The Tropical Fruit Forum

Yes it is an amazing place, basically you could stand in a spot that looked similar tens of millions of years ago. The highland rainforests like Mt Lewis are like being in another world.

Have you ever tried preparing cuttings while still attached to the tree.
Pre callusing, trimming off the leaves and wounding and taping up.
Allows the process to start before you remove the cutting.
There is also etiolation, excluding light from the stem to induce roots.
I once wrapped citrus branches with Aluminium foil to try to induce flowering. Instead got a few 1cm roots under the foil.

Chuansa Mangoes are they polyembryonic ? Just wondering, some fruit is locally available.

Chempadak and Marang seeds taste nicer than Jackfruit, sort of sea /crab flavour. Breadnut, the seeded breadfruit is also good. I think Pedali also has nice Marang type flavoured seed, but it has been a while.

I grew native Garcinias in these extra tall Avocado bags. Might need to support the bags until established with a styro lug box.
https://botanyplastics.com.au/product/planter-bags-150mm-dia-x-380mm-high-black-poly-avo-long-pk500/

Oh wow, bots with ChatGPT will be a nightmare.

Yes, and with online home delivery services, they could even order samples of fruit for DNA or flavour profile chemical analysis.

Duckweed is being researched as a food source for Space stations and Space colonisation.

https://youtu.be/Nr4y5a5bUSc
https://phys.org/news/2019-08-duckweed-world.html
Don't think this is Azolla, but still relevant.
Azolla is also being researched as a food source ( back on Earth ).

The fruit will have seeds, once the fruit are available. As these are not wild selected finger limes, but crosses of different red finger lime types to produce " superior types ",
the seed offspring could be variable, at least to the extent of resembling the parent types in various combinations.

There is also a similar sounding type native FNQ type of longan.
"Dimocarpus australianus also known as Australian native "lychee" is a species of trees, closely related to the longan, constituting part of the plant family Sapindaceae.
They are endemic to Cape York Peninsula, Australia. The edible fruit tastes like lychee, sweeter than longan, and occasionally gets described as 'too sweet' in comparison by longan fanciers."

I have found the trees South of Cooktown, fruit are marble sized longans, in clusters, quite nice.

I am not into grafting yet so personally I am looking at something that does it from a seed.

You are best to keep an eye out for fruiting trees around Cairns and the wider area.
If you can recognise the main types, you can recognise any odd type, likely to be seedlings.
Rough Lemons and West Indian Limes are commonly found in the Rainforest.
Citrus inodora is found locally in Cape Trib, Daintree town, Mossman gorge.
I have not been to FNQ for many years, but there were quite a few unusual Citrus around back then, many seedlings.
The PNG types are probably unknown here, but only a boat ride away ?

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=643006094529940&set=pcb.643006631196553
PUNGAPONG SPOTTED IN MASUNGI Phillipines Amorphophallus 'corpse flower'

Not a fruit, but the images are spectacular.

Not sure how this may link in.

"The soil in your garden is paramagnetic. It isn't magnetic, but mildly attracted by a magnet and partially aligns with the earth's magnetic field, making it paramagnetic. Some soils are attracted more than others, and the more paramagnetic your soil is the better."

Volcanic rock crusher dusts have been investigated to increase this property in Agriculture.

I am not sure I would follow conventional science when it dismisses concepts too quickly.
If we look back at Science over the last 200 years, it has evolved greatly, and at any point in time many prevailing concepts have been proved incorrect later on.
Some seem ridiculous now, yet they were mainstream science back then.

My neighbour has a grape farm.
Each row of grapes has a railway line post at each end in the ground ( earthed ?? ) and 3 strands of steel wire, 150 m long between, held up by wooden posts ( insulated ? )
He has 10 acres of this set up, and other neighbours have 5 or 6 strands of wire running between similar set ups. Some have metal star picket stakes instead of wooden posts.
Apart from the grape vines, it kind of sounds like a giant antennae or crystal set. A set of old style telegraph lines ?
Is it possible that this structure is exerting some kind of weak electrical field on the plants ?
I'm not sure either, but the neighbour is certainly under some unusual influence.