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!
is that a honeybee?
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
heres some fruit up close, it tastes like cake
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
I have grown hundreds of container citrus trees and meyer lemons are finicky. In general citrus aren't terribly happy indoors where it is quite dry. I have mine in a greenhouse in winter where it is fairly humid and they all do great.... except the meyer lemon which is never all that happy.
I strongly suggest a non-meyer lemon. The grocery store types 'Eureka' and 'Lisbon' are great, and commonly available. Also Pink Variegated Eureka makes a pretty striped and pink-inside fruit, though less productive than the others.
I have grown many lemon trees and they are all kinda similar (except meyer which is a hybrid)
I've seen a lot of thorny weeds but I don't recognize this particular one. Looks kinda like honeysuckle but honeysuckle has no thorns
- 'ZZ' plant
- Snake Plant / mother-in-law-tongue plant
- Dracaena(sp?)
I have had these growing indoors in poor light conditions, rarely watered, for YEARS and they do well.
Yes, thank you for mentioning this or I would not have realized what I was doing wrong
cherimoya requires hand pollination, an I am really lazy. For years I have had flowers but not fruit set despite my half-assed attempts at paintbrush pollination, but this is the first time I have had a fruit set. Hopefully it stays, it is currently the size of my thumb
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.
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.
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)