NIce!! VEry very nice soon (not really) but eventualy you will have dilicious fruit. champedak looks different in that the leaves are less fig like. hope you get good fruit:)

Whoaa.....awesome shots, Patusho!! Congratulations. You've done really well with these hard-to-grow ultratropicals. I've grown all the same ones except for the pedalai (I grew A. sarawakensis, or 'pingan', instead).

Let me guess.....did these seeds come from David Chandlee in Australia ;-) ?

Marcelo

Plummy, indeed, if I provide them with the best location and best care, perhaps in about 15 years I will get some fruit from some of these. >=D

Marcelo: thank you, no, they are seed exchanges and the pedalai I got from bryan b. and Jim W. in Ecuador also.

Great Pics! The leaves of the breadfruit looks awesome. I've never had a breadfruit but I have heard its usually cooked. But how is the fruit ripe?
Patusho, I've been communicating through email with another tropical fruiter in the Phillipines about mangosteens. Its interesting to note the difference in tastes and fruit shape & size found over there in Asia. It may be environmental but could be genetic. Mangosteens that are more sweeter, more acidic, seedless, or larger fruits. Hopefully one day I'll get to tastes them all.

Hi Eggo, hope you are doing fine, well, the fruit of this kind of "breadfruit" is not edible, when the fruit ripens it became extremely soft (even softer than play dough, that paste with which little children play) and then just fall off the tree and rottens. The seeds are the only edible portion of the fruit and believe the seeds become something like flour to make bread. This is not the actual breadfruit brought by captain Blight to the West Indies, the leaves and the tree are extremely alike and the fruit has a jackfruit surface not smooth.

Good luck in your search for all the existing mangosteen cultivars, you can also find some mangosteen in southern Mexico, and save big bucks (of course, you won´t find all the diversity in here, but just some), and I guess it can be less expensive than traveling to Hawaii. >=D

I don't know how I missed the response. That's quite interesting. I had always thought they were the same, just seedless. But your right the surface on that one is quite spiny. I have heard so much interesting thing about breadfruit but never having the chance to tastes it or even know anyone whom tasted it, I haven't given much though into growing them. But you gotta give credit to the fruit that inspired Bill Whitman to grow tropical fruits.
With all this talk of Artocarpus species, are you growing any champedak? Its suppose to be almost like jackfruit. But I believe the flesh is softer and somewhat more fibrous. Harder to swallow because the whole piece tends to stay together. Interesting thing is you cut it open and the flesh is attached to the core, which you just pull out. Easier access to the carpels than a jackfruit. There's suppose to lots of hybrids between these two also.
One day maybe I'll get a chance to take a tour throughout Southeast Asia. The leaves on my tiny mangosteen seedlings burn easily like that too. One thing about them is that they tolerate more shade than you might imagine.

Eggo: Yes, I have 3 little champedaks, it´s 40 cm and just 4 leaves and extremely slow growing (at least in here); actually I did post a picture of it in this same thread!!!!!! >=S lol

Marcelo: Do you have a picture of your pingan? would be very nice to see one of those!!!

"I did post a picture of it in this same thread"
Duh!! haha its one of those days for me. I feel like my IQ drop by a few points today. =)

Marcelo, wheres the latest pics of all those great plants you got growing? I hope by now you have decided to just get rid of all the furnitures to make room for more plants. hehe