The Tropical Fruit Forum

I'll be in Myanmar for work for about a week or so and I am looking for some recommendations for interesting fruit to try.

I lived in Thailand for a couple of years, so in general I am familiar with fruit in southeast asia, but its been a while since I've been there and I am excited to see what has changed and if there is anything new to try.

Thanks in advance!

Ryan

A regular fluorescent shop light will work well for seedlings . You just need to keep the plants as close to the bulbs as you can. I use one for growing seedlings with good results. Just rig up an easy way to move the lights or the plants.

Good luck and keep up the good work

I'm not sure. A friend is there and he asked what it was. I am usually pretty good at id ing but I cant figure this one out... I'll look into apocynaceae

Those red plants do not look like sunflowers. I think if you let them grow out you will find they are amaranth or related

I have done tissue culture on many plants and it can be challenging. With some plants it does not make sense to do unless you have a specific need (slow to propagate by other methods, etc) but it can be a way to very quickly get more plants than you know what to do with, if you are not equipped to take them all the way back into dirt it won't matter

in my experience with papaya, once we had plants in the field they actually fruited more quickly and much lower to the ground than our seed grown plants.

But as has been said, every plant is different

Jon Verdick who runs figs4fun is definitely open to people coming to visit. He has a lot more than just fits too. In my experience most people who are into fruit are more than happy to have looong talks about their obsession while wandering thru the orchard

I speak Thai. I will have a look and try to post a translation when I get a chAnce unless someone beats me to it.

Yep Simon, I planted the seeds. And the internodes on this one are crazily short compared to the other seedlings. It's not just a small tree, but I just don't have the experience with my he's. I've seen quite a few trees, but never grown them, and haven't ever heard of dwarf. If I can figure out the image hosting on the forum I will post a pic or 2

Last year I ate lots of lychees grown by a friend of mine in San Diego. I am a person who has a very hard time throwing away seeds. My wife gives me a hard time about it all the time.....

Anyway, I have read the reports of lychee taking forever to fruit, and they might not be any good, but I planted a bunch anyway and now I have some seedlings going.

One of them is very short with lots of smaller leaves and very short internodes. I am hopeful I have a dwarf which may be able to dwarf varieties grafted onto it. I recently moved to a cold climate and would love a dwarf lychee.

My question is, does anyone know of any dwarf lychees already being grown? Or has anybody seen a seedling like this before? I don't want to lose this seedling, it doesn't look as good as it did when we moved. It's pretty dry and I have it inside, so low light conditions.

Thanks!

Last year I went to a tasting at the south coast research station in Irvine. Most of the fruits tasted similar, but there were definitely a few that stood out above the rest.

I am still waiting for them to release the variety names that went along with the numbers

I think #17 was my favorite, in case anyone has the inside scoop

Leo Manuel in San diego is growing and crossing some dragon fruit. I think his favorite fruit and most impressive to me are the mangoes. Although his lychee is pretty amazing too. But he told me a couple of years ago that dragon fruit has been taking up most if his time.

There is another guy doing a lot of dragon fruit in San diego area too, but I can't remember his name

It's Vascocellea (or Carica, probably depending on who you ask) quercifolia. (Quercus being the genus of oak trees)

I've only seen it once, . But the one I saw had no fruit, but it was a big plant, probably 15 feet tall with multiple stems. This was in Vista, ca.

Nice! Do the fruits taste cinnamony? Like the fruit of curry leaf have a spicy taste?

And are you going to have seeds available?

Thanks and good work