Climate change is getting our barren trees to fruit
Lichies are flowering!
Was I seeing right I wondered and my jaw just dropped open in shock to see the lichies are flowering in Hoskote. So glad they have flowered as a farewell to us as we've sold the farm and paper work will take some months. The lichies were grown from seeds by me decades ago and probably just fruited once. Then with Bangalore heating up they completely stopped flowering and fruiting for at least a decade. Now with Climate Change and the winters reverting to old Bangalore cold, the cold snap has shaken them up and they are flowering.
Our avocados too just flowered and fruited only once. Now suddenly with the cold snap they are all budding and flowering! Its amazing to see and lucky before our handing over of the farm. Avocados need a male and female tree for pollination. It was fine in the Hayes road bungalow as every home had avocados so bees would cross pollinate over walls into different gardens. Here in Hoskote no one else has an avocado so I have planted four trees to cross pollinate. They are all the Haas ( German) variety sadly and not our regular, huge, Bangalore avocados which Mum and I would eat with no boundaries!
Apples fruiting too!
A Colonel in my Goa gardening group as a happy surprise, sent me a dozen, bare rooted, apple saplings, all the way from J & K! I remembered Dad planting Cherry blossom in Upper Shillong when he was posted there. They are blooming now says an officer friend who was stationed there recently. A tree remains as a memory of the person who planted it. Like Grandpas Malgoba and Dusseri which are growing and fruiting in the compound. These apples are fruiting now and to keep them happy I have bought a tractor load of chicken waste which they really enjoy.
A tractor load of chicken waste bought from the Godrej Chicken factory
