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I am looking to buy or come pick lilikoi of any variety, wild or cultivated (though knowing the cultivar would be helpful.) I am doing recipe development for a large project. I have been buying them at the farmer's market but I need more than they can provide and they are selling them for $2 a bag of 6-8, which is proving to be expensive for the quantities I need. I have them planted here, but they are just getting started and not producing yet.
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Last month at the swap meet in HPP, there was a lady who sells 15 lilikois for a dollar. Maybe JerryCarr would know who she is and how to contact her.
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Thanks for your ideas, I have discovered a friend of mine as 59 acres, 10 of which the Lilikoi is growing wild on. I can u-pick all I want. I appreciate your input. I picked 4 bushels this week (one purple and 3 yellow.) I cannot imagine a use for just half a dozen or so, unless all you are doing is eating out of hand. It takes about a bushel or more (depending on variety) to get 2 liters of concentrate. And the process is a long one, takes several hours to get the maximum juice from the fruit, unless you have a press, then it can go faster. The main thing is that the seeds are bitter when crushed, so you want to get as much as you can out of the pulp without breaking the seeds.
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Devany, we have a pulp mill that works very well for lilikoi, without crushing, breaking nor chopping the seeds.
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Carey:
OK, you got my attention! Where did you get your pulp mill and approximately what did it cost? Is it the same thing as a food sieve? (I looked up 'pulp mill' on the internet and found a lot of information about paper processing plants)
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Ours is an 8qt SS food mill with "pulp" sieve (that is what is on the sieve plate, I think it is ~ 3mm.... but not positive. It is smaller than the lilikoi seed dia)
bought used, but think you can still get them new
ETA It is a Foley type....ebay has one like ours, but WAY over what we paid...
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Great idea Carey! I don't know why I did not think of that! I have a great food mill that I use for tomatoes, but it has three sieve plates. Thanks!
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Love to take credit, but it was Jimbo "the amazing eating machine"s idea to get the food mill
Good thing, as he was bringing home boat loads of lilikoi all last season. There are many a vine that drop fruit onto the roadway.
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what is the ripening/harvesting season for lilikoi?
Enjoy the day! Ann
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for most species, late summer - early winter. Link with links to many species:
http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/lilikoi.htm
