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#2716 |
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Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Cooper city
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Getting some color on the heat master or solar fire both are in same planter.
The raised beds are getting hit by blight and lost some fruit to BER mostly on the solar flare and one of the pink wonder is starting to show BER on a few. |
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#2717 | |
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Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Oak Hill, Florida
Posts: 1,781
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Great pictures and amazing job you are doing growing everything. All looks great! Ginny |
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#2718 |
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Indialantic, Florida
Posts: 2,000
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SouthFL - Your tomatoes look good and healthy. Have you tasted the heat varieties yet? Be sure to let us know how they taste.
Here's a Garden Treasure F2 that we ate tonight. Plant is from September and still pumping out large ones. DH has been off tomatoes all season - due to food allergies and just started introducing them back. Some Froggy pictures too; lots of tadpoles - I'm not going to feed them anymore; let the strong ones survive. Night time low temps have been 70-72 for days now even though it was suppose to be in the high 60s. It's the beginning of the end. |
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Wasilla Alaska
Posts: 2,010
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#2720 | |
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Indialantic, Florida
Posts: 2,000
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BTW - My matsu plants in the root pouches are loaded up again. Plants are very strong and vigorous. |
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#2721 |
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10
Posts: 9,283
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Barb, great pictures. I am still getting large fruit, and lots of new buds. The new buds are only setting a fewer amount than the plants did all season, due to our hotter overnight temps, of 71-74 now, about 8-9 degrees hotter than we should be. It's pretty normal to have this decline starting in April. I have lost maybe 10 plants to TRMs, but that's OK, I had the best season ever, and I think I got about 1500 tomatoes this year not counting the cherries, so I can't complain. I am ready for the decline, might even welcome it! I am getting lots of large cherries that are fantastic from the KARMA F4s, thank you Barb for encouraging me.
![]() The Broward Rare Fruit Council is having their annual sale this year, I am getting a Cacao, which Gerardo suggested to grow under my mango tree, and also a Nam Doc Mai mango, very highly rated in all categories, and it says a manageable size if kept pruned. I hear lots of good things about it. I think I will also get a pomegranate. Barb, your 3 pineapple pups you sent are well rooted and growing quickly, I think there will be fruit next year on them. Pineapples seem to like crowding. I have 6 forming now, pretty large too, how many do you have this year? I know it's usually more than me. My mango tree is loaded again too. Back with photos in a few minutes. |
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#2722 |
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10
Posts: 9,283
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Here's some odds and ends
Top- broad view of mango with lots of bloom spikes and tiny fruit setting. 2)- closer view of a section with baby fruit showing. 3)- If you look carefully you can see all 6 pineapples growing. Closest one bloomed 6 weeks after the others. 4)- Barb, this one is showing the 3 small pineapple plants you sent me, sorry, I need to weed. 5)- orchids on the mango tree, can you see all 3 spikes? All I ever do is water them and I tied a teabag full of Osmocote to the top. They seem happy. 6)- Bleeding hearts are showing off. 7)- Tibouchina blooms.That is my nutso Rosemary now 14 years old behind it. |
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#2723 |
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Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Cooper city
Posts: 13
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Barb fl, I just did a taste test of the heatmaster and solar fire. I like the one with green sholders i think that the solar fire. Good flavor and smooth texture. The heatmaster is a little bland and mealy texture. Still better than store brought.
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#2724 |
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Ontario
Posts: 3,893
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Nice pics of Mangoes, Pineapples and Bleeding Heart. Funny, I had a little one of those Bl. Hearts in a pot in my office years ago. It put on quite a show!
Could you please send us northerners some of your lovely Florida warmth? Linda |
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#2725 |
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Indialantic, Florida
Posts: 2,000
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For those of you who requested the Chocolate Lightning, I have plenty of seeds fermented now and ready to mail. Let me know if you 'need'/want anything else. I know there is no rush since they won't be sowed until August at the earliest.
I'm growing Brad's Atomic Grape this spring - it tastes really good and not a huge plant by any stretch. I'm not going to ferment the seeds but will take off the gel in the strainer. Also have Garden Treasure F3s - the F2s were dynamite - I posted a pic earlier in this thread and others in the Garden Gem thread. Also have plenty of Matsu Express F6 seeds. (AKMarks creation) - Cole_Robbie supplied a lot of the F5s that are being grown out now. You can PM me or Post here. |
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#2726 |
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10
Posts: 9,283
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Southfl, that is a good looking plate of BLT makings. Yum!
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#2727 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Jax, FL - 9A
Posts: 172
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My plants are mostly looking good with plenty of blooms and setting fruit. Except for one... my Cherokee Purple is lagging way behind the others (all sowed at the same time) and it's starting to wilted and/or curled. I think I'm going to pull it this afternoon and replace it with Sungold Cherry that I picked up. Here is the Cherokee Purple beside my Striped German: Sorta looks like the same thing is happening to my German Queen. That's a New Big Dwarf beside it: Anyone have any thoughts about what might be happening? |
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#2728 | |
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10
Posts: 9,283
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#2729 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Jax, FL - 9A
Posts: 172
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I did. They are showing up for me. Not sure why you can't see them. Anyone else having trouble seeing them?
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#2730 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Between The Woodlands and Spring, Texas
Posts: 553
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The pictures are not showing up for me either.
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