The answer lies in the name ..... of Buddha hehe

Oh, you mean like Buddah had a hand in doing it? :rofl: I guess you could get used to its strangeness, and maybe even at one point you might think it 'hand'some, while others may just want to 'poke' fun at it. It could be quite
'hand'y to have around if you need orange zest. Might even be a good companion plant for a 'finger' lime, eh?

You guys need to come to sunny Florida and we will show you about citrus. Lol

I have a red finger like tree (bush, it’s youngish) and along with all the other citrus I have ever tried to grow, flourish here with little help

Florida, eh? We have a few citrus where I live, too. Don't know if I could teach you anything about them, but we do have some. I kinda like Pumelo, but they take long to ripen. My wife eats these oranges that although they are green on the outside, are reddish orange and ripe on the inside. I don't know what the variety is, but I remember that the skin is pretty tough, and hard to peel. Not like a typical orange. We've got 'blood' oranges here, too, and plenty of kumquats, tangerines, navel oranges, and in my yard we have a myer lemon, and 2 kalamansi's (asian lime).

I grow vegetables.

Occasionally successfully.

I desperately want to live in South Florida, just so that I can grow citrus, and keep my orchids outside all year, and even mount some of them. You've really got it going on down there.

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I had an aunt and uncle who lived in Naples (he's a Church of Christ preacher, and he has recently moved to Indianapolis), but they lived there for years, and they had NOT ONE orchid on the entire property. I never understood it. Why would you live there without orchids?

One of my ferns is getting quite big, the biggest I've gotten one to grow in my care. It was on deaths bed not too long ago too. It's still quite small for a fern I think but look how long the leaves have gotten

http://www.orchidboard.com/community...1&d=1630086935

Obviously enjoying its present space and pot. I have a big tiger fern that's starting to look pretty ragged, although it has the potential to be gorgeous. It needs to be chopped back, soil removed and repotted fresh. My current procrastination is key to its raggedy look.

For those who haven't cut into a Buddha's Hand citrus, it is all skin. No flesh, no seeds. It would be a lethal mutation except somebody thought it looks neat and propagated it. They smell wonderfully of citron, far stronger than most other citrus, and are nice to have in the house.

Yesterday - at the supermarket - I came across a different kind of navel orange, with the package label saying 'cara cara'. It really is a navel orange ----- and the only noticeable difference is that it has reddish-orange coloured flesh within ----- instead of the regular 'orange' coloured flesh.

Previously ----- I think that all 'marketed' navel oranges are/were cloned from the original navel orange. But looks like the situation is different now.

I have a navel orange tree - which produces navel oranges too. But a mutation probably occurred - and it produces fruits that are clearly navel ----- but with a yellowish skin. And the inside has the appearance (and also taste) of pomelo. It doesn't taste like an orange at all. Quite interesting.

And - only yesterday - found out that cucumbers, bananas, oranges, watermelons etc ....... are berries ..... according to the botanical definition.