|
|
Post by blueadzuki on Jun 14, 2012 15:55:29 GMT -5
Oh boy!! I wish I did remember........ I left for college in 1986. I'm sorry about that. I do remember it was a great thing that my dad and I shared, and I wish I'd listened more to him back then. He was always trying to get me to try to sell some plants to a nursery or get started in a plant business. (something I would love today) Back then I was much to "smart" to listen to my dad. I miss him!! John My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got. - Mark Twain Don't worry about it, I assume that at some point I'll bump into another lemon tree and can take a surruptitious rub and sniff off a new leaf. that may clear things up. ' I get it, my Dad is encourageing me to sell off some of the excess wong pei seedling (I've got a whole pot full so it's not like I need them all) on e-bay. Its not like I oppose this idea, I think it is a good one, but the paranoid part of me worries about what will happed when some buyer asks the critical question (are the sweet wong pei or sour wong pei) and I have to answer I do not know. (wong pei fruit comes in two majpor varites, a round fruited one (which is very sour) and an oval/olive shaped one (which is sweeter) The original bunches of fruit I got had both kinds, but stupid me forgot to keep the containers of seed discrete, so what is growing in that pot could be either. I actually toyedy with getting a few new bunches and starting from scratch, but it seems that pretty much all the wong pei avialble this season are sours.) Updates 1. finally bumpend into another lemon tree (at the plant nursey today) and the answer is, no they normally don't (it just had the ordinary citrus leaf scent) guess my little tree is REALLY odd. I did buy another batch of wong pei yesterday so I could try again (knowing sweet from sour) but it's a little more complicated. It looks like there are at least 8 recognized strains of wong pei some of which are sweet, some sour, some round and some long. To make matters worse, the wong pei I am getting in Chinatown comes from Florida and it looks like, in a effort to get the fruit on the market as soon as possible, the groves there took any trees they could find, nor were they careful about keeping the strains discrete. So the fruit is a crapshoot. Some of the rounds from yeasterdays bunch were sweet (for a wong pei) whereas when I popped a fruit from the one branch of longs in my bunch, I almost collapsed on the street; the juice was so acidic it actually burned my throat! I gove everything seperate now (I litterally sat with containers in front of me as I tasted each fruit and spit the pits into seperate vessels.) I guess I'll sell off the ones I have (most wongpei are sour, so I have to assume that most people want sour ones, which is probably what my old ones are, statistically) and keep any plants from the sweet pits I just got for myself. |
|
edwin
gardener
Posts: 141
|
Post by edwin on Jun 14, 2012 16:23:11 GMT -5
Cranberries have already been mentioned. Good to prevent kidney stones as well.
caffeine Tea - stimulant - asthma.
|
|
|
|
Post by mountaindweller on Jun 20, 2012 22:02:03 GMT -5
Yes I have got a tea plant but the possums love the leaves, you must protect it.
Cranberry sounds interesting but I think you cannot buy the plant in Australia.
|
|
|
|
Post by raymondo on Jun 21, 2012 2:55:16 GMT -5
mountaindweller, Diggers used to sell cranberries. Don't know whether they still do. I'm collecting seeds from store bought dried cranberries to sow in spring.
|
|
|
|
Post by johninfla on Jun 21, 2012 8:38:08 GMT -5
Roselle is sometimes called the Florida cranberry....also said to be used sometimes to lower blood pressure. My wife's people in Peru say that Chicha Morada (made from Maiz Morado) will lower your blood pressure too.
John
|
|
|
|
Post by johninfla on Jun 21, 2012 8:48:59 GMT -5
Just a everyone knows this but maybe not note.........................eating lots of melons and drinking melon juice will keep you regular....a shot of whiskey after eating too many fried foods/greasy foods will make your stomach feel better.....
John
|
|
|
|
Post by mnjrutherford on Jun 21, 2012 9:10:16 GMT -5
Whiskey? Seriously? I have trouble seeing myself downing a shot after consuming fried shrimp and string beans... brings to mind visions of worshiping the porcelain god...
|
|
|
|
Post by johninfla on Jun 21, 2012 9:28:37 GMT -5
Really....just a shot....my theory is that it disolves the grease.
John
|
|
|
|
Post by steev on Jun 21, 2012 22:47:01 GMT -5
So bourbon down the pipe works like Drano? I doubt it's your stomach that it's making feel better, per se. Not to disparage the practice, though perhaps the theory.
|
|
|
|
Post by Drahkk on Jun 22, 2012 0:01:00 GMT -5
Nah, the shot of Bourbon just relaxes stomach muscles so too much spice or grease doesn't make them cramp up. Follow it with a cup of coffee and everything moves along smoothly. Now if it's Mexican Drano you're after, it's a foul concoction of tequila and prune juice...
MB
|
|
|
|
Post by mnjrutherford on Jun 23, 2012 5:44:55 GMT -5
If you wanted to dissolve the grease you would drink a shot of vinegar laced with a few drops of dish soap. YUM YUM LOLOL THEN you would do the whiskey shot.
I'm hypersensitive to alcohol. It gets into my blood stream much faster than normal, but then it's processed out faster as well. I'm a cheap drunk, but I'm sober before I can pass out with my mouth open.... =o)
|
|
|
|
Post by Drahkk on Jun 23, 2012 17:40:16 GMT -5
If you wanted to dissolve the grease you would drink a shot of vinegar laced with a few drops of dish soap. YUM YUM LOLOL THEN you would do the whiskey shot.  MB |
|
|
|
Post by mnjrutherford on Jun 23, 2012 18:16:09 GMT -5
LOL Yep, there ya go! That put a smile on my face!! =o)
|
|
|
|
Post by mountaindweller on Jun 24, 2012 1:53:10 GMT -5
raymondo, did you plant them yet? I found cranberries in the Coop, but there's something sticky around so I think they coated them in sugar and they won't sprout. I reckon that you must cold stratify them too. Did you ever buy something at diggers? It has a bit of a bad reputation when it comes to plants. I buy fruit trees at Woodbridge, but they don't have exotic stuff. I'll have a look.
|
|
|
|
Post by johninfla on Jun 24, 2012 20:54:00 GMT -5
They say you're supposed to drink vinegar to lose weight.....I guess I'm condemned to be Fat Albert then.....
John
|
|
