Still waiting for the fruit to ripen on my Butia capitata, supposed to make great jelly. It has been two months since it bloomed and set the fruit.
It's not jelly yet....
Wow!
You have quite a crop of fruit there. Are you planning to make the jelly? I think you'd be canning for days with all of that fruit! LOL
How old is your palm? Do you have any photographs of the entire palm?
I'm hoping they have time to mature and ripen before winter sets in here and I do hope to make jelly from them. The fruits have enlarged in the last week or so, but no color or softening yet. The tree was very small when I put it in 5 years ago, now stands about 8-9' tall.
There is an image in the PDB from last year, along with some images of this palm flowering this year
http://davesgarden.com/pdb/showimage/23645/
Here's a recent image of the whole tree.
That's a beautiful photograph of the entire palm Candy. What are the other plants planted with it?
Thanks! There is upright rosemary in the foreground, variegated New Zealand flax (some of the leaves have been damaged and beaten up by the weight of the fruit), just sticking in from the right are a few pieces of a NZ red flax.
Well it's still not jelly, but the fruit is almost ready! Leaving for Mexico this week, so it may end up as bird food instead of jelly this year.
Candy:
If the birds eat these, there's always next year for your jelly. :-) Have a great time in Mexico and I hope you'll take tons of photographs.
Happenstance, thanks for posting the really great pictures. I of course can't grow palms but your fruit looks just great. Where in mexico are you going. Have a wonderful time and as Delicie said take lots of photos. Donna
I put aside some other things to make a small batch of jelly and I am sure glad I did. It makes a delicious mild flavored jelly that is rosey-amber in color. Not overly sweet, with a delicate apricot-tropical flavor. Yummy! I've frozen a big bag of fruit and am hoping some of it will still be here to harvest when I get home from Mexico. It would make an awesome marinade/sweet sour sauce and unlike the written accounts I did not find it difficult to remove the pulp from the large seeds. If it is fully ripe it is not difficult to mash and remove.
My husband should arrive in Cabo San Lucas by mid-day Thursday with our 45' catamaran. He, my son and two friends left here almost three weeks ago to move the boat to Mexico for the winter. We'll party in Cabo for a few days and then DH and I will move the boat to its winter berth in La Paz, then spend a few days in La Paz before flying home. Hope to get some great weather and pictures.
And here's a shot of "Perception" a 45' foot cruising cat built in France for the Caribean cruising fleet.
Happenstance, what a beautiful sailboat. Have a great time. Donna