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Climbing up a jackfruit tree and carefully bringing the fruit down without getting eaten alive by ants is a feat of endurance. Jackfruit trees grow tall and the

Climbing up a jackfruit tree and carefully bringing the fruit down without getting eaten alive by ants is a feat of endurance. Jackfruit trees grow tall and the fruits are heavy, 30+ pounds on average. Also plucking the bulbs out of the fruit is a laborious task. This is truly a fruit of love to be savored from the backyard garden and rarely farmed at a large scale. Also eating too many raw bulbs causes stomach upsets in most people and is most commonly consumed as a well cooked dessert.

number_six 11y ago
If I was starving and the only thing holding me back from eating was a few ants and plucking bulbs, I'd be eating jackfruits ever day!
danneu 11y ago
What makes jackfruit trees such a sight to behold is how much fruit is accessible at waist/shoulder height (along with, of course, its sheer size).
- titomc 11y ago
  short jackfruit trees might be crossbreeds. The original ones grow very tall. The fruits can be harvested by climbing the tree and making use of rope to bring down the fruit gracefully to the ground.
  - danneu 11y ago
    Interesting. My experience with jackfruit trees has been from the western coast of Mexico, so maybe there's a difference there. Though a google image search for "jackfruit tree" seems to show the trees I'm familiar with. Not very tall with a good portion of fruit within arm's reach.
titomc 11y ago
Yes I have personally done it myself in Kerala State India. There is lot of ants which can bite , but not poisonous. Usually when we put up a small smoke fire under the tree , the ants will scram. After reaching a branch , someone will throw a rope up and I tie the rope around the jackfruit and wrap it around a branch sort of acting as a pully system. Once the person in the ground has got a good grip on the rope. I cut the fruit and the person on the ground slowly releases the rope bringing the fruit down slowly. This is useful especially when the fruit is very ripe as it likely to smash into pieces on impact. The rope trick is employed widely in Kerala to harvest this gigantic fruit from the jackfruit tree.

number_six 11y ago

If I was starving and the only thing holding me back from eating was a few ants and plucking bulbs, I'd be eating jackfruits ever day!

danneu 11y ago

What makes jackfruit trees such a sight to behold is how much fruit is accessible at waist/shoulder height (along with, of course, its sheer size).

titomc 11y ago
short jackfruit trees might be crossbreeds. The original ones grow very tall. The fruits can be harvested by climbing the tree and making use of rope to bring down the fruit gracefully to the ground.
- danneu 11y ago
  Interesting. My experience with jackfruit trees has been from the western coast of Mexico, so maybe there's a difference there. Though a google image search for "jackfruit tree" seems to show the trees I'm familiar with. Not very tall with a good portion of fruit within arm's reach.

titomc 11y ago

Yes I have personally done it myself in Kerala State India. There is lot of ants which can bite , but not poisonous. Usually when we put up a small smoke fire under the tree , the ants will scram. After reaching a branch , someone will throw a rope up and I tie the rope around the jackfruit and wrap it around a branch sort of acting as a pully system. Once the person in the ground has got a good grip on the rope. I cut the fruit and the person on the ground slowly releases the rope bringing the fruit down slowly. This is useful especially when the fruit is very ripe as it likely to smash into pieces on impact. The rope trick is employed widely in Kerala to harvest this gigantic fruit from the jackfruit tree.