How to Grow Miracle Berry, Fruit Plant Home Depot?

How to grow Miracle Berry or Miracle Fruit plant at your home depot? Scientists have research the benefits of Miracle Fruit (Synsepalum Dulcificum), in Asia its very well known although originating from Africa. They study and cultivation of flower morphology of Miracle Berry by using microscopic techniques. The fruit contains compounds called Miraculin or Glycoprotein containing 191 amino acids and carbohydrates. These compounds are capable to changing a sour taste into a sweet taste on your tongue. And its usually consume to diet and very suitable for diabetics.

This analysis explains that Miracle Berry takes 100 days to grow from reproductive meristems up to flower in full blossom. Severe decrease in fruit observed about 40 to 60 days after the flowers bloom, ripe fruit for 90 days after the flowers bloom. Miracle Berry is a valuable horticultural species that originated in West Africa, the study conducted at HortScience in June 2016. They explained that the Miracle Berry is a rare fruit crops of high economic value in the medical and food industries.

The fruit flesh contains substances Miraculin, a glycoprotein has a tremendous effect on appetite. Its particularly the effect on the tongue, the food taste becomes sour or sugary. This study states that Miraculin can help diabetics to eat sweet foods without sugar, this potential is consider as a natural food sweetener.

How to Grow Miracle Berry?

Scientists working in this study are Chen Xingway, Thohirah Lee Abdullah, Sima Taheri, Nur Ashikin Psyquay Abdullah, and Aisha Hassan. They used microscopic techniques to identify the flower morphology and growth Miracle Berry. The study results could improve understanding of the ecology of pollination and methods to manipulate flowering and fruiting. Flowers takes 100 days to grow from reproductive meristem to full bloom. The growth flowers divided into six distinct stages based on the size and appearance of flower buds.

How to grow Miracle Berry? The best in soils with pH as low as 4.5 to 5.8, in an environment free from frost and in partial shade with high humidity. The plants first bear fruit after growing for approximately 3–4 years and produce two crops per year. The seeds of Miracle Berry are about the size of coffee beans and need 14 to 21 days to germinate.

Then the scientists observed the Miracle Berry changes in weight after the flowers bloom or reaches 40 to 60 days. This explains the very low percentage of fruiting. The best fruit can be cultivated and ripened for 90 days after the flowers bloom. Addition of proper nutrition and water management can lower the rate of premature fruit and produce larger fruits. Fertilization strongly recommended at the time of pollination by insects. And more research on pollination ecology have made to identify other pollinators.

Miracle Berry, image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.