Grafted
Black Gold jackfruit
Deep orange, sweet pods with less of the wild rubbery note some seedling jackfruit have. Eat the pods fresh. The seeds boil like a chestnut.
This variety
The fruit
Deep orange, sweet pods with less of the wild rubbery note some seedling jackfruit have. Eat the pods fresh. The seeds boil like a chestnut.
Taste, season, cold, and how to plant this one.
- Taste
- Deep orange, sweet pods with less of the wild rubbery note some seedling jackfruit have. Eat the pods fresh. The seeds boil like a chestnut.
- Ripens
- A fruit can hang for months. It is ready when the aroma turns strong and fruity and the skin gives. That may be summer or fall depending on when it set.
- Zones
- Zones 10 to 11.
- Hardiness
- Frost-tender. A young jackfruit in a freeze needs cover or it dies back hard.
- Size
- Still a large tree. Black Gold is a selected fruit, not a dwarf. Keep it well off the house — fruit are heavy and the tree drops them.
- Tips
- Latex stains clothes and knives. Oil the blade. Plant it where fallen fruit will not sit on a walkway.
- Pollination
- Self-fruitful. Male and female flowers are on the same tree.