vue - Jackfruit-most amazing and useful tree
Artocarpus Heterophyllus (Jackfruit) tree, bark, flower and fruits. An essential feature of a forest farm is the fruit trees. Make sure to have at least 1 tree of all the fruit tree that grow in your region. If you like a particular fruit then you could plant more. A fruit orchard with 20 chikoo trees along with a few of all the others like mango, lemon, orange, jamun, jackfruit, star fruit, guava, amla, papaya, banana, hogplum (for pickle and herb), mimosups elengi, wild badam, drumstick etc. can be fitted nicely in 2 or 3 acres. Sapota can fetch a little cash along with bananas. All other fruits are only enough for our family and friends only at a this 3 acre farm model forest farm. The jack is an amazing source of abundant, good food. The unripe fruits are cooked into a variety of delicious recipes. The taste is superb and the texture just like mutton, but it is veg with no meat smell! Seeds of the fruit is high-protien and is storable food. Can be roasted over fire and eaten. Seeds also are cooked into sambhar and other south Indian dishes. Fruits are relished by all forest animals and people too. The fruiting is extended over many months, providing raw jack as a vegetable in the first few months, followed by ripe fruits and the edible seeds for later part of the season. The surplus is made into a sweet dry sheet and consumed slowly. Not all becoming ripe together all at once like mangoes is an advantage. So, it a dependable source of nutritional security for the farmer. Now. about the jack trees medicinal uses as per Ayurvedic texts: 1) Roots are supposed to be anti diarrhoeal. 2) Leaves are useful in treating fevers, wounds, boils and other Pitta and Kapha complications. 3) Unripe fruits are acrid, astringent, carminative and tonic. Good for debility and dyspepsia. 4) The ripe fruits are sweet, cooling, laxative and aphrodisiac. Useful in vitiated Vata, Pitta and ulcers. Always eat them on empty stomach. It is very heavy to digest and so it is better avoided after a heavy meal . 5) Seeds are sweet, diuretic, aphrodisiac and constipating. Cooked or roasted and eaten. 6) Wood is a nervine sedative. 7) Latex useful in opthalmitisand pharyngitis as per reputable text written by pundits of Vaidya Shalas of Kerala.
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how fast dose jackfruit grow, i have jackfruit tree around 1 foot tall
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It's so funny looking lol I'm dying laughing
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I bought the whole fruit from an Asian grocery store yesterday; it costs $80.
I didn't like the taste but I bought it for the seeds. which I am happy about. -
I bought the whole fruit from an Asian grocery store yesterday; it costs $80.
I didn't like the taste but I bought it for the seeds. which I am happy about. -
You said the leaves can be grounded, cook and eaten, can you give me an example or a link of how to do that? I have 6 seeds and I am still soaking them in water ready to be planted. Tnx
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@crazybangalifarmer i should grow in ur area,baengal.no jack trees in the vicinity?i seen hugest jack in the world growing on stream bed in sirumalai hills.but paddy field type waterlogging ?i dont know still.let me ask friends.ur farm in low lying area?
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what kind 0f s0il is best f0r jack fr tree, i have s0me in bangladesh, they gr0w few fr00ts, n die. h0w can i keep alive and make plenty fr00ts every year. is waterl0gged s0il a pr0blem? PLS HELP I NEED HELP GR0WING MAGNIFICENt JACK FR00t tREES.
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@destroyahdes unless location is very ideal,it may not grow very large.the largest i ever saw was a giant about 10 floor bldg tall and a grown person can stand in the cave like butressess at its base.this was in a streambed in sirumalai hills at altitude about 1000m and temperature between 14 to 32 degree centigrade max and minimum.it may not survive your winter.
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@omitnot ok.will c.
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@destroyahdes they can be very sweet,moderate,mild,sweet sour and its various combinations,crisp or squishy,etc.great variation is to be found.pink colour sweet sour,tasting and crisp textured are best.many cant stand its unique smell,though.either you love it or hate it.even cutting poen is quite a sticky task.it s a latex bearing tree.i will upload fruit cutting when they ripen.
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a whole issue of the mag 'civil society' was dedicated to this great fruit...just google 'civil society mag' & u shd get it... all u jackfruit lover-growers shd unite!
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