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I'm going to do it! We have afew wild dogwoods and I'd like to someday have LOTS of them! I'll have to eventually break down and buy a pink one though as these wild ones are all white. I'm so excited about being able to do this in the winter.

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That's actually illegal in Virginia because it is the state tree, unless the tree is diseased. Pretty sure at least.

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I didn't read the whole thread so what I said may be out of context...

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i want to also, i just am protective my dogwoods. my pink baby tree got jurked up and run over through the fence.a 19 yr old made my fence a drive through( she better be glad i wasnt home) i was SO angry. . i have 2 white and 2 pink. i want to root more i have been busy ( ok ive been putting it off). i went out and looked at my junipers this morning. i have 3 branches marked on one.im wanting to try my creeping junipers but they gggrrrooowww so ssslllooww. so it might be the reg. junipers for a while. i still havent planted my daffies or hycinthis yet. im just slacking. its winter. lol

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taylor, i know its illegal there to cut dogwoods, its the states' flowering tree. its kind of like bad ju-ju!!!but i live in tn. and i want to have more dogwoods and i dont want to pay the 45 dollars for a 2 yr.old tree. i have a sacred reverance for these trees. i lived in va. most of my life( here, there, everywhere in va.) so i know the implications of that. why do you think im having such a hard time with cutting my trees. almost makes me cry to think of cutting it, but i would like to have more.

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its not out of context what you said. your just concerned about the trees and the cutting of them. i understand 100%!!!! i love these trees they are one of the most beautiful flowing trees ive ever seen. they have simple and clean lines to them and the smell is just barely visible.so i know and i understand.

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We have a Pink and Multiple Whites.

Actually- we get whites popping up in really random places (Birds...!) and we still don't cut them down. Thinking about transplanting 2 Whites this winter....to where? Who Knows! I need to plant my Japanese Red Maple that is from seed from our big Japanese Red Maple that died 2 years ago for unknown reasons along with all of the neighbors ones....except for the lacey-leaf ones.

Weird...

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my dogwoods have only been in the ground 1 yr. so their still little about 4 ft.tall. i have re-planted and re-potted the other pot crammed full of snakeplant. i broke it down to 5 pots. now im tired.

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Planted Pernambuco pineapples yesterday

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nice pineapples!!!! i thought they were cactus. oops! my pineapple is still little. we have new growth of 3 leaves. still keeping my fingers crossed. in a few weeks will post a pic. its only been in dirt about 2 wks. it hasnt died yet, so i guess its good. lol

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planted 25 angle trumpets seeds(3 different kinds) my thanks to kylie, a croton, and more loofa seeds. night before last, it was nana feeding time at the zoo. have to start buying shredded cabbage in bulk! a 12 oz. bag isnt gonna cut it anymore!:2704: :2704: :2704: lol. have to fert. everything else tonight!!

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My 7yr old grand daughter helped me hunt for seeds this morning and before the day is done we'll have them planted in something..... We collected blue Morning Glory and Angel's Trumpet seed pods full of seeds. Both plants grow wild, like weeds here. I didn't even realize that the huge bush that sprang up by the pool last summer was anything but a pretty weed! Every evening we would watch fasinated by the moths that looked like humming birds buzz around the flowers. We left it as it was hanging over one side of the pool looking beautiful! We thought it was the prettiest weed we ever saw! LOL
If anyone wants any of these seed pods for morning glory or angel's trumpet just PM me with your address as there are a lot still on the dead plants outside. I'm assuming the seeds are ok?
Deb
Ok, I've just sat and did alot of reading and looking at pictures and I don't have Angel's Trumpet like I thought. I have Devil's Trumpet. It seems to be related but I think mine is more of the wild flower/weed variety! It stood up tall and leaned over the water like a canopy and was pollinated by huge moths that looked like humming birds. Flowers didn't open up until evening. I don't remember the folige having an unpleasant smell though. I copied a website for you and mine looks exactly like the pics from HarryNJ
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/26850/

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its not what i planted...its what i dug up. today i dug up and re-planted a clump of lambs ears that weighted about 20 lbs. a plot of iris that had almost 60 rizones in it. solomons seal(that i forgot i had planted there) one canna that i left in the ground, and some daylily tubers that i apparently missed the other day when i dug up the parent plant.:bed: :nanabath:

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Deb, PM sent, Thanks:choochoo:

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Deb!! That is Datura.. It is no weed..LOL It is a cousin the the Brugmansia and a beautiful plant to grow.. There are many colors.. Dbls,Trip, yellows purples, swirls /bi-colored. and some that open only a night.. I have many Brugs but I always keep some Dat's around as well..
I potted up another handful of Brug cuttings today..and started some of the German cross seeds I have.. I am very excited to get them going? I So ready for Spring..
Kylie:pinkskirtnaner:

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Kylie I almost missed your post .... If I don't stay logged onto the forum the new posts I haven't read go away if I can't read them all at once.

Well I guess I'll let the plant stay by the pool as it really looks tropical with the huge leaves and the flowers have traces of light purple. Some of these plants I looked at online don't have as big of leaves so I do like this one... and those moths are amazing! My husband and the grandkids were saying they were humming birds and I sat quietly on the steps close to the plant to watch and it was hard to tell as it was dusk.. but I had never seen a humming bird out at night LOL I had to do a search on them online to figure out the mystery.

I am so ready for spring too!! I have leaf and butter lettuce that just sprouted.

Deb

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Here are two Walkers Low Catmints (Nepeta racemosa cultivar) that I planted out this morning. I bought them late last spring in 4" pots and then raised them up in 3 gallon pots. It is now January in San Diego, so they are showing some winter color from overnight lows of 35 and 40 (F). Spring through Fall they bloom incessantly if you are frugal with water. Behind them I am building a planter for a bareroot Mohawk Pecan hybernating in the garage.

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Deb, I sent a PM to you. Thankyou Much!

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union bulbs and cilantro seeds, bulbs of narcissus, wild flower seeds

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Here are the narcissus already flowering since the beginning of december.
never had so early flowers, normally they flower here in march.

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i GOT MINE FOR $1.99 a bag that usually sells for $6. Apparently it's way past season but the bulbs are still viable.

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i planted 6 lavander ornatas, 2 bronze ornatas (thanks to chris) and re-potted my monstera...and it is a monster to repot. still have some yams to plant. whaoo!:exercise:

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MsKitty where did you get yams? I never see them in the stores! Are you growing them in the house?

Deb

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when i got my box of bananas today it was cracker jack time. i opened the box and i got a suprise!!! and no it wasnt a tattoo. rotflmao!!! they are chinese yams i have to do some reading on them before i plant them. they will probably be grown in the house. and they smell good too! everything i got today smelt good!!!


let me correct myself they are from the phillipines

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LUCKY YOU !! How fun!! Now you have them forever. Good luck with them .... are you going to take pictures of them growing?

Deb

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oh yes i will take pics.i did a little reading and they are purple. that is awesome. now i just have to find out about the planting. i was so excited when my box got here today. i get to keep them forever and ever. wahoo!

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I planted 2 pineapple papayas (babaco) that I rooted in pots last year from cuttings. I also planted a 3rd from a cutting taken today and coated with a little Rootone. :) No picture today, its too dark and gray outside.

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Here's those Babacos from yesterday. The one on the far left is 3 years old and bearing its second crop which will ripen in April. 2nd from left is a rooting that is too short and dark to see in the photo. The 2 on the right were rooted in pots from cuttings last spring. The farthest right is multi-trunked with three stout leaders.

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i have 2 fall glo tangerines coming up! yeah. still waiting on my lemons....

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Well....... :islandsharkbanana: I walk by the pineapples in the store and they all cringe. I'm working on my second failure I think. Didn't have any dirt and the rest of the goodies for the first one so followed step by step directions (with pictures) off the web that ended in a glass of water. I KNOW I've been taught by Logos posts NOT to root in water but it's all I had. It got slimy and the leaves went crispy. Now I have lots of stuff... garden soil, sand, peat moss, spaghum moss, perlite, that rooting powder but didn't have it in the beginning of my second one so it got slimey and the leaves started to die.. and then I scraped the slime off near the root area and put it in 50/50 spaghum moss and perlite and have it sitting next to the heat mat that has a tray on it so can't put it on the heat mat and have a full spectrum light about 10 inches over it and I'm hoping for a turn around .... but ........... we all like pineapples so I'll go buy another one soon.

Deb

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Keep going Cookie - once you get the hang of it you will have pineapples coming out of your ears!!!

Cassie

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Instead of experimentation, it might be cheaper to buy "Plant Propagation" edited by Alan TooGood. The "national home gardening club" edition of this book is usually a lot cheaper than the DK Books edition -- and the only difference is the outside front cover.

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fall glo tangerine number 3 popped his head up out of the dirt this morning!

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Today, I potted up a purple passion plant, a Josephs coat, and a sad lil' prince from lowes.

Cookiecows, just tear that top right off that pineapple, strip all the lower leaves off till you see the roots.
Once you see the roots, take off 2 more rows of leaves. It wont hurt the plant. You might have to take off another row of leaves so you have enough stalk to stick in the dirt. If you have some leaves below the dirt, they will rot!
You dont want that, so take off enough lower leaves.

Then stick it right in the dirt! Pack the soil tightly around the stem, and up to the last leaves. Water well and leave it alone.

Place it where you want it to grow. If you pick the pot up often it wont root well, because you'll cause it to have spaces around the stalk where the dirt is, or it will fall over. You want to keep the dirt tightly packed around the stem. Water about every 2wks in winter. Hope this helps. Heres mine...........

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sorry, i dont know why the link didnt come through from photobucket!

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Thanks Richard, iam still trying to figure out what i did wrong!

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Thanks Lynn .... you sure have a nice pineapple plant! I am going to go buy a couple more. My daughter is pregnant and has been craving them anyway. I'll leave this last one in the pot for a couple weeks and see if it can pull through but don't have much hope for it. I want to get more going.

Am I supposed to watch for the existing leaves to start growing taller or am I looking for new leaves pushing through? These leaves are dead down to about a half an inch from the base.

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Deb, the leaves will start growing longer outward as new leaves start growing from the center. Remember you dont have to cut off the top, just grab ahold and snatch it off!
The top will come off clean compared to cutting it off.

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Does anyone know what the best crop to grow along side bananas is??

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A legume with shallow roots. Clover is one example.

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Today I replanted 60 little plugs of various greenhouse plants which I rooted in the last three weeks from my own cuttings. By using 1/2" to 1" cuttings I got 288 per flat of 1" pockets. I was able to place both flats on heating pads and under some suppl. lights at a south window. About 75 have rotted but that leaves me with 500 "free" plants. Now the 60 plug flat goes to the light rack upstairs in the garden/palm room where the fixtures under the top three trays also provide bottom heat. From there they can go to the unheated racks under lights in the basement light room where I store semidormant stuff that needs room temp. I can accomodate more there if I need to move them into 3" pots before spring. I might be able to find room for some in the chockful greenhouse as well.
By rooting them this early I can propagate earlier in less space and then turn them loose when it gets warmer.
It's great to have new life sprouting in the dead of Ohio winter. It's headed for the upper teens tomorrow night and Sunday. The snowdrops are pushing because it was in the 50s a few days ago and a chinese witchhazel has half opened its reddish flowers.

Stan

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I just made a picture of what I did Jan. 31 08. I was given some cloned orchids at the World Orchid Conference. Five red Cattleyas, 21 white Phals and 43 pink Phals. The Phals will bloom in one or two years while the Catleyas will take 4 years.
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About a hundred passionflowers; costaricensis, Lady Margaret, malformis, x belotii, alata, Blue Bonnet, gritensis, kermesina, racemosa, reflexiflora, Sunset, and serratifolia, plus 50 Clivia, some fuscia and lantanas. Over the last few days I potted up about several hundred orchids; Vandas (in baskets), Phalenopsis, Catesetums, Stanhopeas, and Cattleyas. Things are busy!

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Wow! I thought I was productive today mixing 3 cubic yards of soils with a rototiller, but you out-distanced me by a long shot!

You wouldn't happen to have any of the coveted yellow Clivias?

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hey billabong, glad to see the P. costaricensis i sent you is doing well. send me a list of what Passiflora you have and i will see if i can add to it.

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I use a soil mixer that mixer that makes about 2 cubic yards of mix, makes things very easy. I do have some yellow clivia seedlings; Kirkenstock Yellow, Good Hope, Golden Dragon, and Arturo's Yellow.

Thanks Pito I'll send you a list! The P. costaricensis is huge and the P. parritae is doing great now that I have increased my cooling.

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A two-yard mixer! An admirable piece of equipment, maybe there's room in my garage ...

Do you have a favorite or least-liked yellow clivia? I'm trying to pick out one for my home garden.

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i sowed seeds of some kitchen greens in the box in kitchen (indoors) - celery, dill. parsley, spinach, lettuce and purslane. And planted two onions (for greens).

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Sorry for the late reply Richard, my favorite yellow is Sahin's Yellow. Its brighter than most of the others. Last I saw the price per seed was about $20.00. Inkcube is supposed to send me some when his pods are ripe, it will bw a tough 3 years to wait for a flower.