Guessing 3 years // planrs 6' tall

At 6 foot I'm guessing your plants are a lot more than 3 years old.

Got my seeds today , a 6 months germination time was mentioned ...

The way things are going now , two 7.1 quakes in less than a month in Mexico , powerful hurricanes one after another , not even wanna mention the political situation , N. Korea etc....I will still plant the seeds that is if Nibiru doesn't wipe us out on September 23 2017...lol...

Oscar , you mentioned ' cooking to be safe ' in an other post about Cut Nut ....why is that ?

So who else started these from seed and how long did they take to sprout ?

Don't remember that. I ate my cut nuts raw and they are delicious that way. Maybe you confused with another type of nut?

Quote from: DurianLover on September 16, 2017, 05:06:13 AM

Yes, for sure. But you need higher elevations. Starting points somewhere 600-700 meters  in tropics far from equator and roughly 1200 meters close to equator like Southern Vietnam. I've been having local Sri Lankan cherimoyas this entire past week even though we are clearly deep in tropics. Main production areas here at 2000 meters. Roughly 6000 feet elevation.

I wan to try to grow cherimoya in Ho Chi Minh city in a rural area call cu chi.  Please let me know if there are certain variety that can tolerate heat and rainy season.

No there is not. Try growing atemoyas instead. They are tropical.

I've seen a few posts from Australia saying it is everbearing, sweet, and much better than Sao Manilla, etc.

Do you guys have any info on Krasuey's Sapodilla?  Anybody have it?



-Sonny

I have it. No Krasuey is not everbearing, at least not here. I would not say it is much better than Sao Manila.

With that heavy fruit on would have even been more likely to snap and do more extensive damage. So smart to remove it. (I wonder how many people will name their new babies Irma?  )
That is an unusual shaped jackfruit. Most here are elongated in shape.

Thanks i amjust surprised as the trees  barley  6 foot

Congrats! What area of Maui are you in?

Yes, it's nice when your hybridization project isn't starting from scratch.  You are fortunate to have that material.
Nice if it is stable from seed but for asexual propagation it doesn't matter.
We always talk about Thai and Malaysian selections, what about quality varieties of Indonesian origin?
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I believe Indonesia shares a lot of the same varieties as those in Malaysia. The island of Borneo is belonging part of it to Indonesia (Kalimantan) and the other part to Malaysia. I know that some of the Indonesian vendors go to Malaysian parts also to collect seeds.

Green sapote tastes very similar to mamey. But worth growing because some like green sapote even better, and also each will have different seasons. But green sapote from seed can take a very long time to fruit.

Great pics, thanks Oscar. I would be very keen to taste that chanee seedling. We're seeing the same phenomenon in Hakalau this year, but I'm skeptical of the effect of fertilizing in your case, because neither of the two durian orchards I work for have been fertilized at all in the past 2 years and there are hundreds of fruits on the trees and 3 successive seasons at the same time--big fruits, small fruits, zillions of flowers. These are mostly gumpun/monthong fruits, maybe some chanee. So far only premature drops, no fruits ready to eat yet. I've had a few durians of smaller types from other places this season that are apparently producing in great abundance, like D132 and Pohakulani, Tomorrow I will be tasting a "sulok sionggong" durian for the first time, a hybrid of D. zibethinus and D. graveolens grafted by David Frenz. The spelling and name is dubious. The tree is fairly young, about 6 years I think, and flowered for the first time this year. Likewise for a puangmani tree, which flowered in the 2nd season. It's a great year for some of the more obscure durian varieties to finally fruit. There are so many durian growers around here I'm having trouble keeping track of what's in season.

By the way, does anyone know if it's a problem for pollen to get wet while collecting? I was collecting pollen to pollinate more puangmani earlier this evening and it was a bit drizzly. We put the flowers in ziploc bags and I hope they don't mold before tomorrow afternoon. We've been lucky to catch dry weather collecting pollen previously.

Ok, you're skeptical of the effect of fertilizer. And i can't prove that it's what made the difference. But consider this mine have been fruiting for a whole month now, and you say you have only seen aborted fruit so far? Location is probably not a factor as i'm very close to Peepekeo and Hakalau. Are the places you're talking about close to sea level?

That's awesome Oscar! I love durians but the only good ones we get here are the Mao Shan King from Malaysia which are very expensive. Just wondering, can the Durians be shipped to the mainland? Congratulations on the magnificent harvest!

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Yes they can be shipped to the mainland, but it's hard to find a courier that would want to deal with the smell. Also the demand is much larger than the supply right in Hawaii, so why would anyone to go through the hassle of shipping them?

Very nice fruits Oscar, you are so Lucky! 😄 what kind of fertilize you use and how often?

Fertilizer is very expensive here, so i am usually very stingy with it. But this year i splurged and it paid off. I fertilized them when they just started to form buds with 0-0-50 and a concentrated nitrogen fertilizer 21-0-0. Two months later i repeated again and they exploded with flowers. Some of the branches look like giant jaboticabas, with flowers all up and down and around all the branches. The ground is totally littered with dropped flower petals. 

Excellent update and pics.  How do you rate each fruit?

My favorites are the small seedling Chanees. They have a rich butterscotch flavor and nice dark golden flesh. Also very easy to sell as they are small (1-3 pounds) so not so expensive for the customer. The grafted Chanee comes in second, nice taste but not as rich. The sea urchin durian (oxleyanus) comes in third. Has a very nice taste, no odor, but.very sharp spines, hard to open, and the fruits are a lot smaller. Also the fruit ripens and spoils very fast. The Monthong comes in last. Very huge fruits (10 to 25 pounds), but the texture of this particular tree is kind of stringy. Pulp is whitish and not as rich as the Chanees. Harder to sell because just one fruit is very expensive for customer.