The Tropical Fruit Forum

It seems to be suffering from lack of nutrition, and possibly drainage issues.if you’re making and using your own soil mix you have to include some sort of fertilizer, compost and/ or earthworm castings ie Something that will feed the plant. Perlite, Peat moss and sand are practically inert meaning they won’t supply the necessary nutrients to the plant.

Way cool, Can you describe the flavor on the different annonas?

Asparagus anyone?



Ceci Love getting weird. Cut some budwood in summer for a friend (didn't take), but I am rewarded with a panicle cluster.

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CL seems to be a little challenging for grafts to take for some reason. I took about 6 or so , thought for sure they were going to take and ended up only getting 1/6

That is graveolens. Hybrids are really the best, graveolens have a little amount of flesh, same with dulcis, which has red exterior. I’ve heard it is durio season now in Sabah,  graveolens can also take many years to fruit (20+)

Sun-tan lotion coconut flavor? not sure I would like it. Glad to see it’s non-gmo  but I wonder what’s holding them back from releasing a truly white fleshed pine

There’s an old American persimmon tree at Sacramento capitol arboretum as well that might be going off right now. Massive tree

it is too late for paw paw in Pa now. Usually ripe in September. There is a paw paw fest in York county every year it’s in mid Sept. https://hornfarmcenter.org/pawpawfest/

Ugni molinae (says Google image capture)

I don’t think putting your message in caps is gonna increase your chances of getting it

Really wish we could change the name cac to something else. It literally translates to “cock” in Vietnamese.

Im about to attempt my first durian grafts here pretty soon from a seedling tree In south Kona , elevation about 1,000 feet.

Here is a picture of the fruit from the tree which is probably around 25 years old. The tree is almost done fruiting now but it dropped around 100 fruits this season. About 8 a day during its peak of 2 or so weeks. It’s interesting that just now trees on the other side of the island have started to flower and fruit as the season here comes to an end.

Thanks everyone for the replies. I like the idea of using coco fiber and the plants I bet would like that. My goals are not to grow rambutan in maturity in pots but even to keep them happy in nursery pots until they get planted in the ground or are sold. Last year I planted well over 100 and most died. The round I planted this year are starting to sprout and thinking i will transplant into a locally sourced mix of the following - 1 parts cinder, 1 part potting soil and 1 part compost.

I Went to Tenom agricultural park with high hopes during durian season that it might be ripe. There was only one green fruit on one of the trees. I know joe Hewitt fruited here on big island so hoping I will get to try it In the near future. The seeds must be pretty tiny. Can they really stay viable for longer than 5 days?