The Tropical Fruit Forum

I bought 5 white malay apple seeds from fruitlovers a few years ago and 1 looks different than the other 4, I have a red malay apple and it looks similar but i don't think its a red, when i bought the seeds they had purple malay apple seeds available also so maybe a purple was put in with the white, which would be cool.

The one i think might be a purple flowered for the first time also. I will be planting them in the ground soon and i wanted to put the red, white and a purple next to each other, wanted to make sure it was properly ID

This is the one that i think is the purple, The color at the base of the leaf is darker than the red.



This is a red



This is a white

Picked up this coconut palm for $25, Just checking to make sure its correctly ID, it looks like my red dwarf, wanted to make sure.





My neighbors brought me this fruit, it stinks but it taste pretty good, the shell is tough and the inside is powder, i forgot the name.


This french peanut is growing into the ground so i was just going to cut the pot and leave it alone, think it will produce in such a tight space right next to my magnolia tree?



This avocado seedling looks like its throwing out a flower, anyone know what its doing?



Updates on some trees

Purple forest guava produced 2 fruit, pretty stoked



My Kepel tree from Excalibur i picked up last year didn't look to good when i picked it up, it was in a perforated 7 gal pot and around 8 feet tall so it was a bit neglected being a long taproot tree. It lost all its leaves when i transplanted it and cut the pot from the roots and i didn't know if it was going to make it, I put it into the richest soil i had and added every microbe and bacteria to it, 8 months later it started growing new growth but all the leaves kept dying and falling off, its doing great now and exploding with new growth

When it lost its leaves




its crooked in the pot from wind, didnt stake it but i didn't want to mess with it so i leaned it against my fence



Ilama is fruiting again, hopefully it will produce a mature fruit, last couple years the fruit kept falling off. Its in a 45g pot


Geffner Atemoya is fruiting for the first time


Surinam cherry decided to fruit also for the first time, trees about 5 or 6 years old, Their pretty good, I also saw a black surinam cherry on a 2 year old plant, it didn't fully develop and was musky.




My Jamaican cherry is really starting to produce heavy, the fruit is so good, im going to try and make juice.
Ive been picking this amount daily for the past couple weeks


I bought a noni tree a couple months ago around 8 feet tall, Produced its first fruit and i have to say it really does smell like stinky cheese, Didn't eat it yet, just savoring the smell



a bunch of plants are flowering like acerola, peanut butter fruit (B. armeniaca), jackfruit which has fruit now forming, random guavas and passionfruit, a bunch of citrus is flowering and fruiting, papayas, bananas, various eugenia, some inga trees, candle stick tree, annatto, sapodilla (molix), Guarana and a few others. Im stoked

My neighbor brought me this fruit from another neighbors trees, it taste like an orange/lemon mixed with grass, not the best fruit but maybe it can be improved.

Curious what's going on, it looked fine until a month ago when leaves started falling off the top branches and some burning and yellowing showed but Most the leaves look great. Haven't done anything different so figured i would seek help. Just watered it with micros, kelp, humic acids and yucca extract so it would help the nutrients absorb better.











Also the tree is growing mostly to one side which was facing the sun, how should i balance it out with trimming or will it balance out on its own.

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Just got this one to sprout, it looked dead because it sprouts black. Seeds from Fruitlovers.





Anyone growing this one, i have no idea what the fruit taste like, anyone try it before.

I can't find much info on this species, anyone have experience with this plant. What are the growth characteristics? do they like sun or shade? water thirsty or can it stand drought? anything to know more about this tree.

Are any of these salaks dioecious

Pondoh
Gading
Gula Pasir
Bali
Madu

Im ordering 20 Cu.yards of a custom soil blend and i just wanted to get opinions from the professionals if it will be a good neutral soil for a variety of trees.

It consists of 30% peat moss, 50% 3/8 inch pine bark, and 20% cedar sawdust. PH 6.0.

What do you think, it will be used in pots from 1 gallon to 20 gallon and the remaining will be thrown in my yard.

I have a great spot for my kepel tree but its 7 feet from a magnolia tree, is that too close. The magnolia is trimmed straight up so its like a canopy tree completely open. Just making sure before a plant the kepel, anyone know if it will be fine

Ive been seeing a bunch about all the new mango's coming out but haven't seen as much talked about the old school original mango's, maybe they are talked about but im not too familiar with all the mango's out there and when they were developed, so i wanted to dedicate a thread on what were some of the best mango's of the 19th and 20th century or earlier as far as overall taste. I know its a hard question to agree on a good taste but im looking to add some of the original mango strains to my collection and im wondering which were highly sought after.

Also to be precise what time of the year they come out, how long they hold on the trees and how long they last after being picked.

My pickering is flowering, should i cut them off or do you think it would be able to hold a fruit or 2



The top ones i believe would be capable of holding a fruit or 2

I think im going to cut these flowers off, doesn't seem strong enough

I have 15 species of artocarpus growing and im planting them in a group, I was wondering if there could be a chance of cross pollination between varieties as in Pedalai (Artocarpus sericicarpus) pollinating Mentawak (Artocarpus anisophyllus) or Monkey Jack (Artocarpus rigidus) or any other mix and match to hybrid the fruit or seeds? any possibility of hybridization with this family?