fruiting baccaureas tips

[fsanchez2002]

I have a few baccaurea seedlings and I want to move to the next phase but I have a few questions from member who've gotten good results with these plants:
1. Can baccaurea species can cross-pollinate across different species (e.g. do you need a female-male b.motleyana or one b.motleyana and one b.edulis will do for pollinating?)
2. Is anybody fruiting baccaurea species in SFla? How to best plant these here: sun,part-shade, how far apart, irrigation, soil, pruning/shaping, etc
3. How long did it take from seed to fruit?
Thanks!.

[arvind]

In Malaysia it is called rambai fruit in the malay language.Not sure whether it can be cross pollinated with other species but i can tell you where to plant it and the soil type preferred. In our country it is usually planted in full sun and it thrives in fertile soil( it seems picky about the type of soil and if the soil is poor it would not fruit well).Since it is mostly planted in village orchard here i dont know about regarding the irrigation and pruning( farmers in the village rarely prune their trees)

[Finca La Isla]

I have fruited B. Dulcis from seed after about 5 years.  Here, I would plant them at about 8m although they might work a tad closer.  I prune the male back heavily.  I would be kind of surprised if it was easy to get inter specie pollination.  The fruit reminds me of duku though not as good.
Peter

[fsanchez2002]

I have fruited B. Dulcis from seed after about 5 years.  Here, I would plant them at about 8m although they might work a tad closer.  I prune the male back heavily.  I would be kind of surprised if it was easy to get inter specie pollination.  The fruit reminds me of duku though not as good.
Peter

Thanks, that's very helpful. So it seems from Peter and Arvind that there's no need to shape the tree by pruning as it grows; just let it grow up? Would you provide some shade for the small seedlings or full sun from the beginning is ok?

[arvind]

I have fruited B. Dulcis from seed after about 5 years.  Here, I would plant them at about 8m although they might work a tad closer.  I prune the male back heavily.  I would be kind of surprised if it was easy to get inter specie pollination.  The fruit reminds me of duku though not as good.
Peter

Thanks, that's very helpful. So it seems from Peter and Arvind that there's no need to shape the tree by pruning as it grows; just let it grow up? Would you provide some shade for the small seedlings or full sun from the beginning is ok?

Well if your backyard is small maybe you can try to prune it to make it compact and shorter.Most seedling here are planted in full sun in our country