Yellow Mangosteen

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Picked some fruit today of this sour fruit .. it is edible and not as sour as I thought it would be . Another case of not believing what you read or hear to much . Very attractive large tree with lots of fruit . Unsure as to what species it really is as names are so hard to check . Species for sale here on Daleys looks nothing like this fruit . These are nearly perfectly round . Thats 5 sp. of Garcinia I am growing now , trying to get some more .. heard of another few spp. up on the tablelands .

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trikus says...
Not mine , my garden is only 3 years old . It is in the front yard of a retired Italian canefarmer .Will try and find out the age , must be very old . Local grower has several thousand G mangostana that should have produced fruit this year , but the effects of cyclone Larry have done something strange .. maybe next year .

trikus says...
NO, these trees are approx 7 years old . Under ideal conditions they grow very fast . Canopy of Alexander palms , fertigation and 4m annual rainfall really help.

trikus says...
Being close to the reef has made responsible farmers look at different systems of fertilizing . We had a field day recently at this farm [ grower has mainly bananas ] and he is using a home made [secret] solution . An orchid grower I knew in Bundy , used a stainless steel 100 litre tank for his fertigation . He alternated between 4 different types . An organic one week followed by a chemical based one . Kelp , blossom booster , fish ? and a special orchid brand . He always used half to quarter strength , like the good orchid growers say " feed weekly and weakly ! "

arcobelina says...
when is the best time to pick the fruit? We have large fruit on the tree from last years flowering - and the tree has just started flowering again - the fruit are still green and havent got any yellow tinge in them at all

Anye clues on when to pick?

Anonymous says...
Trikus, not from the single big tree on the mangosteen farm? Not Peter S the other Peter? I cleaned up half the crop last year if it is. It looks like the common form of G.xanthochymus but a large fruiting sour form of G.dulcis has fruit looking much the same.

Anonymous says...
Different tree Trikus. I can show pix tonight of that dulcis as well as giant xanthochymus.

trikus says...
lost the knack Mike ?

Mike Tr says...
Here is G.xanthochymus of the large fruiting form.

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Bangkok says...
This is my Garcinia Dulcis aka Maphut in Thailand.

Looks very different then yours Mike.

Mine has 3 stems grafted on it and had about 10 fruits but many more coming.

The vendor told me it's about 10 years old.

Mine has long thin drooping branches but i tied them up.

If the fruit is not nice i will graft achachairu onto it. It's very hard to find this fruit in Thailand, i wonder why. I've never been able to taste one.

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Doug says...
Update. Tree hasn't grown much, but now has its twelfth pair of branches. Harvested 10 fruit from about 30 flowers in January and have 4 seedlings. They quickly get to about 100mm, then stagnate. One in a pot is 3 years old and still with just the 2 leaves. Just counted over 100 flowers, but the tree is so small I doubt it will hold more than 30 fruit through to next January.

Farouk says...
Hi Prab, did you get a Garcinia xanthochymus?

Mine is looking beautiful but it’s stuck in time, it recovered after its first winter acclimation got back it’s leaves that it lost & it’s not moving it’s like when scientists explain the light coming from distant galaxies 😅