It's probably behaving just like tomato seed germinating inside a ripe tomato as the seed got tricked into germination due to temperature change or whatever.

Amazing.

How big is your lot for you to plant so many while not seeming overly crowded?

The first thing comes to my mind is passion fruit.  I usually collect the pulps of around 30~50 fruits after their skin turns purple and wrinkly and use only the pulse mode with my juicer.  The Pulse mode would prevent the seeds from being completely crushed to fine sands.  I sift the juice and dilute the residues with water a few times.  The end product is concentrated passion fruit juice.  You can mix it with just about anything such as sugar/honey water, orange juice, apple juice, and etc.

Hi, Dan,

First let me say thanks to your great Pummelo review. I planted an Oro Blanco and a Melogold after reading it.  The Melogold gave me one fruit the whole year which I ate about three week ago.  Oro Blanco, on the other hand, produced about 10 and I ate the first one last weekend (as the skin turns yellow).

My question is that both seemed to be a bit watery and that was before this week's rain.  They even reminded me the taste/texture of Cocktail pummelo.  I knew at least Oro Blanco should have been a bit firmer. 

They are both on dripper running at roughly 3~4 gallon/week.  And since they were both fairly young, I haven't given them any fertilizer yet.  Any idea what I've done wrong? 

I have fuyu with tamopan and honan road grafts.
Tamopan is a large fruit that looks like a hamburger. Astringent though.
I never ate a fruit off the tree. The rodents always get them.

Same problem here but I saved a few with plastic clamshells.  Pretty much all others were eaten by rats at an average rate of two a day until I killed it with a good old fashioned rat trap.  I will take the same measures next year a lot sooner.

Jay

Hi, all,

I am Jay.  I am a retired engineer that have always been interested in gardening.  I slowly got into tropical fruits last year.

I have managed to plant several mangos : Glenn, Pickering, Harvest Moon, Maha Chanok, Okrung, Carrie, St. Maui, Keo Savoy, Peach Cobbler, Lychee, Longan, star fruit, passion fruit, guava, perssimons, papaya, sugar apple, miracle fruit, wax apple, jujube, pakistani mulberry and several other standard backyard fruit trees such as peaches, oranges and grape fruit.

I considered myself an organic farmer but nothing fanatic.  But I do make my own compost and keep several bins of worms.