Any green thumbers out there?

[Dennis Hultman]

Few more

 

[Dennis Hultman]

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[Dennis Hultman]

Also working on my cabbage starts and cymbidiums.

 

[Dennis Hultman]

I also have lots of mint. I like the chocolate mint. Working on some fern starts again but they really dislike me.

Lots of passion fruit, apples, oranges, tangerines, avocado trees, chayotes, persimmons, and pomegranates.

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Apricots, Myers lemons, one lime tree and peach tree.

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Loquats can't forget the Loquats

 

[Dennis Hultman]

Haven't watered any of my berries in a year because of the drought. They look extremely sad. Hopefully some survive.

 

[Dennis Hultman]

Oh, I have staghorns that I'm working on separating today and mounting.

 

[Robert Walker]

I also have lots of mint.

Sweet plants, the grouping looks like you could be looking at plants from another planet, like off Felucia in Star Wars. (I don't honestly expect others to know what I'm referring to in Star Wars, just saying).

Mint = both love it and hate it. Love walking around the yard popping a leaf in my mouth, so do the kids. Hate it because is grows like crazy anywhere it wants.

 

[j_dunlavy]

Guy in the video says, "I suggest you guys do this sometime". NO GRACIAS!

I lived in Chile for two years on church mission. I ate all kinds of peppers down there. I came home thinking I was tough stuff. My dad gave me a whole Habanero which I promptly popped in my mouth to show how cool I was. 1.5hrs later I was still in pain drinking milk, eating bread and even called poison control to ask for suggestions. I was an idiot.

this reminds me of a funny story, so allow me to go off topic for a sec:
back in my "petshop days" there was a friend I worked with (Joey) who was the "cool guy" type. He was really a good guy, just cocky. Well another friend, Tam, bet him $100 that he would not be able to do the "911 Challenge" at "Cluck U Chicken" over by Santa Clara University. Joey accepted, obviously.

After work, Tam, Joey, myself, Chris and Nic all went to Cluck U, ordered up and sat back to enjoy the show.
He was doing the whole "spicy ain't no thing" bs and building himself up by talking a good game the whole time... then the chicken arrived.
He did alright on the first of the 12 wings but the heat hit him right before he was able start on the second wing.
He did finish the second wing but only after Tam put the money in front of him. He suffered through every bite and then declared he had lost. Tam, being the nice guy that he is, decided to double down and put another hundred in front of Joey, convincing him to eat a third wing. When he finished that one he promptly ran to the bathroom to, uh, reject it.

Now we were all laughing our butts off but Chris thought he would try to capitalize on this. He asked how much if I eat one? Tam offered him $20 and Chris took the bait. He held it down long enough to get his money but joined Joey in the bathroom a few minutes later, while the rest of us enjoyed our regular chicken and lots of laughter.

But wait, there's more:
Now anyone who has tried the challenge (I have not, but watched many fail) will tell you that any spot the sauce gets on will burn like it was maced. This is true, I have seen people walk away from the challenge with red swollen spots all over their faces and hands. Bear that in mind when you read the next part.

The following day Joey's mom, Joey and Chris were going on a road trip, yes a road trip. Well somewhere along highway 5 the realized that what goes in must come out... and it will be just as hot.

Joeys mom said she could hear them screaming in the rest stop bathroom from the car. She also said they were limping, bow-legged, and dripping tears when they slowly made their way back to the car. She also said it was the same situation at 2 more rest stops.

That Monday, back at work, Joey told me and Tam the ENTIRE area around the, uh, exit looked like he had gotten poison oak. Man parts partially included. Tam and I had a hard time working after that because we were laughing so hard. When the boss asked what was going on, we told her and she started laughing. She promptly told her husband who also erupted in laughter.
I bet Joey won't do that again.

Ahh, good times.

 

[Robert Walker]

I also have lots of mint. I like the chocolate mint. Working on some fern starts again but they really dislike me.

Lots of passion fruit, apples, oranges, tangerines, avocado trees, chayotes, persimmons, and pomegranates.

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Apricots, Myers lemons, one lime tree and peach tree.

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Loquats can't forget the Loquats

You are lucky to be in a State where you actually get things like this grow. Half of what you have listed in your posts I have never heard of.

 

[Lucille]

Staghorns are beautiful, I had one once mounted on a slab of wood and I really liked it.
Your succulent collection is awesome.

 

[Robert Walker]

what goes in must come out... and it will be just as hot.

Holy crap, I needed that! I have been accused of having the sense of humor of a teenage boy, oh well. I just laughed my butt off. Sure feels good to laugh too!

Disgusting and hilarious all at the same time! Thanks Jon!

 

[j_dunlavy]

Haven't watered any of my berries in a year because of the drought. They look extremely sad. Hopefully some survive.

Most berries will recover, especially blackberries and the sort.
I water some of my plants with the water I thawed rats in so It does not get wasted.
The nice thing about succulents is the water use is minimal, but I do have some (potted) Brugmansia sp and African Queen impatiens that take a lot more. I try to water them as little as possible but a few cost a good bit of money to get and time to grow so They will not go dry if I can help it.
You have some really nice plants going Dennis. I love it when succulents get big, especially jade plants.

I'm a sucker for anything that grows.

 

[j_dunlavy]

You are lucky to be in a State where you actually get things like this grow. Half of what you have listed in your posts I have never heard of.

Palram makes some reasonably affordable hobby greenhouses. Worth looking into if cold is a big factor.
I keep my tortoises in one when I can't let them roam the yard.

Check out Ebay if you want to find some unusual cacti/succulents. I got some there and some from cacti/succulent shows.

 

[Dennis Hultman]

Yeah, I have rows of chest high jade plants that surrounds my chickens.

Just a couple more off my phone.

 

[Dennis Hultman]

Persimmons on the left, tangerines on the right and the big trees at the top are my loquats.

 

[Robert Walker]

Okay, super jealous of everything everyone is growing. Nothing too exotic here, but my kids and I did all the landscaping and planting, so we have some pride in it. No drought over here, but trade off with the frozen winters.

 

[Lucille]

Robert your garden is gorgeous and I love your hostas!!

 

[WebSlave]

I also have lots of mint. I like the chocolate mint. Working on some fern starts again but they really dislike me.

Lots of passion fruit, apples, oranges, tangerines, avocado trees, chayotes, persimmons, and pomegranates.

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Apricots, Myers lemons, one lime tree and peach tree.

Edit again..

Loquats can't forget the Loquats

What kind of tangerines are you growing?

 

[Dennis Hultman]

What kind of tangerines are you growing?

Seedless ones I have pixies, clementines, a Algerian Mandarian (Fremont), and a hybrid Clemetine/Algerian.
Technically mandarins.

Seed-in, I have the Darcy tangerines. Boy, do they produce a lot. I was going to do the Honey tangerine, but I think the Darcy produces more here. I also ate them as a kid.

I think most choose to put in the clementines or satsuma around here.
Except in Oaji which is the land of Pixies.

The seeds don't bother me at all. Heck, half the time I notice none.

I planted to have some come in a different times but it doesn't seem to matter to much here. The Harvest times here are inaccurate. I can eat off one of the trees almost all year.
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Extremely beautiful, Robert. Oh, that's what green looks like..

 

[WebSlave]

Seedless ones I have pixies, clementines, a Algerian Mandarian (Fremont), and a hybrid Clemetine/Algerian.
Technically mandarins.

Seed-in, I have the Darcy tangerines. Boy, do they produce a lot. I was going to do the Honey tangerine, but I think the Darcy produces more here. I also ate them as a kid.

I think most choose to put in the clementines or satsuma around here.
Except in Oaji which is the land of Pixies.

The seeds don't bother me at all. Heck, half the time I notice none.

I planted to have some come in a different times but it doesn't seem to matter to much here. The Harvest times here are inaccurate. I can eat off one of the trees almost all year.

Never heard of a "Darcy". We have a "Dancy", though. Actually this is a weird tree. We bought it and a Pumelo grapefruit a long while back and just stuck the pots between two buildings and pretty much forgot about them. They are still there, with the pots ringing the trunks. Never bother watering or feeding them. The pumelo has never produced fruit, but the Dancy produces every year. Strange thing about the Dancy is that the first several years it produced beautiful looking tangerines, but oh man were they BITTER! A couple of years ago we were talking about cutting it down and digging out the stump to put in a better tasting tangerine, and I guess it heard us. The fruits became 100% better the following year and have been that way ever since. We sure didn't do anything to change it.

We have a bunch of Changsha tangerines (which up till a few minutes ago I thought were called "Changshi") that do really well here. We have a bunch of them growing from seed, and this variety grows true from seed. Most of the plants just started from seeds we spit out while walking around the property eating the tangerines. Connie has a whole pile of them in pots now out behind the garage. They seem to take a LONG time to bear fruit when grown from seed, though.

Also some Satsumas, but most are rather small still.

Our absolute favorite tangerine is the Ponkan. Best tasting, by far of any of the varieties we have tried.

Connie likes lemons so she has a couple Meyer's and Ponderosas. She's also propagating quite a few of them from seed now.