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[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

At 10:54 PM 04/30/2002 -0500, Donna wrote:
> The juice is harsh tasting, but okay if treated like
> lemon or lime juice.  The peel gum will permanently adhere to your juicer,
> though I suspect that acetone would remove it, as I hear it will  remove the
> gum that appears when you make wine from American elderberries.   The
> trouble with trifoliate crosses to sweet orange is that the bitter gum is
> dispersed into the fruit.
I'll testify to the persistence of the gum.  I supply P.trifoliata seeds, 
from time to time, to a guy who runs an ornamental plants nursery in 
Cincinnati.  Last year, it was pretty late before he placed his request.  I 
collected a gallon or so of frozen/thawed/partially decomposed fruits in a 
plastic grocery bag and pitched 'em into the back of the truck for a week 
or two before I got around to trying to extract & clean the seeds.  They 
were a mushy mess, so I just squeezed 'em in my hands to remove the seeds & 
did several rinses to remove any remaining pulp/rind.  My hands, as well as 
the plastic bucket I was working in, were coated with that sticky gum.  I 
liked to have never gotten it all off of my hands, but I didn't think about 
borrowing any nail polish remover from my daughter.



> Some grapefruit and tangerine crosses seemed to
> have less of the problem.
>     As for using the fruit, I heard that some company a few years ago was
> drying them, seeds and all, then grinding to produce a flea killing or
> repellent powder.  Yumm!!   (Actually it's the oils that would kill the
> fleas, the fruit aren't THAT toxic.))    Donna
>
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Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY

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