tlongstretch

u/tlongstretch@lemmy.world
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It is fairly soft, maybe like melon flesh texture. Flavor is like vanilla.

It is easy to grow if you have a place to keep it above 45F or so, they won't take frost! Mine is happy in a container. They seem okay with dry air so might be okay inside a house in winter. Mine is in a humid greenhouse in winter so hard to say

Ah, if you have one big tree already you can plant smaller ones under it, but if you don't have the shade to begin with it may be quite hard.

I only have experience with temperate climates, I fail to grow cactus even if I try

Not in the peach tree, luckily, but there are a million birds & nests in the bushes around my house. I live in the home town of John James Audubon.

Robin are outstandingly successful gatherers, no wonder there are so many of them. My wife and I can see a nest from our living room window, and the parents make trips every 5min or so out to the yard and come back with giant mouthfuls of worms. I have no idea how they find the so quickly in the dry grass, but the babies get fat quick and are out on their own in no time.

Creating sublemmies hangs forever it seems. I was able to create one on day one of the reckoning, but not anymore.

Also, I thought Lemmy was broken but for whatever reason it performs badly in Firefox but Chrome works okay. I don't like this because I hate Chrome/Google but it isn't clear what the issue is in Firefox. I have NoScript, Ublock, etc. there so likely plugins

These are delicious. I had never tried currants until I found some for sale in the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia. I read that currants were illegal in USA for a while because they spread a white pine disease, but for whatever reason are now legal again (as of like 10+ years ago)

this seems like a prime use case for AI image recognition tools. There was some iphone app called leafsnap that does somthing like this... can you upload a picture and it finds likely candidates. Haven't used it in years, this was pre-chatGPT era

Oh and yeah... could be black locust. Not sure why I didn't tihnk of that, I have a billion of them in my yard

It is supposed to be one of the most delicious fruits in the world. It is in the 'annona' family, often called custard apple, sugar apple, etc. though they are actually different fruits in same family.

You can buy them at grocery stores in the US occasionally, sometimes fruit is sourced from California or Mexico.

It tastes like... vanilla ice cream maybe? Hard to describe.