bencelest

If it is on the 30's I don''t think pineapple will live that low a temperature.
That's the reason Hawaii is famous for. Pineapples. But their tempts is on the 80's average.

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I have a pineapple tops that I planted alongside the California gold in a wine barrel and it is still green after 3 weeks.

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shopgirl2

planted two Punicas and replanted my nana pups. Additionally, transplanted my Delilah Camelia! exquisite flowers.

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mskitty38583

what colors of camiles, when we lived in va. we had 2 that were huge, they were the white w/ red stripes. it looked like a pepermint candy. and the smell was heavenly.i really believe thats when my love for flora came into context. i havent tried any here in tn. did try azaluas however there is something about the plant that seems to draw all the dogs in the hood to my yard to potty, on thoes plants only. the back yard is fenced because of the boys, but the front yard isnt. aside from shooting them( its the owners fault for letting the dogs run, i dont blame anything on a domesticated animal, they do what they are taught, just like children) i would NEVER do,and putting up a fence..isnt there a plant that will disuade this kind of activity? i remember something just cant recall. so if you know could you please relay it to me.

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this is just not right. i go outside to look at my plants( roses etc.) and find i have new growth on my rose bushes. just from 3 days of about 70 degree weather. now i have to decide if im gonna leave it or clip it off and bring it in and root it... my peonies are even sprouting from their "eyes" and they need 45-50 days of cold. this is just weird. my end of the summer bush even looks good, and its suppossed to be dormant now. uhhhhh. my chocolate mint looks good. this is some screwed up winter. come spring i hope i wont have to cut off 150-200 buds off my iris' like i did last spring, because of that fluke freeze we had at the end of april! my yard would have been a sea of iris blooms and my cannas wouldnt have turned all mushy. i may have to plant some spreading juniper in all my beds like ive alread done with 2 of them. this is what drives me crazy. yes i know, it would be a short trip!

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Yesterday I planted a Simmonds Avocado and a Russell Avocado, Mai 1 Jakfruit and Black Gold Jakfruit. Also planted a Caimito tree.

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bencelest

Caimito tree?
Oh, my, just where do you live?
I am so envious!!!
You ought to try to plant banana lacatan from the Philippines.

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South Florida I was very happy when I found the caimito at Pine Island Nursery... we searched the whole place till we found some.

I have been interested in Lacatan! It's on my wish list!

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i re-potted 4 jacaranda baby trees into 4 inch pots.waiting on leaves sets #4. wahoo. started avacado seed in water 3 days ago and its already cracked( this is for greenery purpose only) i planted a colius a friend gave me today, good mass of roots, then broke it in half. (moments i really love) so back into the water the broke half goes. hey 2 plants from 1, that will work. now im 5 and 1.

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CookieCows

I would love to be able to grow an avacado tree and some Eucalyptus trees. Now and then I read up on cold hardy varieties of both and think ... one of these days ......

I've been reading some threads about growing citrus from seed and got a spark of excitment. Somewhere in the back of my mind I'd gotten the idea that the fruit would be sour because of the parent trees being hybrids so grafting has to take place to have good fruit? Is this just a bundle of nonsense and CAN we grow from seed? Like from grocery store fruit or does it have to be from special trees?

Deb

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from what i have read and what members say, you should not grow fruit from grocery store fruit. my ponderosa lemon and the fall glo tangerines i got seeds from were from a greenhouse trees. however i have managed to grow poms from the seeds from a grocery store. actually the seedlings are about 3-4 inches high. im not to sure abouth the avacado (egg) i have. it came from the grocery store, i have grown avacados from store seeds before, just to put them out side and have turtles snap them in half....so i dont know, right now im doing a science experiement, and if it works that will be awesome. happy planting. if your not sure, drop some seeds in dirt, it wont hurt to let it grow,it if dosent produce fruit, youll have some nice green plants.anything green in my book is good to grow... well unless its illegal.. i do recall someone very famous said 'its not easy being green' in our case, its not easy growing green...lol

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purple coneflower seeds and zebra mallow seeds.

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CookieCows

It's a childhood memory of seeing an avacado seed propped up by toothpicks in a glass of water on the window sill!

I planted a mix of daffodil bulbs. I'm hoping it's not too late. They were left in the truck forgotten about.

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its never too late to plant daffies. i have 25 to get in the ground and 6 hyicinths to get in the ground. i havent got done that yet...

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mskitty38583

i dont know about these people who get money for christmas and rush off to lowes to see if they have any banana trees in the middle of december...and when they dont have any, they buy 2 huge snake plants (for 4.00 each) and a ponytail palm(for 3.28) and a bag of perilite and potting mix. man i think this person qualifies as a banana(plant )fiend. i just dont know about some people!!!

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CookieCows

You are such a natural born plant mommy!!

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as soon as i get my dirt mixed up will transplant these plants that "santa" brought me from lowes.....i have to divide these snakeplants into 4 different pots and transplant this ponytail palm out of this nasty ugly little pot. my ponytail palm told santa he wasnt happy living at lowes he wanted to come to my address to live.....you really believe that??? dirt, perilite, plants,pots, i think thats the best christmas present in the world....well next to cold hard cash. rotflmao!!!

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plumeria

and a partridge in a pear tree!!!
Merry Christmas !

plumeria

yes but pineapple can make a great houseplant and then move it outside in the summer. They usually don't get as big as the ones in the store, but they will produce a small edible fruit, but remember pineapples are a bromiliad and the parent will die after fruiting...but looks for pups!

plumeria

i planted a bunch of daffodil bulbs called Ice Follies, the most reliable daffodil in my neck of the wooods. I threw out/scattered some crystal palace lobelia seeds under my Sango Kaku Japanese maple, and of course the annual poinsettia..but in a pot to bring indoors..and then it goes to the compost pile after the holidays.