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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Palustris on August 04, 2004, 19:18:04

Title: The first Discovery
Post by: Palustris on August 04, 2004, 19:18:04

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v172/Berghill/August/discovery1.jpg)
Come back Eve all is forgiven. This is the first Discovery to be ripe enough to eat, and early too. Wish I could show you the taste, but believe me it was good.

Title: Re:The first Discovery
Post by: tim on August 04, 2004, 19:32:06

Bully for you, Eric. Our Discovery - the pollinator for the 4 Sunsets - is USELESS! Always out of synch with pollinating & never had a good fruit. = Tim

Title: Re:The first Discovery
Post by: Doris_Pinks on August 04, 2004, 19:32:30

From that Picture Eric I can taste it! Lovely

Title: Re:The first Discovery
Post by: Jesse on August 04, 2004, 20:40:10

Lucky you. This year we have had a dismal crop on our Discoveries and the birds finished off the few that were there, doesn't look like we will get any this year.  :'(

Title: Re:The first Discovery
Post by: Palustris on August 04, 2004, 21:26:04

Sorry to hear that Jesseveve, then this picture will really make you curse. No doubt the wasps will get a lot of these too.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v172/Berghill/August/dsicovery2.jpg)

Title: Re:The first Discovery
Post by: Jesse on August 04, 2004, 21:29:23

My tree looked like that last year but not so this year  :'(.  But he he, my theory is that because it has had a good rest this year next year will be a bumper crop!  ;D (I hope!)

Title: Re:The first Discovery
Post by: GardnerJ on August 05, 2004, 10:43:47

Cool! I am going to grow minurette trees as i don't have the space but there are all sorts of varieties to choose form!
MMMMMMM i bet it WAS delicious!
Jemma x ;)

Title: Re:The first Discovery
Post by: Tenuse on August 05, 2004, 11:10:47

My Discovery have been a disappointment this year, mostly because it's a fairly young tree so I only let 3 develop, but they all have a split around the stalk area, so I presume I did not give them enough water when it was dry and they burst through their own skins. And then! they were all "attacked" by some kind of beastly beast - bird? wasp? and they all went brown and narsty anyway!

Oh well. Better luck next year...!

Ten x

Title: Re:The first Discovery
Post by: tim on August 05, 2004, 13:03:19

Eric - why should you be so favoured??

Our minarette is not impressive - 6 years old. = Tim

Title: Re:The first Discovery
Post by: Moggle on August 05, 2004, 17:32:19

Looks very yummy Eric.  :)