The Tropical Fruit Forum

Hope you get it before a squirrel does.

Incredible find!  Keep us posted on its progress.

Really nice dude.  Keep the pics coming.  Trees all look great.

Baccaurea angulata.  The entire fruit has six sides, but not the actual flesh.

I had two do the same thing here in Thailand, but now wonder if sun burn on the trunk the cause?  I did not have any symptoms like Fitfarmer.  Mine also flushed out beautifully and I had several successful grafts in progress.

Marang and kwai muk...can't see how you wouldn't enjoy these.  Cempedek on the other hand....I think is an acquired taste.

USPS should limit their options to only sending postcards.  I don't have the time to spend typing up all of the blunders I've had to endure from those fools.  Yeah...cheapest alternative, but it's a gamble.

I agree with Kalopa Guy.  The cuttings need to be as fresh as can be and preferably cut, wrapped, and mailed on the same day.  I believe putting the wrapped cuttings in a ziplok will help keep moisture levels up.  Does anyone have any opinions on whether adding a damp paper towel in the ziplok would be a benefit or not?  I think it might, but not sure very hot climates.

Keep them under a humidity dome and careful not to over water.  If fresh, should germinate very quick.  Seeds of many of these look very similar.

Caimito and abiu...just not for me.  Maprangs...waited so long to try them and hyped up so much only to find them just okay fruits...good, but nothing to get worked up over.  Garcinia prainiana was probably my biggest disappointment.  While extremely tasty, the latex in the flesh itself shot all hopes and dreams of this fruit for me.

I certainly hope they are not all male, but if first flowering, might prepare yourself for them being all male.  There are so many flowers though.  One would think a female or two would show up to the party!  Here's hoping!

Fliptop...believe me...stomach issues were definitely on my mind.  We were warned NOT to drink the water...not even get it in our mouths.  So it was bottled water for brushing teeth and such.  Food you just had to be aware of.  One evening we were searching for a new place to eat and Sinyo stopped at this buffet stand.  Had quite the selection.  It was also all cold.  Hard to say how long it has been sitting out there, but I was taking no chances on it and risking food poisoning.  Peter ate it and had no issues.  I wasn't taking the chance and would rather go hungry.  Of course...you have to check any food stand for this...just never know.  Other than that, I don't think it was a huge concern.

Getting seeds from Sinyo now is best since they are at their freshest and can get you a phyto if you choose.  He and his crew cleaned seeds each night going thru quite a rigorous procedure to not only clean, but add anti-fungals to them.  He has to do this cause it will allow him to store seeds for several months.  Peter and I did not have to go thru all of that since we were planting as soon as we got home.  We did opt to remove the flesh since that would have starting stinking.  Adam Shafron uses vermiculite in a bag and runs that thru a wash cycle.  I just used an old t-shirt with the ash and rubbed them clean.  In fact, the ones I left covered in the ash to clean the next day actually cleaned up a lot easier and faster...chemical from creating the ash broke down the flesh.  Luckily all of the artocarpus seeds popped right out of the flesh without any scrubbing necessary.  The mixture would have been nice for cleaning the durian seeds, but I had already cleaned those prior to receiving the ash.

Brian...just in case I confused anyone...the candy corn reference was just about the limpato's shape reminding me of giant candy corn.  Not the taste.  The taste difficult to describe.  It is sweet, bright, a little tangy.  A true delight.  For me...getting any of these artocarpus and willughbeia species to get past that stage has been a challenge as well.  I did manage to get a few keledang big enough to plant out, but that was it.  A big fat zero for the willughbeias.  I'm hoping some of the seedlings I pulled and brought back survive as well as the seeds...most of which were already in the process of germinating.

Speaking of germinating.  Here are my observations of what I found in the forest looking for seeds.  It was hot and the humidity was off the charts.  Everything was damp or just plain wet.  Borneo seems to get more rain or at least the frequency of showers whereas my area in Thailand is a desert bunghole.  So...chokingly high humidity and wet.  Lots of leaf and rotting fruit and tree litter on the ground.  And completely shaded over.  Seeds of any kind of nearby fruit littered the ground and all of them germinating where they landed...most not even covered by anything at all...loosely sparcely at best.  I tried to recreate this as best I could here.  What is driving me crazy is how can it be so wet in the forest and do just fine, and when I have done that here, the seedlings would dampen off and die.  I'm missing something.  Obviously the forest soil is full of microbes and mycorrhizal fungi...which I have added to the coco choir when mixing.  Maybe this will help.