Pulsegleaner
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(Feel free to sing it, if you want).
If you had a greenhouse (and I mean a BIG greenhouse, like the Palm House at Kew Gardens big, so you could put whole TREES in there if you wanted). What would you grow?
I, of course, have a ton of tropical seeds I'd love to be able to grow. Most of these ARE ones I have purchased, but there are a few odds and ends I have discovered in my seed hunts that might be of interest. Not so much in the bag searches (it's pretty rare, though not unheard of, for tree seeds to make it into those, for the simple reason that comparatively few field crops are grown with trees poking out of the middle of the field. They do it for coffee and/or chocolate, but not for any other major crops I know.) But there have been a few odd fruits I have bumped into that are atypical enough to be worth trying to grow out if I could (Chief of these is a odd looking (unusually whitish) soursop (guanabana) fruit I found in Chinatown, which surprised me because, while it was still tart as a soursop should be, it was also sweet enough to not need the addition of any sugar (which is the usual way to eat soursop fresh) ).
Beyond that, who knows. It'd be nice to have my own Keppel trees, and be able to find out if the fruit really DOES make you smell like violets (at this point in my life, the odds of being able to go to Malaysia and eat the fruit in person there are remote and, despite all of the people who ooh and ahh about it's possibilities, as yet, no groves have been established in places like Florida, California, Hawaii or such were the fruit could enter the general exotic fruit market.)
Growing out my Lard Pumpkins would be fun too (though with at least six vines, each about ninety feet long, even a Kew sized conservatory might not be big enough. But since the seeds are already the size of my palm, and there's supposed to be just under a hundred of them in each fruit on average, those fruits must be enormous, and potentially dangerous if they grow above ground level (which I think they do, they seem to like growing around trees) Banana pumpkins are probably safer (still big but at least those fruit are soft, I think.)
Beyond that, who knows. Dust off my ancient sappan and brazil wood seeds and hope a few of those are still viable? Grow my own ebony? Try my "hand" at Mexican Hand Flower? The sky, (or rather, the literal glass ceiling) is the limit.
If you had a greenhouse (and I mean a BIG greenhouse, like the Palm House at Kew Gardens big, so you could put whole TREES in there if you wanted). What would you grow?
I, of course, have a ton of tropical seeds I'd love to be able to grow. Most of these ARE ones I have purchased, but there are a few odds and ends I have discovered in my seed hunts that might be of interest. Not so much in the bag searches (it's pretty rare, though not unheard of, for tree seeds to make it into those, for the simple reason that comparatively few field crops are grown with trees poking out of the middle of the field. They do it for coffee and/or chocolate, but not for any other major crops I know.) But there have been a few odd fruits I have bumped into that are atypical enough to be worth trying to grow out if I could (Chief of these is a odd looking (unusually whitish) soursop (guanabana) fruit I found in Chinatown, which surprised me because, while it was still tart as a soursop should be, it was also sweet enough to not need the addition of any sugar (which is the usual way to eat soursop fresh) ).
Beyond that, who knows. It'd be nice to have my own Keppel trees, and be able to find out if the fruit really DOES make you smell like violets (at this point in my life, the odds of being able to go to Malaysia and eat the fruit in person there are remote and, despite all of the people who ooh and ahh about it's possibilities, as yet, no groves have been established in places like Florida, California, Hawaii or such were the fruit could enter the general exotic fruit market.)
Growing out my Lard Pumpkins would be fun too (though with at least six vines, each about ninety feet long, even a Kew sized conservatory might not be big enough. But since the seeds are already the size of my palm, and there's supposed to be just under a hundred of them in each fruit on average, those fruits must be enormous, and potentially dangerous if they grow above ground level (which I think they do, they seem to like growing around trees) Banana pumpkins are probably safer (still big but at least those fruit are soft, I think.)
Beyond that, who knows. Dust off my ancient sappan and brazil wood seeds and hope a few of those are still viable? Grow my own ebony? Try my "hand" at Mexican Hand Flower? The sky, (or rather, the literal glass ceiling) is the limit.
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