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Found this site which has a large amount of pictures regarding this Annona Senegalensis fruit. Hoping to grow this someday myself. http://www.africanplants.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=78&id=133#

-Joep450

This is a picture of my seedling Ivory it’s large, fiberless and has a very complex Indochinese resin profile falling somewhere between p-22 and mahachanok, also is later season (pic taken 7/28/19) but has terrible issue with internal breakdown in the fruit. Have posted on here before a pdf of mango problems and fixes will have to search it out again. It’s most likely due to calcium deficiency and ways to supplement calcium are gypsum (PH neutral) and oyster shell (increases ph). Phi at Zills recommended I use oyster shell and I see tractor supply sells it in ft pierce, but I’m going to check my soil PH first and then decide ......on my to do list when back from vacation.

-Joep450

Planted out a few seeds from a soursop I got at a Latin market and looks like one sprout has marble white swirls on the leaves.

Gonna keep a close eye on this one.

-Joep450

Hey Forum,

Here is a sugar apple I planted from a seed a while back but wondering if any of you recognize which type it is as I’ve heard they pretty much come true to type from seed?


-Joep450

Actually just picked up some rambutan at winn dixie yesterday, just ok, taste is there but flesh adheres to seed and peels off part of thin outer seed coat on some fruits giving off bad texture and taste. Hear there are better varieties out there that don't have this issue, believe they were shipped in from mexico.

This recent article is hilarious though! https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/3k3x3j/the-alien-fruit-in-netflixs-another-life-is-actually-a-rambutan

-JoeP450

Sugarloaf

This was my first year eating sugarloaf and it was stinking delicious, honestly this is in my top ten list and will eventually have a spot in my yard. A strange phenomenon happened this year which I had never seen before, all the mangos I purchased were rinsed in water then placed on beach towels (soft padding) on dining room table and allowed ripen. The sugarloafs, and only the sugarloafs, seemed to develop a flattened side as they ripened, I would flip them and then the other side would become flat! Then pictures you can kinda see this! Even on the soft towel padding the delicate flesh was caving under the mangos own weight. This is a mango that would be terrible to ship I think, but probably wouldn’t be shipped because it would be greedily eaten before hand. Also this mango seemed to be ripe and soft while still yellowing green, think on par with Carrie but not as juicy. Also characteristic of the sugarloaf is the “nipple” where the stem connects the fruit. The taste is a tropical medley of sweet coconut upfront with slight sub acid pineapple juice finish. It gives coconut cream a naming crisis though CC is in fact creamier, there is more pronounced coconut in the sugarloaf.  Just my opinion on coconut scale but sugarloaf = sweet coconut, coco cream= subtle spiced coconut, pina colada= more pineapple than coconut.

-Joep450

The Mai-3 is an awesome fruit and my avatar picture, sweet crunchy and low latex. I heard once that jackfruit is drought tolerant fruit tree which I do not believe to be true at all as on the hottest days I will notice on my two trees that the leaves will sag lower and almost look like they are wilting. I once grew out some seeds in pots and neglected to water them and they dropped leaves like the pictures above, so it may just be a water issue. 

You can see in this post the Tony Morris I purchased in May from Excalibur  http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=31905.msg351453#msg351453 and here is its growth as of today. 
The tree has drip irrigation connected to it as well as a “bird nest” of Areca palm frond leaves, the areca palms are self cleaning and always falling down in my yard so I have repurposed them as natural mulch, they lock in together and form a “birds nest” and naturally locks in moisture from drip irrigation. I also have fertilized with vigoro Florida lawn fertilizer 29-0-2, a high nitrogen component to speed growth, see cookie monsters thread on high nitrogen and jackfruit. For now I think best plan of action is to water and mulch, then as see more leaves keep momentum going with nitrogen.

-Joep450

http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2016/oct/19/tree-that-promises-good-fortune-for-the-whole-family-1529529.html

An article on this fruit

-joep450

Seeds arrived today, looking awesome and ready to be planted- about half had germinated.

Would def order from you again in the future, thanks!

Agree! Mine arrived today as well and most were germinated, really stoked, thanks so much.

-Joep450

Just curious, but has anyone had success grafting poshte to other Annona rootstock?

-joep450

If your willing to travel a little further south hit up Lara Farms for the “Miami” cultivar, have not fruited mine yet but hear it flowers a lot and is more sweet vs sour type.

Goodluck,

-Joep450

Been opening up mango seeds for a few years and never have I seen a polyembryonic Ice cream mango embryo. This is not a mix up either. How this happens exactly I have no idea.

-Joep450