I feel exactly as you do Meldy and it's going to be hard not having him in front of me on Saturday evening and Sunday morning,not to mention the elections. He and Jim Lehr were and are the only two I know who aren't "slick." I'm gong to really miss him. His death has been ruled cardiac arrest,pending an autopsy. At first it was mistakenly reported it as a heart attack,

This may be a bit late to help your plant, but I have to ask what have you been doing to take care of this plant? Leaf drop is indicative of a root problem and root problems can be caused by many factor - like transplant shock (caused during transplant), or was it overwatered and it drowned out the roots, or was there a period of non-watering and caused the roots to shriver, or did you fertilize which is a no-no shortly after a transplant or during winter. I'm not sure what you meant by everytime you moved it to sunlight - It should have steady access to light. MOist but not overly moist earth. Scratch the bark off the main trunk and if you still see a lively green colour, there's hope for this plant. If not, it's too late. Ianna

The fruit needs to mature before you can harvest the seed. The seed inside will be quite large compared to the size of the fruit. I don't actually know what the mature fruit looks like because I got mine in the mail and the fruit/rind had already been cleaned from around the seed. I believe that is required by law to stop the spread of citrus greening disease. Curry leaf tree seed must be fresh to be viable, if it dries out it won't grow. Apparently I posted here years and years ago when I was living in another state, that plant died pretty quickly. I got seed from a grower in Hawaii about 5 or 6 years ago and most of those plants are still alive and most of the seed DID germinate, all of it, eventually, as far as I remember now. Mine are currently not doing as well as I could wish because where I live now they only get a month or two of outside time. I DO NOT put them out until it is at least 50F at night here, this year that didn't happen until mid-July. I expect to have to bring them back in soon because night time temps are already back into the 50F range, it won't be long before they start falling below 50F. It is OK to schlep them in and out during the daytime, and I used to do that, but I've become old and decrepit and its too much for me to do that every day any more. Right now mine are past due for a repot, the organic portion of my Growstone-peat-bark planting mix is pretty well spent. Mine flower every year for the past 3 or 4 years but they never set fruit, I'm not sure why - lack of pollinators possibly because I live in the High Sierra Desert area at 5400' altitude. I wish my Walmart carried curry leaf plant LOL!

I still can't believe he's gone, just like that. I wonder if sitting for too many hours on his plane flight back from Italy could have precipitated this. My friend took a flight from Los Angeles to New York, got off the plane, checked into his hotel room then died. Dr.s said a blood clot that had formed during the flight had traveled to his heart afterward. I heard that Tim Russert had recently attended his son's graduation, and that he had an audience with the Pope while he was in Italy. Sure will miss him.