Thanks Hon!!! you need my snail addy again?? or am I still "on file"?

Hope one of these days I can come up with something to repay all your kindness with.. Maybe Giant Corona bottle with your name on it?? LOL

Gina *BabyBlue*

You didn't forget me now, did you Laaz?

If off this Monday. I'll mail everything out monday. Skeeter & Gina PM me your mailing addresses as well.

I have a friend who is having trouble getting his Miracle Fruit tree pollinated. Does anyone have any tricks for getting from flower to fruit?

Citrus Joe also has a single tree that is of bearing age. He does nothing what so ever as far as pollinating, his tree produces tons of fruit. - Millet

Ahhh, my other brother...Citrus Joe! He mentioned he has a ton of MF's so I emailed him & asked him for some for my friends to try (the 3 that are coming w/ me to expo). I now have a baggie full in crisper for us & they can try them out on a ponderoasa that just fell off LOL. I know they never heard of Miracle fruit!!!! I think I have a few Citruholics on the way LOL.
There is not much fruit to eat BTW (mostly seed). It only numbs the taste buds for the acid/ tart tasting fruits, & it's fun to try!
I wonder what would happen if mixed in w/ a tart marmalade or jelly!?

Patty, if you want a real different sensation, coat your mouth well with a couple miracle fruits, then eat a tomato. - Millet

Hi guys, I'm the one Stress was talking about having the problem with his mircacle fruit. It's a nice sized plant. I received it from Pine Island last year. It's been flowering like mad since I got it but the flowers turn brown, dry up, and fall off. I've never gotten one fruit from the plant yet. It's killing me! I get nice growth flushes so everything should be fine with the conditions. Acid soil, high humidity. I had the plant outside all summer and still no luck. I have been able to get pollin to spill out of a flower. Obviously I haven't been able to get it to take to any other flowers. Any ideas at all? Any suggestions...even if they seem pulled from your backside! I'll try it!

Where do you keep the plant? How warm/hot is your night and day temperatures? You say the humidity is OK, how high is the humidity? Miracle Plants require hot and humid to do well. That is why the do very well during the hot summer months, but languish during the winter, even in cool greenhouses. - Millet

Well, our summers are usually pretty hot and humid. Nothing. The plant is now in the greenhouse with temps never dipping below 65. If we get even a partly sunny day, temps can hit 80+. Humidity is always at least 70% but usually 80% or higher.

I would have thought if the plant were to "languish", I would not be seeing the growth flushes and blooming that I'm currently experiencing. Maybe our hot days during the summer just wasn't humid enough. Now I have the humidity but maybe it's just not hot enough. But to see all those darn blooms and then watch each one dry up and drop is just too much!

you said you didnt mind out-of-rear-end ideas

How are you fertilizing it? I have a Nana Pomegranate that would flower and flower, and looked OK, was planted with good compost, but until I actually fertilized it, it never held any fruit.

(now ive decided i dont particularly care if it does keep fruit, theyre horrid!) but its a pretty plant.

(who lived in Columbus for most of 5 years, and is an OSU alumna)

I occassionally fertilize..osmocote, miracid, some foliars with micronutrients. I feel like just shaking the sh$% out of the tree and shout at it!! LOL! It's frustrating on an enormous scale.

And yeah....Go Bucks! I just hope they get their heads out of their A$$ and play better than they did last weekend. Of course...Michigan didn't play any better!

The temperatures that you describe in your greenhouse, seems adequate, for a Miracle Fruit to bloom and fruit. One last question. Miracle fruit require a very acid soil. A recent article on Miracle Fruit production in the California Rare Fruit Growers magazine "The Fruit Gardener" the author stated he planted all of his Miracle Fruit trees in 100 percent peat moss, in order to be sure that the soil's pH was low enough. Do you know the pH of your tree's soil? However, it is VERY strange that the tree gets a good bloom and none of the blooms develop fruit.- Millet

Have you been pollinating the flowers, because if it is in a greenhouse wouldn't it have to be pollinated my hand?