The Tropical Fruit Forum

I've heard mixed things about this fruit's palatability. Has anyone tasted it?

If anyone is interested in rambutan fruit grown in my new orleans green house or seeds or starts let me know. I did veey well this year. All proceeds go to me buying banana plants will also trade pounds 9f fruit or seeds for bannana plants.

Quote from: TonyinCC on July 28, 2021, 07:54:02 AM

This is the second year that I had a crop on Cotton Candy. My tree was planted as a 3 gallon the first year they were available.
Last year I had 13 fruit, 11 of which ripened so unevenly that they were terrible, hard very unripe flesh on about 25 percent of each individual fruit,maybe 25 percent delicious,and overripe mango death on half of each fruit. The two perfect fruit were the best mangoes of the year last year. They had some MBSS and were done by the first week of July last year.
    THIS YEAR, almost no MBSS, the crop was about 40 fruit, picked the first fruit about mid June,about 2 weeks later than last year. Still had uneven ripening on 80 percent of fruit, but not as bad as last year. Maybe 40 percent of the fruit had some uneven ripening but were fully edible and pretty good.  About 20 percent were awesome.
 That still leaves about 40 percent of the fruit that only had some edible portions. A small percentage of fruit cracked after heavy rains. I picked at various stages of ripening and still had uneven ripening issues no matter when they were picked. Tree is still holding about a half dozen fruit now on July 28th.
  Wondering if the uneven ripening will improve as the tree ages or if I should top work the tree this year. Two years in a row it has been on my best AND worst list.....

Just my two cents but I say give it more time.What I really want to know is how is  Little Gem this season. I have four on the tree that I have not picked yet.

Evolutionary biologists, on the other hand, say that it was the extra protein of eating meat that gave homo sapiens the larger brain and higher intelligence.  (But look where that has gotten us!)

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