The Tropical Fruit Forum

Please inform me if you have seeds for sale thanks 

I harvested this "strange" passion fruit from my vines of the common edulis (red) and flavicarpa (yellow) types.
The fruit looked a little bit weird, oval shape with a hard "carton-like" skin whose colour is something between golden-yellow-lightbrown-pink
Thep pulp was of a yellow-orange colur definitely very sweet with a great flavour.
Unfortunatley I ate everything before deciding to take some pics and maybe save some seeds.
As I noticed wen i cut the fruit, the section shape of the rind was not round but hexagonal.
What variety could it be??

My pomelo is about 1 year old and i transfered it in my garden a couple of months ago.
It's a grafted one, the  famous davao red sweet  on a wild pomelo rootstock.
When the small tree was in its pot, it  looked quite healthy and i had hard time to contain it's growth since it was pushing new leaves most of the time.
when i finally find a good place in my garden and i moved it to its final location i was expecting a vigorous growth but i was disappointed to notice that it never happened. only one bud but quite weak and not the usual deep brilliant green.
About one week ago i noticed some strange "mottling" of the leaves that exhibit some decolored spots both on upper and lower surface.
I examined both sides with a lens but i could'nt find any mites or scritters.
Any suggstions??
Thanks in advance!

Hello!
I've a good and productive annona squamosa tree and i'm thinking to propagate it by air layering (marcotting)
Has anybody any experience with it?

Hello everybody!
For Rambutan lovers, I  have some fresh seeds available.
They are from the same fruits, same tree as last year.
For more information you can check my previous post:

http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=17194.msg217718#msg217718

Just PM if interested.

Thanks! 

my ponderosa lemons are 3 years old and look quite healthy in their pots.
They already started to bear fruits and this made me very happy 





During the last times more mature laves started to show a weird yellowing path





This really puzzled me since i've never seen such a kind of "inverted chlorosis" 

Examining the lower side of the leaves with a magnifying lens i found nothing strange.
What could it be??

Available now fresh  seeds of   Star Apple - Chrysophyllum cainito
They are still inside their fruits,  just harvested.
Origin: Cebu Island - Philippines.
This is an exquisite  variety locally called " Golden Queen"  for its big fruits, whose skin turn from into a ligh golden color at ripeness.
Flesh is  thick, juice is milkish and delicious with excellent flavor. No astringent latex near the skin.

Limited quantity, 2 seed for 1$,  just message me if interested

Available now some  fresh  seeds of   Star Apple - Chrysophyllum cainito
They are still inside their fruits,  just harvested.
Origin: Cebu Island - Philippines.
This is a dark purple variety with big round fruits, thick flesh, abundant milkish delicious juice and  excellent flavor.

Limited quantity, 2 seed for 1$,  just message me if interested!

Hello evereybody!
I live on the island of Cebu - Philippines, just 10°N from the equator and I've several little fruit trees in my garden ( 1-3 years old).
I'm experiencing a terrible attack which is threatening practically all of them.
This year is really hard for plants here.
Because of El-Nino the climate is really crazy. January was raining all the time and since then, until now, we're experiencing several   months of strong drought with unnormally  hot temperatures and sometimes strong wind. Just the end of june and July have been quite normal.
The problem  started with sugarapples and the soursops whose leaves started to crumple and turn irregularly yellow showing dark brown "stains" in the lower side
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Then same destiny for avocado
The upper side of the leaves shows irregular, asymmetric chlorotic areas with a blotchy mosaic appearance.
The lower side loooks "rusty" with tiny brown dots wich merge in bigger, dark brown areas.
The leaves become at first dull green, then bronze-green then yellowish, they look leathery, tend to curl and sometimes fall down.
Growth is stunted and there are no more fresh buds sprouting.







Same destiny for mango.





And finally lemon started to fall sick 






I immediately suspected a mites attack (I know they thrive with hot dry weather) and I even sprayed the small trees with a special miticide but with no effect.
Actually I've never been able to see any of those small scritters examining several leaves with magnifying lens.
All the trees are planted in "holes" properly dug in the local limestone and filled with good soil.
I water them regularly, I remove all weeds which grow around and I fertilize once in a 3 months with a 12-12-12 NPK product and twice a year with a chelated microelement product.
I'm asking anybody who has any idea to help me please for  identifying and fixing my problem.
I thank you very much in advance for any advice or suggestion!

Available now some fresh seeds of Sugar apple - Annona squamosa.
This is a Philippines variety with big fruits, thick flesh surrounding seeds and excellent sweet custard  flavour.
If grown from seeds it can bear fruit  in as fast as one year.
2 seeds for 1$
Message me if interested

I just noticed with pleasure that the 4 fruits that appear at both sides of the headline of our Tropical Fruit Forum are all typical  from the Philippines 

- Mango
- Mangosteen
- Durian
- Rambutan

What a nice coincidence 

Available now some  seeds of Rambutan - Nephelium lappaceum.
They are still inside their fruits,  just harvested.
This variety  is called locally Maharlika and it's appreciated because of fruit flavor and because the flesh separates cleanly from its seed.
Origin: island of Negros - Philippines.
The fruit  flesh is very  juicy with a pleasantly sweet,  non acidic flavour.
1$ each, just message me if interested!