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[aj-artisan]

Have a Gooseberry😄😄 #Saturday #berry #fruit #winter #pretty #awesome #natural #nature #artisan #artist #artisanchef #fruitgeek #fruitlife #beautiful

[floridafruitgeek]

Hellooo, peaches! (Can you tell peach season makes me happy?) These lovelies were grown using only organic fertilizers, and no sprays of any kind. Peaches are thought of as a temperate-zone fruit, but in Florida their range overlaps with many of the world's great tropical fruits. At the Fruit and Spice Park in Homestead, I've eaten fresh-off-the-tree peaches within seed-spitting distance of great big mango trees and jackfruit trees and coconut palms. #peaches #Prunuspersica #fruitselfie #plantgeek #fruitgeek #geek #nerd

[floridafruitgeek]

My crazy fig-grafting experiment worked! This plant is edible fig grafted onto its cousin, creeping fig. (Note the difference in leaf types from top to bottom). My goal is to find a rootstock for fig trees that's resistant to nematodes (microscopic worms in the soil that attack the roots of regular fig trees). Creeping fig grows rampantly in this area, seems to be nematode-resistant, and is frost-tolerant. So this could potentially be a way to grow good edible fig trees in nematode-infested soils (a common problem in tropical and subtropical areas worldwide). One potential challenge with this particular combo is that while edible fig tree trunks can get over six inches in diameter, I've never seen creeping fig stems get bigger than about a half inch wide. So I'm not sure how that'll work out as these plants grow. Will it turn into a super-dwarf, heavily-fruiting fig tree? Or will the bottom of the tree not be able to support the top, and it will just die, or snap off? It's gonna be interesting watching these. Regular edible fig is Ficus carica, creeping fig is Ficus pumila. #fig #figtree #Ficus #Ficuscarica #Ficuspumila #plantgrafting #plantgeek #fruitgeek