Re: [nafex] Durian

At 4:04 PM -0500 1/1/00, Hortus wrote:
>From: "Hortus" <HORTUS@worldnet.att.net>
>
>In the Chinese fresh fruit shops they have just received fresh durian from
>Thailand.
>Is is possible to pot propagate them from their seed?
>
>regards
>Joel
>New York City
>


I saved some seed from a durian and got several to sprout and grow a 
few leaves. But they are true tropicals, and won't survive when it 
gets chilly, even if it doesn't freeze. This I discovered when I left 
them outside during the autumn here in southern California, and one 
by one they stopped growing and eventually died.

I had some thought of trying to keep them growing in my greenhouse. 
But the ones I saw in Sri Lanka were probably 80-100 feet tall, and 
that's too big for my conditions.

--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 9-10
wlp@radar-sci.jpl.nasa.gov

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