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How does these compare to the common Suebelle type? I have this one growing in a container. It has flowered but didn't hold fruit last time, hoping it will this coming yea. I have never eaten a white sapote fruit, looking forward to trying it
I have a Suebelle that just finished its fruiting cycle for the season. I love the fruit. Smooth, creamy light yellow flesh tennis ball sized fruit. Tastes like vanilla cream frosting when allowed to ripen on the tree. There can be an ever so slight bitterness to the fruit if not fully ripened on the tree that can be off putting to some. Other white sapote I have tasted can range from slight citrus taste, to mild-bland sweetness, to very bitter. The unnamed Fruit spice park tree that produces near softball size fruit is still the best I have personally tasted.
The diamond river longans are pretty good. I prefer lychee though. Rambutan seeds suck.
I don't use fungicide on my durians and have no problems with disease just insects.
Thanks a lot. Yes, the list is one of the reasons I'm asking: They list the Fairchild varieties as "not recommended" but I keep hearing really good things about them, so I'm curious what people here are growing and happy with. I also know absolutely nothing about canistel - other than the fact that I like it a lot :-) so recommendations are definitely welcome. Have you had Oro? What did you think of it?
Fairchild-2 or a Ross sapote
Also Whitman correctly noted it is Pouteria sp., not canistel. Look at p. 206. Whitman also believed that due to fruiting in clusters "it is not P. campechiana, (canistel) p. 401..
. I don't think ripe lychees have any hypoglycin.
I took some miracle fruit berries to work, and we all played around with them. In spite of sucking the berries very hard, and chewing them up and swishing them around in our mouths, two people had very little sweetness response, and still thought the lemon juice and vinegar tasted very sour. Others were chugging the lemon juice like crazy, and the rest of us were sort of in the middle.
I am wondering if there is something to the genetic makeup of people, where it works or it doesn't, sort of like being able to taste PTC or not...Carolyn
Thanks for the link. If you look at beginning images of the boxes you can see that they don't have an ag inspection sticker on them. So it looks like they were not sent legally.
I could get boxes inspected, but i think USPS would not be happy with boxes stinking up their sorting facilities in transit. Also keep in mind that durian easily sells here, as there is enough demand for the fruits right here. So why would any business mail them out?
A delicious sweet/tart combination.
Anyone know the name/s of nursery's in Hawaii that carry these? I am interested in ordering.
I don't think this is true because pH here is around 6 and pulasans do quite well.
