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.
Preparing some seeds for cold stratification. First step: an overnight bath.
From left to right: Siberian Pine, Giant Sequoia, Metasequoia.
I have no idea experience with the Siberian Pine and Metasequoia so will be following the same method I use for Giant Sequoia. Anyone with experience on how this is wrong: do share! 🙂
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! 😱🤯
Addressed all the envelopes for the native plant food security project and will be packing seeds this week. Will ship everything off on Monday.
The pawpaw and persimmon are partially cold-stratified already but since it’s winter, they should go back in the fridge as packed until spring. Boehmeria and physalis, follow directions on pack.
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.
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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.
Rearranging furniture, cleaning, washing windows, mopping, trimming, making clones for buyers, harvesting, pulling out herbs, and finally moving and assorting plants…
I started and finished THREE audiobooks. “Doppelgänger” by Naomi Klein, “Prequel” by Rachel Maddow and “The Color of Compromise” by Jemar Tisby. All recommend.
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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.