Leaves and flowers are edible but not fine eating. The flowers are better than the leaves - tastes like a floral, a bit overripe cucumber. The leaves are grassy.
Rabbits love this plant and will chew it down to stubble so if you actually want to see flowers, it needs protection.
The blooms started in early spring. The internet says they bloom in the fall. (Lies, LIES!) Plant is not self-fertile so you need two. Currently hand-pollinating bc only two plants have opened flowers and the rest are still buds. No pests noticed. Needs protection from high winds.
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.
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.
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
It’s from the Cerrado region of Brazil so it’s more cold+heat tolerant and less water demanding than occidentale. It can go around 5-6 months without water. It maxes out at 5 1/4ft (1.6m). Produces itty bitty nuts and fruit within a few years of germination. Hope I can keep it alive.💚
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.