What's the Sapodilla Tree at Vayu Kutir Up To?
Chikoo (Sapodilla) tree in Vayu Kutir yard. The tree appears noticeably unbalanced — with very few branches on the sunnier side, but many long, healthy branches on the other side. Roughly speaking, the branches extend barely 1 metre on the sunny side, but nearly 2 metres on the other side, where they seem determined to enter our window. Normally, a healthy Sapodilla tree bears more fruit on the sunnier side, provided it is otherwise healthy and not water-stressed. Curiously, our Chikoo tree hardly bears any fruit on the sunny side. Instead, it produces many large and delicious fruits on the shadier side. Even more curiously, the window the branches appear to be reaching toward belongs to my exercise room. I usually exercise there while listening to Hot Right Now – International on Alexa, and my wife has accordingly christened it “the Alexa room.” She firmly believes the Chikoo tree is being lured toward the room by the music that regularly plays there. Could she be right?