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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Talisia sylvatica flowering
« on: July 02, 2016, 10:30:29 PM »
Thank you! I wasnt sure if they were stamens, I am probably going to have a closer look next time. And quite a couple of talisias are also precocious, I remember the seedlings of talisia esculenta from the Fruit and Spice Park flowered when the tree was quite small, but they died in my backyard when the sprinkler broke. Good luck with your plants, hopefully I get some male trees too! If not we can exchange scions one day.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Is anyone growing Korlan?
« on: July 01, 2016, 07:24:07 PM »
I have a korlan tree myself that has gotten huge already, but it has been growing in a pot in a greenhouse. Has anyone tried growing it in the ground in South Florida? I remember Chris Rollins from the Fruit and Spice Park telling me how he had two korlan trees at the park, but they died.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Talisia sylvatica flowering
« on: July 01, 2016, 07:19:44 PM »







I came back home from school to find my talisia sylvatica flowering! It flowered in only 3 years. Does anyone know if the flowers are male or female? I forgot to check out the flowers, and I am back up north and can't tell through photo.

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You have your focus and I have mine Mr Clean.  I like to see my list grow and am willing to make the trek out to West Palm if I can add an oddball mango to my collection but, the fact is, any oddball that comes to that sale would be via one of the members of this forum so I will simply wait for something to have something that someone wants and trade.  Thanks for the heads up

George,
I will probably working for Excalibur at the sale, so if I see any rare mangos I will make sure to take a picture of it and sell it to someone else before you can get it.




You expose the fact that a man has micro-phallus one time and now he refuses to hoard the good mangos for you.   Thats pretty petty there Sheehan.  You're bigger than that . . . (as long as "that" is a mushroom cap)

Make that two times, haha

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Wild Durian (Cullenia excelsa) Seeds
« on: February 28, 2015, 04:01:54 PM »
The seeds arrived in great condition being nicely packaged as well. Thank you.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Durian Doctors in Need
« on: November 22, 2014, 02:42:54 PM »
Thanks guanabanus and adam!

Guanabanus, would bacterial canker or fungal disease show on one side? And thanks for the suggestion for TREC, I'll definitely do that. The side without dots was in shade and no water gets on that side, if that helps.

And Adam, it got down to the 50s and I left all my durians unprotected. There was one of the durians that I have in the greenhouse permanently that doesn't have the dots, but it has a dropper that waters it below so I don't know if that might be the reason it doesn't have the spots either, and the greenhouse wasn't heated either.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Durian Doctors in Need
« on: November 22, 2014, 08:43:56 AM »





Hey everyone,

I'm back at my house for thanksgiving break, and when I checked outside something strange was happening to my durians. On one side of the durian, all the leaves had black spots on them, and I was thinking fungus and moisture issues. But then when I turned one around the other side of the leaves were fine with no black dots. Does anyone know what could be causing this?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Visit to Jim West's Place in Ecuador
« on: October 07, 2014, 07:47:23 PM »
What an awesome trip! Jim is such a fun guy, after the conference we went to Fairchild and the Kampong together and had a good time pigging out on fruit. Post pictures!

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No it didn't happen unfortunately :'(. I was still in Asia at the time, as my flight was delayed so it didn't happen. Instead of having the festival on that day, I ended up speaking for the Redlands Rare fruit and vegetable club about my trip. I was going to reschedule it during the Fruit Conference, but it was too much for one person with me preparing for college.

However, if I do go back to Miami next summer, I will definitely have an event where us forum members can meet and greet with each other at least, on top of some nice fruit sampling and friendly contests.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2014 Jackfruit Jubilee at Fairchild
« on: September 15, 2014, 12:07:51 PM »
My wife and I attended the Jackfruit Jubilee and I enjoyed it more than the mango festival. It was a very small crowd and all of the lectures were indoors. The small crowd allowed for easy parking up front, barely any


I saw a few forum members including: HMHausman, cbss_daviefl, FloridaGreenMan, gunnar429, Berto, & omarudy. Anyone else was there?


You must of seen my brother,  I'm away in college. Sucks that I missed it. :'(

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Here is my seedling

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Hey Tomas, I'll get one for you tomorrow.

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Nice photos! I just finished up the last of my mangos from the conference by making a mango tiramisu. I am going to meet up with the jackfruit girl and her boyfriend in two weeks, Ill tell them to join then. They are both fruit researchers and would definitely add scientific knowledge to the forum.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: tropical fruit conference
« on: July 07, 2014, 10:20:20 PM »
I just made the goodie bags today with Chris, so it is better to sign up earlier so you can get one of them. We made around 70, we already have about 65 pre-registered people, so there won't be much extras.

Just trying to find out who is definitely going to Chris Rollins' last fruit conference.  Holla back if you plan on going
I will be there all days.

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These cost 10 usd in Singapore, with only 2-3 small ones inside. I do not know the variety. The ones I tried in Miami were nasty sour.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Durio macrantha and the Professor
« on: June 28, 2014, 08:14:20 AM »
Hi Omar,

Your seedling looks really nice and healthy. What kind of soil do you use?

Tomas

I don't know which soil is used as my dad planted it for me when I was out of town. It will most likely be the normal mix I make out of cow manure, sphagnum moss, perlite, pine bark and top soil.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Durio macrantha and the Professor
« on: June 27, 2014, 12:39:59 PM »
Sure, I was actually going to post up some videos in the future of all the different procedures I am doing, like protoplast fusion, embryo rescue, and normal tissue culture. We have had a problem with durian when we sterilize it as it keeps on getting infected, but this was using the stems as the explant. We are going to try leaves and embryos this time, and stems again with a higher concentration of chlorox. The highest success rate with me is sterilizing the seeds and putting them in the medium to germinate, and take your explant from there. I didn't do that for this durian as I didn't want to risk it with only one seed.

If you wait a couple of days, I might be able to get a couple of sources and links for you from Fairchild and my university.

Been looking around on the internet for experiences with cloning Durio spp. - but there seems to be very very little info. Did you find anything?

Here is an update of my seedling.



Yeah, my search is running a little dry too. When I was in Penang in Malaysia, I went to their agricultural research station, and I got to see their breeding program and the first ever red prawn durian tree. I am friends with the previous director of the research station, who was also the director of the Penang Botanical Gardens and I asked him about durian tissue culture. He said they tried and it didn't work for them, so they stuck to bananas and pineapple.

However, my friends in Penang told me they are going to ask for any papers on durian tissue culture when they are in Thailand , as their agriculture programs are much more experienced.

The last batch of durian tissue culture I left before I went to Asia got contaminated,  and the previous ones that did not get contaminated ended up not forming callus. So it is back to the square one for me. But this year I have a free summer so I will be at the tissue culture lab much more often. I will update you on any positive results. If you would like to see the recipe I used, which was very basic,  I can send you a copy when I am back at the lab.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Asia Travel Updates
« on: June 11, 2014, 06:23:59 AM »
After the last time I posted, I spent the rest of the time meeting up with some family friends, then left guangzhou for hong kong. While I was there I found the very mystical seedless lychee. And it was a whopping $13 a pound, but after I bit into it, it was totally worth it. There is no seeds in most of them, and the ones that do have seeds are so small that you can eat the seed without even noticing. Truly a delight. I set up some contacts to bring back to the states  am airlayered tree, if not cuttings. The taste is not as good as the top lychees, it has a milder flavor. But in no means is it bad, it Is really good and I prefer it even more than the top notch flavor ones as being seedless makes the eating experience way better. After taking pictures of the first lychee I realized some of you might think it is fake, so I took another with my account name.




The other pictures are of gardens by the bay in Singapore, really really nice place. I am in Penang now and I am meeting up with durian researchers. I have to head out now to go to meet up with friends from penang that will be taking me to farms and botanical gardens.

I will make sure to respond to everyone that sent me am email earlier, sorry to those with the late response.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Asia Travel Updates
« on: June 02, 2014, 12:02:42 PM »
Hey everyone,

As of now I am in Guangzhou, China. I will be going to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Langkawi, Kota Kinabalu, then to Tenom and maybe Limbang.

I am in Guangzhou to collect some plants/seeds of lychee and wild rambutan. Since heading off the train station I already saw people selling lychees and myrica rubra.  I first headed today to the Jiangnan Fruit and Vegetables market. When we told the taxi driver to go there, he dropped us off at the wholesale distribution trading center and talked to the guards for a while to let us in. Turns out they thought we were foreign investors looking to purchase and distribute, but then we walked to the market itself. I saw several different lychee varieties, and onE of them being sold was picked fully green but still sweet. I forgot to take picturespecially in all the excitement.  I ended up buying lychees and mangosteen for less than a dollar a pound.

Tomorrow I am heading to South China Botanical Gardens and I will take lots of pictures.

On the streets I found a giant lychee being sold as well, we tried to ask variety names, but they laughed and shook their heads.












I will go into more detail later on about the fruits, but for now I have limited WiFi and no phone service. Will make sure to post everything else on lychees.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: This Week's Haul
« on: May 27, 2014, 08:30:30 PM »
That's a lot of jaboticaba!  How did you get the juice out of it it?
I boiled the whole fruit with water at the level of the fruit until it becomes nice and soft then with a potato masher you mash all of it. Then you just strain everything with a cheese cloth or paper towel on a strainer.

Nice Omar!

That Jaboticaba juice is calling my name!
You can make some with the ones coming to you. ;D

are these from your yard?  Great pics!
No they were from the Fruit and Spice Park, and the African Breadfruit is from Grimal Grove. Anyone going to the meeting on the Fruit and Spice Park will get to try the African Breadfruit.

Very nice!  I never realized the size of lemon drop but that picture gives it perspective. Thanks
Yeah most pictures are quite zoomed in on the lemon drop. I have many more pictures on my phone at Grimal Grove but their file size is too big for post image.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / This Week's Haul
« on: May 25, 2014, 07:23:51 PM »
I made some jaboticaba juice

A nice 15 lb box of jaboticaba and lemon drop mangosteen that I made jam out of

A 3 gal bucket of jaboticaba, which I also made jam from

An African breadfruit from Grimal Grove, I have a big one on the kitchen counter. Anyone have recipes for this besides the porridge they make from it?


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I just ate another fruit today, and my memory was foggy. The one at the Fruit and spice park was excellent, it tasted much more like a mangosteen and was sweet, unlike the last ones I ate which were borderline too sour, but still seedy. Here is the picture





The one that I tried from Fairchild was sour like everyone else is saying, but the one from the Fruit and Spice park was like mangosteen with big seeds, it was delicious. Chris Rollins picked them from Borneo, the one I ate in the picture was not the one from the Phillipines. I planted all five of the seeds.

Definitely recommend it, I might be able to get seeds of this sweeter seedling, as all the other ones I tried were too sour.
Hi Omarudy
Do u know what Garcinia it is? hombriana or another.  I'm growing the hombriana.  I'd love some seed! Even if its a diff sp.  it sounds good.  They'd look nice in a garcinia fruit basket one day.

Its hombroniana, and this one I especially liked.  It is much rounder than the other ones I have eaten, the others looking more like Oscars. All the fruit on the tree right now is green, except for that one that I picked. I am leaving next week out of town, so I will check if there is any ripe fruit before I go. If not I will be back in late June, early July.

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I just ate another fruit today, and my memory was foggy. The one at the Fruit and spice park was excellent, it tasted much more like a mangosteen and was sweet, unlike the last ones I ate which were borderline too sour, but still seedy. Here is the picture





The one that I tried from Fairchild was sour like everyone else is saying, but the one from the Fruit and Spice park was like mangosteen with big seeds, it was delicious. Chris Rollins picked them from Borneo, the one I ate in the picture was not the one from the Phillipines. I planted all five of the seeds.

Definitely recommend it, I might be able to get seeds of this sweeter seedling, as all the other ones I tried were too sour.

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I just ate another fruit today, and my memory was foggy. The one at the Fruit and spice park was excellent, it tasted much more like a mangosteen and was sweet, unlike the last ones I ate which were borderline too sour, but still seedy. Here is the picture





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Yeah, I have tried the ones at both the fruit and spice park, and fairchild gardens. Both have the same taste, like a mangosteen with the sour level turned up a bit, with a hint of banana. Also it is much seedier than mangosteen. I will have seeds in about a month if you are still interested.  The one at the Fruit and spice park is another scientific name, from the Phillipines,  I think Garcinia lateriflora, but still aesthetically and taste wise they are pretty much the same. I haven't tried them side by side though.

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