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." 🙂
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.
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.