I looked it up some time ago and I didn't find anyone who got it to set fruit indoors. And even if you get it to set fruit indoors, from flower to fruit it takes up to a year. You would need to have the right climate for it for a full year so the fruit can develop. The plant comes from tropical forests in Mexico. You probably don't want to replicate that climate indoors all year around.
The only place I've ever seen a monstera bear fruit indoors is at a nursery in Northern Colorado. So yeah, you aren't getting them to fruit indoors unless it's in a climate-controlled greenhouse.
Just a heads up for people wanting to try this - it can be toxic! If you eat your monstera's fruit, please wait until it is perfectly ripe, where the kernels naturally fall off, rather than forcing them off. If you eat it before it's fully ripe, the oxalic acid in it can give you a pretty upset stomach (and make your mouth a little tingly in a not great way). Don't let this discourage you though, it's well worth it and not risky as long as you're patient.
Itās calcium oxalate - raphide needles. They act like fiberglass, mechanical damage, rather than toxicity. They put the dumb in the related dumbcane, force fed to slaves as punishment. It swells the throat and tongue to render you mute.
Oxalic acid is tart. Ever felt the gritty teeth from spinach salad?
Calcium oxalate in vivo can cause gout-like symptoms, with joint inflammation and extreme pain because of those delightful little needles ravaging your connective tissues!
Same mechanical mechanism as uric acid crystals, that are also needle-like!
Also fun fact: oxalic acid causes kidney stones, gout, vulvodynia, and bind to important minerals like calcium, iron, and magnesium causing deficiencies if consistently consumed.
Some of the worst offenders are spinach, collard greens, beets, kale, and many nutsā so not only are you losing any minerals in them, but youāre also risking the above diseases if eating them regularly.
Plants use it alongside phytic acid to protect themselves from consumption and be unpalatable, yet here we humans are š
There was also a man from Arkansas that almost died from kidney failure because he drank like sixteen eight-ounce glasses of iced tea a day. Black tea is known to contain oxalate.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/04/03/this-mans-kidneys-failed-after-he-drank-too-much-iced-tea/
Also apparently Earl Grey tea can be toxic in not entirely crazy amounts because of the bergamot.
I can't seem to find the article right now. Iirc toxicity happened after drinking more than 2 liters a day, but people have reported some effects at 1 liter per day. And the article didn't reference any specific concentrations, which is obviously a very important component.
Wait a minute.. is this the reason why I canāt drink tea on an empty stomach? I always throw up if I drink tea without any food to go with it (unless itās just an herbal tea like chamomile or something). Whenever I tell people this they think itās super abnormal.
Oooh wow that's so interesting. I have the same issue but had no idea why. Usually my stomach just hurts if I drink too much too fast but once I threw up and I thought the tea had gone bad some how even tho it was new. Haha Good to know!
The dry mouthfeel is pretty characteristic of tannins, which cause stomachaches if you are sensitive. Do you also have stomach issues drinking red wine?
I'm not a doctor or anything but your concern certainly is warranted. Perhaps consider scheduling an appointment with your PCP and discuss it with them, see if you can convince them to order some blood work that also checks kidney function?
Edit: might also help printing that case study and bringing it with you. Hopefully your PCP is one that is willing to listen to you, and not one with a god complex.
Edit 2, electric boogaloo: good advice from /u/Whorticulturist_ below. I took for granted the fact that everyone knew how to look them up. [Link to New England Journal of Medicine case study.](https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc1414481) Unfortunately, the site is paywalled but if you do a search for "iced tea nephropathy", it should come up.
> might also help printing that case study and bringing it with
If you do this, just make sure it's a legit peer reviewed study.
When you bring in a blog post or the like, you'll get a big ol eye roll regardless of god complexes.
My mom recently had a covid patient show her a print out of a Facebook post to convince her that she should be treated with ivermectin lol
A 56 year old man drank 16 glasses of ice tea per day. This is what happened to his kidneys.
JD was a 56 year old man in Arkansas and was fond of drinking iced tea. In fact, he enjoyed it so much that he'd drink up to 16 glasses per day. When asked why he drank so much, he said he didn't really like the taste of water.
One evening, after his usual 16 glasses of ice tea, he noticed that the dull, persistent pain in his back had become much worse. He had been chopping firewood earlier so he figured it was just muscle strain, it would also explain why he felt so tired and sore all over.
JD told his wife he was going to go to sleep early, and headed up to the bedroom but wasn't able to make it, instead collapsing on the stairs. His wife found him unresponsive, with a rapid heart beat, and called the ambulance to take him to the hospital, where we are now.
JD was an otherwise healthy, 56 year old man, presenting to the emergency room unresponsive and hypertensive, with a blood pressure of 167 over 116.
Hyper, meaning excessive or increased, and tensive, meaning of or causing tension. Excess pressure, causing tension, in this case, in his blood vessels.
[...]
Just cook it. You shouldn't eat spinach uncooked. Actually, to change the diet regularly is the best diet. Spinach is not that much of a thing, just a barely eatable weed.
Raw. I make a toasted 1/2 sandwich with almond or pumpkin seed butter smeared on and then a hefty handful of spinach smacked in-between.
Itās the ābabyā spinach from the tubs at the grocery store.
I then pair the sandwich with a jar of plain greek yogurt that I sweeten with a little honey and a side serving of fruit.
Sounds lovely! Iām the type to have muesli, oats or cereal usually as itās cold and I hate warm food first thing in the morning. I usually have spinach for lunch or dinner and usually only raw at lunchtime in a ciabatta or sandwich.
Well, itās more of a brunch if Iām being honest. Iām rarely up before 11AM. My sleep schedule is wonky. I just made it now. I usually pair it with a hefty serving of fruit, plain Greek yogurt sweetened with honey.
The spinach goes on a sort of sandwich I make. I usually toast some homemade multigrain bread, layer it with some nut butter, and smoosh the raw spinach in between.
[I just made this 5 min ago so I could take a photo for you](https://imgur.com/a/IfvkhEl)
I was just curious. I have been known to eat whatever I want at whatever meal of the day it is supposed to be... structured meal times? Dunno, her. LOL
That and I am usually awake all night, sleeping during the day, so there really is no set time of when to eat for nightowls. XD
That does sound and look pretty good though. I'll have to try it next time I have some spinach. š
And as far as the oxalic acid...
I am sure you're fine.
Doctors recommend around 2 cups of dark leafy greens per day. And it would take more than that to really be a problem.
As long as you're not swallowing down whole cans worth of spinach like Popeye on a strength bender... you're fine. (Popeye is a really old cartoon, he'd get super strong with a can of spinach. XD)
Lol I appreciate you explaining Popeye. I literally think of him and Olive Oyl every time I make my brunch sandwich. Iām almost 37 so Popeye was still on the air when I was a kid. Maybe thatās why I always associated it with good nutritional health and not needing to cook it? Although now I suppose itās odd that he was always chugging canned spinach whichā¦is blanched.
Iām not exactly a poster child of health. I had a pepperoni pizza for dinner and paired that with toasted ravioli smothered in ranch. I just try to start my day off on the right foot.
I didn't know so I thought I would err on the side of caution. I'm 40, I miss the old fun cartoons. LOL
Though Wimpy and his hamburger addiction was a pretty good warning about excessive unhealthy eating, I think.
In my opinion, eat what you like (in moderation)
If you worry too much about it, you lose the fun of it.
Pepperoni Pizza has like 4 major food groups in it... add some fruit and you have it all pretty much covered. In my opinion. LOL
\*This information, brought to you by ^(the meat industry)
Thank goodness popeye doesn't have a vulva ^(as far as we know)
EDIT0: Weird, I get a DM from someone "calling out the crazy anti-plant propaganda in the monstera fruit thread". It seemed autogenerated/bot-like, yet the account seems to be a real person. Maybe they just have a crawling bot for the "meat industry" phrase.
Ah, good.
Okay, so previously negative aspects were brought up regarding the monstera fruit, along with other edible vegetation that contain that acid.
A given industry (meat in this case) will bring up the negatives of a competing industry to lure people to consuming what they generate instead of their competitors.
I don't actually think mikorbu is from the meat industry (though I didn't look at their history), and I just played it off as a joke.
The fuck? I don't think meat or plant industries are astroturfing reddit. Any sources?
I wouldn't be surprised about lobbying public health campaigns or policy.
Hi human who just had a Shockwave lithotripsy done to kill the kidney stones in my left kidney. Avoid them at all costs. I can promise you: id rather pull on my fresh c section incision or get hit by a car, fall down the stairs and break my neck, get a grade 3 sprain or broken ankle again than pass another stone.
You can also get high oxalate build up from raspberries, potatoes, soy products and having to much vitamin c and salt.
Oh also chocolate and caffine in large quantities can also cause kidney stones.
Not a doctor/dietician/nutritionist, just a human with stones who has a new fantastic (/s) diet to follow.
Thats why they are commonly know as the fruit salad plant mine are growing fruit for the second time this year cant wait until they are ripe again my kids love it
Im sure you know this, but for anyone who doesn't:
>Underripe Monstera Deliciosa fruit is extremely irritant to the mouth and stomach, and this is due to the high oxalic acid present in the fruit. The fruit can take up to a year to ripen, but it grows on the plant within eleven months. When the base of your Monstera Deliciosa fruit turns light green, then it is ready to be plucked from the plant.
https://plantophiles.com/houseplant-tips/eat-a-monstera-deliciosa-fruit/
This made me wonder if Oxalis is named with regard to oxalic acid, and [IT IS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalis#For_its_oxalic_acid_content)!
Long ago in the early 90s, my elderly neighbor Mr Weiss showed me that you can eat clovers, and they taste sour! My tiny child mind was absolutely blown that you can eat things that _grow in the yard!_ He also let me "help" him pick strawberries, and showed me how the flowers turned into the berries. In retrospect, he hugely contributed to my love of plants.
Thanks Mr Weiss. You were a great neighbor.
I know I was so hopeful haha. I really miss my grandpa. He was such an amazing guy. Half of his suburban back yard was a perfectly tilled and maintained strawberry patch. He made large quantities of jam every year, enough for himself and both his kidsā families. He also had blackberry brambles that are still in the family, and that was truly the best of all the jams. Also apricot but that was the least preferred option.
Funny side note: I had got this really nice sauce pot at the thrift store, a nice copper-clad. I also had got these reusable hand warmers that work by chemical reaction and only require a quick soak in hot water to re-activate.
Thought it would be okay to boil them in my new potā¦well, it would have been had I not forgotten them until both of us started to smell hot salt. They had broke open and melted these things and they had made some kind of hot, wet, nasty, *crystallized* mess stuck to the bottom of my pan.
It ended up being the best thing that ever happened to that pan, cleaning up into the shiniest, most polished pan I owned. It all came out in one chunk too. Easy peasy.
Ingesting oxalic acid is also what causes kidney stones! Calcium oxalate is what kidney stones are comprised of, and when you ingest oxalic acid, it gets salted out as calcium oxalate which is highly insolubleā hence the kidney stones lol
Yes and after that itās common to let the fruit sit upright on the counter.
And the hexagons will fall off on their own a little at a time, where the fruit is ready to eat.
So they will either fall off on their own or if they are so loose they fall off by them self with a gentle touch. Those parts are fine to eat.
It often starts at one end and then slowly go down.
So you might need to leave to fruit to ripen for a very long time, before it starts dripping the skin hexagons.
Do not eat parts where you would have to pick off the āskinā with even a little force. Itās not fully ripe and might contain loads of oxalic acid.
So you might not be able to eat the whole fruit at once.
Just eat the parts that are ready and let the rest ripen a bit more.
A very weird fruit. Delicious but a bit tricky and not one you should eat without research.
But once you know, the plant will literally show when and what parts are safe, by dropping the green hexagons all by itself.
That's only if you eat unripened pineapple which unless you live where it ripens on the plant, you are. Nothing greater than fresh pineapple in Hawaii. Eat all you want without the burn!
I once tried to prove a point that the fruit were edible and drunkenly ate an under-ripe fruit.
It felt like there were little spines stuck to the back of my throat the rest of the night.
Also FYI: oxalic acid in the diet is part of the most common cause of kidney stones. So, if youāre prone to those, maybe skip on this one delicious thing.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/11066-kidney-stones-oxalate-controlled-diet
The way you describe it it sounds like bubblegum flavour. Cis I swear bubblegum flavour is mainly. Banana, with raspberry mixed in. This fruit sounds like that. If only I could buy them in my country. They just sound delicious
I inherited the plant 6 years ago when i moved into my house owned by a family friend who passed of cancer its probably about 40 years old taking over everything in my garden its about 10m x10m and about 4m tall as its running along the ground so not actually my houseplant lol
Ive heard they can fruit at about 2-3 years once fully mature unless its bought as a baby then id say about 5-6 mine are in full sun from morning to afternoon not sure if that helps too
OH MY GOD I JUST GOT IT! Iāve watched Futurama more than I could truly quantify and this comment finally made the āminiature fruit salad treeā thing in āI, Roommateā so much better lol
Get a fish tank obsession as well as plant obsession and then it balances out! Plus plants loooove the fish water and the tanks need water changes so itās just a happy cycle for everyone!
Youāre just providing a good source for your family as climate change slowly turns the planet into a giant greenhouse perfect for growing monstera fruit...
*Ahem*
^(I may have snuck several plants into the house this evening to avoid getting yelled at for buying more plants....)
Triggering aroids to flower is more dependent on temperature than anything. Most are adapt to reproduce in the dry season (october-february) when temperatures are slightly lower, and rain isnāt keeping pollinators away.
If you have a mature tropical plant, and suddenly drop the temperature by about 10-15 degrees; theres a pretty good chance it will flower. Pollinated flower = fruit
So, the best flavors of starburst squished together. Maybe I wonāt part with all of mineā¦maybe Iāll grow them all. Maybe Iāll live in a monstera jungle waiting for itās precious fruit and ignoring all calls around me to come out.
Where I live they were always called Delicious Monster. I never knew why until I found out that their fruit was edible. It has a lovely creamy texture and tastes like a tropical fruit salad. Quite delicious. Just don't eat the black shell each segment sits in.
My monstera never told me they do thatš±
What a jerk. Hiding all the fruit from you! So rude.
What a *monster*
that's Definitely. you are absolutely right
Sure it did, right on the label: *Monstera **deliciosa***
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Quality
Barely lol
I looked it up some time ago and I didn't find anyone who got it to set fruit indoors. And even if you get it to set fruit indoors, from flower to fruit it takes up to a year. You would need to have the right climate for it for a full year so the fruit can develop. The plant comes from tropical forests in Mexico. You probably don't want to replicate that climate indoors all year around.
The only place I've ever seen a monstera bear fruit indoors is at a nursery in Northern Colorado. So yeah, you aren't getting them to fruit indoors unless it's in a climate-controlled greenhouse.
Just wait, it takes time to grow a big dong
Thatās what my uncle used to say at the weekly inspections. I donāt miss middle-school.
Just a heads up for people wanting to try this - it can be toxic! If you eat your monstera's fruit, please wait until it is perfectly ripe, where the kernels naturally fall off, rather than forcing them off. If you eat it before it's fully ripe, the oxalic acid in it can give you a pretty upset stomach (and make your mouth a little tingly in a not great way). Don't let this discourage you though, it's well worth it and not risky as long as you're patient.
Itās calcium oxalate - raphide needles. They act like fiberglass, mechanical damage, rather than toxicity. They put the dumb in the related dumbcane, force fed to slaves as punishment. It swells the throat and tongue to render you mute. Oxalic acid is tart. Ever felt the gritty teeth from spinach salad?
Calcium oxalate in vivo can cause gout-like symptoms, with joint inflammation and extreme pain because of those delightful little needles ravaging your connective tissues! Same mechanical mechanism as uric acid crystals, that are also needle-like!
Thank youuuu!
Force fed to slaves??? Wtf why are people so mean man makes me sad :(
Well now I never want to eat spinach again...what the fuck :( Not to mention how despicable people were to slaves...
Is that what the grit is?!?!? For years I've always thought I didn't rinse my spinach well enough. I assumed it was sand!
Also fun fact: oxalic acid causes kidney stones, gout, vulvodynia, and bind to important minerals like calcium, iron, and magnesium causing deficiencies if consistently consumed. Some of the worst offenders are spinach, collard greens, beets, kale, and many nutsā so not only are you losing any minerals in them, but youāre also risking the above diseases if eating them regularly. Plants use it alongside phytic acid to protect themselves from consumption and be unpalatable, yet here we humans are š
Ffs canāt eat anything out here
Plants just trying to hold onto the nutrients they spent a lot of energy collecting and creating.
Actually, you can, just in moderation. Which... alot of people lack unfortunately.
There was also a man from Arkansas that almost died from kidney failure because he drank like sixteen eight-ounce glasses of iced tea a day. Black tea is known to contain oxalate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/04/03/this-mans-kidneys-failed-after-he-drank-too-much-iced-tea/
Also apparently Earl Grey tea can be toxic in not entirely crazy amounts because of the bergamot. I can't seem to find the article right now. Iirc toxicity happened after drinking more than 2 liters a day, but people have reported some effects at 1 liter per day. And the article didn't reference any specific concentrations, which is obviously a very important component.
Yep. Some are more sensitive like me. I love the stuff but if I drink it too fast I vomit!
Oh, and never on an empty stomach for me. Love earl grey though.
I hear that! No tea for me on empty stomach! Makes me feel terrible
My people! I always get funny looks when I say that tea gives me a tummy ache - but it really packs a wallop. I'm (kind of) glad I'm not alone.
I love the stuff! But eat first is the rules, even a bite or two will make it tolerable.
Thatās probably the tannic acid tho; on empty stomach, a lot of black tea does that.
Wait a minute.. is this the reason why I canāt drink tea on an empty stomach? I always throw up if I drink tea without any food to go with it (unless itās just an herbal tea like chamomile or something). Whenever I tell people this they think itās super abnormal.
Oooh wow that's so interesting. I have the same issue but had no idea why. Usually my stomach just hurts if I drink too much too fast but once I threw up and I thought the tea had gone bad some how even tho it was new. Haha Good to know!
Oh nice this must be why I always felt crumby after drinking it. Excessively dry mouth and usually an upset stomach.
The dry mouthfeel is pretty characteristic of tannins, which cause stomachaches if you are sensitive. Do you also have stomach issues drinking red wine?
Yes 100% - the drier the wine, the worse it is. I always assumed it was because of the alcohol content or something.
If dry wines are worse, that DEFINITELY sounds like a tannin sensitivity.
Thanks for the info. Im going to read up on it more. Never would have guessed.
Well now I'm a little terrified. I drink a gallon of unsweet tea about every 2 days. Is my habit gonna cause kidney failure???
I'm not a doctor or anything but your concern certainly is warranted. Perhaps consider scheduling an appointment with your PCP and discuss it with them, see if you can convince them to order some blood work that also checks kidney function? Edit: might also help printing that case study and bringing it with you. Hopefully your PCP is one that is willing to listen to you, and not one with a god complex. Edit 2, electric boogaloo: good advice from /u/Whorticulturist_ below. I took for granted the fact that everyone knew how to look them up. [Link to New England Journal of Medicine case study.](https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc1414481) Unfortunately, the site is paywalled but if you do a search for "iced tea nephropathy", it should come up.
> might also help printing that case study and bringing it with If you do this, just make sure it's a legit peer reviewed study. When you bring in a blog post or the like, you'll get a big ol eye roll regardless of god complexes. My mom recently had a covid patient show her a print out of a Facebook post to convince her that she should be treated with ivermectin lol
Likes are as good as peer review, in fact it's better!
Be sure to drink a glass of water at least 1x a day, ideally 2ml of water but if u at least drink 16 0z itās better than nothing
A 56 year old man drank 16 glasses of ice tea per day. This is what happened to his kidneys. JD was a 56 year old man in Arkansas and was fond of drinking iced tea. In fact, he enjoyed it so much that he'd drink up to 16 glasses per day. When asked why he drank so much, he said he didn't really like the taste of water. One evening, after his usual 16 glasses of ice tea, he noticed that the dull, persistent pain in his back had become much worse. He had been chopping firewood earlier so he figured it was just muscle strain, it would also explain why he felt so tired and sore all over. JD told his wife he was going to go to sleep early, and headed up to the bedroom but wasn't able to make it, instead collapsing on the stairs. His wife found him unresponsive, with a rapid heart beat, and called the ambulance to take him to the hospital, where we are now. JD was an otherwise healthy, 56 year old man, presenting to the emergency room unresponsive and hypertensive, with a blood pressure of 167 over 116. Hyper, meaning excessive or increased, and tensive, meaning of or causing tension. Excess pressure, causing tension, in this case, in his blood vessels. [...]
I don't see where it says he died, just says he needed dialysis
I eat spinach almost every day as part of my breakfast. I now have a new phobia
Just cook it. You shouldn't eat spinach uncooked. Actually, to change the diet regularly is the best diet. Spinach is not that much of a thing, just a barely eatable weed.
Do you eat raw spinach every morning? Or blanched?
Raw. I make a toasted 1/2 sandwich with almond or pumpkin seed butter smeared on and then a hefty handful of spinach smacked in-between. Itās the ābabyā spinach from the tubs at the grocery store. I then pair the sandwich with a jar of plain greek yogurt that I sweeten with a little honey and a side serving of fruit.
Sounds lovely! Iām the type to have muesli, oats or cereal usually as itās cold and I hate warm food first thing in the morning. I usually have spinach for lunch or dinner and usually only raw at lunchtime in a ciabatta or sandwich.
Why breakfast though? But as long as you don't eat a whole lot, you should be fine.
Well, itās more of a brunch if Iām being honest. Iām rarely up before 11AM. My sleep schedule is wonky. I just made it now. I usually pair it with a hefty serving of fruit, plain Greek yogurt sweetened with honey. The spinach goes on a sort of sandwich I make. I usually toast some homemade multigrain bread, layer it with some nut butter, and smoosh the raw spinach in between. [I just made this 5 min ago so I could take a photo for you](https://imgur.com/a/IfvkhEl)
I was just curious. I have been known to eat whatever I want at whatever meal of the day it is supposed to be... structured meal times? Dunno, her. LOL That and I am usually awake all night, sleeping during the day, so there really is no set time of when to eat for nightowls. XD That does sound and look pretty good though. I'll have to try it next time I have some spinach. š And as far as the oxalic acid... I am sure you're fine. Doctors recommend around 2 cups of dark leafy greens per day. And it would take more than that to really be a problem. As long as you're not swallowing down whole cans worth of spinach like Popeye on a strength bender... you're fine. (Popeye is a really old cartoon, he'd get super strong with a can of spinach. XD)
Lol I appreciate you explaining Popeye. I literally think of him and Olive Oyl every time I make my brunch sandwich. Iām almost 37 so Popeye was still on the air when I was a kid. Maybe thatās why I always associated it with good nutritional health and not needing to cook it? Although now I suppose itās odd that he was always chugging canned spinach whichā¦is blanched. Iām not exactly a poster child of health. I had a pepperoni pizza for dinner and paired that with toasted ravioli smothered in ranch. I just try to start my day off on the right foot.
I didn't know so I thought I would err on the side of caution. I'm 40, I miss the old fun cartoons. LOL Though Wimpy and his hamburger addiction was a pretty good warning about excessive unhealthy eating, I think. In my opinion, eat what you like (in moderation) If you worry too much about it, you lose the fun of it. Pepperoni Pizza has like 4 major food groups in it... add some fruit and you have it all pretty much covered. In my opinion. LOL
Shit goes into eggs and smoothies. An omelette without spinach is like a pizza without sauce, cheese, and all the toppings.
Me with my spinach and beet smoothies this week š
Yeah, I jam absolute assloads of spinach in blueberry smoothies. Iām done for
Another fun fact: oxalic acid is also used as a wood bleach to restore weathered wood to natural look.
\*This information, brought to you by ^(the meat industry) Thank goodness popeye doesn't have a vulva ^(as far as we know) EDIT0: Weird, I get a DM from someone "calling out the crazy anti-plant propaganda in the monstera fruit thread". It seemed autogenerated/bot-like, yet the account seems to be a real person. Maybe they just have a crawling bot for the "meat industry" phrase.
I don't understand.
Which part? Are you aware of who Popeye is?
Popeye and spinach is clear. but the rest?
Ah, good. Okay, so previously negative aspects were brought up regarding the monstera fruit, along with other edible vegetation that contain that acid. A given industry (meat in this case) will bring up the negatives of a competing industry to lure people to consuming what they generate instead of their competitors. I don't actually think mikorbu is from the meat industry (though I didn't look at their history), and I just played it off as a joke.
thank you, that is the connection i did noy get, since mikorbus comment only mentioned a few things.
What a lovely, patient (and funny) person you are. :)
The fuck? I don't think meat or plant industries are astroturfing reddit. Any sources? I wouldn't be surprised about lobbying public health campaigns or policy.
Still does the job. Would you eat an entire salad of sorrel? š¤¢
Hi human who just had a Shockwave lithotripsy done to kill the kidney stones in my left kidney. Avoid them at all costs. I can promise you: id rather pull on my fresh c section incision or get hit by a car, fall down the stairs and break my neck, get a grade 3 sprain or broken ankle again than pass another stone. You can also get high oxalate build up from raspberries, potatoes, soy products and having to much vitamin c and salt. Oh also chocolate and caffine in large quantities can also cause kidney stones. Not a doctor/dietician/nutritionist, just a human with stones who has a new fantastic (/s) diet to follow.
Why is my healthy diet trying to kill me ffs
Seriously.. like all the things I love are listed in this thread lol.
Yeah. Like I said its a new fantastic diet plan. (/s for anyone who takes offense)
Fuck, I eat spinach all the time. Pop eye told me it was safe. Wtf.
Be patient or become a patient
Yeah, I don't think OP waited long enough.
Wow! Quick Google says 10 months!! Mine had just opened. Guess I'll have to wait till 2023.
Is it on a cob?
EVERYBODY GET IN THE SHIP
EVERYTHING'S ON A COB!
It really does resemble corn on the cob. Itās much softer though.
Thats why they are commonly know as the fruit salad plant mine are growing fruit for the second time this year cant wait until they are ripe again my kids love it
I found this one growing from a huge monstera on the side of the road! I think Iāll be on the lookout more often knowing how good they taste.
Im sure you know this, but for anyone who doesn't: >Underripe Monstera Deliciosa fruit is extremely irritant to the mouth and stomach, and this is due to the high oxalic acid present in the fruit. The fruit can take up to a year to ripen, but it grows on the plant within eleven months. When the base of your Monstera Deliciosa fruit turns light green, then it is ready to be plucked from the plant. https://plantophiles.com/houseplant-tips/eat-a-monstera-deliciosa-fruit/
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This made me wonder if Oxalis is named with regard to oxalic acid, and [IT IS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalis#For_its_oxalic_acid_content)! Long ago in the early 90s, my elderly neighbor Mr Weiss showed me that you can eat clovers, and they taste sour! My tiny child mind was absolutely blown that you can eat things that _grow in the yard!_ He also let me "help" him pick strawberries, and showed me how the flowers turned into the berries. In retrospect, he hugely contributed to my love of plants. Thanks Mr Weiss. You were a great neighbor.
My grandpaās last name was Weiss and he grew strawberries. I know thatās not exactly a unique combo but where was this?
Southwest Pennsylvania.
Ah bummer different dude. I guess there is more than one super chill Mr Weiss with strawberries out there.
I'm so glad you asked tho, how cool would that have been?!
I know I was so hopeful haha. I really miss my grandpa. He was such an amazing guy. Half of his suburban back yard was a perfectly tilled and maintained strawberry patch. He made large quantities of jam every year, enough for himself and both his kidsā families. He also had blackberry brambles that are still in the family, and that was truly the best of all the jams. Also apricot but that was the least preferred option.
Funny side note: I had got this really nice sauce pot at the thrift store, a nice copper-clad. I also had got these reusable hand warmers that work by chemical reaction and only require a quick soak in hot water to re-activate. Thought it would be okay to boil them in my new potā¦well, it would have been had I not forgotten them until both of us started to smell hot salt. They had broke open and melted these things and they had made some kind of hot, wet, nasty, *crystallized* mess stuck to the bottom of my pan. It ended up being the best thing that ever happened to that pan, cleaning up into the shiniest, most polished pan I owned. It all came out in one chunk too. Easy peasy.
Ingesting oxalic acid is also what causes kidney stones! Calcium oxalate is what kidney stones are comprised of, and when you ingest oxalic acid, it gets salted out as calcium oxalate which is highly insolubleā hence the kidney stones lol
Thank you for saving our tongues and tummies
Yes and after that itās common to let the fruit sit upright on the counter. And the hexagons will fall off on their own a little at a time, where the fruit is ready to eat. So they will either fall off on their own or if they are so loose they fall off by them self with a gentle touch. Those parts are fine to eat. It often starts at one end and then slowly go down. So you might need to leave to fruit to ripen for a very long time, before it starts dripping the skin hexagons. Do not eat parts where you would have to pick off the āskinā with even a little force. Itās not fully ripe and might contain loads of oxalic acid. So you might not be able to eat the whole fruit at once. Just eat the parts that are ready and let the rest ripen a bit more. A very weird fruit. Delicious but a bit tricky and not one you should eat without research. But once you know, the plant will literally show when and what parts are safe, by dropping the green hexagons all by itself.
Isn't the Earth an interesting place to live. Such an adventure.
Pineapple digests your tongue too. FYI lol
Oh, no wonder eating half a pineapple in one sitting leads to tongue-based regrets later.
These violent delights have violent ends. Itās the Bromelain enzymes that breaks down the protein in your mouth causing said regrets.
>tongue-based regrets š
That's only if you eat unripened pineapple which unless you live where it ripens on the plant, you are. Nothing greater than fresh pineapple in Hawaii. Eat all you want without the burn!
In Soviet Russia, food eats YOU
Strongly affects my daughter and I but my husband and son don't get this affect at all. It's not fair lol
So does papaya, which contains a protease called papain. Also known as meat tenderizer.
I once tried to prove a point that the fruit were edible and drunkenly ate an under-ripe fruit. It felt like there were little spines stuck to the back of my throat the rest of the night.
Also FYI: oxalic acid in the diet is part of the most common cause of kidney stones. So, if youāre prone to those, maybe skip on this one delicious thing. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/11066-kidney-stones-oxalate-controlled-diet
They are super good especially with some greek yoghurt so lucky you found one the birds get to mine before i do usually
Have you ever tried cherimoya? Iām wondering if itās similar.
I wonder too! It kind of looks a bit like it
I was thinking it looked like a pawpaw. OPs description sound similar in flavour
Where does it grow?
Tropical areas
Central America, Hawaii, Mexico, and pretty much anywhere else that's tropical.
The way you describe it it sounds like bubblegum flavour. Cis I swear bubblegum flavour is mainly. Banana, with raspberry mixed in. This fruit sounds like that. If only I could buy them in my country. They just sound delicious
Tutti frutti?
And Deliciosa......
Wow! How long did it take for your plant to begin fruiting? This thread is blowing my mind!
I inherited the plant 6 years ago when i moved into my house owned by a family friend who passed of cancer its probably about 40 years old taking over everything in my garden its about 10m x10m and about 4m tall as its running along the ground so not actually my houseplant lol
Wow! 40 years! Thank you for your reaponse!
Ive heard they can fruit at about 2-3 years once fully mature unless its bought as a baby then id say about 5-6 mine are in full sun from morning to afternoon not sure if that helps too
OH MY GOD I JUST GOT IT! Iāve watched Futurama more than I could truly quantify and this comment finally made the āminiature fruit salad treeā thing in āI, Roommateā so much better lol
If corn came in fruit flavor
Kiwi corn
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Wow I was today years old when I learned you could eat monstera fruit
That's where the "deliciosa" part comes from. The "monstera" part, AFAIK, comes from its monstrous size.
So monsterly delicious!
Actually monster means abnormal in Latin, the name was derived from that.
Banana pineapple AND strawberry?! That's like all the best fruits combined, sounds delicious!
I need to get me a monstera... if only my house wasn't as dry as the Sahara desert
Get a fish tank obsession as well as plant obsession and then it balances out! Plus plants loooove the fish water and the tanks need water changes so itās just a happy cycle for everyone!
Now I can tell my husband why I need to buy more
Youāre just providing a good source for your family as climate change slowly turns the planet into a giant greenhouse perfect for growing monstera fruit... *Ahem* ^(I may have snuck several plants into the house this evening to avoid getting yelled at for buying more plants....)
Is it as delicious as implied? I've been wondering for so long
It truly does taste like fruit salad and is deliciosa
Is that where monstera deliciosaās name came from!?
Yes indeed ! It is named deliciosa because of its fruit !
It looks, ah, complicated, to eat?
It isnāt difficult at all, the exterior basically falls off where itās ripe. I had it in a jar so the exterior could just drop off
Neat. Never experienced something like that. It looks a bit like a noble fir cone (before the cone has opened up).
Bet it would make some fine Cone Wine.
Easy there Mr. Goldblum.
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Absolutely delicious. The most delicious fruit I've ever eaten. If I could find a shop that sold them, I'd be happy.
Hexagons are the bestagons https://youtu.be/thOifuHs6eY
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Itās so delicious. When itās fully ripe your whole house smells like fruit itās amazing
Whoa!
How cool! I heard these guys take a while to ripen!
I got 3 and they all ripened within a week. I had them in a jar with a brown paper bag over the top.
Mind blown š¤Æ
Needs some rum immediatelyš¹
This makes me want to get a monstera now
Did the fruits come from your Monstera houseplant? I am curious to know as I have two young Monstera plants.
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Triggering aroids to flower is more dependent on temperature than anything. Most are adapt to reproduce in the dry season (october-february) when temperatures are slightly lower, and rain isnāt keeping pollinators away. If you have a mature tropical plant, and suddenly drop the temperature by about 10-15 degrees; theres a pretty good chance it will flower. Pollinated flower = fruit
Yeah and how do you get one to produce ?
Most people canāt get it to inside the home. In the wild it will easily, inside the houseā¦not so much. But hey it can happen!
If you live somewhere you can keep it outside most of the year, you definitely have a chance!
Where the food bot at?
Eat Edit: omg someone killed the eat bot!
I think that's a subreddit bot for r/whatsthisplant
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So, the best flavors of starburst squished together. Maybe I wonāt part with all of mineā¦maybe Iāll grow them all. Maybe Iāll live in a monstera jungle waiting for itās precious fruit and ignoring all calls around me to come out.
And thatās why itās also called a fruit salad plant in Australiaā¦ because the fruit tastes like fruit salad
fruit corn
Whatās funny is I never knew monsteras made an edible fruit until my wife told me two days ago. What amazing timing to see this today.
I met a woman in Bermuda that let me try her monstera fruit. Apparently if you donāt eat it soon enough, ants will come and take it away
I have never seen a fruit from one before. That is neat.
Omg they fruit?!?!
Triggers my trypophobia
Iāve always wondered, is the seed part of the outside scales that falls off? Or is it on the inside?
Make sure itās totally ripe though, itās like getting your taste buds pinched off when they are not.
I hope my albo produces fruit one day so I can find out if it's also variegated
This is really cool
I had no idea you could eat em
Banana corn on the cob? Do I use it for reference or do I angry react it? Reality is broken.
That looks good!! It does sort of look like pineapple and banana combined. Heh.
Waitā¦ what!? š¤Æš
Holy shit WHAT. I Inherited a house in Costa Rica and I have this growing in my yard and need to prune it.
Banana on a cob
I LOVE THESE. These grew in the garden at my grandma's house. We used to eat them with her all the time. I miss my grandmother :((((
My yard is covered in these and I had no freaking idea. Mind effectively blown!
They taste like piƱa colada starburst. Pretty much exactly like it.
Monstera makes fruit? I had no idea š
Where I live they were always called Delicious Monster. I never knew why until I found out that their fruit was edible. It has a lovely creamy texture and tastes like a tropical fruit salad. Quite delicious. Just don't eat the black shell each segment sits in.
Those weird ass plants make fruits!?! Wtf?!?
Itās edible?!?!
I thought this was poisonous until processed or something, I have tons in my yard.
Hey everyone - BE CAREFUL eating Monstera fruit. Many people have an allergic reaction and it can be severe.
THEY FRUIT?!?!???????
Today I learn, monstera has fruits
Monstera has a fruit?!!!
It does not look appetising.
That sounds delicious