The Tropical Fruit Forum

Beautiful picture, those branches are literally "locked and loaded"

Oscar i wrote that all "products" in Foodland Bangkok cost more then in German supermarkets. I meant meat, fish, milk, eggs, soap etc. etc.

The website from Aldi says the fruits are from Italien=Italy or Spanien=Spain so they are not grown in Germany. The prices are very low in my opinion. I did see rambutans there but i don't like them. In Holland i saw rambutans for like 25 $ a kg, also mangosteen 25$ a kg (2.2 lbs) and sweet small passionfruits and granadilla for 30$ a kg. Holland is more expensive then Germany in everything. Germany does not have minimum wages that's why.

Mohammed i wonder what kind of soil you are using for passionfruits. They need good fertile soil which is hard to find in Dubai. I was in Abu Dhabi this weekend and there it is the same soil, only yellow sand and looks very very dry. I know that Dubai gardencentres buy a lot of plants here in Thailand, maybe you can let them bring fruittree's as well?

I grow the passionfruits flavicarpa here in Bangkok. I have some in a big container that almost have no leaves and look crappy. I also have them in a big raised bed and they became a huge bush and are flowering at the moment. No fruits to see yet.

I think that one's fruit is very small in size, but some say, some variety of that passiflora, are quite tasty and is the only carnivorous passiflora species. When they flower, they produce a hairy tendril casing around the flower/fruit that produces enzyme like the other carnivorous plant does(Venus fly trap, pitcher plant etc.).

Passionfruit season for me , selling to bars and restaurants @ 2.50 kilo

Gary - where did you get your Glenn?  We had a little talk at Leo's place about Turpentine rootstock having this very issue you're faced with.  Most, if not all, of his trees have this problem. I wonder if it's the lack of humidity that's causing this? 

Do FL growers have this issue?

Quote from: EvilFruit on October 04, 2013, 04:40:06 PM

How do you describe it taste ?

I like to call these fruits jakfruit figs.  They look like mini jakfruit on the inside but are the size of figs.  However, they really taste line neither.  The flesh most closely resembles jakfruit flesh but there is no juicy fruit flavor.  The flavor of the better ones that I have had are sweet with some sub acidity. I can't really give you much more in the way of flavor description. Frankly, they taste just like Kwai Muk. If I had to say that the flavor is reminiscent of some other fruit, I might say, with considerable reservation...strawberry. There is not a huge amount of flesh and the seeds are fairly large in proportion to the size of the fruit, but I think these are pretty good and worth the effort of growing them.  For me, they are much better in taste and smell than marang any day. However, they are not as good as the best jakfruit, in my opinion.

Quote from: EvilFruit on October 02, 2013, 02:46:26 AM

Maybe.. Mauritia flexuosa !!

Wow, never heard of that one.  Looks surprisingly like salak - are they related?  What's the taste like?

Quote from: BMc on August 05, 2013, 12:38:58 AM

Hi Folks,
A local-ish Chinese supermarket has started getting in frozen Musang King durian ($6kg whole - $13kg flesh). They usually have Monthong and Gaan Yeow, but have just recently been stocking King. Does anyone know if its good as a frozen fruit?

You won't want to hear my comments about the taste (I'm not a durian fan), but the texture of the frozen Musang King is good, you can eat it straight out of the pack without too much thawing necessary.