Skin Fruit Seed
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Maybe you’re right: let us stop explaining.
I know those ants too — soon
they’ll slurp caves into the handful of apples
that come on the pipsqueak tree out back,
or scurry dizzy on the sugar
glazing the sweetest bean I’ve ever tasted,
the beans themselves tonguing
through the spent cherry bush.
-Ross Gay to Aimee Nezhukumatathil
How to increase impulse cherry purchases during inflation
One ingredient you wish more people would use in the kitchen?
Anna Higham interviewed by Bre Graham: Mahlab is a spice derived from cherry stones that has the most delicious almond flavour. It's far more delicious and complex than almond extract. I love it with any stoned fruit whether cooked with the fruit itself or flavouring a cream or custard alongside it.
Week of 6/13/21 in Aquarius: A sudden fill is all that will surround you. A cherry elixir and a sweetest night. You are surrounded by so much love. In fact in the smoke you are being called. The words are that you’re the best one.
Propagation Method
Seed collection: Black cherry fruit is a fleshy drupe containing a single seed. Harvest the fruit in the late summer after they change from reddish-brown to black. The fruit covering can be rubbed off under running water.
Large amounts of seed can be separated from the fruit using a modified blender method. They can be stored dry for long periods in air tight containers in the refrigerator.
Seed dormancy: Black cherry has physiological dormancy.
Seed germination: Stratify seeds using moist chilling for 120 days to satisfy physiological dormancy. Following stratification, sow seeds in a nursery container to produce a seedling or sow them in a plastic container in the classroom to observe germination.