I am not too crazy about the taste of this cousin to the sugar apple. However, it has nice size fruit, which stay on the tree all winter (a pleasant view for this deciduous tree.
Also, the color is not too bad.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Atemoya flower in female stage
According to http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/atemoya.html
The flower, in its female stage, opens between 2 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Between 3 and 5 o'clock on the following afternoon, the flower converts to its male stage.
Here, it is clearly in its female stage.
The flower, in its female stage, opens between 2 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Between 3 and 5 o'clock on the following afternoon, the flower converts to its male stage.
Here, it is clearly in its female stage.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Jaboticaba
Throughout April, my small Jaboticaba tree has been fruiting. Here you can see the spectrum of color the fruit go through - from a pale green to a rich, deep purple. The purple ones were still a week away from harvesting
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
pineapple
This pineapple plant had been in nice soil, with proper irrigation for several years. I never got a bloom. So I threw in in a pot with little soil, even less water, and what do you know: instant bloom and fruit!
Now, i am not sure if it was all the care I gave it for years, or the lack of care which caused the flowering.
My theory is that it thought it was gonna die, so it flushed out a flower to reproduce.... or it could be an April Fool's joke it played on me
Now, i am not sure if it was all the care I gave it for years, or the lack of care which caused the flowering.
My theory is that it thought it was gonna die, so it flushed out a flower to reproduce.... or it could be an April Fool's joke it played on me
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Sawsall meets the coconuts
I was tired of husking these with the machete, so I pulled out the old saws-all!
Harvested some nice tasting coconuts this week. I've included a photo of a glass of the coconut water, to show its consistency. The outsides of the coconuts are light green, with portions/stripes grey as they age.
Inside, however, is some quality Coconut!
Harvested some nice tasting coconuts this week. I've included a photo of a glass of the coconut water, to show its consistency. The outsides of the coconuts are light green, with portions/stripes grey as they age.
Inside, however, is some quality Coconut!
Prickly Pear are here, also
In addition to the Dragonfruit, the Prickly Pears are ripening. Unfortunately, many of them split, and ants invaded. I attribute the splitting to the erratic periods of drought, then excessive rain, then lack of rain for weeks!
The split here, however, is caused by my knife, in the careful ritual I have to open the fruit.
Dragon fruit are here!
The dragonfruit have finally made fruit! Here are a series of photos taken as I opened my first one up this last week in August, 2007
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