Ever wondered exactly what pesticide residues might be lingering on your delicious durians? Food safety and health safety is on everyone’s mind today, but the agricultural chemical world is still mysterious and confusing to most of us. Rather than nihilistically throwing up our hands and assuming we’re all being poisoned with every bite — let’s […]
The 10 Best Durian of 2017 – My Year in Review
When I tell you where I ate my 10 best durians of the year, I’m telling you a story about me. “Best durian” are deeply personal. They’re where I was and what I was doing and what was important to me when I ate them. This post, The 10 Best Durian of 2017 is essentially […]
How To Do Durian Grafting At The Hypocotyl Stage
This is a step-by-step tutorial on grafting durian at the hypocotyl stage. May the controversy over methods to slice and dice a baby tree rain down upon this post so that we can all get more delicious durian varieties. Many thanks to John Mood, an expert nurseryman and durian grower in Hawai’i, for teaching us how to do this […]
In Memory of Philippines Durian Farmer Severino Belviz
The Duyaya Durian is a heavy topic. When you open it, all conversation along the table stops as durian lovers take in its rich buttery folds, bright yellow, so corpulent it practically drips over the sides of the shell. Duyaya is one of the fleshiest durians in the world. It was discovered by Severino Belviz, […]
4 Varieties of Durio Lowianus in Hulu Langat
Everybody’s a special snowflake these days — maybe especially durians. These times are rift with Musang King and Red Prawn fever, where every durian eater plays favorites, but some of the Malaysia’s most special wild durians get forgotten. Here are four highly individual varieties of a wild durian species, Durio lowianus, that I ate recently […]
How To Build A Tropical Greenhouse In Cold Climates
Note From Lindsay: This is a very special guest post from my friend Jay at Tropical Fruit Hunters, who grew these jackfruit in his tropical greenhouse in Ohio. I’ve occasionally gotten questions from readers in places like Russia, Iceland and Slovakia (not making this up) asking how to grow durian in extremely cold environments. In […]
Durian Worms, Organic Solutions, And Lots and Lots Of Frass | Growing Durian
One of the very first durians I ever bought had something wrong with it. I was in our tiny kitchen in our tiny cottage on a dreary, midwinter day in Oregon. It was so miserably drizzly we’d bought a durian just to cheer ourselves up. I remember standing tip-toe at the counter in my thick […]
Durian Trellis with Peter Salleras — Beating Cyclones With Smart Technology
Once upon a time in a very exotic place, there was an evil djinn that lived on a mountain overlooking a village. Occasionally, the creature roamed around, knocking on the roofs of houses with children. If it knocked, the parents had to choose one child to set outside for the djinn to eat, or he […]
So You Want to Plant a Durian Tree
Once you realize you’ve got a problem when it comes to durian, the next step is figuring out how to get an unlimited supply of it. That’s right — you want to plant a durian tree of your own. You’re asking yourself: What if I could have a durian tree in my yard? I could eat as […]
