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saltydad · 08-08-2008, 05:26 PM

Dean- thanks. I got it from a fellow in College Station "collectorpalms.com". He has very nice palms and yucca.

Dean W. · 08-08-2008, 05:37 PM

That's not far from me. I'll have to check out his website.

enigma99a · 08-08-2008, 08:08 PM

Also Lowe's has a great selection. Maybe they just have them in my zone, but I've seen beautiful Yucca, and nice palms such as the foxtail.

Dean W. · 08-09-2008, 01:39 PM

enigma, I have seen some nice palms at Lowe's only problem is alot of them are not hardy in my zone.

enigma99a · 08-09-2008, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Dean W.

enigma, I have seen some nice palms at Lowe's only problem is alot of them are not hardy in my zone.

Wow that's crazy.. why would they sell trees that wouldn't be hardy to the zone? They expect you to have a greenhouse?

Also to they have bananas and tropical hibiscus? oh btw, I got some tropical hibiscus for only $4.50 for 1G there.. really cheap!

saltydad · 08-09-2008, 05:46 PM

Just brought Mom back from hitting the August sales at local nurseries. Now I have a hardy Bletilla striata "Pink", a Stokesia "Purple Parasols", another maidenhair fern Adiantum pedatum, and a Euphorbia X "Martinii" to plant. Also brought a nice big hardy magenta hibiscus for my sister-in-law, and dropped it off for my brother to plant. He didn't look happy.

Dean W. · 08-09-2008, 10:52 PM

enigma, yes, I guess they truck them in from Florida or South Texas. I guess they think there is a market for plant conniseurs. Poor people buy them to find out they freeze.

Richard · 08-09-2008, 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Dean W.

enigma, yes, I guess they truck them in from Florida or South Texas. I guess they think there is a market for plant conniseurs. Poor people buy them to find out they freeze.

San Diego County, CA is a large supplier, and staging area for palms shipped from Hawaii.

Today I planted a pineapple top from a suspected Hilo pineapple.

Dean W. · 08-22-2008, 05:53 PM

Potted up from a community pot 10 Sabal causariums.

island cassie · 08-30-2008, 02:51 PM

The plant man came around yesterday with his truck and I decided that I needed a treat, especially when I saw he had a Blc.Waikiki Gold Tea x C. downiana hybrid. A big full plant and the flower is clear yellow with a red flush on the lip, and scented too. I paid more than I wanted to but I had to have it!
Cassie

paradisi · 08-30-2008, 05:43 PM

This piece copmes from my blog - It's life Jim, but not as we know it under the chook poo tea article.

I don't have a degree in chemistry or agriculture so I may be picked to pieces about the way I use chook poo, but it works for me.

We have four hens. In their coop are nest boxes and a perch. And in and around and under these is the nightly deposited chook poo.

Each morning I pick the poo in a handfull of straw and put poo and straw into a bucket and fill this with water. I use the straw because I don't like the feel or smell of fresh chook poo and I'm too unorganised or lazy to go to the kitchen to get some rubber gloves for the job. Anyway, I reckon the straw is an essential part of the mix.

The bucket of chook poo and straw is my chook poo tea.

It sits in the sun for a day, or longer if you want to, and then I pour about a litre or so into a watering can and top the watering can up with fresh water. This is then spread around the plants you have in your garden. The only plant I seem to have had a bad reaction from is our goji - it's developed a fungus on its leaves since I started giving it chook poo tea.

After the bucket of tea is finished you can either dump the straw and left over chook poo near a tree as well fertilised mulch or fill the bucket of water and use again as a weaker tea tomorrow.

Eventually you will get to a stage where too much chook poo tea is being made. All your plants are healthy, well fed and don't really need some more chook poo until next week.

When it gets to this stage I tip the bucket - poo, straw and water around a plant. I water this in as the stuff going into the soil is very strong.

Another thing to do is to tip it all onto an empty part of the garden, open up a little pocket, put in some compost or potting mix and plant a seedling. I don't know how successful this will be, I've only been doing this with chook poo tea for a couple of days. I've planted Queensland blue pumpkin, gramma pumpkin, Lebanese zucchini, black zucchini, button squash and watermelon this way. The first to go in - the blue - seems very healthy.

Westwood · 09-08-2008, 06:40 PM

3 Yrs Ago I started some palms from SEED ,
today I planted them with my Avacodo i started from Seed and Grafted .
IM hyped they are looking good small but Looking good .
Pouting i am moving to Idaho and Its Zone 6... Right now im in Zone 9 so Ill have to put one of the 6 bed rooms as a Banana plant Winter room. Tammy

mskitty38583 · 09-08-2008, 08:38 PM

tiger ginger.....meow.....thanks scot!!!!!!!

Westwood · 09-08-2008, 08:43 PM

MRS Kitty , I have a great giger plant they love water .
i put mine in a small pond and she is doing extremely well. Mine is the hawaiian white . can you send photos of yours ?

mskitty38583 · 09-08-2008, 08:47 PM

i just got her today shes a little wilty, give her a few days to start looking her best and ill post one for you.

mskitty38583 · 09-12-2008, 04:00 PM

4 types of ee's from randy. and another plant ( i forgot the name). thank you so much randy!

saltydad · 09-12-2008, 08:45 PM

Rooted Plumeria cuttings - Kohala (Scott Pratt), Kimi Moragne, "Mystery". Awaiting Iolite (purple-red) and Mai Thai (purple) from Thailand.

mskitty38583 · 09-13-2008, 09:38 PM

varigated monstera!!!!(wahoo finally!) vanilla bean vine, and a yellow ginger!

saltydad · 09-14-2008, 12:04 AM

Cleopatra canna..and I blame it on this forum. Otherwise I would never have gone on eBay after I read about it here.

The variegated monstera looks amazing!

bepah · 09-14-2008, 09:36 AM

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