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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Jackfruit trees dying - Help please!
« on: May 18, 2025, 05:49:00 PM »
Personally, I would use microorganisms.  An EM type culture of lactic acid micros ot trachederma culture applied as a drench to the root feeding area and perhaps on the foliage as well.
Peter

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Kepel
« on: May 14, 2025, 08:15:19 PM »
I think that in the Yucatan you are going to want shade for Kepel and plenty of water..  it tolerates shade better than strong sun I think.
Peter

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Kepel
« on: May 14, 2025, 10:18:54 AM »
Fruits twice a year for us.  I sense some coco in the flavor, piña colada.
Peter

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: One Year Old Hybrid Araza with Flower Bud
« on: May 04, 2025, 11:31:17 AM »
What are the species involved in this hybrid?
Peter

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Flowers on my Langsat in Florida.
« on: April 29, 2025, 10:21:14 AM »
Single Langsat trees produce fruit. Congratulations!!
Peter

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Official Duguetia Thread
« on: April 25, 2025, 10:49:38 PM »
I received some seeds from Ecuador if  duguetia delgado. This has germinated!  Any info on this one?
Peter

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Seeking Travel Advice: Best Tropical Fruit Destinations
« on: April 22, 2025, 08:12:09 AM »
Sure, for really rare fruits Borneo would be the best. But Kalimantan is a little hardcore. It can be rough. My experience is that it doesn’t have very good markets or very interesting farms. You absolutely have to have a good guide.
Malaysian Borneo does have interesting farms, better markets, and lots of people speak English.
Peter

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Kepel
« on: April 21, 2025, 05:49:55 PM »
That appears to be a male flower which is typical on the branches with the female flowers on the main trunk.
Peter

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Annona Deceptrix starting to flower
« on: April 20, 2025, 06:51:17 PM »
If it’s been flowering for 6 months shouldn’t you have fruit by now?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Seeking Travel Advice: Best Tropical Fruit Destinations
« on: April 18, 2025, 09:47:56 AM »
Costa Rica could suit you well. The trickiest part with CR is hitting a good fruit season during the European winter. Really the best fruit season is around September/october. A secondary season can occur around February/March if things line up right.
Another very good choice would be Malaysia although I feel that the Malaysian state of Sabah would offer more diversity than peninsular Malaysia.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Does Potassium Sulfate Damage Soil or Compost?
« on: April 12, 2025, 10:07:33 PM »
If potassium sulfate is produced naturally then it is accepted for organic.  We can easily get that here in CR.
Peter

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Garcinia sp Brazilian cherapu
« on: April 11, 2025, 09:38:14 AM »
Do you know them to be diocious? 

I think it’s unfortunate that so many garcinias are named some or other kind of mangosteen and now, another cherapu!!?!
Peter

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Trouble with ordering/germinating salak
« on: March 25, 2025, 08:14:09 AM »
Sounds to me like the problem is the fault of the seed seller. Good salak seeds should work well if shipping time was only 1 week. The seeds weren’t fresh when shipped.
Peter

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mysterious Mulchi - Do you grow it?
« on: March 13, 2025, 08:42:17 AM »
My soil is 6.1 ph

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mysterious Mulchi - Do you grow it?
« on: March 10, 2025, 07:45:48 AM »
Im not really sure which mulchi it is. I started with that one, let’s say standard, and dwarf mulchi. The dwarf mulchi is easy to get to fruit and it’s a cute plant. The fruits are ok but not much to them.
I just got giant mulchi from Jim on his last visit. I hope to plant it out later this year.
Jim says all his stuff is in partial shade.
My mulchi gets direct sun but not all day.
Peter

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mysterious Mulchi - Do you grow it?
« on: March 09, 2025, 07:29:17 AM »
My mulchi came from Jim West. It is slow growing but maybe not the slowest growing tree I have planted but it’s probably the slowest to fruit if anything I’ve ever planted. It’s around 20 years old and still has not flowered and I’ve got pretty good conditions. Jim was here last year and he just smiled about that.
He has it in production finally after I don’t how long. The fruit itself has a good reputation but I’ve never had the chance. The very few people I’ve spoken with who have eaten the fruit got it from wild trees, not cultivated ones.
Better be patient.
Peter

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Is dwarf mulchi self-pollinating?
« on: March 09, 2025, 07:19:20 AM »
Yes, it’s self pollinating.
Peter

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: This is gonna be a weird topic but hear me out...
« on: March 07, 2025, 08:26:32 AM »
Not a weird topic.  Not so sure why you don’t just say in the header what you’re after.  With mango leaves especially this can work well if you are sensitive to smell and have an idea of what you are after.
Peter

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cempedak Review
« on: March 04, 2025, 08:26:45 AM »
Not too sure about your analogies.  I’m surprised you don’t say creamy.  Creamy sweet with soft fiber and a strong smell.  I’ve had people think there was a gas leak!  I have never experienced any trace of acidity in the champedeks I’ve eaten.
Peter

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mangosteen why so difficult to grow....!!!
« on: March 02, 2025, 08:10:39 PM »
It’s a tropical fruit and you’re not in the tropics.  There are many tropical fruits that are as hard to grow outside the tropics as mangosteen.  In the tropics it’s easy.  Just as easy as it id for you to grow stone fruit that I can’t grow here.
Peter

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Vanilla pompona from seed?
« on: March 02, 2025, 05:54:11 AM »
If you make a longitudinal cut down the middle from one end to the other and then cross cut about every ¼” it will speed up the extraction process.
Peter

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Vanilla pompona from seed?
« on: March 01, 2025, 08:48:29 PM »
How are you making those extracts?
We soak chopped up vanilla in 60% alcohol for about six weeks, then strain it.  Are you talking about leaving the vanilla pieces in alcohol for 6 months or what are you doing?
We use 100 grams of vanilla per liter so it’s very expensive to make.  After we strain the vanilla out we temper the alcohol down to 40%.
I’d be interested to hear the details of your process.
Thanks, Peter

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Vanilla pompona from seed?
« on: February 28, 2025, 11:12:35 PM »
Yeah, I would seek out some other producers pompona, see if you can find something good that you would be comfortable selling. Just because those guys do tours doesn’t mean anything. There’s lots of people here in CR as well that do a terrible job.
But , sure you want to be selling a product that sells itself because of the quality not due to some hype.
What would they say if your wife took the vanilla back and said it’s not good enough for her soap?
Peter

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What's the best tropical fruit in the world?!
« on: February 27, 2025, 11:51:47 PM »
I sell a wide variety of tropical fruits.  The fruit with the widest appeal is easily mangosteen.
The tropical fruit with the most dedicated and determined customers is the durian.
Both of these fruits are truly tropical and heartily enjoyed.
Peter

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What's the best tropical fruit in the world?!
« on: February 27, 2025, 05:30:39 AM »
I have to ask, “is mango even a tropical fruit?”  Most of you guys with mangoes aren’t even in the tropics.  Mango is a sub tropical fruit.  It’s a great fruit, but not a tropical fruit.
Peter

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