The Tropical Fruit Forum

Our Pedalai is growing huge here in Darwin. First fruit at about 6 years in the ground. Same as jack fruit it had male flowers the first year it flowered. Male flowers have a very strong scent. Great looking tree but our hot easterly winds smash the large leaves in the dry season.

My seeds turned up in excellent condition as always Maryoto. Thank you very much. 

My top 5 fruit would be as follows,
Durian, Durian, Durian, Durian and mangosteen.

Gday.
 Can anyone id this mango? There are no ripe fruit on the tree yet so i am not sure of ripe fruit colour. Strange looking raised up nipple where the stork joins the fruit.

Cheers.

I have 2 different types of Dalbergia growing at my place. Seed sourced from Laos.

 Dalbergia cochinchinensis is Mai ka noong
Dalbergia oliveri is mai kam pii

We also have petrocarpus macrocarpas. Mai doo

1 x cochinchinensis species has produced seed. Next year in march or Feb i sould have some seed available.

The only issue i have had with mulching is once you start its hard to stop. The tree roots grow up into the mulch and when the mulch is gone the roots are exposed. Black sapote trees that we have here suffered from this badly.

Gday Maryoto.
 My Mesta seeds have arrived and all in great condition. Seeds are large size which is great. Do Mesta fruit have larger seeds than purple mangosteen? I am very very happy with your efforts to find these seeds for me. Excellent work. Well done.

Pm sent Pak.

The season is just starting in Thailand and Laos. Maybe someone from there can get you some seed.

That's pretty exciting stuff. Be very keen to try a fruit or two.

The temp here rarely gets below 17degrees C. Days are mostly around 32 to 37 degrees C. Its the dry hot mongrel wind we get at this time of the year that tends to knock a lot of the trees etc around. Our Mangosteens do it tough this time of year, we put extra water on them to get them through. We planted some mangosteen trees under black sapote trees because the sapotes grow quickly and produce good shade, this was a mistake because the sapote root system is so much stronger than the mangosteen root system, the mangosteen struggles to get enough water. Nutrients aren't a problem as we feed the mangosteens through their leaves. We are now using banana plants for the shade for our mangosteen trees.

Smooth type rollinia. See the flowers in the pic. This is the same fruit that was in question. There are only 2 fruit on the tree and both of them are smooth skin the same.

The fellow that put me on to the bleach method had some chlorate in the past but has  not been able to source it any more because it is used to make explosives. I cant remember the leaves dropping after i applied the bleach so i might not have put enough on??
Is there any chemical method to get hass avo's to flower in a region that doesnt get cool enough for them to flower?