Yea it might be a rambutan

Buddy, what potting medium and fertilizers are you using?  Your plant looks to be in great shape.

A mixture of Fox Farm ocean forest soil and Happy frog potting soil, I add Mycelium, mycogrow and azomite and i only fertilize with Mexican bat guano. Also i only water with composted rainwater.

My guarana just started flowering



To revise my earlier posts from last year now i have experience growing it, I planted it in 6.0ph soil and it grew slow at first but then just took off, I fertilize it with happy frog acid lovers just to give it that little lower PH. Its planted where it receives full sun most the day with periods of shade from taller trees throughout. I don't water it, its fine between rain cycles. Its seen down to 40F with hardly any signs of stress, so as they get older just like any tropical plant it can tolerate more cold. So this is my observations, also nothing bothers it, so its a tough easy plant to grow.

Here's a picture of mine taking off, i planted it in march as a few foot long bush wrapped around a wooden trellis, now its extending over 10 feet and rapidly growing. its more of a vine than bush but if it doesn't have anything to grow on it just climbs on itself forming a sort of bush.

I am still unsure if you can eat it raw, also does anyone know if the red pulp around the seed can be eaten or has any use?

I left it out almost all winter last year just brought it in the garage when it started to get around 40F, still haven't set up my greenhouse, no need yet, just put a humidity bag over it when the humidity drops but its been pretty hardy in the cold (as low as 43F). I just have a portable quick setup greenhouse for when i plant it.

buddy, progress?

Quote from: buddyguygreen on February 25, 2016, 06:34:20 PM

Quote from: skhan on February 25, 2016, 02:25:37 PM

You can also try heaps of mulch a few few away from the tree and bananas or other plants as wind breaks

Hopefully the decomposing mulch will be able to give you some extra heat.

Thats exactly what im going to do, i put half an oak tree in the ground with a bunch of leaves and im going to fill the last bit all with mulch and mulch around the perimeter. I have bananas, cabelluda, vexator, and surinam cherry as a protector around also with passion fruit growing thick along the fence.

Quote from: fruitlovers on February 25, 2016, 05:06:36 PM

Do you have limestone soil? If so you might want to line that hole so that the roots don't go into the limestone. I've heard that once the roots touch the limestone the tree dies.
I admire all your hard work for 4 days digging that hole. Personally i would have hired a backhoe and saved my back. 
I think somebody soon will be able to fruit durian in Florida. The real important question will be if the fruit can go all the way to maturity without aborting? And even if it does if it has any good flavor? But you never know until you try.

The limestone is over 120 feet down so i think i'll be good 

The digging was the fun part, i wanted to go further but at 16 feet it started to cave in which was a bit sketchy, so after it settled it measured at 13 feet so i figured it was enough getting out was the hard part, Lived up to the meaning "digging yourself in a hole you can't get out of".

Figured if i did everything the best i can than I have the best possible chance.

Have the hole almost done, just need to add the soil on top but im going to give it another year to compost before i do that. The plants are growing good, i won't be planting them until their 8 feet tall, so just keeping them in pots for the next couple years.

I broke the taproot of one of my bigger trees moving the pot and now another tree is coming up from the broken taproot.

Well done, Thats a whole meal 

Good luck with it

Contact Adam (FlyingFoxFruits) im sure he has seedlings in stock. Also the seeds from fruitlovers are Peruvian sourced which is where camu camu was supposed to originate, seeds are very fresh, all mine are sprouting now.

Study up on Photoperiodism

Your right Mike they were quadrangularis seeds, longest ive had other passion fruit species for that sprouted was around 3 months. I tried germinating all the passion fruit seeds from trade winds and i usually get around 30%-50% to germinate, I have had some with no germination but it depends how long they have been available on the site, try to buy them as soon as their restocked on the site.

I just got rid of all my scale and white fly on a bunch of guavas, caimito, artocarpus, and Pouteria by spraying the whole tree everyday for a week with a strong neem oil and Dr.bronners soap solution. Did the job great with no burning or any problems at all.

Good job bro, how old is the tree from grafting