OMG! This video gave me so much info I needed! I'm out here in San Diego, so...yes, it will grow here! LOL! I bought an ice cream bean from Exotica last year, just a 6" seedling and she is now about 5 feet tall and doing great! Today I went back there looking for my childhood fave, quenepas! They had some air layers available...so picked one up! (I also got a longan that I'm going to try and grow in a big pot as opposed to in ground). Here goes nothing!! TYSM!
Jay, Spanish Lime seedlings need male and female plants to fruit. I'm assuming you bought the Spanish Lime fruit you showed from a store and it was not produced from a tree in your yard. I personally tried the grafted self-fertile Montgomery (from Shamus) years back and it desiccated and died in ground within a few weeks in Summer despite shade. Also I must have missed your video showing a harvest of the ice cream bean. That plant seems to behave like cherimoya and atemoya--it can grow but I have not seen evidence of substantial fruit in our area. Can you do an update showing your harvest? Are you planning on keeping these seedlings in containers so you can over winter inside or putting in ground?
I was wondering about the same - where is video with beans hanging on the tree. I would be happy to see his tree with flowers not even beans. Shamus is still trying to get any of his ice cream bean trees to fruit. They never fruit in So Cal near desert areas with average humidity under 40%. I bet it is the same case with Spanish lime.
@@greenblood3708 I searched thru his videos and there is none showing harvests so it does not seem right to announce that ice cream bean is a proven winner here. Most people want their fruit trees to actually fruit and not just subsist. The fact that his tree is so large and has no flowers/fruit supports your statement about humidity. Our humidity is usually below 10%.
Here in the Bahamas, we call them Spanish lime - genip. They grow wild all over the islands. The trees are hardy and the flavor spectrum is on the level with citrus in terms of varieties.
Good luck with the Spanish lime. In Jamaica we call it genip. I’m trying to grow some in Southern California. Good thing you have more than one.... some trees are male and produce no fruit.
did those fruits come from those plants ??? I got 5 growing in central FL from my family property in Puerto Rico. My aunt told me it takes 7 years+ & the roots get beyond long. mines so far are doing ok. Lets see if we can break the myth of they can only thrive in the caribbean💯💯💯
I'm in South Florida. I have 15 of them growing in pots that are 4 years old. This last winter we hit temps into the 30s and they did great. I will be putting a few into the ground this season but I'm afraid to get rid of any of them so I have a better chance of making sure I keep a male and female.
@@SowViableGardens 9mo later. I'm in swfl as well. Would you sell me one of your trees so I can have a pair with the one I have from seed. I have seeds too. I wonder if I grow them from seed would they count as pollinators.
We have a Spanish Lime that the neighbor gave me a few years ago. It hasn't flowered/fruited yet. From the same family we also have a Longan and 2 different Lychees here in zone 9b Florida. The Lychees are even tastier than the Rambutans in our opinion.
In my country we call them genip/guenip. They grow wild all over, different sizes different flavors and colours. Some are very sweet while some have a sweet/slight sour flavor that gets your mouth watering. Some have two seeds inside one shell which we call phillipini.
Jesse Boudreau I love your theory on the Spanish lime and ice cream bean. I really believe a lot of people think tropicals are cold sensitive but really they just arnt in the right soil. I know your soil is rich and you have nice micro climate so I can’t wait to see what you have success with
Most of tropical plants are adapted to poor soils but not to cold climates. E.g. Soursop or Mamey sapote grow and fruit abundantly in rocky poor sandy high ph soil of SoFL but will kill over in fall in very rich soils of Wisconsin no matter how much micro climate your create for them. Jay just wants to sell people his potted seedlings.
I exaggerated SoFL vs Wisconsin to make it more contrast. Bay area even though in the same USDA zone they are in totally different Sunset zones which matters more for tropicals than USDA. Take best soil you can get replace your native soil in small area outdoors and plant true tropical plants like Cacao, Durian or Soursop - give them microclimante and see how they look the following spring. It is not about soil but climate. Growing mangos, chiku sapote or lychee isnt really considered growing tropicals. They are marginal subtropical plants which means they have natural adaptation to cold weather (with no hard freeze). Zone pushing gardeners get false confidence with a string of mild winters and to find hard punishment with one out of blue very cold winter that kills their years of labor keeping tropicals alive. Heated greenhouse is your insurance for tropicals plants not good soil and microclimate Ask Jay about his soursop tree that he had planted in good soil with microclimate in his yard.
Spanish limes are frost sensitive. Anything less than 1/2 inch trunk will give up a ghost at 32F. Rambutan has the same cold tolerance as Mangosteen and even less than Cacao. You should get soursop to grow and fruit outside before you try Rambutan. Btw what happened to your soursop trees? There have not been featured in your videos for a while.
@Lord Trump I can believe mangoes and avocados can grow and fruit in Phoenix. I saw 20 feet mango and avocado trees with fruit in Phoenix. I think Jay's mangoes are legit. He has more than 4 fruiting mango trees. Though he does use mango flower videos to get people to book tours in his yard. You will see more mango flower videos next spring.
Could you give me some advice on growing rombutans? I live in mesa myselg so practically the same environment but no matter what i do the seeds won't spout. I keep the soil mosit always. What am i doing wrong?
Are you to teach to plant or how to suck on ginnip in English its called , im stil waiting to see how long it take to grow and you're not saying nothing but same thing everyone who travels knows already 🤔 😅
Rambutan cant even grow in coastal SoCal where Cacao survives and fruits. Besides it is being dioecious tree (you need male and female trees), seedling takes up to 7 years to fruit. So you would need to protect it every winter for 7 years. It dies at 45F. Also it needs humid condition for pollination to happen. If you want to grow rambutan in Phoenix build a 7 feet heated green house - get a grafted monoecious tree and keep it in green house. Dont bother with seedlings - it fails even in Hawaii above 1500 ft elevation - which is way more tropical than AZ.
@Lord Trump He is trying and pushing the limits. He has a good little microclimate going in his backyard. The man is a genius and I will be foolish to ever doubt him. I wish him the best of luck.
@@greenblood3708 Are you sure they are dioecious? My dad has fruits from a single tree. He lives in the tropics. I don't think there is any other tree in the vicinity
OMG! This video gave me so much info I needed! I'm out here in San Diego, so...yes, it will grow here! LOL! I bought an ice cream bean from Exotica last year, just a 6" seedling and she is now about 5 feet tall and doing great! Today I went back there looking for my childhood fave, quenepas! They had some air layers available...so picked one up! (I also got a longan that I'm going to try and grow in a big pot as opposed to in ground). Here goes nothing!! TYSM!
Jay. Thanks for the great video. We love your trees and Aztec Gold. Can’t wait to try this one out.
I've only eaten these in Colombia. Can't wait to grow these in Phoenix!
Jay, Spanish Lime seedlings need male and female plants to fruit. I'm assuming you bought the Spanish Lime fruit you showed from a store and it was not produced from a tree in your yard. I personally tried the grafted self-fertile Montgomery (from Shamus) years back and it desiccated and died in ground within a few weeks in Summer despite shade. Also I must have missed your video showing a harvest of the ice cream bean. That plant seems to behave like cherimoya and atemoya--it can grow but I have not seen evidence of substantial fruit in our area. Can you do an update showing your harvest? Are you planning on keeping these seedlings in containers so you can over winter inside or putting in ground?
I was wondering about the same - where is video with beans hanging on the tree. I would be happy to see his tree with flowers not even beans. Shamus is still trying to get any of his ice cream bean trees to fruit. They never fruit in So Cal near desert areas with average humidity under 40%. I bet it is the same case with Spanish lime.
@@greenblood3708 I searched thru his videos and there is none showing harvests so it does not seem right to announce that ice cream bean is a proven winner here. Most people want their fruit trees to actually fruit and not just subsist. The fact that his tree is so large and has no flowers/fruit supports your statement about humidity. Our humidity is usually below 10%.
Here in the Bahamas, we call them Spanish lime - genip. They grow wild all over the islands. The trees are hardy and the flavor spectrum is on the level with citrus in terms of varieties.
I’m starting from seed today, I’m from PR…I got this in MO 😉
Good luck with the Spanish lime. In Jamaica we call it genip. I’m trying to grow some in Southern California. Good thing you have more than one.... some trees are male and produce no fruit.
if you get a grafted var Montgomery you need just one tree.
I never knew there were male trees for genip. In the Bahamas, every tree I come across fruits.
Love quenepas!!
Nice, I like what you're doing
did those fruits come from those plants ??? I got 5 growing in central FL from my family property in Puerto Rico. My aunt told me it takes 7 years+ & the roots get beyond long. mines so far are doing ok. Lets see if we can break the myth of they can only thrive in the caribbean💯💯💯
I'm in South Florida. I have 15 of them growing in pots that are 4 years old. This last winter we hit temps into the 30s and they did great. I will be putting a few into the ground this season but I'm afraid to get rid of any of them so I have a better chance of making sure I keep a male and female.
@@SowViableGardens 9mo later. I'm in swfl as well. Would you sell me one of your trees so I can have a pair with the one I have from seed. I have seeds too. I wonder if I grow them from seed would they count as pollinators.
Do you sell your Spanish Kim fruit I’d love some in august, also do you think they can be grown in containers
So it should do well in Hawaii ??
We have a Spanish Lime that the neighbor gave me a few years ago. It hasn't flowered/fruited yet.
From the same family we also have a Longan and 2 different Lychees here in zone 9b Florida.
The Lychees are even tastier than the Rambutans in our opinion.
In my country we call them genip/guenip. They grow wild all over, different sizes different flavors and colours. Some are very sweet while some have a sweet/slight sour flavor that gets your mouth watering. Some have two seeds inside one shell which we call phillipini.
Can you share how to plant from seed?
Jesse Boudreau
I love your theory on the Spanish lime and ice cream bean. I really believe a lot of people think tropicals are cold sensitive but really they just arnt in the right soil. I know your soil is rich and you have nice micro climate so I can’t wait to see what you have success with
Most of tropical plants are adapted to poor soils but not to cold climates. E.g. Soursop or Mamey sapote grow and fruit abundantly in rocky poor sandy high ph soil of SoFL but will kill over in fall in very rich soils of Wisconsin no matter how much micro climate your create for them. Jay just wants to sell people his potted seedlings.
I exaggerated SoFL vs Wisconsin to make it more contrast. Bay area even though in the same USDA zone they are in totally different Sunset zones which matters more for tropicals than USDA. Take best soil you can get replace your native soil in small area outdoors and plant true tropical plants like Cacao, Durian or Soursop - give them microclimante and see how they look the following spring. It is not about soil but climate. Growing mangos, chiku sapote or lychee isnt really considered growing tropicals. They are marginal subtropical plants which means they have natural adaptation to cold weather (with no hard freeze). Zone pushing gardeners get false confidence with a string of mild winters and to find hard punishment with one out of blue very cold winter that kills their years of labor keeping tropicals alive. Heated greenhouse is your insurance for tropicals plants not good soil and microclimate
Ask Jay about his soursop tree that he had planted in good soil with microclimate in his yard.
Spanish limes are frost sensitive. Anything less than 1/2 inch trunk will give up a ghost at 32F. Rambutan has the same cold tolerance as Mangosteen and even less than Cacao. You should get soursop to grow and fruit outside before you try Rambutan. Btw what happened to your soursop trees? There have not been featured in your videos for a while.
@Lord Trump I can believe mangoes and avocados can grow and fruit in Phoenix. I saw 20 feet mango and avocado trees with fruit in Phoenix. I think Jay's mangoes are legit. He has more than 4 fruiting mango trees. Though he does use mango flower videos to get people to book tours in his yard. You will see more mango flower videos next spring.
I've never seen a rambutan that wasn't spikey. Are there spikey and smooth varieties of rambutans?
Quenepa, mamoncillo, limoncillo, genip you actually need more than one tree for the pollination. 🇩🇴
Always been curious to try a rambutan
We call it guinep in Jamaica a very addictive fruit
Could you give me some advice on growing rombutans? I live in mesa myselg so practically the same environment but no matter what i do the seeds won't spout. I keep the soil mosit always. What am i doing wrong?
Did your Rambutan grow?
I saw this on eBay I want one but there expensive
So how do you know if you have a male or a female tree?
the seedling after 4 months you can grafted it with the variety of Rambutan you want, check me, I will show you how, see you around.
Would you sell the seeds or the fruit of the ice cream bean ?
I can eat like 60 of these at once
Update 2024?
For it to set fruit you will need a male and female tree. Pollination very important to get fruit.
that is why people usually get grafted monoecious trees not seedlings. they are slow growers.
Are you to teach to plant or how to suck on ginnip in English its called , im stil waiting to see how long it take to grow and you're not saying nothing but same thing everyone who travels knows already 🤔 😅
the rambutan is a challenge. I had a lot of seedlings die in a months time.
Rambutan cant even grow in coastal SoCal where Cacao survives and fruits. Besides it is being dioecious tree (you need male and female trees), seedling takes up to 7 years to fruit. So you would need to protect it every winter for 7 years. It dies at 45F. Also it needs humid condition for pollination to happen. If you want to grow rambutan in Phoenix build a 7 feet heated green house - get a grafted monoecious tree and keep it in green house. Dont bother with seedlings - it fails even in Hawaii above 1500 ft elevation - which is way more tropical than AZ.
@Lord Trump maybe foolish, but why not try for fun? and by the way, i have over 100 of the rambutans growing, not just 2.
@Lord Trump He is trying and pushing the limits. He has a good little microclimate going in his backyard. The man is a genius and I will be foolish to ever doubt him. I wish him the best of luck.
@@ArizonaFruitTrees Where can I buy a Spanish lime online? Do you have one seedling I can buy? Thanks!
@@greenblood3708 Are you sure they are dioecious? My dad has fruits from a single tree. He lives in the tropics. I don't think there is any other tree in the vicinity