The miracle berry fruit is hard to find because they rot quickly and the active ingredient miraculin diminishes quickly after picking and its very expensive to send the miracle berry from Africa. The plant takes 10 years to bear fruit and people here have just started growing the plant. If you want the fruit to eat then you can buy for about $5 each. Another alternative is to buy the miracle berry tablets which contain the freeze dried extract, all the miraculin is locked in through the freeze drying process, you can buy them in many places on line and lost of sellers on ebay. Here is a link that might be useful: Miracle Berry Tablets

As long as you have some red on it, you can use it. One is enough and the longer you chew it, the longer the effects last. I knew it would work on a lemon or lime, but my son and I tried it on vinegar, tabasco, horseradish, tomato juice, mustard,and fresh cranberry and they all tasted sweet. If you google Miracle Fruit Man, under Food Flavor Parties, there is a list of foods to try that you never would think reacted to Miracle Fruit. Regina

Thank's for the feedback. I only have the 1 plant but I guess from everything I've read I'm doing all the right things. It's happy right now, just not putting out the berries. I can wait. Your seedlings look great, Rick. If I can figure out how to download a photo of my plant, I'll send it along next time. It's also nice to know that you're having luck up there in CT. How does your plant do during the winter months inside? Any special heat lighting involved? Has it bloomed during the winter months? And Regine, your plant is 25 yrs. old?! That's also encouraging. I have some older plants around here but nothing that ripe old age. That's terrific that the miracle plant has hold on for so long. Your thumbs must be very green. Thanks again. Check out that site I posted a little ways up. Jene's Tropicals is my favorite nursery and I promise "anyone" you "adopt" from their nursery, won't let you down. (Never made it to that plant swap in Tampa. Maybe next year)

Here are some directions on how to grow Miracle Fruit from one of the members of our Texas Rare Fruit Growers Club: I know a lot of us have been trying to grow Miracle Fruit. Bill brought berries to our last meeting and has a very beautiful bush growing and producing berries. I ask him to share with us his methods. So here they are below: Ed, For what it's worth: Soil recipe that seems to work for me. Using a 96 qt container (24 gal) In a wheel barrow: Mix the following 4 bags Azalea soil mix (You can purchase at any Garden Center ) 3 shovels Peat moss (Not sphagnum peat mossÂthe other type of peat the dark reddish brown powdery/crumbly type---Purchase at any Garden Center ) 2 shovels of Perlite 5 shovels of sand 3 shovels of coffee grinds 3 shovels of well decomposed pine bark mulch Mix well, add to container, plant tree/bush (spread out root ball and cover with 3-4 " of well decomposed pine bark mulch. I watered in well after planting with a mixture of 2 gallons water + 2TBS Super Thrive +2 TBS Root stimulator mix. I fertilize once every 3 months with 14-14-14 (Osmocote). I Foliar feed with Fish Emulsion every 2 weeks and alternate with Seaweed the other 2 weeks. I protect when temperature gets anywhere close to 34F. I keep the plant in an area that gets full direct sun for about 5 hours a day from about noon-5P the rest of the time it get filtered shade. I drench the plant with 3 gallons of water with 1 TBS Super Thrive every 3-4 days. Keep in mind that the attached tree was previously robbed of over 150 fruit a few days before this picture was taken. You can see small off white blossoms already forming next generation fruit load while current fruit load is still on the tree. This is the second crop of this year for this plant. The plant has been in this container for just about 3 years. Look for a picture of Bill's miracle fruit under photos. Bill Arendt Houston, TX Z9a Here is a link that might be useful: Texas Fruit Growers Club (mainly rare)