The Tropical Fruit Forum

Engkalak replaces it's leaves often..and grows fast. Mine always looked like yours.

I 've collected all those varieties and grew them..

Actually all varieties can be very sweet and all can be very watery/bland. It all depends on growing conditions and the amount of chemicals used to keep the bugs at bay.

I culled all those tree's though because they had too many issues...even netting every single fruit wasn't good enough, then the fruit got fungus and developed bad spots.

But the best wax apple i ever ate came from my own tree, it was a rainbow variety with large pits and i gave it a lot of potassium. It was really sweet like a very good apple.

These mango's can be huge, easy 1 kg a piece...i love them.

Hello,
does anyone know which cultivars of durian are able to self pollinate? I read an short article where Chanee is described as 100% self sterile, but I couldn't find any further information on that topic.

Mongthong also isn't good in pollinating its own variety, best is to plant different varieties and make sure they are not in compost/organic soil and on a sloping ground.

My mongthong makes small fruits which tend to drop at egg size...don't know if that is a pollination issue but it's sad to see.

Do they really eat the leaves or just bite them off the stalk? That's what we have, leavecutters on the young mangoleaves but they do it in daytime.

Other fruittree's also get attacked at night in my garden, brown beetles at night who are attracted by light it seems.

I put fruitbags on young leaves, or spray with chili/garlic mix...those brown beetles are grubs who live underground and eat roots.

Don't believe what they say, if you think that it's possible then go for it...buy 500 liter pot, a grafted avocado and try it..

I have a fruiting pedalai in a 200 liter pot, they also said that it would not be possible, it took 5-6 years.

I keep my grafted mongthong at about 3 meters tall. When i cut the stem i even sealed the cut but now the top end of the stem is rotting and bark is coming of. The branches underneath are still healthy though. I keep it at this size since 3-4 years now and it seems to be working.

According to youtube video comments Jackfruit is King over Durian but then I suspect the reason being many have yet to try Durian or a Excellent variety of Durian that would make them rate it higher.

Well according to Thai marketprices for Durian and Jackfruit the Durian is the absolute winner with 500us$ for a top notch durian versus maybe 50us$ for the best jackfruit.

And for jackfruit most vendors have inferiour fruit for sale, they don't taste anything like the best ones but they all are the same price. I only eat jackfruit from 1 vendor who always has excellent quality or she won't even sell jackfruit. No idea why this vendor always has far better fruit than all the other ones, they might have their own orchard.

And nope, we don't need the whole world to eat jackfruit or durian. Since Thailand exports durians the prices are higher and the fruits smaller. Now it's almost impossible to find a big durian in Thailand cause the chinese have bought ALL the big ones. Same goes for mangosteen.

And for durian it freezes very well, they should just blend the durian flesh, put it in icecream bowls and export it. That's how i make durian icecream, i buy the soft ones (which the Thai don't like) for half price and blend them all with a tiny bit of salt, nothing else. That's perfect icecream and tastes exactly the same as the overripe durians..mind you, for a Thai EVERY tree fallen durian is overripe, they like them a tiny bit underripe while they are still crunchy on the outside and soft inside.

The subject was not enough durian discussion. There we go again, loads of talk about frozen durian....

I have 1 mongthong tree in my garden which grows very well, doesn't fruit well though. The strange thing is that i've had 10 more grafted duriantree's in my garden but they ALL DIED..No matter which variety i planted they just died in full soil. They got sunprotection, elevated soil, fertilizers and sprays but just wouldn't do it. I tried thai varieties, malaysian varieties, they all started to look bad within weeks and never recovered.

Maybe the problem was organic compost mixed in the soil. But my big tree also grows in that.

So if it's even  hard to grow durian at my place it must be even harder in other countries/climates. I call our climate ultra-tropical since temps are always above 15 celcius, day and night.

Yes i'm tired of all the mango talk ...

We can smell the flowers from 10 meters away, what a nice strong scent at night. We have plenty scenting tree's like plumeria and so but durian beats them all.

Thanks everyone replied.

Tell us what you think of the fruit, is it better than a normal sugar apple? I think it tastes the same.