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Dollythehun · #3 10-23-2016, 01:16 PM

In a recent thread someone said they love figs and passion fruit. Brown Turkey figs? Ours are finally ripe and after I re pot my new plants, mow the front yard, go the assisted living and the Jewel...I am making fig jam! I pray you all enjoy your day! Oh! I forgot, I need to clean the greenhouse window!

Leafmite · #4 10-23-2016, 02:15 PM

I am the one that mentioned figs. I don't know much at all about them as I bought the trees for my daughter, tried one and was amazed.. I have four dwarf ones, two 'Petite Negra', 'Violette de Bordeaux' and ‘Little Ruby". I am completely new to growing them and they are small trees. One of the Petite Negra produced fruit this year. Do you need to do anything special to overwinter yours? I put mine under T5HO lights because they are small and still had figs.

I brought in my tub of goldfish for the winter this week. Temperatures have gotten cooler and I didn't want to stress them.

I ordered a guava shrub (had one years ago). My daughter (same one) tried a guava from the store and didn't like it. I know she will like these ones.... I also added two more passionfruits, a 'night blooming jasmine' (had one years ago...didn't take well to being downsized from the thirty-gallon pot) and another dwarf banana. I have no idea where I will put the new plants but, well, I am sure I will figure that out when they come.

Hope everyone else has a great Sunday!

estación seca · #5 11-06-2016, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Leafmite

I ordered a guava shrub (had one years ago).... I also added... a 'night blooming jasmine'...

Guavas are very easy from seed if you plant them at the hottest time of year, and keep the sprouting pot hot and very wet. Full sun on a black pot is fine. They grow fast.

What is a night blooming jasmine?

Leafmite · #6 11-06-2016, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by estación seca

Guavas are very easy from seed if you plant them at the hottest time of year, and keep the sprouting pot hot and very wet. Full sun on a black pot is fine. They grow fast.

What is a night blooming jasmine?

Where I live, you cannot find the guava fruit. The only way to eat them is to grow them. I grew Strawberry guava in the past but this time, I bought a Ruby Supreme as I have been wanting it. I look forward to the fragrant flowers and the fruit.

The 'Night Blooming Jasmine' is the common name of Cestrum nocturnum, a plant not at all related to jasmines. I had that one a long time ago and decided to grow it again.

Dollythehun, I am sorry your weekend did not turn out as well as you had hoped. :|

estación seca, sorry about the moth experience. That is never pleasant.

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jkofferdahl,I hope you kick that cold quickly!

estación seca · #7 11-13-2016, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Leafmite

Where I live, you cannot find the guava fruit. The only way to eat them is to grow them....

I could send you some seeds next spring if you like. I don't have any right now, and there's no point planting them going into winter.

Leafmite · #8 10-23-2016, 02:21 PM

I am the one that mentioned figs. I don't know much at all about them as I bought the trees for my daughter, tried one and was amazed.. I have four dwarf ones, two 'Petite Negra', 'Violette de Bordeaux' and ‘Little Ruby". I am completely new to growing them and they are small trees. One of the Petite Negra produced fruit this year. Do you need to do anything special to overwinter yours? I put mine under T5HO lights because they are small and still had figs.

I brought in my tub of goldfish for the winter this week. Temperatures have gotten cooler and I didn't want to stress them.

I ordered a guava shrub (had one years ago). My daughter (same one) tried a guava from the store and didn't like it. I know she will like these ones.... I also added two more passionfruits, a 'night blooming jasmine' (had one years ago...didn't take well to being downsized from the thirty-gallon pot) and another dwarf banana. I have no idea where I will put the new plants but, well, I am sure I will figure that out when they come.

Hope everyone else has a great Sunday!

rbarata · #9 10-23-2016, 03:04 PM

I've been away for the weekened. We've visited a city a hundred kms away from home. I was there a few years ago but could visit a few places where I have never been before, almost all of them with military importance (since 12xx up to 18xx's).
Since this city is near the border with Spain, I also went there shopping and have lunch.
Now, I'm doing my supper and then I'll think about taking a rest from the journey.

Dollythehun · #10 10-23-2016, 04:12 PM

"I am completely new to growing them and they are small trees."
Ours are Brown Turkey. They are hardy here and planted in our massive garden. We picked quite a few this year but, they were very late and still coming. They are huge shrubs and would never fit in a house. They die back to the ground each year and then get 8 ' high.