It is fairly soft, maybe like melon flesh texture. Flavor is like vanilla.
It is easy to grow if you have a place to keep it above 45F or so, they won't take frost! Mine is happy in a container. They seem okay with dry air so might be okay inside a house in winter. Mine is in a humid greenhouse in winter so hard to say
My wife gets upset when I water her succulents, she says she is training them to be air plants
Always be willing to walk away, or you are working for free for somebody else's profit. If it isn't fun, quit.
Yeah its weird that people keep talking about "Reddit's content" when they haven't created shit. At least Slashdot has always said "These comments are owned by whoever wrote them"
Not that slashdot hasn't become crap, but it's something.
Paper, softcover, thin rough pages.
Hardback is hard to hold on to, and I hate those book jackets they come with yet it pains me to just throw them away
"Nobody goes there anymore, its too crowded."
Really, though. What's the point of contributing to a thread that already has hundreds of top level posts. Something new and fresh is worth a try.
Ah, if you have one big tree already you can plant smaller ones under it, but if you don't have the shade to begin with it may be quite hard.
I only have experience with temperate climates, I fail to grow cactus even if I try
Not in the peach tree, luckily, but there are a million birds & nests in the bushes around my house. I live in the home town of John James Audubon.
Robin are outstandingly successful gatherers, no wonder there are so many of them. My wife and I can see a nest from our living room window, and the parents make trips every 5min or so out to the yard and come back with giant mouthfuls of worms. I have no idea how they find the so quickly in the dry grass, but the babies get fat quick and are out on their own in no time.
Curry Leaf plants are exceptionally root-suckery
These clone themselves, no need for seeds. I have given away dozens of the babies. Good for Indian cooking
Creating sublemmies hangs forever it seems. I was able to create one on day one of the reckoning, but not anymore.
Also, I thought Lemmy was broken but for whatever reason it performs badly in Firefox but Chrome works okay. I don't like this because I hate Chrome/Google but it isn't clear what the issue is in Firefox. I have NoScript, Ublock, etc. there so likely plugins
They hatched a year ago, the babies are now adults and taking over my landscaping!
over-fertilization typically appears as leaf tip burn, I don't think this is it
These are delicious. I had never tried currants until I found some for sale in the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia. I read that currants were illegal in USA for a while because they spread a white pine disease, but for whatever reason are now legal again (as of like 10+ years ago)
They are adorable. I have no idea what they eat at that size, hopefully they can eat the spider mites that are attacking my plants!
Yes and if you know somebody who has one you can take a cutting and grow your own easily!
Robin nest in my Peach tree
This was from last spring. The robins have since grown up and have their own families now in "the big evergreen bush", while the peach tree is looking like a bumper crop this year!
in-ground blood orange sentenced to DEATH
poor production, meh fruit quality, poor "blood" coloration. This was an 8ft tall tree in my greenhouse. It was replaced with some mandarins. Blood oranges are overrated :-/
baby Mantis on a Jackfruit tree
This praying mantis must have just hatched. I leave my container trees outside during the warm months and always end up with a few mantis egg sacks, the babies emerge in the greenhouse in mid winter (its hot in greenhouse)
picture taken ~feb 2023
this seems like a prime use case for AI image recognition tools. There was some iphone app called leafsnap that does somthing like this... can you upload a picture and it finds likely candidates. Haven't used it in years, this was pre-chatGPT era
Oh and yeah... could be black locust. Not sure why I didn't tihnk of that, I have a billion of them in my yard
a 'Geffner' atemoya fruit, a hybrid of cherimoya & sugar apple
This guy is the likely replacement for the cherimoya if it isn't up to snuff
It is supposed to be one of the most delicious fruits in the world. It is in the 'annona' family, often called custard apple, sugar apple, etc. though they are actually different fruits in same family.
You can buy them at grocery stores in the US occasionally, sometimes fruit is sourced from California or Mexico.
It tastes like... vanilla ice cream maybe? Hard to describe.
thanks the direct link worked perfectly, subscribed
My greenhouse (built 5yrs ago)
I figure I'll give some context... my brother and I (and father-in-law and some friends) built this from a kit. I hired a guy on Craigslist to excavate, and I bought ready-mix-concrete delivery, but literally everything else we did ourselves. Building concrete forms, managing the pour, insulating foundation, stucco on foundation, assembling the structure, the glazing, running electric+water+gas service, wiring everything, installing heater, fans, thermostats, lighting, evaporative cooling (fogger), etc.
It was the most difficult thing I've ever done but incredibly rewarding. Now I just mess around with plants and stuff.
Again these pictures are from ~2018, I'll post a recent picture soon, now that I have large in-ground trees
finally my cherimoya tree has its first fruitlet
This in-ground grafted 'El Bumpo' tree is 3-4 years old and requires regular pruning to avoid hitting the greenhouse ceiling, but has yet to produce any fruitlets until now. Cherimoya unfortunately requires hand-pollination to set fruit, and even worse the flowers & pollen are only viable for a few hours... and I only even bother to try paintbrush pollination when I am already out there and see some fresh flowers.
If this fruit is not fantastic I'm digging this whole tree up and replacing with a Geffner atemoya I already have in a pot that is a better producer, without any hand pollination.
finally my cherimoya tree has its first fruitlet
This in-ground grafted 'El Bumpo' tree is 3-4 years old and requires regular pruning to avoid hitting the greenhouse ceiling, but has yet to produce any fruitlets until now. Cherimoya unfortunately requires hand-pollination to set fruit, and even worse the flowers & pollen are only viable for a few hours... and I only even bother to try paintbrush pollination when I am already out there and see some fresh flowers.
If this fruit is not fantastic I'm digging this whole tree up and replacing with a Geffner atemoya I already have in a pot that is a better producer, without any hand pollination.
first cherimoya fruitlet ever, after years of no fruit set
You may have heard that cherimoyas require hand-pollination, as they are only naturally pollinated by some beetle that clearly does not exist in my greenhouse in Pennsylvania. Not only do they require hand pollination, but the flowers and pollen are only viable for half a day or so. I am pretty lazy and only half-ass pollinate when I happen to be out there, so for three years I have had hundreds of flowers but no fruit. For the first time this year my 'El Bumpo' has a fruitlet, it is about the size of my thumb now. I hope it holds, and it better taste AMAZING or I am digging it up and replacing with my Geffner atemoya that sets fruit just fine on its own.
Eleven baby button quails hatched today, and a robin was trying to eat them
I went out to my greenhouse today and heard the peeping of baby quails. It seems my button quails had a few clutches hatch overnight and my wife and I counted at least eleven babies. A robin seems to have flown in then open door and seems really interested in the babies. I always remember the "birds are dinosaurs" trope and spenta solid half hour chasing him out... the robin really did not want to leave.