So, the neighbors have a couple acres and they only grow edibles. They are both also very generous with the bounty.

Recently, they gave us a bag of longan fruit and a bag of rambutan fruit.

I got talked into planting the seeds.

Currently, I am treating them like I did the Pitanga seeds.

I'll snap some pictures if I get any shoots coming up.

If I remember correctly Rambutan is one of those plants that do not stay true from seed.
The chief problem is if you started with a dioecious cultivar (both female and male flowers on the same tree) you may end up with monoecious plants (either male or female flowers) and that it will take you 4-5 years to find out.
The silver lining is this kind of plants tend to make good rootstock for grafting, so it's an experiment worth doing.

PS: I love Rambutan but I haven't seen it for sale in many years. It seems these days it's all lychee or nothing.

ElPolloDiablo said:If I remember correctly Rambutan is one of those plants that do not stay true from seed.
The chief problem is if you started with a dioecious cultivar (both female and male flowers on the same tree) you may end up with monoecious plants (either male or female flowers) and that it will take you 4-5 years to find out.
The silver lining is this kind of plants tend to make good rootstock for grafting, so it's an experiment worth doing.

PS: I love Rambutan but I haven't seen it for sale in many years. It seems these days it's all lychee or nothing.

Thanks for the heads up.