🥦 Jackfruit (Young/Green)
Artocarpus heterophyllus
vegetables
perennial evergreen tree
☀️ Sun
full sun
💧 Water
moderate to high
🗺️ Zones
10, 12
🧪 Soil pH
6.0-7.5
🪴 Soil Type
well-draining, deep, fertile
🚿 Drainage
Well-drained
📏 Spacing
25-30 ft apart (large tree)
⏱️ Maturity
3-4 years (from planting grafted tree); 5-7 years from seed
🍴 Edible Parts
🍽️ Young: pulled jackfruit (vegan meat), curries, stews
🍽️ Ripe: fresh fruit, desserts, preserves
Key:🤝 Grows well together❌ Keep apart☀️ Sun needs💧 Water🗺️ Hardiness zone
🤝 Companions (7)
Jackfruit's sturdy trunk and branches make excellent living supports for black pepper vines, which climb without damaging the host tree.
Cacao is a classic understory companion for jackfruit , the tree provides the dappled shade and humid environment cacao needs to thrive.
Coffee grows excellently under jackfruit's shade; the canopy moderates temperature extremes and provides the filtered light coffee prefers.
Galangal grows well in jackfruit's partial shade with the consistent soil moisture the tree's canopy helps maintain throughout the growing season.
Ginger benefits from the wind protection and moist microclimate under jackfruit's canopy , ideal conditions for rhizome development.
Turmeric thrives in jackfruit's deepening shade, which provides the filtered light and humidity turmeric rhizomes need for optimal growth.
Bananas grow rapidly beneath young jackfruit, creating a productive middle layer in the food forest before the jackfruit canopy fully develops.
⚠️ Keep Apart (1)
⚠️ small sun-loving vegetables under mature tree
Growth inhibition or competition
📝 Growing Notes
Giant tree producing world's largest tree fruit. Young green fruit used as vegetable/meat substitute. Mature tree provides heavy shade, understory guild of shade-tolerant spices. Black pepper can vine up the trunk.
🛒 Buy Seeds & Plants
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Johnny's Selected Seeds
Botanical Interests
True Leaf Market
Burpee
Territorial Seed Company
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