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Not sure if the Zill variety "Little Gem" is in Australia or Hawaii , but it seems virtually immune to local anthracnose strains in my location in SW Florida. This year it was very wet at my location during the beginning of Summer and the clusters of fruit that stayed wet for long periods had russeting. It still held a normal crop and internal fruit quality was high despite some fruit becoming almost completely russeted. That would be bad in a commercial sense , but as a home fruit grower, I don't care what it looks like. Little Gem can have very pretty fruit most years here.
Maha Chanok fruit stayed clean. I think that variety is from Thailand. An added bonus with Maha is that it often fruits offseason. Its normal season is June-July here but have had fruit in December, January,March, and April from my trees in addition to the main season. Almost every year I get some offseason fruit but the months vary.
As a side note, Florigon and Duncan trees both died of different fungal diseases twice in my yard.
Gone Troppo,
Of those that Steph mentions,we have Fairchild, M. casturi, and M.odorata. All over 35 years. The kuini is the most disease resistant for us, completely clean fruit,bears well every couple of years, very pretty tree in flower, flowers v.well,with large panicles of red, scented flowers. The casturi should be suitable for you, but it's out of its zone here. (1,000 metres altitude ) Grafted on indica, very healthy tree, but I haven't seen a single flower. Fairchild is a small, healthy,dense
tree,and bears very clean fruit as well. Articles on the internet will tell you that it is from Panama, but David Fairchild collected the seed from fruit he ate in Saigon, and sent them to the U.S. research station in Panama. So it's a Vietnamese cultivar. We have four other Vietnamese cultivars. Fairchild is the most disease resisitant of them. The seeds of Fairchild that I've opened were mainly mono,a couple were poly. Probably safer to graft it. Kuini is poly. I can send
seed of Kuini when it fruits next,or you can collect some scions of them if you're up this way sometime. Fairchild has small fruit,but fibreless and well-flavoured. I like the kuini as well, but probably too strong-flavoured for some.
I'm sure durian is king for some people. But for most durian lovers it's an acquired taste, acquired in one's youth. To me it's not really a fruit. More like a cross between fruit, vegetable, meat, and cheese or whatever you might taste, smell, or feel. Nothing that smells that bad can be king outside of it's natural range where people grow up eating it. Face it durian lovers, your favorite fruit has serious issues for many people.
And based on my experience stone fruits beat mango. But at least mango is a real fruit that tastes like a fruit, can be delicious, and has no really offensive characteristics like durian. Mango is a mess to eat, has fiber, and is much more difficult to pick and ripen properly than stone fruit.
Going strictly on taste from what I've eaten it's the stone fruits I listed above. But hey this is difficult. I took me 35 years to figure out how to grow the best stone fruit.
I will play, this needs to be in tiers for me.
Tier 1 : Durian
Tier 2: Mangosteen, Rambutan, duku langsat, Mango, Achacha, abiu
Tier 3: Sapodilla, sugar apples, citrus, rollinia, plus many others
Wow, Durian is in your top tier. I am not even thinking of tasting it ( I am obviously novice on this fruit.)
I haven't heard some of your fruits such as duku langsat, Achacha, abiu, rollinia.
Sounds like good conditions. Not too sure about the Daintree getting almost 4m by now! That’s kind of extreme, hope that doesn’t happen here.
Our rainfall ranges from 2m-5.5m but averages more like 3.5 probably.
Peter
Gone Tropo made me curious so I just measured a few of my trees. P88 is about 253 cm high after 1 year in the ground. PK is 207cm high, I believe I planted it shortly after the P88. P88 is the highest but the PK has better developed laterals. Best seedling from the 2022 season is 177cm high (seed collected in late March, was an excellent fruit but variety/source is unknown).
That’s great that you have a kradomthong that is growing so well. That’s the first grafted durian that came into production for me. The fruit is good but also very important is the fact that it has proven itself to be very self fertile to the point of breaking branches it was so overloaded with fruit on a friends farm that had no other flowering durians anywhere nearby.
Peter
