My attempt to grow rambutan in hot and dry north Texas. Humidity here is not as ideal as it would need to be for optimium growing condition. Tropical humidity for growing rambutan is 60%-80%. Here, I'm getting from 20-60, average 35. So letting them grow outside is not the way to go.
I got some rambutan from a big asian grocery store, enjoy eating it. Though to myself should I attempt to grow this sucker? My quest beginning by immediately wrapping those seed in three layer damp tissue paper for group one. Second group is wrapped with two damp tissue paper and a paper towel on the outer layer.
Group one seem to be doing better. Lots of long tap roots. No special liquid was used,
just plain old bottle water, not tap water. I figure that the tissue paper hold more moisture then the rough grain from the paper towel. Just my thought, no science to back it up, so don't take my word for it.
Both group of wrapped seed are placed inside a plastic bag.
Group One with impressive tap root, this is about less than 2 weeks,
can't be exact because didn't keep an accurate record when I started this.
Group two with paper towel on the outer layer, not many long tap roots.
Both wrap inside the plastic bag. You could see the moisture droplet stick to the plastic.
Tomorrow, time to put them in a rootmaker 4in pot.
I too am wanting to try this. Wish you the best of luck!
ReplyDeleteI am in the process of doing this now. any suggestions?
ReplyDeleteThank you for your interest. I'm no expert, all the info I got is from gardenweb. With that say, good luck with your growing, only suggestion I could provide is to keep the humidity above 50%. My experimental rambutan is alive, will see how it survive this coming summer.
DeleteI kind of neglect this blog, but will update more as I got myself fresh batch of seed to try another experiment.
I will update in the coming week with my new experiment.
Hello, very good post... do you have any status of how growing?
ReplyDeleteThey all die in February this year. When they were in the greenhouse I did not turn on the heater. They suffer from several day of 29F(-1.67C), I wanted to see what temp some of my other small fruit tree can handle, unfortunately, the rambutan did not do well. I will try again when rambutan fruit is available. Young rambutam seedling do not like the cold weather, everyone know that.
ReplyDeleteyeah, they have no problem germinating and growing in pots. but mine died too in the cold. i don't think we will sucessfully grow these to mature fruiting trees in zone 8 (north texas).
ReplyDeleteThey Going To plant How many Years They live ?
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