Unfair.

Stick yours in the ground...

Yuck Fou

I now understand how Jay feels every time I send him pics of young flowering and fruiting jackfruits.

Nicely done, John. My Kai maprang has buds pushing everywhere, but they look like the smalleer ones you see on yours elsewhere on the plant. I wonder if I'll have leaves or flowers??

Harry

John is now dead to us! Seriously...get bent! Naw... that's really cool and exciting...sort of like a dagger in the eye kind of exciting though! Keep up the pics.

The buds...have you ever in all of your plant dreams, seen buds that hang around as buds for as long as they do on a maprang? They push out and then sit there forever and forever like they are never going to pop.

My mayong chid looks good and it too has many buds. I need to slow down on the watering. The Kai maprang has never really bounced back after the last thrips attack and my attempt at their destruction. This plant has struggled from day one steadily taking steps backward no matter how much forward progress it may have made.

Anyway...John...from what little of the plant you showed in the pic, it was looking really good.

Harry, I have never caught the flower buds coming out any earlier than in the pic so i am not sure if the other buds will be flower spikes or not.

The tree itself is looking pretty good. Half of it died back about a month after I first got it butthe other half looks great. It is cramped up next to a jackfruit and the Mayong chid. It does not get much sun where it is at.

Hopefully it will hold a fruit or two so I can compare it to the mayong chids flavor. I'll get some better pics this weekend. If the coming 22 degree night does not fry everything.

Congrats John,
very exciting to see the bloom spikes forming, have my fingers crossed for you to get fruit. Unfortunately, my seedling maprangs died, on the plus side that means I can order some grafted ones.

I agree with everyone else, dang you,:)
-Ethan

I finally checked today and my mayong chid is flowering.

Nice! Hope it holds a fruit or two for you. You tree looks pretty good for being potted. Definitely better than mine was looking when in a pot.

Has your Kai started looking better or is it still struggling?

Very nice sheehan. John...are you fertilizing yours at all?

I threw a little of the citrus fertilizer that they sell at lows on them last spring but that has been it. I really don't do much of anything for them. I am starting to wish that I planted the kai a little further away from the mayong chid. I might try to move it at some point but I want to see if it holds any fruit first. It has only been in the ground for a few months so I wouldn't think the roots will be too spread out yet.

Wow- Congratulations! I am jealous, but it gives me hope for mine. Maybe if I show mine a picture of your tree it will take a hint and start doing something.

Is yours grafted?

Yet another reason to curse you Sheehan!

-Ethan

John:

Any update on fruiting of Kai. Sheehan's Mayong Chid that I have at my house now has blooms that are all dried up without setting any fruits. :-( My Kai still has bulging buds...waiting patiently for them push.

Harry