The Tropical Fruit Forum

Probably a question for Peter or Mike T but I’ve heard rambutan are difficult to graft/top work?

I just ate the first fruit from a seedling tree I planted 3.5 years ago as a small 2ft tree, the fruit tasted great lovely sweet rambutan taste. Unfortunately the flesh Majorly clings to the seed. I will probably give it another year to see if it improves but this is not acceptable and is my first disappointment out of my seedling trees of many different fruits I’ve planted.

Here’s a picture of the first fruit.

Can anyone confirm or advise on mango tree varieties that are the mos resistant to anthracnose?

I have read that Florigon is one of the best is this true ?

What about out of the fancy new Zill varieties such as Orange sherbert, sweet tart etc how do these fair ?

I have nam doc mai and maha and they both get anthracnose they still manage to set some fruit.  Looking for a few more.

Climate is average 3000mm rain a year (118inches) with wet years up 5000mm (196inches) high humidity and much more tropical than florida.

Can anyone advise thanks

I have never posted in this section before wondering if anyone has any ideas. I live in the coastal tropics around 16 South latitude i planted a washington navel, emperor mandarin and myer lemon just over 2 years ago and a valencia orange 12months ago.  All of these trees are fruiting/flowering including the valenica orange at only 12months old except the washington navel.

My washington navel tree is actually the biggest and healthiest looking out of all these trees around 8ft high and wide but it will not flower?? Im very frustrated with it my myer lemon of the same age is absolutely loaded with lemons right now and my valencia is loaded with its first flowers but this big thick trunked Washington navel is doing nothing?

Should i stop fertilising it? Maybe its just too happy growing?  What normally triggers a navel to flower? I average 3000mm of rain a year it is in a full sun position as are all my citrus?  What time of the year would/should a navel fruit in my location?

thanks for any help

Did a search here and seems longans might be a better chance of fruiting reliably in the tropics than lychee.  I prefer the taste of lychee but here 16 South lychee is extremely unreliable and can go many years in between fruiting in some cases.  Can anyone recommend or advise if longan will perform reliably in my area and if so what cultivar would perform? I see diamond river mentioned are there any others preferable ?

WTB durian SULUK seeds

Was inspecting my trees yesterday and almost fell over when i saw what seems to be tiny little fruits forming on one of my sugar apple trees, this tree has been in the ground well less than 12 months and is around 50-60cm high!!!!! This seems extremely fast has anyone else seen this?

Fruit weighed 830grams and tastes unbelievable, had approx 20-25 seeds. Can anyone ID this variety based on the pictures??

So this forum is full of people pushing warm plants into cold areas I have the reverse problem and looking for some advice.

So today I tried an atemoya for the first time and it was just sensational not sure on the variety but it’s like a huge sugar apple with hardly any seeds. I must grow this fruit.

My research has led me to believe that the atemoya is more suitable to sub tropics. I live in the true tropics can I have a chance of success with atemoya? Is there anyone else in lowland tropics who has had success?

I have a section on my property next to a creek that keeps day time temperatures approx 2-3 C cooler than surrounding area. Would this be the best spot to have a chance to fruit or do they need full sun all day? Along the creek gets sun from about 10-11 am until late arvo.

Any other advice or tips on how I can reverse zone push the atemoya I must have this fruit

Can anyone recommend a good foliar fertiliser for micro nutrients and trace elements preferably in Australia?  Im already using powerfeed and seasol for foliar but i dont believe either of these are for micros.

Can anyone confirm how these perform in the tropics? From what I have read they are more subtropical and in the tropics will produce much vegetative growth with not much fruit?  I already have the standard purple custard/sugar apples growing and would like to add these atemoya.

So im sussing out the perfect spots on my property to plant durian trees, i dont mind the smell at all but my wife started dry reaching at the smell when i bought a durian into the house.  I have a very good spot approx 30m upwind of our house to plant them on slight slope.  I dont want to go putting plants there only to wait 10 years then have my wife complaining that she can smell them from the house and have to cut the trees down.  Is 30m upwind to close?

Thought this might be fun to see what people would choose to plant out on a new block.  Have approx 2.5 acres to work with in tropical nth qld where anything can be grown.  Approx 3000mm of rainfall a year.  This is a list of what i currently have in ground, what would you add to it?

2x lemon myer i think
1x dwarf mandarin
1 x navel orange
1x strawberry guava
3x rambuatan
1x achacha
1x abiu
2x pulasan
2xmangosteen
1x red jaboticaba hybrid

(have 2x avacado seedling trees to go in the ground soon as well along with papaya.

What kind of rare fruits should i add?  On my certain list is russels garcinia, lucs garcinia, long kong, NDM mango

What about fruits such as chempadek, maprang etc i have never tried these fruits are they worth planting?  Anything else i must have, i know im missing lychee im holding off on them for now they are a serious attractant for birds and bats around here but they are the best tasting fruit so i will probably plant one or two anyway.

Please add to my list of must haves

Im using a product called powerfeed its a liquid fertliser im not sure if this is available in the US but im sure you have much the same thing.  Im using this on a weekly basis not sure of this is too much but my plants are thriving on it.  My mangosteens which were planted in ground in september last year have more than doubled in size.  Rambutans and other trees are also responding well to it.  I have also been using blood and bone fertilizer.  I cut out the chemical fertlizer on these trees as they seem to be sensitive to it.  Im pushing these trees especially the mangosteens hard i want to see if i can get them to fruit in 6 years.