Tu's Inspiring Garden 😍(Fruiting Lychee/Mango)

‪@turoidownunder8410‬
Tu has been growing Tropical Fruit in Melbourne for 20 years!
In this video, Jaboticaba, hog plum, pomelo, lychee, mango, jakfruit.

[@UrbanBounty]

Check out Tu`s channel @turoidownunder8410

[@turoidownunder8410]

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.

[@UrbanBounty]

Thank you for showing me around Tu'! You have inspiring results at your place!

[@turoidownunder8410]

@@UrbanBountyI am glad you came last week because the possums ate most of the longan fruits last night 😢

[@UrbanBounty]

@@turoidownunder8410 oh no, sorry to hear that mate! There are too many possums, we need more powerful owls!

[@FlourishbyFlora]

Wow, this garden is amazing, lots of Tropical fruit growing abundantly.

[@UrbanBounty]

Yes it is very amazing 😀

Tu has all type of tropical fruit plants. I love to visit his garden too.

[@UrbanBounty]

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

[@simone222]

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]

WOW, that is amazing, which area was that? I think lychee needs at least one night below 10c to be able to set fruit.

[@simone222]

@@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. 💚😊

[@UrbanBounty]

@@simone222 thank you very much too!

[@PeterEntwistle]

Wow, what an incredible place! Incredible to see lychees, mangos and jackfruit trees doing so well there!

[@UrbanBounty]

Absolutely Peter, it's a credit to his patience

[@fruitsmoothie]

Thanks for doing that tour in English, I had seen Tu's channel before, but I was dying for more footage of that lychee!

[@UrbanBounty]

No worries 👍

[@sydneyfruittreesgrower]

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

[@UrbanBounty]

G'day mate! Yes it was a great way to spend a Sunday morning! He took the time to tell me the story behind every tree!

[@luaksendok3495]

AMAZING, I LIKE YOUR FRUIT PLANTS

[@GrowTropicalMK]

Hello from the UK! You have an amazing Garden !

[@UrbanBounty]

Hello there, this garden is my friend Tu's garden which is close by to me, he has done an amazing job. Thank you for watching and your kind comment!

[@BloggerEngineer]

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 🤭

[@UrbanBounty]

Good stuff, good luck with your new plants! 👍

[@frasercoastfoodforest3092]

wow. amazing tour mate.

[@UrbanBounty]

Thanks mate, it gives me confidence with Jackfruit and Lychee one day

[@frasercoastfoodforest3092]

@@UrbanBounty the jackfruit had flowers on it not fruit. mine jack fruit has only male flowers on it. but looks like a female may be developing.

[@UrbanBounty]

@@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

[@frasercoastfoodforest3092]

@@UrbanBounty you need to grow some

[@Coolclimatetropicalfruits]

Awesome tour Paul Tu is a master for sure

[@UrbanBounty]

True mate, 20+ years of caring for those plants

[@goldengirl65]

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..

[@UrbanBounty]

Good stuff mate! I hope the success Tu has showed us gave you some hope like it did to me 😀

[@lyonheart84]

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 ?

[@UrbanBounty]

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

[@turoidownunder8410]

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.

[@dougs_urbanfarm]

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.

[@UrbanBounty]

Sounds similar to what I've read about passionfruit surface roots

[@marksmtalent]

Beautiful garden mate Urban Bounty... A lots of different kind of fruit trees. Well done!

[@UrbanBounty]

Yes mate Tu' knows what he is doing for sure! 👍

[@marksmtalent]

@@UrbanBounty yes mate, Guaranteed...

[@goldengirl65]

Absolutely did.

[@UrbanBounty]

If you have any questions about what I am doing here please ask

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Incredible garden! I wish we could've made it today. I'd be interested in what fertilizer was used?

[@UrbanBounty]

From memory he said small amounts of manure 2 times a year but mostly seasol and powerfeed

[@hasuIMP]

Powerfeed the green bottle or red?

[@UrbanBounty]

@@hasuIMP I didn't ask, I'd say green but not sure.

[@RoldanEstacio]

Nice garden ist not a wide but a bounty of fruit bearing trees

[@UrbanBounty]

Yes that is true my friend 😀

[@jessadoverte608]

new subscriber here

[@UrbanBounty]

Thank you 😀

[@melbournesubtropicfruits9474]

Pretty cool hey Paul - i think ive met him by a different name about his Longan out Box Hill way - was it Black Gold Jack and Thai So Lychee?

[@UrbanBounty]

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]

my Jack is over 2m and Tai So taller but no flowers yet

[@UrbanBounty]

@@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

[@melbournesubtropicfruits9474]

@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

[@turoidownunder8410]

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.

[@tropicalfruitsofmothernatu4440]

Haha thats awesome did he give you any tips

[@UrbanBounty]

Yeah mate, he was super helpful. I learned a lot from him! We walked around for 3 hrs

[@sabisingh1045]

@@UrbanBountycan you tell us the tips please would be helpful for us

[@UrbanBounty]

@@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

[@sabisingh1045]

@@UrbanBounty thanks so much mate

[@hasuIMP]

What the veriaty is the hog plum that ezy to fruit? I want to buy one

[@UrbanBounty]

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

[@dougs_urbanfarm]

The quick fruiting one is the dwarf hog plum.

[@rudolphpitterson3059]

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