I_GROWER

Canes, canes everywhere

merce3

first backyard guava... glad it's pink but it wasn't all that sweet. i will wait longer for the next two.

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Last months forage.















All picked from the wild

sal

My son (Alek) holding pagua avocado. I harvested 2 pagua avocados. Small tree still but huge and tasty fruit. I can't wait for next year.

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Dangermouse01

Pineapples and Dragon fruit (Physical Graffiti and Vietnamese Jaina).
DF in upper right is 1LB-7oz Physical Graffiti.




DM

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The perfect drinking coco. The white slime is just starting to get a little firm at the bottom.

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Hammocked Banana

How can u tell a coconut is perfectly ripe w/o cutting it open? Is it when it starts to turn yellowish? Size?

merce3

i'm sure someone will correct me if i'm wrong. i think it's the amount of water that's inside combined with color/size (maturity). the younger the sweeter/more water and the older the more meat/less water

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You can tell the approximate age visually, but that's not really helpful. Each peduncle has many cocos of similar maturity, so as it's getting close to ready, you test one and keep track of the date. At the stage in the photo, the endocarp is soft and can be punctured with your finger. The flavor changes dramatically as the coco matures and it has different uses at each stage. Unless you can pick your own cocos, you'll probably never taste these.

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kubali

some really sweet Barbados cherry's

Richard

Here's 3 lbs (about 2 gallons) of habaneros I harvested today. These peppers are from my 3 year old plant that did its all and expired this weekend. Not a lack of water or anything else - just completion of life cycle. It certainly did its best - not only in the quantity of peppers, but they are D*mn Hot!! I wouldn't use more than 1 per quart or 2 per gallon of salsa. Here you see them sitting in a large bowl, inside an oversize plastic bag before going into the refrigerator. In a day or two I'll sort and vacuum seal them for longer term refrigeration and freezing.

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Mostly tomatoes and peppers and horseradishes.

1. Cherry tomatoes
2. Beefsteak tomatoes
3. Brandywine tomatoes
4. Jalapeno peppers
5. Green, orange, purple, and yellow bell peppers
6. Serrano chili peppers
7. Purira chili peppers
8. Banana peppers
9. Hungarian Hot Wax peppers. They are hotter than Jalapenos.
10. Long thin Cayenne peppers
11. Red Habanero peppers
12. Normal and Ruffled Pimento peppers
13. Horseradish roots

It was a epic summer and we got too much so a lot has to be canned.

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I_GROWER

Had another 20 in the truck

pmurphy

I spent a couple of days harvesting and canning plums......got 32 jars of jam and made wine with the rest.

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K. We picked more stuff today and this is some of the tomatoes and peppers - before and after the picking.
The Purira chili peppers. This picutre was taken a few weeks ago and now they are red. I have another picture of those.



The Habanero peppers. They said they were red but they only turned orange so I think what we really got was orange Habanero seeds.



The Hungarian Hot Wax peppers. The first ones really dench and they are all really hot - hotter than Jalapenos.





The Long thin Cayenne peppers. We got tons of them.



The peppers I picked today. I just tossed them all on the same plate except the Serrano, Purira, and Cayenne peppers.
The Cayenne peppers are on the right side and the green Seranno peppers on that plate were from a plant that died so I picked them anyway.
The second picture is a mix up of Serrano and Purira peppers.





The last picture is some of the Apache blackberries that we picked last spring. There wasnt enough to can because its only the 2nd year but the canes are getting huge wo we should have a ton of them next spring yay.



EDIT.
I almost forgot the tomatoes. I didnt get very many pictures for my scrapbook but I shot these before I started picking.
One of the Brandywine tomatoes. A few little bug holes because it was too close to the ground.



A small Beefsteak tomato. We got lots of them.



And some of the Cherry tomatoes.

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Richard

From my curry leaf tree (Bergera koenigii). It's about 4' tall now.

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I_GROWER

Richard

4 Janice-Kadota figs.

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pmurphy

Enought Italian Honey Figs to make some fresh fig preserves......this is the tree's second crop of the year

Richard

Two 1/4 lb Janice-Kadota figs and a cup of Goji Berries.

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