Everybody on this thread is killing it! All the plants are beautiful, I can't get over the leaf serrations on the Big Sur, I get excited.
Peace farmerlion
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Ummm banana blueberry ice cream, the best of temperate and tropical climates...Great to talk with someone from Ireland!
With the frozen bananas in a food processor add two bananas, one cup of frozen blueberries a splash of half and half and a dash of real maple syrup, zip it up and instant ice cream.
Last eve I made some with about three cups froze blueberries, a splash of 1/2 and 1/2 and dash of maple. Takes about 5 minutes. We call that tree black sapote or chocolate pudding fruit, never was a big fan of it though, there is another tree I forget the name but it is like custard not a fan of that one either. But I do love, and grow red papaya! Not the yellow one I nick named the yellow ones, ass fruit. Also grow Avocado which I love and the a Thai and dwarf cavendish banana.
I have seasonal affective disorder pretty bad and a winter in the dark and cold would melt my brain. Right now the sun comes up at about 4:30 AM and dark by 8:45 PM but with the many days of thick cloud cover and Canadian Smoke at times it acts a bit as light dep. And the Baglung Nepali was adapted for many generations I believe in Denmark? Where they gey probably an extra three hours of daylight than we do here at least, I believe. If you try to put this line of Nepali right into 12/12 flower they will herm!
CHEERS
PS After reading @farmerlion's thread, I must confess I guess I may be to selfish to share my smoothies with my plants. But it sure seems great to work for him.
Hello @bonghopper!Ummm banana blueberry ice cream, the best of temperate and tropical climates...
You grow any unusual varieties of Avocados like the huge round ones, or the ones with black, thin skins?
The organic ones we get at the market here are an insult to the Avocado gods - still green, watery and super small... I've given them up. Pecans and Macadamias are awesome in tropical climates too.. I couldn't believe the size of the pecans we could get in Australia - about 2 1/2"
I wouldn't be up for sharing smoothies either.. more like comfrey/nettle/horsetail/willow mulch..
Here's the UEL lines I'm working on, and have been gifted from Arnold - Outdoorking on Seedheaven.
The SxL is my septoria resistant selection, it's the one drawback of the strain, but is getting better every year with heavy selection pressure, especially with these numbers. That plot is from 1 female and 1 male out of 68 last year.
The Mountain Gold rooted fastest out of the latest batch of cuttings. All under natural light. Will get some shots of your work soon.
Hello @Hmong!spring led to some action in my soil bins, after making seeds in winter.
April 30th
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All NLD x Jamaican f1, either LaosxJ and PBBxJ, don't think that's a pure Jam, looks and grows like a f1. Also resisted some shitty conditions already, like frost early, hails & gushes mid and now some heat. Loves the heat though, I'm constantly feeding.
June 16th
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my guess this is PBBxJam f1, so I'll post this here for you to follow along solving that mystery. Preflowers already showed a girl, hence I'm giving this some attention.
June 27th
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July 7th, those double serrations make me curious
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July 14th, with the inevitable pruning...
It really hurt making that first cut, but can't have a 7ft tree in October^^
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Lovely Pics, bad news with the avocado crop, at least it's not totaled. Nice one with the Cray fish, they're a decent size, you got me thinking! You know they're clean then too. Irish sea is fairly polluted here, and lobsters and crabs over harvested. The fishing boats reap but never sow.. and the snake eating the frog, ha!View attachment 18866594
Kind of a crappy pic of Avocado tree.
Purple Satellite x Golden Tiger
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Real Sativas really are a new world to me... She will take some extra time(which i'm not used to)! Must be around week 4 flowering now.
Sounds delicious Rob!Oh it will come around. My friend grew the purple satellite and it smelled like sweet fruit. But all of VTmans strains smell good. My Zacatecas are getting a fruity peach smell right now
Hello Hmong!
Theyre packing it on! im starting to see a few red hairsSounds delicious Rob!
Thank you for your kudos. I do find the fragrances can vary even with clones in different grows. How are your ladies stacking?
@early_hominidAm I too far south to veg purple satellite at 37N? I had 5 seeds, 3 female 2 male, all flower soon as they matured. Started them in first week of may and had them outside by May 25th. I up-potted June 2, and by mid June both males flowered. The females only showed preflowers by then, so I stuck 2 in a 10-gallon fabric pot and put one under 24/0 porch light but all 3 still flowered.
I culled the males and kept two females. Flowering onset at 90F+ daily and high humidity while they are in a pot is putting them to the test, we'll see how they do. Loved the look and vigor of these, hopefully I can grow them better next year.
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July 8, right after big storm
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July 17
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Thanks for your quick reply @vermontman, since the pictures were taken I moved them to a sunnier spot and introduced some fertilizer to help them along.@early_hominid
I am at 42N here and all my Purple Satellite are going into heavy preflower. I like to give these a good early start indoors and put them outside buy June 15th. I hope you obtain a descent harvest.
Thank you for sharing your progress and please keep us posted.
CHEERS!