[ERT: 10 min.] - Simple, Localized Approaches to Food Systems Resilience and Food Security in Southeast Asia --- Part Two: Staple food diversification – Jackfruit and Artocarpus ssp.
Amazing assembly of useful species. Have you considered doing any Artocarpus hybridisation to develop new genetics? Hand pollination is meant to be fairly straight forward. Wish I could access a fraction of the incredible genetics you are growing.
I've never thought about hybridization with Artocarpus, to be honest! Can you point me to one of your essays/articles that describes the technique that might be used to achieve this? I'd like to inform myself a bit about the issue.
This webpage has some slides on one approach to hand crossing Artocarpus. Most of the time with a new species you have to be prepared to muck around a bit and adapt other people's methods to your own situation, but this genus looks pretty easy provided you can get different species to flower at the same time.
Thanks for this write-up! I have some questions about ease of use of the seeds. Jackfruit and breadnut seeds require peeling, but I think I'm reading that cempedak seeds can just be boiled and eaten with the skin? Is that correct?
One of the factors I'm considering in my current design project is whether crops need to be harvested from the tree (often making it tempting to prune the tree to maintain it no more than 20' tall), or can be harvested from the ground after they fall. Breadnuts can be gathered from the ground, though I've read that they have a stronger flavor than if picked earlier, from the tree. We don't actually use our breadnuts much, between the fiddliness of peeling and the flavor when we get them from the ground. Breadfruit is much easier and tastier, and the seasons are about the same. So my question: can cempedak be harvested from the ground and have good seeds for eating? (I understand that if you want to eat the flesh, you need to pick from the tree.)
Thanks again for sharing your experiences and knowledge!
Amazing assembly of useful species. Have you considered doing any Artocarpus hybridisation to develop new genetics? Hand pollination is meant to be fairly straight forward. Wish I could access a fraction of the incredible genetics you are growing.
Yes, living in the tropics surely has its perks.
I've never thought about hybridization with Artocarpus, to be honest! Can you point me to one of your essays/articles that describes the technique that might be used to achieve this? I'd like to inform myself a bit about the issue.
This webpage has some slides on one approach to hand crossing Artocarpus. Most of the time with a new species you have to be prepared to muck around a bit and adapt other people's methods to your own situation, but this genus looks pretty easy provided you can get different species to flower at the same time.
Thanks for this write-up! I have some questions about ease of use of the seeds. Jackfruit and breadnut seeds require peeling, but I think I'm reading that cempedak seeds can just be boiled and eaten with the skin? Is that correct?
One of the factors I'm considering in my current design project is whether crops need to be harvested from the tree (often making it tempting to prune the tree to maintain it no more than 20' tall), or can be harvested from the ground after they fall. Breadnuts can be gathered from the ground, though I've read that they have a stronger flavor than if picked earlier, from the tree. We don't actually use our breadnuts much, between the fiddliness of peeling and the flavor when we get them from the ground. Breadfruit is much easier and tastier, and the seasons are about the same. So my question: can cempedak be harvested from the ground and have good seeds for eating? (I understand that if you want to eat the flesh, you need to pick from the tree.)
Thanks again for sharing your experiences and knowledge!