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Originally Posted by weederwoman
You are certainly having fun in the tropics (although I read you can grow big rhubarb in Alaska). Hilo is on the wet side of the Big Island, so do you ever have to water any of your mounts or can you always count on nature.
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They can grow huge vegies in Ak.
They enter some monster cabbages in the Palmer Fair competition.
But, I understand that what they gain in size they lose in palatability.
Rhubarb has never been one of my favorites.
Unless I'm backed into a corner, I always pass on strawberry- rhubarb pie.
Big rhubarb would never have kept me in Ak.
Yeah, I'm on the windward side, the high rainfall area, about 150"/yr.
We do get dry periods and wet periods that can last for 2 weeks or more.
Right now we've been in a very wet period for the last week or two, heavy rains every night and showers [sometimes heavy] off and on every day.
Sometimes I need to supplement for the mounts.
Sometimes I need to protect them from the rains.
The tree mounts have to deal with whatever they get.
The Equitant Oncidiums are tree mounted and not doing very well, too much rain for them.
Everything else seems to be doing well.
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