The Tropical Fruit Forum

Anyone looking for awesome grafted fruit trees check out Lara farms.  Super reasonable and shipping is also very reasonable.   And I live in Hawaii!!!   I just got 6 jackfruit trees today.  They arrived packaged incredibly well.  Healthy and happy.    Shipping was like $138 for these 6 trees to Hawaii.  Top tropicals was literally $679 to ship 6 jackfruits.  No exaggeration.   What a joke.   Anyways these jackfruits arrived today After almost a week of shipping to get here.   I was shocked how good they looked.  Potting soil was still wet inside packaging. 🤯.   

I also ordered 25 grafted mango trees from them.   (Arriving tomorrow) Will post pics of how they arrive.   But Julian over there is doing a great job.   Check em out.   

Hi guys.  This may sound like a silly question.  Since more than likely anything that fruits in Florida will probably fruit in Hawaii just as easily.   But I stumbled across Lara farms website recently (super cool and very fair prices I might say).  And they have like 75 varieties of grafted mangos for sale.    I’ve always been so curious why Florida has all the coolest types of mangos.   Peach cobbler and lemon zest and fruit punch and all these crazy names that truly sound amazing. But In Hawaii you really only find 7-10 varieties that are sold here.   Weird.   

Long story short I wanna buy a bunch of these grafted trees and plant at my other place in kona.  Just wondering if there is anything I’m missing….  Will they grow and fruit here for me as well as they do in Florida??   

Hi Friends.. I'm about to plant out a durian orchard of 21 trees..  I've spent a considerable sum to make this area perfect for planting... all the holes were dug with an excavator and jackhammered through any and all rocks and lava slabs... the holes are honestly like 4-5' deep and just as wide... now filled with soil and small rocks and compost... 

 I'm planning on setting up a hard pipe PVC irrigation to keep the trees nice and hydrated in their early years.  i'm wondering what is the best set up for these trees to water?   Debating between and 18" riser to water in the direction of the trees... vs a tree ring drip system in a circle around the trees.... vs a underground bubbler.   so many choices!   i will be making mulch rings around the trees and also planting 6-8 pigeon pea trees in a circle around each tree to provide shade around the young trees too...  but until the pigeon peas are tall enough i'm gonna need some shade cages..

Couple things to consider.. 
-pigs and animals are not an issue for me because i've built rock walls around my entire property.
-wind is a non issue.   the area is very well protected and realistically never gets any wind. 
-i don't really wanna do steel fence posts and pound them into the ground and i'm trying not to use a bunch of fencing either..  its a lot of material for 21 trees... especially if i only use the cages for a year. or less.. 
-does anyone have success with a box type set up (thinking like 2x2's screwed together) that you set over top of the planting area?  like 4' tall  4' across and wrapping the shade cloth up one side over the top and down the other side... like an upside down U.  but open on two sides  (basically the north and south sides... so the shade cage tracks the sun rising and going over the top)  thoughts? anyone done this? 

thanks guys!

I got 5 plants from our friend Adam (flying fox fruits) and I thought all 5 were garcinia aristata.   But recently had a friend come over and thought 2-3 or them were something else.  Much more vertical growth.  Anyways now one of the plants is flowering.   Help me identify.   And also is this garcinia Hermaphrodite? 

Anyone growing this in Hawaii or on big island more specifically?   I just saw on Paul Zink Instagram and it looks very tasty.   And I wanna plant it!

I have a nice healthy grafted "selma" cherimoya tree in my yard...  all my atemoyays are flowering like crazy, but not the cherimoya.   Im thinking its probably not cold enough.  I'm in Kona side of the big island of hawaii  at 1700-1800 feet.  it does get a little chilly here.. but maybe not enough..

Is there a specific fertilizer or chemical treatment i can do that will induce flowering?  or hurting the tree?   Help! i want fruit!

has anyone done this?  seems like all my atemoya flowers are always female at the wrong times... no males open   but i've got rollinia pollen for days.

Does anyone have trees?  seeds?  need shipped to Hawaii.  Does grow true to seed or is supposed to be grafted..  THANKS!

Hi friends... i was able to bring back seeds from my last two trips to Thailand and Malaysia and have seedling durians from the following cultivars. I have too many plants in my nursery and am interested in selling a few..  the plants are in special 16" deep pots.. and are about 2 years old. 

Malaysia;
Black Thorn
Musang king

Thailand;
Puang Manee
Ganyao
Nokka chip
Hawk Talon
and a few others that were top notch. 

These are not grafted trees, but they are definitely coming from amazingly high quality parent fruits.  please PM if interested. 

So I ordered some chempedek seeds from seed pirates over in Borneo or Malaysia somewhere.    Some kind of king chempedek variety... bright orange.  Anyways I planted the seedling today and was wondering if anyone know about how tall/wide/big this tree will get?  Also are they true to seed?  What are my chances??    I’ve got the tree on a drip emitter so it should get some tlc.

Any chance someone in Hawaii has one or two of these trees available? Lmk please

I’m stoked to see at least one of my four trees pushing new flowers. Can’t wait to see if they are male or female...   hopefully I don’t get all male trees.   Will also post updated photos once they bloom

I’ve got two trees about 4-5’ tall and two that are much smaller.  About 1’ tall

Hey guys.. from all the pictures i've found on google these little trees (bushes) look quite small and seem to fruit at a very small size (like a foot or two off the ground)   who has experience with these and can comment on how big they get and planting distance between them etc. 

i'm looking to plant them alongside a south wall of my house in a flowerbed area about 5 feet wide.   thanks!

i got my seeds from Miguel i think