Good to have the fruit bowl full again. I eat 3 pieces of fruit a day, and this coming week it will be a tangerine, an apple, and a pear. Persimmons are over, it looks like, so it's pears until plums and peaches come around.
It seems as if one of the fruits must than an initial "p." 🙂
Cold hardy to 28F/-2C, can be grown in a pot. Fruits 4-5 yrs from seed.
It’s the fruit that makes it so special. The peel is very sweet and chewy and the fruit inside balances it with a nice tartness. And bc you eat fruit+peel, it’s very nutritious.
I sell seedlings for $15 plus shipping available in early spring. Open to reservations now.
The peel comes away from the fruit easily and the fruit is sectional/easy to pull apart like a mandarin. The taste of the fruit is like a tart orange but the pith has sugar in it so it’s not completely sour. The peel is very sweet. Sometimes the fruit is seedless, but no more than 2 seeds per fruit.
Just came across something ppl should know about: grafted jaboticabas.
Red hybrids grow fast from seed and flower within 3-5 years. Most species flower after 6+ years. When you graft a flowering branch on a jabo, it can take 3 yrs for the graft to finally flower. So it makes sense to graft other species of jabo but not red hybrids which is what this Etsy seller was marketing for $220! 😱🤯
Traded homemade muffins for a bunch of these fruit. It’s a hybrid between trifoliate orange and Duncan grapefruit and can be used as a lemon substitute - it supposedly can grow in zone 7 so might be more convenient for northern growers rather than bring a 🍋 tree indoors.
Watered and sweetened to lemonade, you can definitely taste hints of grapefruit.
I just got this plant in a trade and I’m going to do a before and after 6 months pic to guilt the person I traded with as being a bad plant parent. This is the before pic. Will take a new pic beginning of June.
I knew that they probably get too large to keep in a pot but I found a mamey fruit 3 yrs ago that was the size of a large sopadilla and had a “small” seed inside. I grew it out thinking it would be a dwarf tree. Nope.
Last peanut butter fruit of the year (Bunchosia glandulifera). I have more hanging on the tree but not sure if they’ll ripen in the garage.
That time of year again, bringing hundreds of plants into the garage and sunroom. What’s wrong with me?? Why do I do this to myself?? 😩🥹 #gardening#fruit#GrowYourOwn#jardin#plantas#organic#fruta@plants
No ripe berries for Halloween. Alas. I saw spotted cucumber beetle on it yesterday and squished it. Also squished a tree cricket. A couple of unripe berries were slightly nibbled and discarded (probably cricket). I tried a green one and it tastes like baby peas. Not bad. Hopefully ripe berries are better.
Blueberries blooming in fall! This is the “top hat” variety. I checked the other bushes and they aren’t blooming.
Blueberries will do this if the fall is warm for too long and it affects the next season’s crop (fewer berries). Picking off the flowers doesn’t fix this.
I was worried the pollinators wouldn’t find these flowers after two new species were completely ignored (achocha and pink soba). But they found it. 😊 Maybe I will have spider berries for Halloween?
This plant gets a lot of hype bc of its dense nutrition, novel flavor and continuous fruiting during warm seasons. But before you consider getting one, most flowers don’t produce fruit and there is scant flesh.
Keep above 45F, fruits from seed in 3 years. Tastes like sweet peanut butter+berry. Will fruit/grow in a large pot.
have you ever had an orange/jamaican lilikoi (passiflora laurifolia)?
they're quite different from yellow/purple passionfruit. the shell is soft-ish. the inside is mild & perfumed. not sour at all.
they have beautiful purple flowers & cover everything (like other passionfruit). it seems like the flowers & fruits only occur on the "outside" of the plant curtain, so maybe i should thin it out a bit to get more fruit..
#TodayILearned that the delicious Mexican fruit sauce #Chamoy probably derives its name and recipe from the #Philippines’ “kiamoy”, which is a fruit sauce made with the same recipe. That recipe was in turn derived from a #Hokkien#Chinese recipe brought by Chinese immigrants, who called it 鹹梅 “kiam-mui” (literally: salted plums).
As a Hokkien descendant who loves #Mexican#fruit salads, this makes me happy.
People online have said that the curry tree berry has an interesting/distinct taste so I wanted to try. Last/this year, animals have been stealing them before ripe. But I finally got to try one.
They don’t taste good, no. They have the curry leaf flavor but with Pine-sol and a bit of sweetness. Seeds are mildly poisonous but are large so easily discarded.
Easy to grow tree. Fruits within a few months with cloning. Lots of delicious fruit - the birds agree. Tastes like almond joy candy if it were jammy and didn’t contain HFCS, just cane sugar. Doesn’t tolerate sustained cold temperatures. Bring inside in winter. Water hog. Gets big. Pest resistant.