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?

Gday,

 I am lucky enough to work in an area that has plenty of Purple Mangosteen fruit available. Supporting the local people in their small market I have in the past ordered 20kg of mangosteen and eaten them all in a matter of a week or so. I was collecting the seeds to take back to Oz to plant in our garden. This I have done with no issues from customs at the airport as long as they are declared and clean I haven't had any problems. The only issue is that they are normally sprouted quite long by the time I get home and I think this might weaken the seedling but I am not 100% sure about this. Anyhow back to the story, last trip in to work I purchased 6kgs of fruit in Vientiane and ate them upon arrival to site 5 hrs later. I put the seeds in some 2nd hand vermiculite that I had in the cupboard from where I had brought some Z4 abiu seed over for the lads here at work who are mostly slash and burn type rice farmers. I put the seeds back into the cupboard and completely forgot about them. I worked for my roster of 4 weeks and then went on break for 2 weeks back to Oz. When I got back to site next time I found the seeds in the cupboard and they were still alive. See attached pics. The shoots were very long but they were still very much alive. Tough these little buggers!







 I have found that I don't have any issues with mould because we clean the seeds properly as we are eating the fruit. Because we have had so many fruit I have been very rough with the seeds and found that sort of chewing the skin off the seed once the fruit has been eaten off it works the best and you can get quite rough. Sometimes the seed will crack in half but if the complete skin is not removed we have trouble with mould. Take all the brown skin off if possible and just leave the creamy colour seed, put it in a clip lock bag with just a touch of moisture in there and away you go. With this method we have been getting around 90% and more germination of the seeds with no mould issues.

Maher is the smallest variety that I have seen. Fruit is somewhat drier than the Berniker and for my money not as flavoursome. We had 12 or so Maher trees and knocked them down to put some Avo's in but we have kept all our Berniker and Mossman variety trees.

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Luc are you able to send some seeds to Australia? Will they last alright in the cold flight?

I would like some as well please!

Gday.
 We have a couple of Hass Avocado trees growing for 4 years which have never flowered or fruited. We live in the Top End of the Northern Territory Australia which is fairly warm for most of the year. Does anyone know if Hass will fruit in the warmer regions? The trees are very healthy looking and are growing well.

Cheers
GP.

Gday,

 Anyone have any info on Abui air layering or growing from cuttings?

cheers
GP.

Quote from: dingaling on April 14, 2016, 08:53:19 AM

We are about an Hr out of Darwin, very welcome to come and have a gander here if you would like to.

cheers.

Hey Dingaling, I have a son in Darwin, (Johnston) would love to drop in if I get back up there. You must be near Humpty Doo?

Yes we are out past Humpty Doo on the Hwy to Kakadu. Growing Black Sapotes, Sugar Apples, mangosteens and what ever else we can get our hands on. My bother has just started to grow Abui and sugar apples.