Why Durians Needs Shading for Plant Establishement?

Growing durians is not the SAME as growing mangos, rambutans or jackfruits, Durians are very sensitive at early growth. Before its domestication from the wild jungle, they used to grow under tall vegetative. Statistics showed that about two-third of durian growing in the country is grown from SEEDLINGs  meaning that no bud grafting take place.When bud grafted materials are introduced, farmers took less care about its planting. This is because at early stage of planting durians need extra care needed where it cannot be exposed to the direct sunlight totally. In the equatorial climate where sunshine hours are very tense and dry grafted seedlings need shades either live shades like bananas or gylceridia or plastic nettings.