If you have enough light inside the apartment, you can put the whole dragonfruit cactus in a pot with a trellis in it and bring that indoors for the winter. You could prune the dragonfruit to whatever size you need, which encourages the formation of branches anyway. Each branch can produce one fruit, so you want as many branches as possible. The trellis should be shaped to encourage horizontal growth, so something like a vertical post with wheel-like spokes radiating out at the top would work.

Thanks for the tips. Seed germination is not an issue, just die-off, mainly from root-rot it appears. Mostly clay soil around here, so drainage is never perfect once the trees are in the ground, though of course I amend the soil with organic material as much as I can. I heard from someone else that ash and lime (CaO) can reduce the incidence of whatever fungal rot damages the roots, so for anyone reading who also has this issue, let’s all try that. Couldn’t hurt.

I doubt that that would be the case, but it is possible that the chickens are free-roaming and the human and garden are fenced in. Either way, freeing others from cages would be the revolutionary act that I would want to promote. No one is free until everyone is free.

I choose to interpret the bottom centre image as a human arriving to free a chicken from a cage, but I cannot know if that was the intention of whoever originally put together this collage or whoever took the photo or whoever was being photographed.

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I can say with confidence that it isn’t Juglans neotropica due to the elevation at which it was found, but if I seemed overly dismissive, that wasn’t the intention.

Captcha-walled. Can you upload the image of the inside of the green passionfruit in a reply to this comment?

Definitely not that.

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 scleroderma liebmanniana, 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…

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.

Is this really a new discovery? People I know have been using old plastic crates in the nursery to air-prune the roots for as long as I can remember. If I had known that people elsewhere hadn’t figured it out, I would have posted about it sooner…

From what I’ve read, P. edulis can survive brief/light frost if protected, and the purple form is more cold-tolerant than the yellow.

And a fruitarian produces less suffering than a vegan

These two lifestyles are not mutually exclusive.

Yes, I think that the optimal intake of potassium is much higher than the recommendations and that those numbers are more of a minimum to prevent deficiency symptoms. You really don’t need to worry about consuming too much of any nutrient from fruit, unless you binge on high-fat fruits or fruits of questionable edibility. Potassium in a supplement may be dangerous, but the potassium in fruit is easily absorbed and utilised by the body, and any excess is easily dissolved and excreted. Potassium is an alkali element, and these are known for forming ionic compounds with very high solubility in water. Of course, pure elemental potassium will combust if it comes in contact with water, so you shouldn’t eat that, and as another commenter pointed out, a very small amount of the potassium in bananas tends to be radioactive, so you shouldn’t eat more than a few million bananas per day…

I hate banana as much as the next guy, but living in the jungle and buying apples grown in Chile or the USA or Estonia or somewhere doesn’t really make sense…

This is important information. Thank you. I don’t see a way to pin a comment, but I would if I could. People should be aware of the potassium-40 content of the bananas that they eat.

I think that that would depend more on ripeness than number consumed…

Do you really trust the medical industry’s information on banana-based nutrition? Excess potassium is easily excreted, and IIRC, potassium overdose can only happen when an extremely large amount is consumed “all at once” (in other words, over a very short time). The dangerous dose of potassium must be expressed not in bananas per day but rather in bananas per second, and (again, IIRC) that dose is approximately 33 bananas per second.

6 bananas per day? If more than that were dangerous, Freelee’s kidneys would have given out a LONG time ago.

Photos of the tree itself and its leaves:

Perhaps so. If I needed to survive the winter in finland, I’d probably make jam too.