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- From: "Donna &/or Kieran" <holycow@cookeville.com>
- To: "Dr. Chiranjit Parmar" <parmarch_mnd@dataone.in>, "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Seeds available.
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 09:13:09 -0500
Dr. Parmer,
Here in the Cookeville TN area I
buy my curry leaf plants from the local nursery, they carry them for their
Indian customers. I know you wrote an article years ago about wild Amla
that could take a light frost, and I'm assuming that Bael is no hardier.
Will these plants stay small enough that a person could grow and fruit them in a
greenhouse? I'm just wondering, I don't have a greenhouse, but if some
plants could be grown in pots and brought in for the winter, more Indians in the
southern US might grow their own. (Keeping in mind of course that in
citrus growing states that it's probably illegal to import the
seeds.)
One day this spring I was at the
nursery when an Indian woman brought in a sick plant. It looked a lot like
a citrus relative, and seemed to be suffering from scale like potted citrus
does. Also citrus don't like to be in dry air in the winter indoors, I
used to cover mine with a plastic bag to create some humidity around it.
The woman said she'd brought seeds back from India before but they never
sprouted. She showed some dried seeds, and they looked a bit like citrus
seeds. I told her that if they were citrus relatives, the seeds
must never be allowed to dry out. The plant has triple leaves when it is
doing well, and is a sacred plant. She said that the perfect triple leaves
were picked and placed "on the God", but that the imperfect leaves were not to
be used. With the plant in such poor condition, it had only a few live
leaves, few of them triple. The nursery owner assured her he would try to
nurse it back to health and take some cuttings.
Now, can you tell me what that
plant was? Was it Bael, a citrus relative? My husband says she
called it Tulsi, holy basil, but it was not basil. She only knew Indian
names for it. I would like to know more. Thank
you. Donna
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[NAFEX] Seeds available.,
Dr. Chiranjit Parmar, 07/05/2007
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Re: [NAFEX] Seeds available.,
Donna &/or Kieran, 07/06/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] Seeds available., Dr. Chiranjit Parmar, 07/08/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] Seeds available., Dr. Chiranjit Parmar, 07/08/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] Seeds available., Dr. Chiranjit Parmar, 07/08/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] Seeds available., Dr. Chiranjit Parmar, 07/08/2007
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Re: [NAFEX] Seeds available.,
Donna &/or Kieran, 07/06/2007
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