The season started about 2 weeks ago, sometime in mid March 2018 (or slightly earlier). The supplies are mostly from Johor currently, as Pahang's stock is low, and quality lacking.
If we look back in the recent years durian supplies, 2017 was at it's worst, with sky high prices and low quality durians. 2015 was a bumper year while 2016 was affected by El Nino. Towards late 2017, the supply stablized as the El Nino (2016) and La Nina (2017) weather phenomena tappers to an end.
Weather swings has adverse impact in many ways, and it has shown in agriculture too. However, even with low yield, durian farmers will need to continue with their TLC on the durian trees. This may lead to healthy and 'plump' trees, full of vigour. This resulted in the better quality and higher supply in the year end supply of 2017, which lead into early 2018.
The 2018 harvest is likely to be better, as evident by the recent low prices and better quality.
My first try was 2 weeks ago, where I had Mao Shan Wang ( MSW), D13 and Tekka. Of the whole lot we tried, D13 was good, so was Tekka (it was first day of supply). MSW wasn't impressive then.
I had my 2nd feast on 2 April 2018. Will update with photos soon. I had Jing Feng and MSW on this trip. Both of them left me rather happy, for now.
