The Tropical Fruit Forum

Best to get a plant or cutting, they root pretty easy.

Is there a certain size or time of year to take the cuttings?  I’ve tried many times to root cuttings from mine but none have ever taken. A humidity chamber helps the, stay green for a while longer but they just never send out roots.

I bought 3 Myrciaria Strigipes seeds from Bellamy Trees last fall with the hopes of getting 2 to successfully germinate and grow so I could keep one and give the other to a coworker who trades plants and seeds with me. I put them in peat moss and Agripro dry to give them the best chance of taking off. Over the winter, all 3 sent down roots and two started growing a stem in February:


The 3rd had a great root system but just didn’t send out a stem. I let it be. In the mean time, the other two kept growing and now look like this:


Lo and behold, I look at #3 and it’s finally growing above ground. Over 6 months after it was planted:

This has been an interesting bloom season. My Cogshall had some leaf burn from the cold but only on outer leaves, maybe 20-30% of the tree. The south side is now in full bloom. The north side pushed leaves recently and no bloom.

Champagne is good. It has a nice sour/tart taste until fully ripe and then it’s very sweet. It does have a pretty large seed compared to the amount of flesh, though.

I just ordered a mango and avocado from Julian. Much closer and cheaper to ship  . Looking forward to getting them in the ground. Those mangos look great and not pot bound.

pineislander, These are in all-day sun so light is not an issue and I only let sword suckers grow.  I haven't been as diligent with pruning off suckers as I was a couple years ago but all pseudostems seem to send off flowers at a similar height.  Depth of planting and rising of the mat could have something to do with it.  I'm on a small lot with a steep slope to a drainage canal at the back of my property so they're planted towards the top of the slope which also makes it very hard to brace them if they're tipping towards the canal.  In terms of pruning maidens, do you mean lopping them off at a certain height so they can't reach their final height before flowering?

I've found another spot that's on flat ground and started a pup so at least that will be a location that I can easily brace. 

SouthBayHapaJoe, I'm a few miles from the coast so the sea breeze does really reduce the summer downpours that they get 5 miles further inland.  I've been extremely happy with the production considering I really only feed them yard waste or their own suckers.  There was a video by Matt Reese who mentioned that the Namwa is able to produce heavily on only mulch and I can attest to that.

My “dwarf” Namwa has been a favorite ever since it produced its first 50+ lb rack after 15 months in the ground. It seems to send out the flower when it’s at the -10ft range and I’ve lost two racks due to wind (which is surprising with the massive girth of the pseudo stems). I’ve seen videos where they are flowering at what seems like 6’ and I’ve been starting to wonder if I actually have a tall Namwa. I believe this one was mail order from Florida Hill nursery. Is it possible that I have a tall variety or do those get really tall?  Is there a trick to getting them to flower at a lower height?

Thanks. I’ll have to PM him if he doesn’t jump in.

Cogshall happened when I planted a seedling from a grocery store mango and grafted a few different varieties onto it. Cogshall was on the branch that took off and became the main leader. I still have a tiny fruit punch graft on that tree which pushed once and then stopped. FP has 2 leaves on it now and it hasn’t done anything for 3 years 

I’m ready to fill the 3rd and final spot in my yard for a mango tree. I already have a PPK and Cogshall and now I’m looking for that powerful spicy Indian flavor. The first “real” mango I ever tasted was a Bombay and I still remember how my entire hallway at work smelled like Bombay when my coworker brought it to me. I’ve heard Bombay doesn’t do very well in Florida. I’m a couple miles inland at the north end of 10a in Sebastian. What are my options for this type of flavor? Carrie?  Thanks!

That sounds like a Cempejack.

It's usually recommended to only keep a few pseudo stems.  On that is fruiting, one that is mid-size, and one small pup. 

I’m interested in this as well. I have a seedling Cempedak and Cempejack. Hoping one of them will survive my winters. I’ve seen a post about a Cempedak that handled 32f under a light cover so frost didn’t hit the leafs. Definitely planning on keeping them heavily pruned with my small yard. My neighbor put in a jackfruit maybe four years ago and it’s 30’ tall now and taking up a third of his back yard.