Forum: Other Plants
03-02-2008, 11:38 PM
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Forum: Other Plants
02-09-2008, 01:04 AM
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Views: 4,878
Re: Photos of Casimiroa sapota, aka Matazano?
Richard . . . Check my neighbors web-site: www. montosogardens .com If they do not have your Sapota, they may recomend elswhere. Also they man who will really know the fruit: Sadhu . . . www....
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Forum: Other Plants For Sale & Auction
01-22-2008, 01:24 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 3,979
Re: Growing list of Tropicals for sale . . .
EVERYBODY AND MRS. KITTY . . . PLEASE FORGIVE ME, I HAVE BEEN WORKING SO HARD IN THE NURSERY THAT I JUST FALL ASLEEP WHEN I GET TO THE HOUSE AND HAVE NEGLECTED MY FRIENDS ON BANANA !!!
About your...
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Forum: Other Plants
01-11-2008, 09:57 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 11,814
Re: European Fan Palm Growth Rate
Buffy . . . You picked the most unrewarding Palm to gain interest in. A two foot brown trunk will take about four years, six feet ? . . I hope you are under fifty years old so you will see six...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-29-2007, 02:22 AM
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Replies: 62
Views: 15,060
Re: what are you using for potting soil?
I hope you are all happy . . . you guys got me feeling so guilty. Even my wife agrees with you'all. I won't be able to sleep tonight. Think I'll go out and sleep in the shed with the cats tonight....
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-29-2007, 02:08 AM
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Replies: 62
Views: 15,060
Re: what are you using for potting soil?
Bananimal . . . The Cypress mulch available in Florida comes mostly from State sponsored programs (in N. central Fla. where seedling Cypress is being cleared for farmland (Trenton Fla. near...
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Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants
12-28-2007, 12:02 AM
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Replies: 47
Views: 39,843
Re: Rooting plants from cuttings . . .
Help ! . . . Logos (the man who thinks he knows everything) needs advise on rooting Bamboo. I can root the big ones, but I was given a semi dwarf variety that is extreemly beautiful, its...
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Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants
12-27-2007, 11:46 PM
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Replies: 47
Views: 39,843
Re: Rooting plants from cuttings . . .
Margie . . . Pseudo Bombax is native to northern South America and the Caribean Islands. In each region the trees naturally hybridize with each other creating different colour blooms and different...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-27-2007, 11:04 PM
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Replies: 62
Views: 15,060
Re: what are you using for potting soil?
O.K. you guys . . . you are going to get in trouble with Logos !!
Retail potting mixes in small bags are all formulated for "bedding plants" like Begonias, Impacience, etc., to be used in small...
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Forum: Other Plants
12-27-2007, 02:34 AM
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Replies: 1,422
Views: 170,971
Re: What did you plant today (other plants)?
Today my friend David from: www.montosogardens.com came down from the mountains and gave me huge bundles of my favorite Croton. (visit the web-site, he offers several rare Bananas, many Heliconis...
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Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants
12-27-2007, 02:15 AM
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Replies: 47
Views: 39,843
Re: Rooting plants from cuttings . . .
Big Dog . . . I hope Inkcube buts in to help you. I cannot find any reference to Wollemi nobilis I know of several Araucarias , but not that one. If taking a cutting will not disturbe the...
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Forum: Banana Plants For Sale & Auction
12-27-2007, 01:36 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,451
Re: Anyone want to trade?
I had a friend in Homestead Florida named "Robert Chumley" in 1970 Is it possible you are the same ? Did you ever live on Coconut Palm Drive ? Are you originally from Georgia ? Robert was heavy...
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Forum: Banana Plants For Sale & Auction
12-27-2007, 01:22 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,451
Re: Anyone want to trade?
Mike J . . . You are talking about a box over 6' P.O. will not take it and UPS (I think) has a limit of 6' A three foot trunk is going to be about a 50# box. Also . . . I think the tree ferns...
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Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants
12-25-2007, 10:34 PM
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Replies: 47
Views: 39,843
Re: Rooting plants from cuttings . . .
BIG DOG . . . Thats not fair, you said it was a Pine. "Australian Pines" are best grown from seed (Araucarias). Which reminds me . . . lateral-horizontal branches of plants that are prized for...
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Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants
12-25-2007, 10:13 PM
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Replies: 47
Views: 39,843
Re: Rooting plants from cuttings . . .
Dear Incube, metaphysically wrinkle free . . . I appreciate your more botanical info and that you have corrected me twice ! I had no idea that Pine species could be rooted from cuttings. If so, I'm...
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Forum: Other Plants
12-25-2007, 09:22 PM
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Replies: 1,422
Views: 170,971
Re: What did you plant today (other plants)?
Ms. Kitty . . . Merry Xmas Honey !! I hope you and all our friends on the B Org are spending time with family and friends. Wife and I drove down the mountain to visit friends and did a little...
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Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants
12-25-2007, 12:23 AM
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Replies: 47
Views: 39,843
Re: Rooting plants from cuttings . . .
When I first came to Puerto Rico three years ago I noticed that every house had in its front yard a Plumeria tree, many Crotons and another bush I did not know untill one day got out of truck walked...
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Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants
12-24-2007, 11:48 PM
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Replies: 47
Views: 39,843
Re: Rooting plants from cuttings . . .
Cookie . . . You got me in a pinch there. My experience is almost completely with tropicals. I root any time of year, any plant. Little experience I have with temperate climate plants is...
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Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants
12-24-2007, 11:27 PM
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Replies: 47
Views: 39,843
Re: Rooting plants from cuttings . . .
I cannot believe you guys are paying such prices for unrooted Plumeria !! My plants (trees) are not big enough to offer quantities yet. But for 30.00 I'll send you 10 total of three or four...
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Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants
12-24-2007, 10:54 PM
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Replies: 47
Views: 39,843
Re: Rooting plants from cuttings . . .
O.K. You guys . . . Everyone seams to have a different method for rooting. There are lots of plant species that are so easy that you can make all the wrong moves and they will root anyway, so long...
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Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants
12-24-2007, 12:31 AM
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Replies: 47
Views: 39,843
Re: Rooting plants from cuttings . . .
Ms. Kitty . . . You jogged my memory on something worth trying. If anyone trys rooting in just water (always let water sit for few hours to evaporate chlorine) . . . scrape some bark off a branch...
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Forum: Other Plants
12-22-2007, 07:47 PM
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Replies: 1,422
Views: 170,971
Re: What did you plant today (other plants)?
Even though we plant to make money for a living I still enjoy working with plants. Being outside in great weather with all the passing critters, Birds, Frogs, Iguanas, its never dull. Today wife...
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Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants
12-22-2007, 06:43 PM
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Replies: 47
Views: 39,843
Re: Rooting plants from cuttings . . .
Margie . . . Pseudobombax are mostly trees that grow to 100' Your favorite to 35' and the trees do not flower for a few years ? I found some info on your favorite that indicates it will grow in...
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Forum: Other Plants
12-22-2007, 06:03 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 9,983
Re: USEFULL SOURCES Info & Plants
This is a good spot to say to everyone . . . I have joined many plant groups, but have not enjoyed the helpful more personal responce that I find on Bananas. You are all, every last one of you...
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Forum: Other Plants
12-22-2007, 01:15 AM
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Replies: 58
Views: 31,368
Re: ATTN: Sago Palm growers
A few years ago in Florida a shipment of Sagos arrived at a wholesale growers nursery from Thialand "" with a new species of scale The scale spread all over the state and was found by the Florida...
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