365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Thursday, September 21, 2017
The Akebia Experiment
Day 343: I'm not to the point of calling the Akebia Experiment a success yet, at least not if the goal was to have ripened fruit, but the cross-pollination certainly worked. The fruits are beginning to turn a lighter green, although they are still hard as rocks. They should be blotchy purple when mature. References say that the maturation period is 40-50 days. Right, yeah, sure. We're well into the fourth month since I tickled their little stigmas with the paintbrush. Admittedly, there might be some latitude between varieties just like there is in corn, tomatoes and a host of other vegetables and fruit, but two whole months? That's stretching this botanist's credulity. I have to admit that it's been fun watching the fruit develop even if I don't ever get to taste it.
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