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Miracle fruit

Muckyai

Muckyai

A couple of years ago I tried growing miracle fruit from some seeds I purchased online. I suspect the package was irradiated as nothing ever sprouted.

This weekend at the flea market/farmers market a vendor had all kinds of exotic wonderful trees including my sought after miracle fruit!

Anyone else growing one of these? Excited for this to have fruit, I'll buy a bunch of limes and go to town!
 
How does it interact with chilli? Does it actually make sour sweet or just block sour receptors and allow you to pick up the sweetness that's otherwise hidden?
I've heard contrasting details from various sources so I'd like to know the truth.
 
Im growing a miracle berry. They are very slow growing, like acidic soil and humidity. I get tons of flowers on mine but I have yet to get any fruit. Its about 4 feet tall right now, 4 years old, growing in a pot. I live in the wrong climate for it, too hot and low humidity but thats not stopping me from figuring out how to make it thrive. This year Im moving it to a shaded side of the house and figuring out a way to keep the humidity higher around it with a mini greenhouse. Its slow growing and slow dying so you may not realize its lacking something till damage has be done. I left it out overnight and it got below 40 before I brought it inside the next morning; over the next two weeks all the leafs fall off from the one night of cold.
 
I'm seriously considering purchasing this.
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Well if you can accommodate it during the colder months, go for it! It's fun doing a tasting of different foods after eating the berries to see how it affects each item.
 
Welp, guess there's no going back now. I overpaid, but I'm too impatient to grow from seed.
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Muckyai said:
Well if you can accommodate it during the colder months, go for it! It's fun doing a tasting of different foods after eating the berries to see how it affects each item.
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I have a South facing sliding glass door to my kitchen so that should keep it alive even if not producing during the winter. I look forward to taste testing!
 
Well, my plant arrived today. It had what I suspect was powdery mildew, so I gave it a nice thorough rinse and sprayed with neem. I don't have experience with powdery mildew so hopefully that does the trick.
 
AndyW said:
Well, my plant arrived today. It had what I suspect was powdery mildew, so I gave it a nice thorough rinse and sprayed with neem. I don't have experience with powdery mildew so hopefully that does the trick.
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If that's what it is, 
 
I live in Florida and get powdery mildew occasionally. Happens in Florida Especially with vine type plants. Its our no. 3 public gardening enemy i.m.o. (no1. Whiteflies, no. 2 tobacco hornworm) What I think you actually want is some liquid copper fungicide. 
 
https://www.amazon.com/Southern-Ag-Liquid-Copper-Fungicide/dp/B0052NL4FK
 
The bottle gives you way more than you will need if you don't grow large scale. But should help control that mildew. Mix two teaspoons or so in a gallon of sprayer water and applied weekly till symptoms vanish. Could also be pest application residue they nursery you bought it from used.
 
Carefully check the label though. I've heard many similar chemicals have a 30 day waiting period from application to usable fruit. I am not sure this does. Best to find out before you apply though.
 
If you want cheaper miracle fruit seeds, try tradewindsfruit.com.
 
They sell the miracle fruit seeds you can try to grow. rock wool and a grow light with some light nutrients might help there. 
 
Also, i.m.o. don't necessarily trust organic methods of pest control with some of the more prodigious gardening problems. Believe me I have tried with things like tobacco/green hornworm and its best to get rid of them right and dead, or else hunt and discover a hopefully provable alternative method (such as ph balanced Armor Si for whitefly control-this could be the gardening gold mine we've been looking for Florida. Instead of killing the whiteflies, you merely prevent them from being able to feed on the plant by strengthening the cell walls of the plant with Silica.)  If you absolutely must use organic, then try Dr. Earth Final Stop, which has no application waiting period. I have tried it and can attest that it will not kill horn worms outright. But if it keeps them off your plants (and I can't say it doesn't because after first application I have not seen them reappear,) then have at it. Time will tell on that note. My tomatoes are still alive, at any rate.
 
 
-Key
 
keybrdkid said:
 
If that's what it is, 
 
I live in Florida and get powdery mildew occasionally. Happens in Florida Especially with vine type plants. Its our no. 3 public gardening enemy i.m.o. (no1. Whiteflies, no. 2 tobacco hornworm) What I think you actually want is some liquid copper fungicide. 
 
https://www.amazon.com/Southern-Ag-Liquid-Copper-Fungicide/dp/B0052NL4FK
 
The bottle gives you way more than you will need if you don't grow large scale. But should help control that mildew. Mix two teaspoons or so in a gallon of sprayer water and applied weekly till symptoms vanish. Could also be pest application residue they nursery you bought it from used.
 
Carefully check the label though. I've heard many similar chemicals have a 30 day waiting period from application to usable fruit. I am not sure this does. Best to find out before you apply though.
 
If you want cheaper miracle fruit seeds, try tradewindsfruit.com.
 
They sell the miracle fruit seeds you can try to grow. rock wool and a grow light with some light nutrients might help there. 
 
Also, i.m.o. don't necessarily trust organic methods of pest control with some of the more prodigious gardening problems. Believe me I have tried with things like tobacco/green hornworm and its best to get rid of them right and dead, or else hunt and discover a hopefully provable alternative method (such as ph balanced Armor Si for whitefly control-this could be the gardening gold mine we've been looking for Florida. Instead of killing the whiteflies, you merely prevent them from being able to feed on the plant by strengthening the cell walls of the plant with Silica.)  If you absolutely must use organic, then try Dr. Earth Final Stop, which has no application waiting period. I have tried it and can attest that it will not kill horn worms outright. But if it keeps them off your plants (and I can't say it doesn't because after first application I have not seen them reappear,) then have at it. Time will tell on that note. My tomatoes are still alive, at any rate.
 
 
-Key
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Thanks for the advice! I'm not necessarily strictly organic, as much as neem is all I had on hand. I'm thinking it might possibly be residue, because I can hold the leaf under running water and rub most of it off. It's also mainly on the lower leaves where it could've dripped. But thanks again for the advice and I'll keep it in mind if the mystery powder sticks around.
 
I've honestly been neglecting my plant, doing the bare minimum to keep it alive and not stressing over a couple off looking leaves and babying it like my peppers, but it's exceeded my expectations and started to get ripening fruit

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Be careful eating too many limes and stuff though! It doesn't actually change the acidity of the food, so it's still just as bad for your teeth.
 
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