Found this over on soundcloud.com. Looking for some Christian Dubstep music. I enjoyed this one.

I posted a few days ago about this Miracle Fruit (Synsepalum dulcificum) that i was going to attempt to grow. From the Discovery article i followed the link to the miraclefruitman.com site and  here is a list of foods off that site that taste sweet using the Miracle Fruit.

• Lemon
• Lime
• Vinegar and Vinegar-based Foods
• Apple Cider vinegar
• Balsamic vinegar
• Grapefruit
• Strawberries
• Pineapple
• Grapes
• Pomegranate
• Kiwi
• Peach
• Raisins
• Green, yellow or Granny smith apples
• Broccoli with a splash of lemon
• Pears
• Tomato
• Radish
• Onions
• Mustard
• V8
• Tabasco sauce or any other hot sauce.
• Sour cream
• Un-sweet ice tea with lemon or lime
• Sour Pickles
• Red berries
• Blackberries
• Raspberries
• Cranberries
• Blueberries
• Watermelon
• Goat cheese
• Try other aged cheeses
• Rhubarb
• Guinness with a lemon sorbet.
• Beer
• Dark beers
• Red wine
• Cheap tequila
• Brussels sprouts
• Oysters with lemon juice.
• Chili sauce
• Ketchup
• Salt & Vinegar potato chips
• Oranges
• Currants
• Tonic water
• Garlic cloves
• Natural yoghurt
• Durian or Jackfruit
• Unsweetened chocolate
• Olives
• Green mangoes
• Aloe vera with lemon juice
• Tamarind

Now i won't be trying any of the Beers, however Brussels sprouts? Really, my wife likes Brussels sprouts, and i don't. I have not grown them in the garden because i don't like them, however if the Miracle Fruit works on them, then i will have no excuse for not growing them. :-D

More News

I  want to give a big thanks to ethansgarden.com for getting my seeds (Miracle Fruit) to me very quickly. I was surprised at how fast they arrived i was not expecting them before the end of the year. Also talking of fast delivery. The team over at www.horizonherbs.com had my order of Goji (Lycium barbarum)  berries and Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) seeds to me before the end of the year as well. I received the seeds from both companies on the same day. It was an exciting time for Simon and i... i think he was excited because i was excited. :-D

With the Goji berries i have heard of three different ways to plant the seeds. Two ways were to soak the seeds for 24 hours, the other did not specify. So this is what i did.

1. Soak seeds for 24 hours.
2. Split seeds into three equal piles
   1. 7 seeds we planted in the berries.
   2. 7 seeds we split open and planted open end up in soil
   3. 7 seeds i removed all (or as all as i could tell) from the berry and planted into soil.
3. Put a little moisture over the seeds
4. Cover with plastic wrap and place on top of fridge. (Things get warm up there)

So with that all done i will see what way produces the most sprouts. I am feeling that the one that i spread all the seeds out will do the best, however the argument that the berry flesh protects the seeds and will produce sprouts does sound good. We will see. I am taking photos of my progress and created a youtube channel. I will make a short little video and post a link when it's done.

And Even More News

What! Did you think i was done? Well i have ordered more seeds for two different plants. One being the Sea Buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) and the other Schizandra (Schisandra chinensis) AKA wu wei zi in Chinese AKA Five Flavour Fruit (salty, sweet, sour, pungent (spicy), and bitter.). These are superfoods that are getting more attention. If it  grows naturally (Non-GMO) and taste good, why not eat it? I know what your thinking, where on that little land God has lent you will you put all this stuff? Well i'm doing allot of praying that God will lend to me more land. :-D And yes growing stuff is still driving my wife crazy. I will post updates on this when i have the seeds and have them in something to try and get them to grow. The top of the fridge is going to be packed. :-) And i have not even went over the list of seeds i got for the garden this year... I will post about that when they arrive.

I have updated my repo with EFL 1.7.4 and Enlightenment 17. This is the final release for enlightenment and you can get my repo package to install from

Fedora 17 x86_64: http://www.edmann.com/Enlightenment/repo/Fedora/17/x86_64/RPMS/enlightenment-repo-0.0.2-1.fc17.x86_64.rpm

Fedora 18 i386 & x86_64: http://www.edmann.com/Enlightenment/repo/Fedora/18/enlightenment-repo-0.0.3-1.fc18.noarch.rpm

I need to update the enlightenment spec file to include all the packages it needs to run in the require field, that should make it easier to install. So take this as my very first release with another being done over the weekend as i clean up the spec file some.

yum install ecore eina eeze evas evas-module_engine_gl_x11 embryo evas-module_loader_* ethumb edje eio evas-module_saver_* eet e_dbus e_modules-engage efreet elementary emotion enlightenment

If you have issues with the yum install let me know. I know there was one person that said eio and libeio were causing issues. If you have issues please post in the comments and let me know about your setup. I am trying to figure out why i cannot replicate this issue.

UPDATE

1. I had built the package and it missed having fontconfig-devel installed on the build server. I had fixed the issue and e-mailed back the person that reported the problem with starting E17. I have been just testing out the build system, and have another issue where the version was not updated. So this will require a force install/update of evas*

2. Why is SVG disabled? It was either a e-mail or irc chat i had and there was some issues with SVG. It was said to build Evas Generic Loaders. Which i have not done that either.

Thanks everyone for feedback. I will post updates on the site to keep people from repeating work.

So i am wanting to try some new plants in 2013 and miracle fruit is one of them. I found Ethans Garden and also another site Fruit Lovers that sell the seeds. I ordered my plants from Ethans Garden and hope to get them soon. Granted it's the holidays so they might not show up for a while. I will post back when i get them.

In doing some research i found on instructables.com instructions on how to grow your own miracle fruit. They mentioned using Gibberellic acid and when i called and talked to the guys at Ethans Garden i asked them about germination and they mentioned that some people had used Gibberellic acid, not that they had. I brought up germenation because the instructables.com article had mentioned germination challanges and that unitednuclear.com is a place to purchase the Gibberellic acid.

I am not going to do the gibberellic acid on this go. If i don't have good success rate i will try it next time. But for now i feel i can get enought of the plants to germinate without the gibberellic acid.

Now i just have to figure out where in my house i can put these. I might have to give away some of my other plants. :-D