Durian Tree in Florida
Tony Doe(Miami, Florida 10b)
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Comments (4)Wallisadi - I love durians! It smells as bad as sweaty socks or as good as fresh popcorn, you'll either love it or hate it. Frozen durian pulp is sometimes available in Asian grocery stores but there's nothing like fresh ones just "picked up". They cannot be harvested from the tree, when ripe, they fall off the tree so during the "durian season", do not sit under durian trees! You pick it up from the ground, using leather gloves & pry it open with strong blunt knife (along the seams). We used to call them thorny cannon balls because they are that size, weight and just plain thorny. You have 1 volunteer here to help you open durians. :~) Yum yum!...See Morepruning durian, marang, pedalai
Comments (4)Thanks for the replies.Had a look at the one vid on Y-tube and briefly saw what you mentioned Ariodeana.Have no idea but sounds very interesting. Cyclone Larry killed all of an acquaintance's mature durians and I am on the side of the hill at freshwater so if a future cyclone crosses the coast north of us will cop it ! Assume then that instead of topping you would build a pretty sturdy frame and bend the growing branches along them ? . Coppers log uprights in concrete spaced a log length apart and simply joined at a height of ?? 2m. Because I'm on a slope I have had to terrace the back yard. Would be good to fill one terrace with a couple of trees which would be below roof height and protected. Interesting food for thought ... would make hand pollinating the flowers (greatly increases the fruiting according to a guy who grows a few durians here) and picking much easier. Any idea if the trees I have mentioned are suitable for this ? regards Jim...See MoreOdorless Durian
Comments (3)I'm still kicking myself that I couldn't convince the taxi driver to take us down to BaoSheng when we visited Penang. We did visit the Tropical Spice farm and Tropical Fruit farm and ate a couple of durians from a local stand. Definitely different from the Thai durians. Much smaller. Closer to a personal sized durian than the bigger Thai varieties that get shipped here. Interesting that the variety listed as the one that they want to replace is the Chanee. Note the mark on this shipping box. Monthong (or Golden Pillow) is still the favourite, but Chanee and Kradum still do a brisk business, especially in the early season (like right now)....See Morekeeping marang, pedalai, durian small
Comments (5)Thanks for the replies. Read an article which I think was from the Cape Tribulation Exotic fruit farm up north of here which discussed survival rates of their many types of fruit trees in one of the recent cyclones. Of all the species the jackfruit were the least affected and survived best. Am I right in assuming that other Artocarpus species would have similar characteristics. The Durians did very badly and an associate at work lost all of hers (all mature trees)- she attributes this to the root system which is very susceptible to being shaken about causing damage to all the micro roots/filaments. Very interested to know anyones experience with topping durians. Plan to leave all til about 4-5m before topping. Currently have 4 marang ( the guy who grew them reckons only 1 out of 4 or 5 end up fruiting well), 2 pedalai which both neglected seedlings and are already quite deformed (can't find anyone selling here) and then 6 durians spread around the garden. All in a clay soil which is not ideal but on a slope so should hopefully avoid them getting too wet in the rainy season....See Morestanofh 10a Hayward,Ca S.F. bay area
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