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Not as scientifically important but still fun:

My parents got a yuzu tree a few months back. Fruits and all, in the fruits were lots of seeds (around 20) about 1,3 cm diameter. So huge seeds for a citrus.

Since our own yuzu died because it was grafted on a less hardy rootstock, we were on the search for a replacement for a while and behold:

We put the seeds in germination containers and nothing happened for a good while.

6 - 8 weeks germination (1 still hasn't put it's head out, even though it is rooting), a bit of water and a warm spot and we got 6 plants, 1 coming. Let's hope they all pull through :)

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While I should be writing a masters thesis, walking in the mud is more fun. It has been raining almost non stop for the past 14 days, so when I spotted an opening I took the dog out for a walk. It was nice and muddy. 

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@Thanks_M8 that’s really cool. We have plenty of citrus trees (2 types of orange, lemon, 2 mandarins and one red grapefruit) but no yuzu. I recently tried to translate a yuzu peel tea recipe to orange and came out horrible. 

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@Hopethisoneisnttaken thanks! 

Where do you live, if I may ask? Would love to have a tiny orchard myself.

If you use the whole fruit it works out fine, imo. Since yuzu peel is s bit sweeter and more aromatic the recipe can be altered like this (at least i tried it and it worked fine).

Tbh I only found out about yuzu because they are supposed to be pretty hardy (grafted on trifoliate orange down to -15 °C and on their own roots down to -12 °C) the fruits are great though. I'm on the lookout for other hardy species for our balcony right now, but most are just supposed to taste like bitter grapefruits or trifoliate oranges, which isn't my thing.

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3 hours ago, Thanks_M8 said:

@Hopethisoneisnttaken thanks! 

Where do you live, if I may ask? Would love to have a tiny orchard myself.

If you use the whole fruit it works out fine, imo. Since yuzu peel is s bit sweeter and more aromatic the recipe can be altered like this (at least i tried it and it worked fine).

Tbh I only found out about yuzu because they are supposed to be pretty hardy (grafted on trifoliate orange down to -15 °C and on their own roots down to -12 °C) the fruits are great though. I'm on the lookout for other hardy species for our balcony right now, but most are just supposed to taste like bitter grapefruits or trifoliate oranges, which isn't my thing.

I'm from Israel. Summers are hot and humid and winters are relatively warm(5 to 18 C most days, rarely goes below 5), so ideal for these type of citruses. We're actually renting so I didn't planet the trees, but the fruit are amazing. Also they all ripe in different stages of winters, so there's that, and the flowers which are starting to bloon now smell amazing.

I did planet some other stuff though. Sweet potatoes, beans, onions, garlic and spaghetti squash(which the wild boars have destroyed almost entirely).

Where do you live?

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I live in southwest germany, the region is called Breisgau. Summers here are hot and dry, winters mild but we get frost for a week or two usually. Sometimes - 12°C, but only for a day or two.

Not ideal weather for mediteranean plants, but I guess I have to try :D

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@julian-wolf looks like some really cool instrumentation, and you're right that the teal color looks real nice. What's the usefulness/end goal of studying this stuff?

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On 1/30/2024 at 1:01 PM, Thanks_M8 said:

I live in southwest germany, the region is called Breisgau. Summers here are hot and dry, winters mild but we get frost for a week or two usually. Sometimes - 12°C, but only for a day or two.

Not ideal weather for mediteranean plants, but I guess I have to try :D

We lived next door at the beginning of the war. A little to the south, in the Zell im Wiesenthal area. We often came to Freiburg. Very beautiful places. 

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Another morning in the barn. Fullcount 1101s this time. Carhartt jacket being used as intended. Mucking, haying, watering, feeding, petting, etc.

 

 

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Homeward bound after a trip to Johannesburg and Pretoria... 

The main man himself in Sandton, Johannesburg

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Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria

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View from the Voortrekker of Pretoria

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Peech hotel in Johannesburg, near Melrose Arch

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Freewheelers WW2 denim and Buckweat

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Had lunch with my lad in the seated area near Hibiscus Rising, a sculpture I’d read about and wanted to see close up.  It’s touted as ‘Leeds first public artwork to reflect the cultural diversity of the city’.  That’s nice language to describe the abhorrent police racism and brutality in the late 1960s against David Oluwale which is at the root of this.   

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Then a wander around what they’re calling the South Bank end of Leeds.  I can see the city is being opened up and this old part of town regenerated and linked into the city centre.  A mixture of old red brick and new multi-coloured gaudy blocks whichever way you look.

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The Teletley's Brewery building... brewers long gone

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The front of Salem Chapel, dated 1906

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The original chapel buildings from 1791, with the city centre in the background

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I never knew until today Leeds United football club was founded here in 1919

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Modern city centre living

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Love this building

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