Garcinia mangostana ‘King’ - Mangosteen Tree

https://growsonyou.com/plant/slideshow/Garcinia_mangostana/365692

This is the link to the San Diego Zoo mangosteen tree.

Checked your link out Delonix and sounds like it's super tropical. Always good to try something different.

Best of luck with your new venture.

Thorneyside,

It’s considered an ultra tropical tree. However, there’s people growing them in the mildest , protected areas of San Diego’s awesome frost-free subtropical climate. One local nursery that sells them says Vietnamese people here have fruited it. Although, I would have to see pics to believe it.

Bushbernie,

Thank you. I will post my progress with this tree.

I’ve read it has to have tons of water and no direct sun here until it’s over 6 ft (2 m) tall.

When I saw the thumbnail version I thought it was a Rubber Tree! :D How long would you expect it to take before you get any fruit on it? Perhaps 10-15 years???

The seller says because it’s grafted, most likely 3 or 4 years. Seedlings can take 7 to 12 years in the deep tropics, but a seedling if it ever bears fruit here would probably take 10 to 15 years, easily (if it lives that long 😂).

I thought perhaps 10-15 years might be the time it needed to reach a mature state that would permit it to bear fruit.

Grafted plants sometimes bear very young because of mature scion. The scion is taken from a sexually mature tree. But, even though young plants can bear fruit it’s not recommended, in most cases to allow fruit to develop until 3 to 4 years.

I have a current situation where my Bouea macrophylla (Maprang tree) has flower spikes. It’s a seedling tree which is only 2 1/2 years old approximately, and typically doesn’t flower until 8 or 9 years old. It typically grows very slowly in Southern California, but my tree went from 11 inches to 6 1/2 ft in two years. Which is insanely fast! I’m not sure if I will cut the flower spikes off or leave them, yet.

Perhaps you should cut them off for this year to give the tree time to mature more before bearing fruit - especially if it has grown so fast!

I still haven’t decided what to do, yet. Since the tree is so strong, I may just let it go and see what happens. Fortunately, I still have time.