Still looking. Let me know if you have any.

Thanks

I have black pearl and 7 other variety's.

Grafting them is not very easy i noticed and that's for fresh scions.

Do you have experience grafting wax jambu? What is the best way to graft them?

Bangkook,

I won't graft them . I will root the scionwoon/cuttings.

Do you have some to sell?

Please let me know.

I see, i read about rooting them in water but haven't tried it yet. Well i'm not in Thailand now but can we PM on this forum?

My black pearl is a very small tree but growing in full sun and full soil now. I never ate those waxapples myself. Also the new variety's i never ate so i hope my tree's fruit soon. I collected the sweetest chomphu waxapple tree's i could find on any market. Some are really sweet and can fruit twice a year i read.

The new waxapples should be 2-4 pieces in 1 kg. That's huge :) But i only care for sweet taste.

Do these have seeds? I remember way back then when I lived in South America that we ate wax apples and they were sweet and had seeds.

I have new variety's who have big seeds and older ones like tabtim-chan who are called seedless, very tiny seeds.

Yes they can be nice sweet but have to be ripened well, many times they are tasteless and picked too early.

Also the Malay apple can be sweet if you got the right variety.

There are many variety's in Thailand who are good but the plants attract many insects who eat it's leaves. I made cocktail waxapple tree's out of all variety's and they grow well now.

The big variety's i haven't eaten yet but they are improved in taiwan so i guess it is something special.

I have not seen any seeded varieties here. I one time bought some fruit in China town in New York City but no seed and the fruit was horrible.

Those big seeded variety's are chomphu Phet sri rung and Phet suwan from Thailand. They are really sweet and very juicy. I didn't eat chomphu for 10 years because they were always bland but lately they are great if picked ripe.

I haven't heard of sweet roseapples in the usa but Thailand is the specialist for them. They are so good that i started collecting them. Also good malay apples i like to grow, not the common variety.

But i don't think you'll get sweet fruit if you grow them in new york. Thailand is the real tropics and much warmer then any place in the usa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQJy4pcGwXk

You best go for a variety like this or any other topclass one. This one is sweet and looks good. Some sweet ones can also be green coloured but the days of those bland waxapples are over now, in Thailand and Indonesia that is.

Where can I buy the seeds to try?

From guys like Maryoto who is also selling on this forum. There are many indonesian sellers these days.

But those seeds don't ship well. I tried it myself this year and they arrived dead after 4 weeks. USA has faster mail though. I heard it's possible to root cuttings, that would be much better then growing from seed.

My tree's don't have to be pruned yet but if they are big enough i will experiment with growing cuttings. I have no idea how thick the branch has to be for that.

They grow best in full sun and need lots of water.

Oh i forgot, you asked for black pearl but that one i have not eaten yet. It isn't on the markets but i have a small tree mook daeng (red pearl in thai). I don't know if that's the same variety but in Asia and especially Thailand they like to give their own names to fruit.

I hope i can compare my own waxapples soon and tell you which is the best one. The tree's don't have to be very big to fruit.