If I put Aloe vera on the wood, these termites would laugh at me. It’s useful for many things, but insects are not deterred by it.

Pretty sure that is the neem doing the work, but thank you for all of this information! You have gone above and beyond to answer this question for a stranger on the internet.

painkillers

paracetamol and ibuprofen

…Call me when they discover an opium tree.

Back in my day, the Tesla Model S was the best of the best. It doesn’t seem so long ago…

Fruit-eating kids seem to be smarter than average…

Ripe is when the starches have converted to sugars as much as possible but there is not yet any significant fermentation. In Cavendish subgroup bananas, this generally occurs when the peel has numerous brown spots on it. Some bananas (plantains) are totally black when ripe. Some don’t change colour after turning yellow, and ripeness must be judged by softness…

That’s an effective way to do it!

“This tree ain’t big enough fer the two of us!”

Am I the only one?

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…