Asimina Triloba

Experimenting with Asimina Triloba in Italy is quite a challenge since the available genetic material is limited. As fruit it has wonderful potential, and apart the great taste and texture, having some other health improving effects would be quite interesting.

From our dowsing activity, only a cultivar available in Europe was interesting, named Tollgate. It can reach the fourth chackra a the etheric level. 

Other interesting non grafted specimens can rarely be found in nurseries, since if grown from seeds, sometimes certain genes activate and the plant can reach higher energetic level and the fruits are better health supporting. Open pollination in Europe is quite a challenge anyway, since non specialized pollinators exist, only flies, and no wild specimens too.

In winter 2021 we found a lot of seeds available on eBay from US, with open pollinates seeds coming from Jerry Lehman's orchard in Terre Haute, Indiana.  After selection we could find specimens target both physical and etheric body. Obviously we are still waiting the specimens to grow and bear fruits.

Punica Granatum

Pomegranate is maybe one of the most interesting fruit for health support. It originated in central Asia, Turkmenistan,  Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. From the botanical point of view it is almost a unique plant having only a relative in the island of Socotra. Can be grown in tropical climate as well in Mediterranean and cooler climates and it is particularly easy to propagate by cuttings and seed.

Interesting literature on Pomegranates are two books Pomegranate and Pomegranate Roads: A Soviet Botanist's Exile from Eden  both of  Gregory M. Levin.

The proprieties of fruits range form supporting the health of the prostate and the brain, as well as of all chakras through sushumna nadi. The properties are strongly dependent on the cultivars, and most of commercial ones are not effective. 

Few cultivars we selected for their properties are:

Ink -  Etheric:  4°,  6° and 7° chakras

Vkusnyi  - Physical: Brain

Purple Hearth - Etheric:  6°  chakras

Chernaya Roza  - Physical: Prostate

Shami - Physical: Prostate; Etheric: Sushumna

Sirenevyi - Physical: Immune system

In winter 2021 we start experimenting by selecting the seed of commercial pomegranate to find some promising future varieties. This research is ongoing but we have already around 10 specimens which seem to have superior properties to any commercial (both mainstream and nursery material) cultivars.

Malus domestica - Rusin Bleu

This post is dedicated to one of the few apples showing some effect on the etheric body. Is is and old landrace of north-west Italy. 

It works mainly on 1° and 2° chakras. Needs to be harvested before full ripeness, which comes during the winter, and it is delicious then.  The names comes probably from the bluish hue of the skin ( that cannot be appreciated in this low quality picture ).

Furongli and other Prunus Salicina varieties

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2016.01338/full

This plum is particularly interesting as it seems to be one of the few Prunus Salicina landrace available in Italy. The pigment in the inside of the pulp makes it also interesting for a wide range of culinary preparations. 

From our analysis it seems to improve the health of the peripheral nervous system.

Update:

We found a plum present in the center-north of Italy called Suregio or Susegio, also pigmented in the inside. Anecdotal informations refer to it as a natual hybrid of plum and somewhat a cherry, but apart the improbable crossing, it seems from the leaves to be a P. Salicina landrace, historically present in Italy.

It is very active on the etheric body. 

Prunus Armeniaca

In order to improve apricots (Prunus Armenicaca) quality, eventual therapeutic effect, resistence to deseses, frost resistence of flowers, etc, one must look at the possible centre of domestication to gain material for experimenting.
One of the best location where possibly apricot was domesticated is the northern region of India, Ladakh.

See: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304423817301176
and  here the full text: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314253468_Apricots_Prunus_armeniaca_L_of_trans-Himalayan_Ladakh_Potential_candidate_for_fruit_quality_breeding_programs

I found out as a source of seeds coming from himalayan mountains some apricot seeds used as food supplement on ebay (Bob's Best Apricot Kernels).

To germinate the seeds, instructions can be found in the book: Seed Germination Theory and Practice by Norman C. Deno which can be downloaded from USDA here.

3 seedlings are now growing... 

Update:

We found a new source of interesting apricot seeds in sun died fruits coming from India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Unluckily often fruits are old, or dried in extreme heat, and seeds, although they often germinate, bud most die before sprouting. 

Here a picture taken in summer 2020 of one of the two plants germinated for Pakistan Hunza valley apricot seeds collected from dried apricots, purchased on eBay in 2019.

This specimen has strong effect on the physical heart and on the etheric 4° 6° and 7° chakras. It seems connected to the anecdotal evidence that people in Hunza valley have longer life, as they claim, thanks to their died apricots. A classic scientific study on the chemicals affecting the heart in the apricots would be interesting for further breeding.

Edible Roses

Description of some roses cultivars suitable for food purposes. The description is based on personal taste, but since few days is available on the subject this can help other researchers.

Most of them have been chosen with the help of radiesthesia to be good for health too.

Comments with other roses for food are welcome.

Frances Dubreuil : fine texture, delicate taste and strong fragrance, small flowers and petals. Gets burnt a little bit by the sum.

Marcel Pagnol: strong and sweet fragrance, aromatic taste but woody texture

Princes Alexandra of Kent: fine texture, delicate taste and fragrance, big flowers and petals

Duftwolke (Fragrant Cloud): Good texture, strong smell, but no so pleasent taste. Maybe good when mixed with other roses or cooked.

Mr Lincoln: under evaluation

Acapella: good edible, fine texture and smell

Crimson glory: under evaluation

Theo Clevers ™: under evaluation

Renée van Wegberg ™: good texture, but the taste is slightly under expectation.

Eveline Wild ™: good texture, medium smell, sweet taste.

Marie van Houtte: fine texture, delicate taste but almost no fragrance

Général Schablikine:  fine texture, delicate taste but almost no fragrance

Chinese and other Asian Peaches

Peach is considered by Zen culture the fruit of eternal life and few studies have been presented in order to investigate this fact (see: Sesquiterpene glucosides from Shenzhou honey peach fruit showed the anti-aging activity in the evaluation system using yeasts) 

Peach was domesticated in China and the ancestors of european cultivars came probably from Alexander the Great era. So to research for the "best" peach to have positive effect on health the main source of material is China.

The most promising cultivars are chinese landraces, which in europe are extremely difficult to find.

This page contains a list of pictures and brief descriptions of the chinese, japanese and corean peach we were able to find in italy.

To find more infos on landraces see the list contained in:
Genetic diversity, linkage disequilibrium, and association mapping analyses of peach (Prunus persica) landraces in China

and 

Wang Zuhua - China Fruit-Plant Monograph (Vol.10)-Peach Flora(In Chinese) 2001

Cultivar Jing Hong. Chinese Peach. Early ripening (10th of July in North of Italy). Good taste, medium sweet. Breeded.

Cultivar Hakuto. Japanese peach.  Early ripening (20th of July in North of Italy). Good taste, medium sweet. Landrace ?

Cultivar Rou Tao. Chinese peach.  Early ripening (20th of July in North of Italy). Good taste, medium sweet. Landrace

Cultivar Wu Yue Xian. Chinese peach.  Very early ripening (25th of June in North of Italy). Good taste, sweet, small fruits. Landrace

Cultivar Huang Lu. Chinese peach.  Mid-ripening (20th of July in North of Italy). Yellow flesh. Good taste, sweet. Breeded

Cultivar Shenzhou Mi Tao. Chinese peach.  Mid-Late ripening (25th of August in North of Italy). Very good taste, extremely sweet. Low yield. Landrace

Cultivar Yumyeong. Corean peach.  Mid-Late ripening (25th of August in North of Italy). Good taste, medium sweet. Breeded