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The trees look pretty small, so about how long would you be waiting to expect fruit from them?
Quote from: Thefatcuban on January 13, 2015, 11:49:53 PMThe trees look pretty small, so about how long would you be waiting to expect fruit from them?Not sure how long it would take in Florida, but I saw grafted trees in 3 gallon pots (see photo) in Puerto Rico with fruit on them. They were the same size as my trees....
Breadfruit and mangosteen have been fruited in S. Florida. The rambutan should fruit fine in any place that can fruit breadfruit and mangosteen. So my guess is that you will be succesful. My advice is to keep away from chemical fertilizers. Especially young plants are easily killed by them. Use ferts high in potassium. The rambutans tend to get leaf tip browning due to not enough potassium. Keep them out of the wind and at very high humidity levels. Good luck~ What variety are they?I think only Grimal was succesful with rambutan before in the Keys?
Quote from: FloridaGreenMan on January 14, 2015, 06:51:35 PMQuote from: Thefatcuban on January 13, 2015, 11:49:53 PMThe trees look pretty small, so about how long would you be waiting to expect fruit from them?Not sure how long it would take in Florida, but I saw grafted trees in 3 gallon pots (see photo) in Puerto Rico with fruit on them. They were the same size as my trees....I remember those. Somehow I dont think any of us bought any. I kind of wonder if they were approach grafted when the buds were already developing but I guess being in the right climate makes a big difference too.
Noel,Good luck, I know you'll be successful.Btw, as zone pusher I would consider growing marcotted plants, I believe they will fruit faster than a grafted tree in most cases.
Quote from: ASaffron on January 14, 2015, 09:08:45 PMNoel,Good luck, I know you'll be successful.Btw, as zone pusher I would consider growing marcotted plants, I believe they will fruit faster than a grafted tree in most cases.One of our fruit growing friends in PR was airlayering Pulasans but his success rate was rather low. I think its kind of difficult with Rambutans also....
Quote from: FloridaGreenMan on January 15, 2015, 10:20:25 PMQuote from: ASaffron on January 14, 2015, 09:08:45 PMNoel,Good luck, I know you'll be successful.Btw, as zone pusher I would consider growing marcotted plants, I believe they will fruit faster than a grafted tree in most cases.One of our fruit growing friends in PR was airlayering Pulasans but his success rate was rather low. I think its kind of difficult with Rambutans also....No, that is not true. Rambutans are extremely easy to air layer and grow as air layers, similar to lychee, Same is true with pulasan. There is some misinformation about this, started by Julia Morton's book, stating that rambutans are difficult to grow as air layers. But those trials placed rambutans right into limestone soils, so ofcourse they all died.
I remember seeing some nice marcotted trees fruiting in pots, can't seem to find the links, but here is onehttps://tabulampot.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/rambutan-sarat-buah-meski-dalam-pot/ Quote from: fruitlovers on January 15, 2015, 10:25:00 PMQuote from: FloridaGreenMan on January 15, 2015, 10:20:25 PMQuote from: ASaffron on January 14, 2015, 09:08:45 PMNoel,Good luck, I know you'll be successful.Btw, as zone pusher I would consider growing marcotted plants, I believe they will fruit faster than a grafted tree in most cases.One of our fruit growing friends in PR was airlayering Pulasans but his success rate was rather low. I think its kind of difficult with Rambutans also....No, that is not true. Rambutans are extremely easy to air layer and grow as air layers, similar to lychee, Same is true with pulasan. There is some misinformation about this, started by Julia Morton's book, stating that rambutans are difficult to grow as air layers. But those trials placed rambutans right into limestone soils, so ofcourse they all died.
The problem he had with the air layered trees was that they could not handle the wind on the mountain side.
Patrick from Grimal grove and I were taking about growing these there today.
FGM, I literally had this idea not to long ago. I am preparing a site next to my greenhouse to plan some rambutans in the ground
Rambos and pulasan are easy to marcot like lychees so they are usually propagated that way.Unlike lychees they are also easy to graft.Grafted trees grow faster and have more wind resistance as well well as needing less frequent watering and having better disease resistance when young. When they get older things even out except for wind resistance (toppling).I have both grafted and marcotted rambutans.They sure like acid soils and respond badly to over fertilizing.