Lou Ferrigno's Special Day
 

It's Birthday time but to be fair it's not only Lou Ferrigno's but also Leaf Erikson's (you know, Lief, Son of Eric, Eric the RED).

Anyway one year ago the post office delivered a triangular shaped box. I planted them like I stole them, right out of the box. Then and now:

Lou Ferrigno:





And Leaf Erikson:

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Oh and Lou's supposed to be a Blue Java ������

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Looks like Lou has been hitting the weights and the vitamins, “cough, cough” vitamins over the past year.

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Very nice sir!

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Just never make him angry. You wouldn't like him when he's angry....

I did pull off a couple of pups today and when I pulled back the mulch there were two stud pups coming up. That thing is a freak.

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DANG that thing is a BEAST!
I still find it amazing that you got away with putting a Tissue Culture straight on the ground in full sun :ha:
When I didn't know any better I tried doing that and the plants quickly said NOPE!
Perhaps it's because the sun is scorching hot here in Texas, we're already in the 90s where I'm at. Jul-Aug can hit 100+

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I didn't know any better either (see my join date haha). My back yard gets pretty toasty but we ain't Texas.....

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10th of the month and that means cake and ice cream. One of his kids has passed the old man up and another right on his heels. Yes I should be managing the pups but I didn't, so probably no fruit. All good with me I'm in it for the landscape aspect. Here they are today:

20210710_162357 by William Strickland, on Flickr


20210710_162444 by William Strickland, on Flickr

20210710_162444 by William Strickland, on Flickr

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That's a great looking mat! :08:

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Thanks. That wasn't my intention but here we are. I did snatch off 3 big ones that are doing very well and there are like 3 nice swords that I will remove.

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Fist pump.....
Great garden...

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Thank you. I dug up and potted some dwarfed patch of a thing today and in it's spot planted my Thai Black PLANT (it's no longer a tissue culture). I will of course photographically document the thing.... ��

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One of the pups I managed to hack off at the end of April and planted immediately. Taken this morning:

20210711_101617 by William Strickland, on Flickr


And to my surprise I see this:

20210711_100751 by William Strickland, on Flickr


I'm telling you people this plant is a genetical marvel..... :)

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14 months young.....


20210810_172156 by William Strickland, on Flickr

20210810_085500 by William Strickland, on Flickr

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Looking Fantastic :woohoonaner:

On another note:

So pups sometimes overtaking/growing as tall as the main is okay?

A couple of my sumatrana x cross pups and one of the Kokopo pups are nearly outgrowing the main stalks --even though everyone looks as healthy as can be I had wondered if that was normal or not. :)

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Thanks!

Well I tried to take some off earlier this year but only got three. The beast went crazy and next thing you know it flowered. Everything else is continuing to blow up. No slowing down and that one on the right is approaching 10' of pstem and throwing another leaf as we speak. The pup I planted in the ground already has 4 pups (hacked off very end of April).

To answer you question, I guess it is ok. Would Lou have given me more fruit? Maybe but there looks to be about 70 fingers on round one. Now I'm hoping Lou #2 doesn't flower this year. That would be tragic.

My X Cross is not growing super fast but I kept it in a pot until last week so maybe it will jump over the next 2 months. Both truly tinys are getting big, both super healthy.

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:woohoonaner::goteam:

And my main X Cross didn't grow very fast either, at first, but the pups sure are. They're funny that way I suppose :ha:

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Let's see that plant!

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Your followers to lou will likely grow and flower at a greater height than the original plant. All of my last year pups have outgrown and flowered about a foot taller than my original TC plants. The pups also have a much thicker base than the first gen TCs.

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Definitely accurate as the next man up is already 2' taller and pushing surfboards as we speak. I'm hoping that guy doesn't flower this year but have a hard time believing it won't. Oh well there are more right behind that one.