Hola Felipe, that's a beautiful tree, patience my friend las Canarias weren't built in a day, I have a Canistel tree I planted 35 yrs. ago, and I dint give up on it, after being hit by hard freezes several times, and killed to the ground, it just fruited for the first time this yr.
Saludos
Carlos

My green sapote  took 4.5 year to flower, they were grafted by me as soon as i got scions at that time so it is possible to flower within 4.5 years to grow a two feet tall grafted tree.

Yes, it really exists. Some of my trees   have orange color fruit but the difference between yours and mine is my fruit color from green, yellow to orange.

Quote from: Mike T on September 04, 2014, 05:30:32 PM

That site looks like it may have suppliers around the world who send out seeds on their behalf and I suppose it is based in Thailand.I would be wary and question precocious mangosteens.Under 5 years for any variety unless there are new hybrids being done and tested raises my eyebrows.

Rock it sounds like you really need the large leafed mangosteen and the big fruited borneo type to round out your collection.Those big borneo ones have been a burr under the saddle for me in the last couple of seasons.I have eaten dozens and dozens of kilograms for just a few seeds.

In Brasil have two main areas who produce mangosteen
1- in the North in the state Pará
2 - in northeastern , in south of state Bahia
I buy fresh fruit mangosteen since 2003, in the wholesale marketing, to make seedling,
The fruits from Pará are small and some fruit are rotten inside, some have  fungi in skin, in 10 fruits around 15 viable seeds
The fruits from Bahia are big, the biggest fruits around 180 grams,  all fruits are good, the skin is cleaned,  in 20 fruits perhaps 1 or 2 viable seed
In beginning I thought the climate was the difference, now I know the climate is not the difference

Ricardo, 180g mangosteen, that must be a monster. I have never had so big a fruit like that, it will be great to eat such a big fruit. I remember Mike also has a 200 g  large variety, maybe yours are the same variety.

Rock this seller has all the rights for the precocious mangosteenseeds. You can email them if you like.

http://www.tropical-exotic-seeds-and-plants.com/storefront/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1&zenid=0d452f56b1d9d17eaca42170e87060e6

Bangkok, Thank you for letting me know the source.

Quote from: fruithunter on September 04, 2014, 10:16:58 AM

After buying thousands of mangosteen seeds from many counties, my experiences told me, mangosteen seeds will be easy to get rotted if they are not properly treated. The pulp must be removed,washed by clean water so that they can keep fresh. This is the key.
Look at the photo which shows the fresh well treated seeds. They germinated well, almost 100%

Wow, are all these seeds Masta variety? You cleaned yourself?
I cleaned my mangosteens really well. Scrape thin layer of flesh skin separating from seed with you fingernails, and rub with piece of cloth for extra cleanliness. End result 100% germination. Normally sellers won't do it. Too much hassle.

Part of masta only, those seeds were cleaned by several persons in three days, we used sands that help separate flesh skin from seeds quickly. I agree most seed seller didn't treat the seeds well that I had to did it myself in Malaysia.

After buying thousands of mangosteen seeds from many counties, my experiences told me, mangosteen seeds will be easy to get rotted if they are not properly treated. The pulp must be removed,washed by clean water so that they can keep fresh. This is the key.
Look at the photo which shows the fresh well treated seeds. They germinated well, almost 100%

Quote from: fruithunter on September 04, 2014, 08:50:31 AM

I went to malaysia for one week to seek for some excellent fruit there. For me, It tastes not so juicy as nomal malaysia one but very sweet, the texture is firmer.

Rock for shit & giggle I bought some seeds during the debate on it awhile back.  After two years it did fruit, it taste sweet to the scammer that sold me the seeds.  None of my seeds ever sprout, they rotted quickly Dorgon it!

Can you take the seeds home to Taiwan and grow it and let us know so we can bury this issues of Japanese mangosteen fruiting from seeds in two years to rest so I can bury my tears of being fruit traumatize?

Yes, I took some seeds back. I don't believe they can fruit in two years from seeds but someone told me that grafted one can bear fruit in two years. Let's wait for two years, haha.

Here is some useful info.
http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=4093.msg57567;topicseen#msg57567

Adam, if a healthy two-year rootstock are used, it will take about 3 to 4 yeas to fruit, of course, the larger rootstock for grafting may shorten some time to fruit.

nice pictures Rock,

thanks for sharing...(is the tree grafted?)

Yes I really think its M. oblongata...based on the description of fruit size, and flavor, and appearance of the foliage and the fruits (have an oblong shape near base)...also another feature I notice is the pink coloration of the pulp, which is consistent with the pictures provided by Helton, on his website (his oblongata fruits also have a nice pink coloration)

I will get good pics of my mystery tree today...It is much different.

Yes, they are grafted.

Adam, I took those new growth leaves from small trees which were kept in small containers. The following photos were from  larger trees which have more elongated and darker leaves.
Honestly, these trees were not grown from seeds, I bought them from my friend in taiwan who is not sure what variety it is. I think it is possible M. Oblongata according to the description of the book  Brazilian Fruits & Cultivated Exotics by Harri Lorenzi et al.  The fruit shape, darker color of the leaf and the sour taste are for me associated with M.oblongata.

Quote from: xunxun88 on June 19, 2014, 09:23:36 PM

哇~Rock大
你有種無核荔喔，好吃嗎?自然會豐產嗎?還是要噴一些促進劑?

According to Bing (shiver) translate (which is surprisingly better than google in this instance), this translates to:

Wow ~Rock
You have a seedless Litchi Oh, delicious? do natural high-yield? is to spray a number of Accelerator?

Am I correct in thinking that this translates to:

 You have a seedless litchi? Is it delicious? Is it high-yielding?  Did you have to spray any chemicals?

Wow!!!!!  Completely Correct

Rock,

i'm just curious if you can tell me about the new growth of the Sour jaboticaba....I believe I might have one...

the new growth on my plant is quite fuzzy...but when the leaves mature they are pretty much hairless.

Would you say that yours is the same?

Adam,
Will take a photo of new growth soon.
Here are my old photos. The fruit shape look different from sabara's.  it tastes very sour even if the fruit color turns black but if ripe enough the fruit can also be quite sweet.