Fruting Durian Trees in Hawaii

[User00]

Any pics and details of fruiting durian tree in hawaii, if you have

[Darold Petty]

Sorry, no photos, but a deceased friend had fruiting Durian in the Paradise Park subdivision south of Hilo.  His tree grew very well, but he may have had to hand pollinate the flowers.

[Karen]

Garrin did hand pollinate his durian trees when they were shorter with good luck some years.  Once they grew too tall, he gave that idea up.  Some years he'd have a great crop which he shared with us and other years, no durian at all.  Have no idea which varieties he grew though.  I do remember they took quite a few years to even bloom.

 

 

[Josh-O]

is this the fruit that smells like dirty ammonium socks?

[Xenon]

A lot of info on Hawaiian durians on the tropicalfruitforum...

Durian in Hawaii

delicious fruit by the way 

Edited October 19, 2016 by Xenon

[Matthew92]

To me, it tasted like gasoline and red onions, and I only had one in hard candy form. I actually liked it though. Super tender tree: I once read about some botanist who couldn't even get it to grow in Miami.

[BS Man about Palms]

I have to admit that it was interesting at the final banquet dinner for the 2016 Biennial when they laid out a giant sumptuous spread with all manor of foods and someone said were some Durian dessert bars... in a certain color.. (can't remember what color) however the were two SIMILAR colors... I brought both back to the table and asked if anyone knew which was the Durian... A bit speculation ensued until someone said "smell them"!  BOOM!  No problem picking it out then!! It actually tasted fairly decent... not my go to favorite flavor, but I no longer need to avoid it... at least in that method of preparation. :)

[User00]

when eating durian there is 2 choice

Love it or Hate it

lovers called it best fruit it the world ,tell  haters gona hate

[rprimbs]

I didn't like it so much when I first tried it -- I bought a frozen durian that wasn't very good.  But I have had unbelievably good durians in Asia and I now weirdly obsess over it at times.  Last month I bought two from an Asian market.  Both were excellent.  Then I bought an expensive Malaysian durian.  It was very good but not worth the price.  

I have tried repeatedly to grow it here.  I got one tree up to six feet tall in Encinitas, but I have now resigned that I am going to have to build some sort of a greenhouse to get it through the winter.

[User00]

Just now, rprimbs said:

I didn't like it so much when I first tried it -- I bought a frozen durian that wasn't very good.  But I have had unbelievably good durians in Asia and I now weirdly obsess over it at times.  Last month I bought two from an Asian market.  Both were excellent.  Then I bought an expensive Malaysian durian.  It was very good but not worth the price.  

I have tried repeatedly to grow it here.  I got one tree up to six feet tall in Encinitas, but I have now resigned that I am going to have to build some sort of a greenhouse to get it through the winter.

durians usually good taste when they ripe in tree and fal. most durians find in markets are commercially picked at mature state and ripe later.

in here some people with durian tree sell fruit's after ripe and fall from tree. the best

[aussiearoids]

Check out 'Year of the Durian' web site , Lindsay recently posted a blog of a trip to hawaii

 

Someone is copying local grower by putting them up on a tatura trellis system

[Darold Petty]

One of my favorite memories from the 1998 IPS Biennial in Thailand, We had properly ripened durian each day, Kampong's employees made a tremendous effort to produce the finest buffet meals.  I really like durian, but it is quite rich, and one cannot eat very much at one time.

  Another anecdote is that durian is an aphrodisiac, with the proverb   " When the durian comes down, the skirts go up !"  

Hi Karen, nice to see you posting here !!