One cherry makes two beans, about 1/10th of a cup of coffee.
I always wanted to try it, and now that I have I will ditch the plant. The fruit has little flesh and little flavor, and the seeds are rock hard even fresh and have no typical coffee taste. The plant looks nice enough at least
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
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!
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 :-/
I'm not sure what type this is, at it was labelled as a white guava, but it is really tasty and large fruited. Grows and produces well in a container
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 guy is the likely replacement for the cherimoya if it isn't up to snuff
They call it 'eggfruit' or yellow sapote, I think taste & texture is similar to undercooked white cake
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
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.
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.
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