Responses to Ethylene Rambutans are picked ripe and do not benefit from ethylene treatment or ethylene scrubbing during their postharvest handling. Physiological Disorders Chilling Injury . Symptoms include dark-maroon coloration in some cultivars and bronzing in other cultivars of the skin and spinterns. Skin Splitting . Skin splitting of thin-skinned cultivars occurs after heavy rains or sudden uptake of water by the fruit during the latter stages of development.
Infection is primarily through injuries including cut stem ends.
Stem-end rot, caused by Botryodiplodia theobromae , may affect rambutans in some production areas. Control strategies include effective preharvest disease control, careful handling to minimize physical damage, proper sanitation, and good temperature and humidity management. One Shields Ave.