"I had King Midas in my Oakland, California garden. It was a small plant in an undersized pot the first time it bloomed. The plant put out several HUGE buds that opened to such a gorgeous golden color, it took my breath away. One bloom set seed and produced a large fruit. Once the fruit was ripe, I sliced it in half to see what was inside (I'd never seen a fruit before). It was filled with fuchsia-pink pulp sprinkled with tiny seeds the size of seeds in a Kiwi fruit. I tasted the fruit... yummy! I sowed the seeds from the other half and ended up with hundreds of seedlings. I need to buy another plant so i can try this again! KM is an old cultivar, but entirely worth growing!"

Oct 14 2008, 03:59 AMby Jeffrey Wincek