The Tropical Fruit Forum

Kutejensis can really vary.  We ate an excellent one in Tenom with the manager of the collection at the agricultural park.
Earlier this year in Central Kalimantan there was tons of Kutejensis for sale at stands.  We bought some and ate them and, not any good.  We’d see others with a very different presentation, and buy those.  It’s what the people were eating but it wasn’t to our taste.  The guide, Maryoto, said they were hybrids.  I don’t know how he knows that.  Many were split but the fruit was not fermented.  Eventually we did eat one that really was good.  I don’t know how those were harvested either.
I have a couple of these Kalimantan seedlings started, we’ll see.
Peter

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

What are the species involved in this hybrid?
Peter

I received some seeds from Ecuador if  duguetia delgado. This has germinated!  Any info on this one?
Peter

That appears to be a male flower which is typical on the branches with the female flowers on the main trunk.
Peter

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.

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

My soil is 6.1 ph

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

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

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

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

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