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Just purchase a Rabbit Eye blueberry cultivar. They are much harder and longer lived than the Highbush varieties that are typically sold. I don't think his cultivar was that different from the typical Rabbit Eye blueberries available.
To give a slightly different take, I have been zone pushing all sorts of things for ~6 years now, and I have no regrets for any of it. I will say that I've avoided buying expensive stuff, I've mostly collected (free!) seeds, sometimes bought seeds, or sometimes very small seedlings. I viewed my efforts more as an experiment than an effort to actually get fruit.
I've started about 500 avocados in that time, here in a location laughably far from anywhere anyone has successfully grown an avocado tree, and most of those trees are now dead. But I'm excited about the ones that aren't dead, and excited about the prospect of killing hundreds (thousands?) more trees before I'm done trying avocados.
It's about expectations and goals, for sure, but there's joy to be had from the experience, even if some species will be definite failures. Sometimes you might have a microclimate where you succeed with something totally unexpected! But probably mostly failure when you're really pushing.
I wonder if the term sweet is sometimes used as a synonym for ‘not bad’. There is another better Poncirus selection called #7 that the owner claimed was supposed to be sweet. But it wasn't. It was good, but not sweet. The same goes for Kinga.
I guess the quality is connected with the hot mediterranean summer we had this year. If I had a Kinga1, it would surely be sweet now.
Ugh! They eat everything!
You are at least lucky you only get grasshoppers.
We get Mormon crickets, too.
When they are done eating every plant in sight, then they turn cannibal and eat each other.
In a really bad year, the roads get so slick with their squashed bodies that there have been motorcycle accidents when riders hit a patch. They can't fly, thank God!!! You can't "shoo" them, though. They chase you and bite you! Bleh.
"Emerich #1" produces the largest cherry, a nicely flavored fruit, but with fairly strong "wild" black cherry flavor notes.
"La Roca Grande" is a selection by Ben Poirier. The fruits have a slightly milder taste than "Emerich #1". They are a little smaller than "E. #1" fruits, and ripen to a dull reddish color. ("E. #1" fruits ripen to a deep, blackish-purple color.)
"Late Lomeli" is a seedling from the capulin grove in Conejo Park (established by the local CRFG chapter). This one comes into prime ripeness about a week or two after the other cultivars. It tastes the closest to a European P. avium sweet cherry. The main drawback to this selection is that the cherries are small, nanking cherry-sized.
Has anyone had the fruit of the Queen of the Night/Night-blooming Cereus before?(not sure what the scientific name is, apperently every cactus in he world is called Night-blooming cereus) I see it ornamental alot (and ours was considered an ornamental) but it has like tennis ball sized fruits this year for the first time. Red with tons of spines.
