I had never heard of it before and just researched it a bit. How interesting. It doesn't seem to be available many places but did see it is on Amazon for $2 plus shipping. Good luck. Sue...chemocurl Here is a link that might be useful: Miracle fruit seeds

Hi Eddie, Yes...you certainly started with a doozy! These plants can be a real nuisance for a lot of folks. I've been growing them for several years now. A very nice plant if given the proper attention. You really need to research this plant to death in order to be successful with it. Here is a good article to begin with: http://www.quisqualis.com/31mirftjoy.html Please keep in mind that I am in no way slamming you or anything close. But to start off with, the choice of potting soil was not the best. Most commercial soils are buffered to give a neutral PH. The plant will not be happy in this medium. They require a very low, crazy low PH, 4.5-5.5. You'll want to get straight sphagnum peat moss and mix that with your perlite. Make sure you mix the peat with water very well before planting or it will never accept water. I would also not be giving the plant any fertilizer at this point...especially any Miracle-Gro ferts. I've read of too many people having terrible results using it. If you use anything for now, maybe get a good fish emulsion fertilizer and use that at a lower strength. I would also find a very good micro nutrient product that can be mixed with water and sprayed onto the plant...check some local hydroponics stores for this. This will help the plant take in the nutrients it cannot get from the soil due to the high PH. I would not repot just yet. I'd wait until you know the plant is doing well and you're doing fine with the micro nutrient sprays. Don't want to shock it again so soon...unless you're feeling brave! I think you'll be okay for now. Just keep an eye on the leaves for any sign of yellowing or the veins showing. Good luck!

I occasionally have this unexplained random branch wilting happen with a few plants each year (and no, I don't have any fungal or bacterial wilts in my soil.) Not much, maybe just 1-5 plants or so out of 150-200, and it is usually very minor. I mostly see this when plants are young (almost never when they are mature), and especially when there are extreme swings in temp and sunlight, which I get a lot here in the spring. My "theory" is that part of it might have to do with root development not quite perfectly keeping up and efficiently dealing with locating water to all of the quickly emerging top growth. Yep, usually minor - as others said. Just let clip the wilt off or let it just be, whichever. Btw, whatever you do, don't be tempted to give any plants that do this water when they don't need it in an attempt to baby them. Might do more harm than good. The major problem with GD comes later. ;) I know you don't like most greens, and I don't either, but I found GD tastes pretty good when almost dry farmed and/or planted in a 'neglected' area that doesn't get the usual regular watering with your soaker hoses (little/no supplemental water unless the plant actually starts to wilt) and also best grown in really good sun and heat. IOW, not a good choice for me here for fall crop, tends to lean more towards insipid/funky, I found. Ah, well - you still may not like it even then, but growing it like that improved the taste immensely for me.

I'd use the 5:1:1 for both, but leave the lime out of the soil for the miracle fruit tree. If you're going to use 4-4-1, you might as well buy Miracle-Gro and forgo the inconvenience of making the soil because the results will be the same ...... unless the second 4 represents the volume of perlite and not peat. Because citrus does like an extra measure of Ca, you might consider adding a little gypsum to the soil when you make it. This will provide the extra Ca w/o raising pH as the lime would. Keep in mind that in highly organic media like the 5:1:1 mix, plants do better at about a full pH number LOWER than the suggested pH for mineral soils. What I would do to address the pH concerns: Fill an open container of a given volume with tap water and leave it rest for a day. The dissolved CO2 will gas off and the pH will rise accordingly. After the CO2 gasses off, add enough white vinegar or citric acid (where they sell wine making supplies) to bring the pH of the water down to your target pH, then you know how much to add to your tap water (no need to let it rest before using - just to establish how much acidifier to use). Al