The Tropical Fruit Forum

Tongmuan...yeah...I saw the new ads for more cherapu.  None of these folks know the proper way to ship fruit and I agree, all the banging around in the box is most likely the main culprit wit the latex.  The pics also showed a lot of unripened fruit being shipped.  For these reasons I opted not to order another box.

Brandon...yeah, got gobs and gobs of seeds!

Peter and Ben...I thought the main season is past already???  I see some pics of cool fruits still being harvested though.  Maybe we should organize a trip for next year???  I'm sure Lindsay could help out.

Tongmuan...With lots and lots of searching, I've found that there are sellers out there offering up some really neat, rare stuff.  Just wish I had room for them all.  Hope the cherapu order works out for you.

Peter...I truly hope that the riper the fruit, the less latex it may have.  Many of these fruits I considered very ripe.  It is possible that the beating the fruit took was somewhat responsible for distributing more latex throughout the flesh.  This experience sure let the wind out of my sails for this fruit.  As good as it is, this amount of latex would just not be tolerable for me.  Eating 1-2 fruits is probably not an issue.  But dang!  Who could sit and eat just 1-2 of these?  I'd have to get a bulk supply of toothbrushes!

Not sure if same guy, but try this link.  It is where we ordered ours.  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100065196382806

Tropical Plantae in PR normally has grafted trees available.  However...they are crazy expensive!  No permits are necessary coming from PR, but phyto certificates are required for certain states.  It is much easier, cheaper, and faster getting something from PR than it is from Hawaii.

So did you give them the proper permits and labels and all that?  5 days is pretty darn good all things considering.  I'd have that thing under plastic to bolster the humidity.  You'll have your work cut out for you heading into fall/winter.  Air will be very dry.  Good luck!

Living in Thailand.  The farmers wouldn't even consider shipping outside of the country.  The issues here would be enormous, let alone trying to get fruit into the US.  Just not possible unfortunately.  This would be many years down the road.

    Yeah...buddy....I'm betting that's what he has too!!!  LOL!!!

Similar to how I've been doing my durian grafts.  I take the bark layer off like doing a bud/patch graft and then do an approach graft with the seedling tree.

Yeah, I cringe every time I watch one of these vids.  They do another method called hypocotyl grafting as seen in the first pic.  Pretty wild.  Sometimes they put in multiple scions too.

I've been doing very well with the durian grafting, whereas my mango grafting has sucked! I've been doing my approach grafts for the multiple rootstock grafts differently.  I remove a strip of bark only from the parent tree and then making a normal cut on the seedling.  Nothing to match up and I've had high success this way.  I've tried doing the grafts like most do in the videos...decapitating the seedlings and then doing an approach graft sticking the top of the seedling under a flap of bark.  Not being the most handy and coordinated fella on the planet, I found this method very awkward to with more than one seedling.  I was doing them much lower than you see in the vids and that made the bending and holding in place much more difficult.  Example in last pic.  I did three grafts for each tree.  Of the six, two ended up failing on the same tree.  I replaced them with bark removal approach and both took.  I've been doing this for all the rest now.  I understand that I'm not the first to do this method.
 

Thanks!  Lots of dried, uncured manure in the mounds.  Have to wait until it composts well.  This has been a year-long project.  Patience has been key, but something I greatly lack.  Believe me, I want them planted!  LOL!

Believe it or not, it has been terribly dry here with humidity steadily under 50%.  My durians and pulasan have not been happy at all.  Lots of crisp edges on the leaves.  I upped the spraying and watering, even soaking the grass and ground around the trees hoping to raise the humidity around them.  Seemed to have helped along with some rains finally settling in.  The trees were always putting out some new growth, but not like this.  Hoping to get them into the mounds next month sometime. 

Thank you Brev!  I've been leaning towards those last three.  I agree.  Sweet is good, but it has to have some complexity and excitement!  The Po Pyu Kalay is Lemon Meringue, and I do have this one growing.