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cbezak

Hi Ante, those olives are beautiful! A friend of mine and her Mother and I just put away about 60 lbs of cracked olives in jars. just a drop in the bucket compared to all that you have there! They are both from Italy so they taught me how to crack soak and season them and put them up in olive oil. Wow would I love to have a few of those trees!! What do you do with the ones in the crates, are they for making oil?
Happy growing,
Carla

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Dalmatiansoap

Thanks,
they are almost all for Oil production. One we prepare for food must be all black like these

U can find more about it here
If U dont know what to do with yourself ;)

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momoese

sunfish

Passiflora Edulis Flavicarpa


NOID P.edulis

Dalmatiansoap

Olea Europea var Dalmatica

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sunfish

Not from my yard but I did harvest them

flaflowerfloozie

Noni berries, I got some of those off the tree yesterday. Not a pleasent smelling fruit but the tree to look at is beautiful, I wouldn't give it up because of the fruit. I got seeds available if anyone is interested. PM me

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I wanna buy your seeds...maybe??

Dalmatiansoap

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Dangermouse01

A bunch of Key Limes.


And a couple of Red Limes.


I see pies in my future.
DM

caliboy1994

The last thing you'd expect to find growing on a Northern California college campus is tropical fruit. And then I found this:







It's a tamarillo. There's a tamarillo tree growing in a protected spot next to a building with ripe fruits on it, smack in the middle of campus. I couldn't resist grabbing and trying one. To me, it tasted like a tomato and passion fruit combined, with a savory aftertaste that still lingers in my mouth as I type this. Overall not that impressive by itself, but I think it would go really good in a salad.

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momoese

My pathetic Oca harvest. I will plant in containers next time.

venturabananas

Dang, all that green stuff above ground resulted in that?! Sometimes it seems like this whole gardening thing should be easier!

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momoese

It died back for unknown reasons without ever flowering. I think these tubers I harvested were the start of this seasons crop. I'll grow some of these in containers until I can figure it out.

harveyc

Okay, I'm late!

My last fig to ripen for the year was picked yesterday, a 'Panache' ("Tiger"):






Last Wednesday I picked my first home grown white sapote (Casmiroa eduls var. 'Santa Cruz') and ate it on Friday:




Tasted great!

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Illia

Congrats on that fig, my last one (ripe, that is. after the freeze there's still immature ones hanging on) was several weeks ago.

Curious, how old and how big is your Sapote tree?

Dalmatiansoap

OK now, cant stand it now anymore, thanks to harvey:
SAPOTE SEEDS WANTED!!!

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harveyc

Illia, my first white sapote tree was planted in 2008. In 2010 I planted a few more and grafted them to various varieties including one to the 'Santa Cruz' shown above. In 2011 I planted some more and now have 12 trees in the ground grafted to a total of about 30 different varieties (maybe 7-8 on the first tree). The tallest tree is about 10 feet tall with a trunk of about 4" in diameter. Still quite small, relatively. They have had almost no damage at all even down to 22F so far.

Ante, sorry, but I'm planting them myself. I've waited over four years for my first fruit and they are quite "rare" in northern California, especially around where I live (none that I know of for at least 50 miles) so it's been a challenge for me to get them myself. They are much more common around Tony (sunfish). I made a trip down to Exotica Nursery once to buy 10 large seedlings for grafting and that's about 400 miles away.

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What do you graft them onto?

harveyc

Seedlings of white sapote; ones I've either bought or raised myself. The seeds from the fruit I just picked and will soon harvest go for more plants. Some to sell and some for local family/friends and maybe I'll eventually take some down to the families we sponsor in Nicaragua.

One tree (in San Diego County, if I recall correctly) was recorded to have produced 6,000 pounds of fruit in one year. Mine will probably never get that large because of differences in climate and the fruits in winter can get wiped out.

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