The Tropical Fruit Forum

You could air layer the top off of that. I have never ever seen a longan grow like that. Is it a seedling? If it is a named cultivar longan you may be better off getting the new air layer going and planting it because that thing's roots are going to be swirling around into a death spiral.

I would bust up as much of the soil as you can and plant on a very large enriched mound. After that I would mulch the bejeezus out of it with free tree pruner mulch. When you plant make sure you open up and prune out and circling roots. I am a huge fan of charged biochar and endomycorrhizal inoculants.

I took these this morning. It is a little unruly but I'm growing out the budwood from the different grafts. The main skeleton is Gefner.





@Guanabanus That sounds like a good setup you have there. I don't treat for termites besides beneficial nematodes at the moment. Once I rip everything out and fix the drainage and muck swamp bed my house is built on, there will be plenty of heavily mulched extra large mounds with trees growing out the them.

This is the Hasya.

I have what started off as a Gefner on a trellis (espalier). I think I am up to 9 grafts on it now since I was using it to park budwood until my rootstocks catch up. I'll take a picture soon and post it here. My espaliered Hasya sapodilla just set it's first fruit and hopefully my black sapote will hold some fruit this time around as well.

This is the black sapote and you can see the Hasya behind it.


I am in the process of ripping everything up and redoing my entire yard and I am going to put in some tatura trellises to experiment with which are also very popular in Australia.

I had Viente Cohol that would fruit really fast. I'm not sure how idiot proof they are since they were growing in an enriched, well mulched and well maintained banana circle with a compost pit in the the middle. They are supposed to be one of the fastest fruiting. It wasn't my favorite tasting banana so I pulled it.

Can you grow Mangosteens in Florida 9B??

Quote from: jegpg1 on October 14, 2016, 08:55:26 PM

Hello guys, I am going to order a mangosteen plant from Hulabrothers for $95.95 with shipping. They have it at $150 for two with shipping. My question is, anyone wants to do it and save? It will be 75 each. They say the tree is > 36 inches on their website. Anyone near Punta Gorda or Port Charlotte?

Yes. You can grow Mangosteens in Antarctica.

I bought some of these and I am waiting to see if the seeds sprout. I believe they grow the "Cumbe" cultivar down there for import. I am not sure how these are treated before they get here. One of the produce places around me last year had some from California and I ended up getting some nice viable seeds and ok fruit. Even at $9.99 a pound I find them to be worth it just because I can use the rootstock. I have only had one out of three ripen to be decently edible. One of them didn't even have fully developed seeds. 

OMG. Amazing. I need this.

On his website it says that he can't ship Durio seeds to California. I have never looked into that. I can only imagine no seeds/no fruit. I got some monthong from Thailand last time I was out in the East Bay and it was delicious. The seeds were viable as well. I like them ripe and creamy. 

These fruits are so variable. Any chance these are from the same gene pool as that tree with gigantic flowers I saw on your periscope? That tree looked awesome.

Hi Sleepdoc. How are these Jackfruit coming along? I would love to buy seeds if you will have them available.

These are the famous $80 Irwin mangos that are growing in snow covered Japan. They have scheduled root pruning they control the fruiting schedule inside the greenhouses. Let me find the pdf on this and I will post it. So so good.

I thought it would be a really helpful thread. There are plenty of heavy duty tropical fruit enthusiasts here and I'm sure we all have a few special items that work really well or use every day.

I'll start with this badboy. I have a one man edible landscape business and I am a huge proponent of free trimmer mulch. I have moved many many many truckloads and this helps it fly along.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/True-Temper-10-cu-ft-Poly-Wheelbarrow-BP10/204753488

I haven't tried this thing but Jeff (CookieMonster) mentioned it in another thread recently and the reviews are great. I'm sure I'll be ordering one of these soon.

https://www.amazon.com/Rugged-Ranch-Products-SQRTO-Squirrelinator/dp/B0046VJ8RU

This is my favorite shovel EVER. It wasn't too expensive either.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002YOTA7E/ref=s9_acsd_al_bw_c_x_1

Their rake is great as well.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002Z8N7SM/ref=s9_acsd_al_bw_c_x_3

I'm a firm believer in buying quality when it is something that will save time and headaches on a regular basis. 

I need to find a new source for heavy work gloves for digging and forking mulch so if anyone has a favorite type that would be helpful.

This is off topic but this is so good I might as well throw it in here. Everybody sleeps, especially after long days of digging and mulching. I recently bought a mattress for the first time in 20 years and this thing is absolutely amazing. The girlfriend and the cat LOVE it as well.

www.onpurple.com

Every household, especially with lots of fruit, should own a Vitamix as well. My parents had a Blendtec and the Vitamix is better IMO.

I have no affiliation with any of these companies. I use all of these daily, except for the squirrel trap, some for many many years. Worth every penny in my opinion.