tree should flower more .
Trellising experiments locally have shown promising results on many exotic fruit trees .

Time: 16th May 2011 7:57am

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Bangkok says...
I have one in a 100 litre pot. It's about 2.5 meters tall and a perfect umbrella for my terrace.

It's less than 2 years old now and doesn't grow any taller which is great.

The leaves have changed to a more round shape. I hope it will fruit in the pot one day because it will stay in there for ever.

Time: 17th January 2017 9:44pm

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Carl76 says...
Two years and its 2.5m tall, good growing.
How does it taste, any good ? What size is the fruit ?

Time: 19th January 2017 2:08pm

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Bangkok says...
It didn't fruit at all, that takes more time i guess.

Also 2.5 metre isn't much i guess, this tree grows fast and will become huge in full soil.

I have never tasted or seen one myself, hope to find them soon on Penang island Malaysia.



Time: 20th January 2017 12:23pm

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