The Tropical Fruit Forum

Quote from: NewGen on April 02, 2018, 09:00:16 PM

It's a Bombay mango. Height is about 6.5 feet from the ground. If pugging is recommended, about what height?
Thanks!

Since it's a Bombay, I would pug it about 3 ft tall then top work it with a good variety.

Lol

Landscaping companies or locally owned nurseries (if you can actually find one anymore) have always worked for me. The one near me charges $1 a pot and has stacks and stacks of them.

Looking good for me so far up in Ocala. Lychees are popping bloom spikes all over. Hopefully I’ll dodge a hard freeze this year since they are way to big to try to cover at this point. Only bad thing about this year is the Sri Lankan weevils have made it up here  so my lychees that have always looked flawless now have the ugly chewed up leaves.

You’re not going to find any named varieties in Fl. In Puerto Rico there are grafted trees but finding out which variety they are is pretty impossible. Especially after the hurricane, who knows how many even still exist. Budwood from Hawaii is pretty much a waste of time and money. By the time it arrives to Florida it is trash even with express mail.

I bought a named variety from Frankie’s in Hawaii a couple years ago. Paid an insane price and it was sickly and almost dead on arrival. Died within a couple weeks. I have a nice healthy grafted tree from PR but it is not a named variety and still very small. Hawaii is basically the only source in the US for a true named variety.Best bet would be to find a forum member in Hawaii and pay them to buy one and ship it. The other issue though is finding them grown in a medium that can be shipped without being bare rooted. Frankie’s actually shipped in the pot but the tree was crap.  2 days in the mail bare root and your tree that cost a few hundred dollars only has a small chance of recovering. I have bare rooted a couple that survived but that was only when immediately repotting them.

Good luck. If you do manage to find a source I’d be interested in splitting shipping cost with you to grab another grafted one.

Just ordered my first box for the 2017 season.

DM

Thanks for the heads up. Just order mine too.

These people need food and water. That should have happened already. Of course electricity is going to take months in some areas but the basic necessities should be able to be there already. American citizens should not be dying because they don't have water a week after a disaster. There is a medical ship in port in VA right now that should be heading to the island. Instead all we hear about in the news is whether or not football players are standing during the national anthem.

I don't understand why it is taking so long to get food and water down there. I also don't understand why medical ships aren't headed there. More people will die in the conditions on that island right now then died in the initial storm. Just a sad situation

Assuming it pushes above the graft, I'd just train one new shoot as the central leader. Same as if it was a new graft.

Still no power here. One tree at the end of the block is being held up by the power line. My street is the only one in the neighborhood without power. Power company basically said it is only affecting 14 homes so fuck off. We are at the end of the list to get fixed.

Lastest model looks pretty much to be the worst case scenario for S FL. Good luck everyone.

Quote from: Finca La Isla on August 30, 2017, 05:36:35 PM

I imagine it would bar pretty easy to take material from Malaysia to Thailand.  I wonder if pulusan can graft to rambutan...
Peter

No, pulasan is not compatible with rambutan. But pulasan can be grafted onto bulala (Nephelium phillipensis) which is a lot more vigorous and hardier than pulasan.

Will you have bulala seed in stock any time soon? I have two grafted and 2 airlayered pulasan and want to try grafting some more but my pulasan seedlings grow painfully slow.

Thanks for the report Oscar, your fruits look huge. Hopefully someone in SoCal can fruit this here so I can try the fruit, hint hint to anyone growing this in the neighborhood! I've read so much and seen some of the Aussie commercials so I hope I'm pleasantly surprised with the taste of this fruit when my tree finally fruits.

Oscar, on a scale of 1-10, with Purple Mangosteen being about an 8, how sweet would you say a fully ripe Achachairu is? Thanks,

Simon

Really, the taste of mangosteen and achachairu is so different they can't be compared. Achachairu have a very unique  flavor that is different from every other garcinia I have tried. From people I have let  try fruit that I brought back from Puerto Rico over the years, mangosteen is more universally liked and achachairu usually has a few people that don't like them. I like them about as much as mangosteen but I prefer madrono to achachairu. I also just got to try magnifolia a couple weeks ago and they are definitely a few notches below the others (assuming the fruit I tried was at its peak).