Dec 19, 2012 · Acording fo Julia Morton: "Food Uses Rambutans are most commonly eaten out-of-hand after merely tearing the rind open, or cutting it around the middle and pulling it off.

May 8, 2012 · I think the other person to fruit rambutan in Florida was Adolf Grimal. Murahilin is right, the rambutan, and also pulasan, are allergic to your limestone soils. Your high water pH will also kill them. So if you pot them up in good garden soil , use low pH or neutral water, and protect from Arctic blasts you should be able to fruit them.

Sep 16, 2016 · Re: Rambutan Fruit tree in California « Reply #23 on: September 22, 2016, 04:22:12 PM » To fruit rambutan you would need to have them inside controlled environment, like greenhouse.

May 7, 2019 · This rambutan has been growing from seed, outdoors (under my patio cover and surrounded by other trees) in Southern California, for approx 3+ years, and seems to be quite happy. The fruit was grown in a mountainous region of Costa Rica.

Jul 25, 2013 · Re: What is the best rambutan, and, Can pulasan be grafted onto rambutan rootstock? « Reply #24 on: July 25, 2013, 05:27:22 PM » Don't bother with cuttings,they are harder to strike than jackfruit or mango cutting and rarely thrive.Grafting is easier than lychees with approach,cleft and saddle working.Just air layering is the best alround option.

Jul 16, 2016 · The only Rambutan I've sampled that has any complexity to the flavor would be Seelengkeng, my favorite. However, Rambutans are much more consistent producers for me in Hawaii. There is a new variety of Pulasan now available here that is supposed to be a more dependable bearer of fruits, but my tree is newly planted and I haven't had the ...

Aug 8, 2018 · Rambutan is a fruit that I want to get to know (in detail and scientifically-in-depth) more about; just as I’ve regularly seen ‘Experts’ routinely go about doing so in this Forum. This is because I find the taste of chilled Rambutan to be just great, and it’s even easy & fun to eat; although the other King of the Fruits, the Lychee ...

Oct 29, 2020 · Yes you don't have to worry about a tree getting snapped below the graft line. Unfortunately Julia Morton in her book Fruits of Warm Climates states that rambutan air layers fail, and a lot of people have believed that rambutan airlayers don't work ever since that. But the rambutan airlayer failures were all in Florida limestone.

Jun 24, 2014 · Air layering is easy for these these species and you don't need rootstocks.One supplier of rambutan trees was selling air layered trees for (US) $28 and grafted for $38 and would sell mostly air layered trees until a cyclone came and then everyone wanted grafted ones.They said to me that grafting was better for mass production and the success ...

Dec 3, 2023 · Re: Yellow rambutan « Reply #5 on: December 20, 2023, 03:47:03 AM » R156 is the best yellow having the highest flesh yield of any rambo and it is quite crisp.