selling fresh kwai muk seed - USA

[monkeyfish]

Selling fresh kwai muk seeds, only to the 50 states plus territories.


   10 seeds - $10
   30 seeds - $25 
   60 seeds - $45 
   100 seeds - $65
   150 seeds - $85
   200 seeds - $100


Choose first-class shipping in a padded mailer for $4, or priority box for $8.

Seeds will be removed from ripe fruits, cleaned, packed in moist, sterile peat moss, and shipped the same day.

Payment via paypal. PM to make arrangements.



Not sure if this is A. hypargyraeus or A. lingnanensis, or if there are two species. If one grows larger than the other, this is it.

To confuse matters, I also see references to Artocarpus nitidus subspecies lingnanensis. That seems to be something other.

Comments and questions always welcome.

[palologrower]

pictures?  how's the taste of the fruit from this tree?

[monkeyfish]

Palologrower, yes, I will post some photos later today.

Flavor is sweet but tangy, most reminiscent of apricot I guess.

[monkeyfish]

A few pictures:

A picture I just made with my webcam showing a ripe fruit cut in half and a green one not cut.



I was reading that green ones will ripen in a few days, I have doubts, but its worth a try.

Here are two others from a couple years ago,

one showing the tree trunk, the bottle cap is about four feet up

https://postimg.cc/Bj6wd1nv

and one showing fruits and leaves in situ

https://postimg.cc/v4BWQrnp

Hopefully you can see those and get some idea.

[Jabba The Hutt]

How long from seed to fruit would you say?

[monkeyfish]

Conditions are a major factor with this one, that's my sense of it, best case scenario, four or five years.  I think they don't like pots because the taproot develops quickly.  Here is a seedling I plucked from the ground:



This was at least two years old, but growing in dense shade, barely surviving. For whatever that's worth.

[Rex Begonias]

Any general tips on growing conditions?

Conditions are a major factor with this one, that's my sense of it, best case scenario, four or five years.  I think they don't like pots because the taproot develops quickly.  Here is a seedling I plucked from the ground:



This was at least two years old, but growing in dense shade, barely surviving. For whatever that's worth.

[posci35]

sweet or sour?

[monkeyfish]

Rex, I can only suggest a tall narrow pot for sprouting the seeds, and planting them out before the tap root gets cramped. To prune the root might yield interesting results, but I have no experience with that.

Posci, the ripe fruits are not sour,  I had one this morning before coffee, sweet and juicy, flavor of grape at first, had to move quickly for a paper towel, then the zing or the zest or whatever it is, just like a good peach or mango, the sweetness hits you first, then the brighter flavors, then the deeper flavors.

Then chewy, different than chewy sugr apple, but similar.

[Jabba The Hutt]

Would you happen to have any seedlings

[monkeyfish]

I do plan to offer seedlings at some point. The problem is that the
seedlings I have are growing densely packed in an area beneath the
mother tree, and there is no way to dig one without causing damage to
others. The only effective plan I've come up with would be to dig a
pit next to the area and then use water pressure to erode the side
wall into their area and release them en masse. I cannot very well
sell one tree today and another tomorrow and two next week that way,
so I think I need to have a pre-sale, take all the orders and collect
all the monies, then close the sale and dig the pit, free the required
number of seedlings and ship them out to the buyers. Its just that
now, with the heat and the mosquitos, its too much of an undertaking
for me. If all goes well, I would expect to do be able that next
spring, but no promises. Whether you wait for that, or try your luck
with seeds now, or both or neither, you decide, I don't know what to
suggest for you.

About the seedling in the photo, I was telling my friend that I should
sell the seedlings, but the problem was getting them out of the ground
 because of the taproot.  So he grasped one by the base of the stem
and snapped it out of the ground in order to see the taproot.  So he
proved it was possible to extricate one without damaging others,  but
the damage to the one was likely substantial.  The taproot itself was
intact, but the network of finer roothairs was left behind.  That
plant may have recovered, but I would not sell trees in that
condition.

So you know I am not kidding about densely packed, there is a photo I took last year:

[Rex Begonias]

Holy moley!!!  You weren’t kidding.

[monkeyfish]

For those interested, the green fruit pictured did turn yellow with some brown, just setting on the table.  Salmon colored flesh similar to ripe, slightly less sweet, very little juice, then the familiar tanginess was short lived.  The complexity of flavor was lacking, next I noticed the texture was different, more stringy and a bit pasty, which upon further chewing yielded a bitter aftertaste, something I never experienced with tree-ripened fruit. My conclusion is that green-picked fruits allowed to ripen are much inferior. The tree-ripened fruits are so soft and delicate, I expect that this has little potential as a commercial crop, and will likely never be seen at the farmers' market or produce stand.

[Jabba The Hutt]

Got my seeds yesterday, very nicely packaged and fast shipping, Thank you Monkey!!!

[Rex Begonias]

Got my seeds yesterday, very nicely packaged and fast shipping, Thank you Monkey!!!

Ditto, thank you!

[John Travis]

Seeds arrived in good shape! Thanks!