The Tropical Fruit Forum

So recently we got hit by two consecutive category 4 hurricanes here in Honduras, as soon as the almost 90 mile per hour winds started hitting i knew i had to put some of my ultra tropical seedlings on a safer place. Since ive imported most of these guys i didnt want to run any risks. The seedlings pictured are: 2 Macadamias, 1 Cambuca, 1 Rollinia, 1 Kepel Burahol, 1 Marang, 1 Mamey sapote, 1 Yellow Jaboticaba, and 1 Excalibur sapodilla. The Kepel and the Marang are the most recent additions to my collection, any help on growing these 2 would be amazing, such as sun exposure and how much water they like. Thanks for stopping by👊

Regards,William

You need weather station, here you can see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC4VhDTPeIM&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=BangkokExtra

3 inch stalks? Like this one?

What i have seen is that Mango can survive a flooding of some weeks. They aren't happy with it but survive....

What amazes me more is that a large plumeria can also survive flooding for some weeks. Most of them died after a flooding here but this red flowered one survived.

Hehe fly to California or Thailand.  Funny story behind why I got this tree. We went to Thailand for our honeymoon and had longans at a roadside stand.  I thought to myself these tasted nothing  like the ones we got at home.  I asked for the variety but couldn't understand the name.  So when we bought our house I immediately  did my research.  Good thing for me Thailand had only two main varieties.
    Two kids later we were able to enjoy the same fruit with the kiddos for dessert I joked with the wife that it tasted like our honeymoon :p

Longans make you feel warm, do you feel warm if you eat a lot of them?

Once i bought 5 different packages of peeled durian in Singapore, i had all the best varieties and wanted to bring it in the plane to Bangkok.
The durian was packed very well, 5 layers of plastic around it against the smell.

All went well untill it had to go through the scanner before boarding. The officers smelled it already when i put my luggage on the belt, they looked at the x-ray screen and asked me if i had durian...there was no way denying it, i could also smell it myself...so they confiscated my durian worth 100 us$.

During durian season the Thai markets are loaded with durian, huge piles of them and the vendors have very long queue's of customers...the smell was ultra strong, you can smell that from far far away but that's fine...we love durian in Thailand.

I'm familiar with the Thai mangosteens, we get the small ones in Thailand because big ones are exported. Sometimes locals sell from their own tree's and then we get full sized mangosteens.

In Malaysia and Singapore they import the mesta from Indonesia which are sold on the streets. They taste the same, have the same size, only have a different shape. I brought them back to Thailand to show my friends who also thought it was the same fruit.

The big ones also have big seeds...

This thread shows that fruit tastes are extremely varied, and that one person's overrated fruit is another's favorite.

Spanish lime/Mamoncillo/Gunip (Melicoccus bijugatus) is one fruit I believe is overrated. I like the taste, but the flesh to seed ratio is appalling.

I find jackfruit overrated. Ones that I have had were likely picked too early and had a slight savory/onion aftertaste with only a mild Juicy Fruit gum taste. Plus, cutting one of them up makes quite the mess.

Other people swear by Gold Nugget mandarins and Minneola tangelos, but while I do like a good Sumo (Dekopon), my citrus tastes run towards grapefruits and pomelos. If I could buy those for the same price as tasteless navel oranges, then my grocery store would not be able to keep enough of them in stock for me.

I have never had jaboticabas, but I walk right past the regular seedless grape section to buy Concords, Thomcords, and muscadines, all grape varieties/species with unique, strong flavors that some people love and others cannot stand. I can see jaboticaba varieties being similarly polarizing.

Other fruits mentioned in this thread, such as mamey sapote and soursop, are ones I like a great deal.

I agree with the original poster, Gone tropo, as well as others who have replied in this thread, that lychee and rambutan are some of the best fruits in the world (both are in my top 10 favorite fruits) and most fruits, even very good ones, suffer in comparison to those.

Taste in fruit is subjective, but it is fun to see what some people like and others dislike.

I've bought jackfruit from all over Thailand...most of them were not that good, the sloppy ones i won't even write about. But we have one streetvendor who has always perfect very very nice jackfruit...i prefer Thong Prasert but it tastes almost the same as the other varieties she sells.

Getting perfect jackfruit isn't easy at all or all the other vendors would also have the same quality. My own jackfruit tree (grafted) also didn't taste that good. So it's not a matter of genetic material, i live in the same city as that streetvendor so have the same climate...but they taste totally different.

Don't give up on them, try other shops because there sure are very good jackfruits around. And jackfruit tree's can stand very high temps, very much sun so give it all to them.

Quote from: sunny on October 20, 2020, 11:18:26 PM

Quote from: BonsaiBeast on October 20, 2020, 07:36:24 PM

Jujube to me tastes like a bad version of an apple. Why would anyone choose it over a bigger, better tasting apple?

Because good jujubes are sweeter, more crunchy, smaller than an apple.. I've never had an apple as sweet/crispy as a chinese grown jujube.

Also we have the green jujubes which are not bad, like a granny smith...we can't grow apples in the real tropics, (also no chinese jujubes) but the green jujubes are refreshing as well.

I had some california grown ones claiming to be high brix. They were just little mealy dry apples with way less sweetness and flavor.

There are many different jujubes but we get the round ones from China...very nice, i can eat them all day..sure they are sweet.

The yellow dragonfruit from ecuador is absolutely delicious and the best i ever tasted.

White jaboticaba's are also great. I never had another jabo.

Papaya Holland (no1 variety in Thailand) is really delicious, i won't eat another papaya.

Pitangatuba is very sour

Rainforrest plum, eugenia candolleana is a disappointment...same is the barbados cherry and governor plum.

Durian is great, jackfruit is great, dekapon is not great in Thailand, guava's are great (pen si thong), green mango's are the best, mini pineapples are awesome, longkong is nice.

They are very nice
Very healthy

And the green ones make great salad. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1SD5YEeHyA&ab_channel=Pailin%27sKitchen

My Pulasan grows very slow...1 grafted tree is 70 cm tall and 2 years old....the other one is 60 cm tall and 1 year old.

They die back sometimes and also get dead leavetips after that they drop the leaves and make new ones.

My rambutan grows at the same speed.

Also my pulasan's can not be in the front garden where the sun is all day long. Many other pulasan's died there so now i keep them in sun untill 1 pm. Mine get citywater , i think they prefer rainwater.