The Tropical Fruit Forum

Does anyone on here know if it helps the biribá to bloom and set (and hold) fruit if it's fertilized occasionally?

I'm wondering if a citrus fertilizer formulation with minors would be the best thing to use. How much?  How often?  Any other fertilizer?

My biribá has a large enough diameter main stem that by now it should be able to bloom and hold a fruit or two.

Just curious ....

Paul M.
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Paul, a few months ago I contacted Har Madeem and asked him about it. He mentioned that anonas need micronutrients n order to set fruit.

My Rollinia just bloomed a few flowers for the first time this year. It was brought from Hawaii in a 3 gallon container about 6 years ago and it is planted next to my neighbor's rollinia, a tree that has been blooming for several years with almost no production. He may have collected 2 or 3 fruits in the past 5 years since his tree grew to blooming age.
Given the proximity of the two trees (about 8 feet  and a wire fence separating them), is there a possibility these two trees will help each other produce fruit or is that wishful thinking?

Neither should be harmful long-term.  Continue to keep an eye on the wound and keep the base of the tree weeded so the wound dries quickly after rain or irrigation. If you are spraying you mangos with a fungicide,  you can spray the wound too as added insurance.

I hope you get fruit soon. My first tree fruited at 12ft tall and wide. Still waiting on others that are smaller.

Thank you so much for your feedback.  Do you recall how long it took for your fruiting tree to reach 12 ft tall?  I hear different numbers regarding the time to bloom on these trees.  The sales ladies at Pine Island Nursery on Eureka (about 2 miles from me) told me their trees fruited at around 7-8 feet tall.   I'll be darn if mine are not really close to 8 feet tall.  They were planted in 2017 and I fertilize with 8-3-9 in the summer (about once a month or so) and 0-3-16 (no nitrogen) in the winter.  I also use foliar sprays and chelated iron occasionally.

The flattened green ones could be Madam Francique.

I have not had a lot of luck with them, only with their soilless mix. I bought a Maha Chanok from them about 5 yrs ago. I pulled it out of the box and the tree was dehydrated, so I contacted them immediately and did everything I was told to do. The tree died within about 5 days or so. They refused to refund my money.  Then I bought a "Mun Kun See" mango tree and what they send me gre pretty nicely, except is not a mun kun see, is a pim sen mun.  I dont believe I would buy any other trees from them. Their soil mixes for potted plants are really good, I hve a 15 y/o adenium that was not doing well, had not bloomed in years. I bought their Adenium mix and within three months the tree was full of flowers.

Not an expert but I have heard that approach grafting works well with Jackfruit.  Several videos on Youtube on how to do it.  Not sure about star apple.

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Pim Sane Mun
Origin
Thailand
Fruit description
This variety is green with no blush. It is elongated in shape.
Comments
Mun means Fatty. This cultivar has one of the strongest nutty flavours of the green eating types. Pim Sane Mun tends to produce many nubbins in the cooler growing regions. In Thailand, the nubbins are sold in the local markets as seedless mangoes.

I was mistaken about Cedar Bay/Rabaul being the same thing as the variety in question.

Well, now am confused,  my "Pim Sane Mun" do not stay green.  They turn greenish yellow (more yellow than nam docs) on the tree.  Then they take about three days to turn completely yellow as they become ripe.  Byt mine definitely have a blush (orange pinkish blush) before they turn completely canary yellow.

Pim sen Mun!  Thank You Squan256!   
They are very firm and the skin is very thin.  The seed not so thin.  Flavor is not bad, not very complex and lacking the acidity of Florida Mangos like Kent, for example, but they are sweet.  Overall not a bad mango.
I was hoping to get a very late producer like they describe the Mun Kun Si.  On the plus side, the tree appears to be compact and maybe next year production increases. Production this year was nothing to write home about, just like my Nam Doc. It produced about 15 to 20 mangos, but the tree is also about 7 ft, hopefully it will increase next season.

As far as the incorrect labeled tree, I must confess that the only luck I've had with TT is some Adenium soil I bought from them.  It has worked really well for my adeniums and they are blooming for the first time in five years.  But as far as fruit trees, I bought a Maha Chanok from them and when I pulled it out of the box it was completely dehydrated.  I called them to let them know and they told me to put it in the shade and not to over-water it, that it would recover.  It was a slow death for the tree as I suspected, but they never returned my money.  Oh Well, I dont hold grudges, maybe I will be luckier next time.
Thank You All.

Thank you Sleepdoc.  I dont think they are either.  Mine turn completely yellow and keep a pinkish hue as it gets closer to the stem, sort of like a Maha Chanok color.  They are very firm and, as I mention on my first post, some of them exhibit a protuberance close to the stem.  I could have sworn I have seen that little mound on the description of some other type of mango, I just cant remember which one.  Somehow I suspect this mango is "evolving" and hopefully next year it will be a much better mango. Last year all I got were some really tiny mangos, they ripened and most of them felled off. But none of them reached a large size.    At least this year they grew to about 6 inches in length.  Lets see what it does next season.

Thanks again.

Am watching the models right now and I am praying that the UKMET and HWRF are the most accurate ones.  Those two would place the storm south of Miami and perhaps heading into the golf.  Unfortunately, as these things go, its either us or somebody else. I just can not help to wish for it to be "not us." 

So I logged in to  Hawaiian Tropical  Plant Nursery's website and saw they had a posh-te tree in stock. Went ahead and bought it along with a Rollinia tree I bought to meet the minimum purchase limit.  Will be receiving it Wednesday if everything goes well.  I have purchased trees from them before and they got home in excellent shape, so I expect this time will be no different.

Back in the nineties my parents owned and operated a bakery and I am sort of familiar with how those pastries are made. I recall that guava paste came in square metal containers of several gallons and it was sort of a thick paste of  runny consistency (like a thick "soup".)   Once smeared inside the pastry dough and baked, it would solidify a bit more (exposed guava filling would also caramelize because of the sugar content.)  The process of taking it from the fruit form to the liquid paste I couldn't tell you, but am sure they use some type of food colorant to give it the bright red color.  So, you may want to start contacting some bakery supply store in Miami to find out the ingredients in the paste (maybe even buy a can to experiment with). I bet you a dime for a dollar that any guava variety will do, it just needs to be processed along with other ingredients and additives.