I grew up with jackfruit. Love jackfruit so much. Behind my parents house in the 80s, we had quite a few of jackfruit trees (and king of fruit, the stinky durian and cempedak, a family of breadfruit and jackfruit). In Indonesia we call jackfruit as nangka.
When we lived in Ontario and Quebec before, it was always so easy to find fresh jackfruit in Chinatown(s), but now we are in B.C, our best bet is always canned jackfruit. Those canned jackfruits cannot hold a candle to the fresh ones, yes the fresh ones are always better obviously, but if you have tasted jackfruit before, you'd know the canned ones are sh#t 馃槀 Sometimes they don't even taste like jackfruit!
Back in May, my husband was in Vancouver, when he returned he surprised us with fresh jackfruit 馃樄 Lucky it wasn't durian, hey, he'd be kicked out of airplane maybe 馃檲馃檳馃檴
So, I saved the seeds! I wanted to plant them here. You know how expensive a whole jackfruit can be in North America? Like a house downpayment, almost 馃槀 My mother said it is such a wishful thinking, because it takes years until a jackfruit tree would give you a fruit. But I Googled, some people grew them successfully in warm areas of the USA, and it doesn't take them 20-30 years as what we would always say in Indonesia. I determined to see. I do have to mention, I live in Northeast of BC, close to Alaska. Our winter starts in October and it stays until May 馃槀
Anyhoo, I planted them! On May 14th I started them on seed box, but on May 28, I moved them to pots. Nothing was happening yet.
And lookie, lookie. By June 22, a month later. Some were popping to say hello 馃榾
And by June 30th, more were growing! Soooo happy 馃槉
By July 11, safe to say they were growing big and stronger!
I started moving them to individual pots. These pictures were taken on July 19th. Beautiful sight hey馃槏
These aren't grown with anything special but a bag of soil from garden section of Walmart. A bag was only $4 We checked our local nurseries, their bags sound awesome with manure and nutritions, but too expensive, the cheapest was $18 per bag with the same weight. Yikes! However, Walmart soil proven to be awesome, so no need expensive soil 馃槀 What a cheap gardener 馃槀
End of August, they were much bigger now.
Unfortunately cold days came. So we moved them inside on September 9th. By this time we already had to take down our humble green house.
Sadly, altho we do have growing light for them, some dropped their gorgeous green leaves, yet growing new ones! Some more are still growing strong and tall. I have hope for them and I cannot wait for summer to hurry come back 馃槀 These pictures were taken today.
Wish I can already show you the fruit of my hardwork, which would be the fruit, but I guess we will have to see progress in a couple of years 馃榿 Let's see if Steemit stays for awhile 馃槈馃憤
Thanks for looking!