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.