fruit-tree question, and what I'm doing
Sandra Dodd
What I'm doing is being somewhat documented here:
http://sandraeurope2011.blogspot.com
I've slept in nine different places in three weeks. It's a big adventure.
And I'm hoping that having readers from all around the world will provide someone who can help with this mystery:
http://helpwithmysterythings.blogspot.com/2011/06/fruit-tree-id-please.html
Tree grown from pip/seed planted from an unusual new fruit eaten by Bea Marshall three years ago. The tree grew. She still doesn't know what it is.
Meanwhile, back home:
Marty is housesitting in a big house for a week. I'm guessing his girlfriend is helping him some.
Holly has a serious boyfriend, named Will. I met him very briefly twice before I left, but they were not an item then. In love, both of them. He's a guitarist in a band, but in some of the photos I've seen he's playing bass. Guitarists are good. He's also very artistic, she says. He's not at all tall. He's Holly's size. So they can share clothes. :-) Good.
Kirby missed a promotion, but then has been given that position temporarily, partnered with someone else, so he'll have that much more experience (and they'll know how he actually can do) if another real position opens up. But his hours are 5:30 pm to 3:30 am, so once again it looks like his sleep schedule WAS preparing him for future jobs. :-) Also he and Erik his roommate and Erik's girlfriend moved to another house nearer to Blizzard's new facility (they were leasing before, on the far other side of Austin).
Keith's shoulder is stronger than before the surgery. There's always that frustrating time of early recovery when it's worse than just before, but he's passed the point. He bought another used car to replace the Ford Taurus Holly was in when she was rearended. He got a Toyota Prius, five or six years old. I'm looking forward to having my own van for my own self someday. Holly's driving it, while I'm gone, with its flying Hanuman hanging from the rearview mirror. We'll share it, when I get back. But she also has a boyfriend with a car.
And that is how my family is doing, because I'm able to talk to them by phone from my computer with Skype, or with Holly, video chat on Skype. THAT makes travelling less distant.
I'm in a street-facing second-story room in Derby, with a bowling club (bowls lawn?) outside the window, and a couple of guys have come and are playing. That's cool. I've kept looking out there, like looking for birds. They're there!
Sandra
http://sandraeurope2011.blogspot.com
I've slept in nine different places in three weeks. It's a big adventure.
And I'm hoping that having readers from all around the world will provide someone who can help with this mystery:
http://helpwithmysterythings.blogspot.com/2011/06/fruit-tree-id-please.html
Tree grown from pip/seed planted from an unusual new fruit eaten by Bea Marshall three years ago. The tree grew. She still doesn't know what it is.
Meanwhile, back home:
Marty is housesitting in a big house for a week. I'm guessing his girlfriend is helping him some.
Holly has a serious boyfriend, named Will. I met him very briefly twice before I left, but they were not an item then. In love, both of them. He's a guitarist in a band, but in some of the photos I've seen he's playing bass. Guitarists are good. He's also very artistic, she says. He's not at all tall. He's Holly's size. So they can share clothes. :-) Good.
Kirby missed a promotion, but then has been given that position temporarily, partnered with someone else, so he'll have that much more experience (and they'll know how he actually can do) if another real position opens up. But his hours are 5:30 pm to 3:30 am, so once again it looks like his sleep schedule WAS preparing him for future jobs. :-) Also he and Erik his roommate and Erik's girlfriend moved to another house nearer to Blizzard's new facility (they were leasing before, on the far other side of Austin).
Keith's shoulder is stronger than before the surgery. There's always that frustrating time of early recovery when it's worse than just before, but he's passed the point. He bought another used car to replace the Ford Taurus Holly was in when she was rearended. He got a Toyota Prius, five or six years old. I'm looking forward to having my own van for my own self someday. Holly's driving it, while I'm gone, with its flying Hanuman hanging from the rearview mirror. We'll share it, when I get back. But she also has a boyfriend with a car.
And that is how my family is doing, because I'm able to talk to them by phone from my computer with Skype, or with Holly, video chat on Skype. THAT makes travelling less distant.
I'm in a street-facing second-story room in Derby, with a bowling club (bowls lawn?) outside the window, and a couple of guys have come and are playing. That's cool. I've kept looking out there, like looking for birds. They're there!
Sandra
Rinelle
>From: "Sandra Dodd" <Sandra@...>It looks a lot like an avocado seedling, but I'm guessing she'd remember if
>
>And I'm hoping that having readers from all around the world will provide
>someone who can help with this mystery:>
>
> http://helpwithmysterythings.blogspot.com/2011/06/fruit-tree-id-please.html
>
> Tree grown from pip/seed planted from an unusual new fruit eaten by Bea
> Marshall three years ago. The tree grew. > She still doesn't know what
> it is.
it was that. :) Next best guess would be some kind of guava? I know I've
seen something like it before, but can't quite put my finger on it.
Tamara
Gen
I was wondering about a guava too. It's looks like a pink lemon on the outside and has a lot of pink seeds on the inside.
BRIAN POLIKOWSKY
I did not see a picture of the fruit when I went to your blog Sandra. I would recognize a guava fruit as I ate tons of it growing up out of the tree.
Alex Polikowsky
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I was wondering about a guava too. It's looks like a pink lemon on the outside and has a lot of pink seeds on the inside.
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Alex Polikowsky
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Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2011 12:06 PM
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I was wondering about a guava too. It's looks like a pink lemon on the outside and has a lot of pink seeds on the inside.
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beamoogaloo
Hi All
Thanks for helping out - this is an exciting group - looking forward to meeting you all more!
The fruit had one single stone, not as big as an avocado stone though.
If this helps at all, I treated it much like an avocado when it started growing and pinched out the second set of leaves. But the plant / tree really didn't like me doing that! It slowed up for a while until it could find a new bit of 'trunk' to grow from. Since then I've just let it be - it's still alive despite two harsh winters and an unexpected May hail storm!
Bea x
Thanks for helping out - this is an exciting group - looking forward to meeting you all more!
The fruit had one single stone, not as big as an avocado stone though.
If this helps at all, I treated it much like an avocado when it started growing and pinched out the second set of leaves. But the plant / tree really didn't like me doing that! It slowed up for a while until it could find a new bit of 'trunk' to grow from. Since then I've just let it be - it's still alive despite two harsh winters and an unexpected May hail storm!
Bea x
Sandra Dodd
-=-I did not see a picture of the fruit when I went to your blog Sandra. I would recognize a guava fruit as I ate tons of it growing up out of the tree. -=-
If she'd had the fruit, she wouldn't need the answer. :-)
She ate a fruit she didn't know the name of, planted one of the "pips" (so a small seed) and that's what grew.
Sandra
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If she'd had the fruit, she wouldn't need the answer. :-)
She ate a fruit she didn't know the name of, planted one of the "pips" (so a small seed) and that's what grew.
Sandra
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Robin Bentley
Sandra Dodd
I looked up single-seed fruit and there are some lists here:
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080814225555AA2g9dX
Might not be all of them, but maybe something there will jog someone's memory.
Sandra
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080814225555AA2g9dX
Might not be all of them, but maybe something there will jog someone's memory.
Sandra
beamoogaloo
This is really ringing bells! The fruit seems incredibly familiar but the seed / stone is spot on to what I remember! In the morning I'll go and take a closer look at the leaves as there are some new ones coming through I think and the wiki link had a good description!
hooray! although I'm not sure the north of england is the best climate to expect fruit any time soon ;)
hooray! although I'm not sure the north of england is the best climate to expect fruit any time soon ;)
Bernadette Lynn
We had a loquat tree when I was young, grown from seed, which looked
exactly like Sandra's picture. I've been racking my brains to try and
remember what it was, so thank you!
Ours grew to about four feet tall over several years, in a pot in our front
porch. It got infested several times with scale insects - it must have had a
weakness that way because none of the other plants ever had a problem with
them. My sister forgot to water it after I got married and moved out.
Bernadette.
exactly like Sandra's picture. I've been racking my brains to try and
remember what it was, so thank you!
Ours grew to about four feet tall over several years, in a pot in our front
porch. It got infested several times with scale insects - it must have had a
weakness that way because none of the other plants ever had a problem with
them. My sister forgot to water it after I got married and moved out.
Bernadette.
On 7 June 2011 21:41, Robin Bentley <robin.bentley@...> wrote:
> Could it be a loquat?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loquat
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> Robin B.
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