It’s getting to be winter or summer, so what’s ripening where you live? I have serious jackfruit production right now.
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Finland. Chilis are ripening under artificial sun.
Outside, I’ve got ground elder sprouting. Yes, in Finland, December. No snow this year, but at least rich people can heat their swimming pools in Texas!
Estonia. Kale can still be picked from the field, but it’s not growing since there’s no light.
Some sea-buckthorn trees are still holding on to leaves. All other leaved trees have dropped theirs.
Right, things sprout but are too weak without light and instantly become food for fungus that doesn’t care for light. It does care for moisture and lack of disturbance though, so natural composting that replenishes soil every year is clearly staggered. I don’t see familiar white rhisomal nets that appear in winter normally yet.
My pink guava, pomegranate, and lemon trees are poppin off
What’s the fruit fly situation with your guava(s)? I’ve heard over and over that in South America the fruits are almost all full of maggots but that in Asia it isn’t a problem.
The maggots taste like guava though. Just don’t look at the bitten fruit.
Im in socal and haven’t had maggots in the fruit that is picked regularly. Theres lots on the ground though that get covered in fruit flies. So picking at the right time is the way but my tree is producing so much that i have to give most away.
Due to them having a lot of small seeds, i run them through a food mill and pour the seedless puree in silicone ice cube trays and freeze them.
There’s something to be said about tree ripened fruit though. I had a white guava tree in my backyard while growing up, and while we knew the green ones had nothing, we risked a maggot or two for the reward of a full flavored fruit.
Other than jackfruit, I have various year-round fruits in abundance right now (banana, papaya, capsicum, little sour things), some fruits from Jim West bearing out of season (Patinoa almirajo, Annona
sclerodermaliebmanniana, various others), and arazá (Eugenia stipitata). I received three arazá plants as a gift, and two of them fruit more or less continuously, but the largest fruited a bit last year and nothing at all this year, even after being pruned. Strange.EDIT: Many other things too. I use Inga edulis mainly for biomass/mulch, but I let some of the trees grow up to produce fruit, and those are starting. Ananás come and go. Still waiting to see what the safou (Dacryodes edulis) trees do, if anything… I’m also beginning to suspect that Canarium schweinfurthii is not worth planting for the fruit, but that’s another topic…
My mom loved Inga! Sweet and velvety.
That’s an amazing selection you’ve got! I’d love to try azara one day.
Would be really cool to see a few pictures of your setup sometime, if you’re open to sharing :).
Since it’s nearly winter the options are drying up. In my yard there is just citrus. Lemons and mandarins are just ripening. But I’ve also been getting a steady infusion of persimmons as well. They’re fairly easy to grow here but people don’t seem to like them too much.
Kiwis are also in season but I don’t know anyone who grows them so I need to buy them in the market. And the season for feijoa is wrapping up as well. Some varieties of avocado might be harvested now but those are harder to come by around here.
Unfortunately my peach tree is nearly fully dormant and my indoor jabuticaba bonsai, while growing and loving its place, shows no indication of flowering.
I technically have a dragonfruit I’m growing. Right now it’s still pretty small, about 50cm across.
But I have no fucking idea what I am going to do with it long term. It regularly snows where I live, and I don’t have space for a full tree inside my apartment building.
