Jim East @ wolfyvegan @slrpnk.net

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In order to flower well, longan usually needs a "winter" season with min temps <12°C and/or less rain. While fruiting, hot and wet is best. At sea level in the tropics, the low temps usually don't occur, and even if the winter is dry enough for longan to flower (but not dry enough to kill it), the other half of the year usually doesn't get as hot as subtropical summers, so the fruits might not develop properly. Either you have a strange tropical breed of longan, or you are very lucky to have the right conditions where you live.

Frozen? Probably a 'Mongthong' harvested unripe in Thailand. I highly recommend going to Malaysia or Borneo and trying a fresh durian instead. You only get one first durian, and you owe it to yourself to try a good one.

I don't want to ask for your exact location, but longan at sea level is... unusual. Don't take it for granted. Cherish it.

Nice! Cherimoya and lúcuma are the two cold fruits that I wish that I could grow.

That's like Florida... wow. If you're already on the limit for apples, then further warming of the winter will probably put an end to them, but it's still impressive that you have them at all. Do you know if cherimoya fruits well there?

That is impressive. Apples and bananas in the same place? What elevation?

...Well at least there's no grass to chop.

Those sound yummy! I really enjoy a high-quality, sweet blueberry, so I would probably enjoy those. I won't be growing them here, but anyone reading this who has the climate for them, give them a try!

Never grown fenugreek or heard of anyone using the leaves. Do you eat them?

Three important tricks for growing all of your own food:

• Live in the non-seasonal equatorial zone and/or invest heavily in food-preservation infrastructure that doesn't require constant connection to the electric grid.
• Learn to eat what grows well in your area.
• Focus on high-calorie staples and plant smaller amounts of everything else.

In the last few days, I've harvested mostly mandarins, but also bananas, papayas, cacao, araçá, capsicums, tomatoes, rangpur (mandarin limes), and... badea and naranjilla... and probably other things that I forget, but it's a bit of a lull in the jackfruit right now, and the birds get almost all of the jaboticabas, and I'm still struggling to keep up with eating a recent plantain harvest. Oh, and there's noni. Always noni. No shortage of noni. The neighbours hate noni.

The developers sold out, and the new parent company wanted to add opt-out telemetry IIRC. They received a lot of backlash and apparently reduced the data collected, but they had proven that they could not be trusted, and multiple forks were made before the new version with telemetry even released. Tenacity is what came of at least two of those forks.

I guess rambutans can't be stopped from making too many babies! 😆

I've never grown calamondin, so I can't say for sure, but it's possible that you really did stunt it... How much of the tree did you cut off?

EDIT: What elevation are you growing both soursop and longan? Do you have a dry winter there?

Sounds pretty abundant for a colder climate!

Interesting. How does the sweetness compare to blueberries?

I just live somewhere cold

That is unfortunate. Are the raspberries fruiting now? How long until saskatoons?

Durian in California? I highly doubt that that would be fresh. If it's your first time, I recommend finding one that fell from the tree fully ripe that same day.

I might try growing okra again someday. When it's good, it's good.

Hey, some trees fruit so hard that they lose all of their leaves...

“Dapple Dandy” or “Dinosaur Eggs.”

I'll look it up!

Yeah, I never thought fruit could taste this good.

Have you ever tried durian?

Do those produce year-round where you are, or is this the main event? In some places, if you have enough trees that aren't all clones of each other, it's possible to harvest oranges and avocados pretty much all year!

That's beautiful. Great fruit is always exciting! When the quality is high enough that one meal can keep you flying for the whole day... wow. Does the green and purple peach have a name?