During the videos linked above, the Parkinson’s study referenced was the well known Guadeloupe paper.
Someone in the audience postulated that the symptoms were caused by paraquat herbicide.
yeah even still, they mention also that the “Control group” 2/3 of them were also eating equal amount of anonas fruit. so then. not much of a control
Equal amounts of the fruit or the leaf tea?
That’s a big difference in concentration of annonacin
I looked into it, here is a reliable source.
Moerman, D.E. 1998. Native American ethnobotany. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon
This book is online and it has this bit to say:
This says sun or fire-dried. This book in turn gives references for this info but its a limited preview so I could not follow the trail any further.
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@Bradybb
My Inca plum is also a graft on a multi-grafted tree. This Inca graft is pretty much hidden under other more vigorously growing grafted varieties. The fruit were shaded the whole time but still tasty. I have hope that your Inca graft will produce quality fruit, too.
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This pic feels odd for two reasons:
- seeing Coe’s Golden Drop plums with two different coloring, both are about the same ripeness
- having Euro plums hanging on the tree this late in a year while I am about to finish picking my late-ripening Korean Giant Asian pears (granted picking KG a bit earlier than most years because wasps are vicious)
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My Mango pawpaw. The tree grow vigorously but took 10 years before flowering. It has not flowered as prolifically as a Shenandoah. The quality of fruit is not as good, in my opinion. The flesh is stringy near its skin and I don’t like a bitter after taste.
I keep the tree mainly for a cross pollination purpose.
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@Ahmad and @SMC_zone6
Picked all my September Free nectarine on the evening before temp dropped to 31 that night.
I thought I kept a branch of this variety but I may have kept more than one. Fruit can be large but they don’t ripen in time. I will need to remove them.
No sun today so the color is way off. The actual color is red over yellow background, quite pretty.
You guys have more stone fruit that have not ripened yet? All my stone fruit were picked.
I only have apples, jujubes and one, yes, one persimmon left on the trees.
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Wow! Do you ever have fruit! Fabulous!
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These nectarines look very nice! I picked the last of my stone fruit (Vision plums) in the first week of October. I have figs and apples left, will leave the apples till the first week of November.
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@mrsg47
As it turned out, this was a year of stone fruit (plums and nectarines/peaches) for me. I think production will be sparse next year.
This was an off year for pome fruit. It would be a year of apple and pear production next year but bunnies took out several apple trees. I am going to take out several pear trees. It took several years for me to realize that it is a waste of time and energy to grow pear trees in partial shade. Lack of enough sun has resulted in poor fruit production and more issues with fungal problems.
@Ahmad
This nectarine variety is very healthy considering my last fungicide spray was in July. Most fruit have no brown rot. I think it would be very nice to grow them in zone 7 or 8.
These fruit lack sugar so they taste rather bland. I am upfront with friends and neighbors before I gave these nectarines to them. Some said these still tasted better than store-bought.
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My last stone fruits are red flesh peaches, which I finished harvesting today. Now it’s just apples and persimmons.
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I had small horrible apples this year but my peaches and apricots were excellent. My plum a quetsch did very poorly and dropped every small green plum. They never had a chance to turn purple. I move in 3 weeks, farther south to a house (rented the entire house) the front terrace has a greenhouse roof. It should be interesting. Few insects (the least of my problems) but I will have the Mistral. The strong wind in the fall and spring. Zone 9b. We’ll see. My movers are taking all of my pots (over 30) with the trees and plants in them! they said it would be easier than removing the trees. They weigh a ton!
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So exciting for you.
Will you grow more citrus in pots in your new zone? If so, what will they be? Do they have pomelo plants for sale there? I love to grow pomelos. I wish I had more sunny spots in my house to overwinter pomelos.
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Your fruit is so beautiful! Even if bland, how amazing that you have nectarines in October. What kind of pomelos do you grow in containers and how have they done?
Yes, more citrus, I love mandarines and tangerines. Pomelos are so closely related to grapefruit, but I cannot eat them. Ugh! Pomelos need a lot of sun and heat as does most citrus. I will take pictures once I am settled! Come see me!
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Thank you.
I have not grown any pomelo. I love eating them. I dislike grapefruit. They are night and day to pomelos even though they look alike.
The only citrus I have ever grown is a potted Myers lemon. Just bought it this spring. It has done well so far. Flowered after 2 months and set fruit. Now it is flowering again.
I cannot declare a victory until after it goes through its first New England winter in my house first. Fungus gnats, spider mites and scales have killed many of my plants brought during the winter.
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Those leaves are so dark green. What fertilizer have you used/how often?
You will love them. Do not wait until it is too cold outside (40-50 degrees F) to take them indoors. The shock of constant heat from your home is something they must get used to gradually or else all of the fruit or flowers will drop. They will need as much sun as you can give them! Lemon pie!
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