Home Garden thread. Post your homegrown plants here

[meccalli]

Noticed some changes in the bearing patterns of some of my plants during the pandemic, my passionfruit bore for almost the entire 2020, my soursop has been bearing continuously ( picked this one today, nice big one), lime trees under 3' tall in 10" setter pots are bearing ( not grafted, I grew them from seeds) and coconut trees with about 4-5' of trunk have started to bear. The reduction of human activity has done the environment and the plants good IMG_20210721_094000_583.jpg

I thought it was just me lol. Got one of my biggest soursops this year and the tree is full of em still. Soursop is usually a shy bearer but its prolific for me this season.

[pugboy]

bumper year for zaboca too
shame that 99% are picked too young for whatever reason stealing etc

[eliteauto]

bumper year for zaboca too
shame that 99% are picked too young for whatever reason stealing etc

Same with soursop, saw some in the market that guaranteed to give you colic

[Soul Collector]

Seeds planted on 21st of Feb.
I didn't expect it to grow.I got impatient and dug them up.I have a second batch in better soil

Ok nice man. Next batch should be looking irie then

Nice size soursops there...have me feeling for ice cream now All the rain we been getting, the trees must be loving that.

[Dizzy28]

Saw you all talking about African snails and then saw this article today. Someone tried to get in the USA with 15 giant African land snails.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57932026

[daring dragoon]

escargot

[De Dragon]

Tomatoes and Seeries. Also have pimento, hot pepper, baigan, cauliflower, and broccoli planted

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[MG Man]

nice
ceries btw....or summ like that

[timelapse]

Allyuh have me being a spelling nazi .
Cerise :french for cherries

[supercharged turbo]

Is there any law against imported seeds?Looking to bring in some hybrid eggplant seeds for a relative

[fokhan_96]

Is there any law against imported seeds?Looking to bring in some hybrid eggplant seeds for a relative

Apparently seeds prohibited.

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It is alleged that you might gt sometimes.Heard it from a friend of a friend

[De Dragon]

nice
ceries btw....or summ like that

An older guy here called them Governor Cherries.

[De Dragon]

Noticed some changes in the bearing patterns of some of my plants during the pandemic, my passionfruit bore for almost the entire 2020, my soursop has been bearing continuously ( picked this one today, nice big one), lime trees under 3' tall in 10" setter pots are bearing ( not grafted, I grew them from seeds) and coconut trees with about 4-5' of trunk have started to bear. The reduction of human activity has done the environment and the plants good IMG_20210721_094000_583.jpg

I thought it was just me lol. Got one of my biggest soursops this year and the tree is full of em still. Soursop is usually a shy bearer but its prolific for me this season.

Maybe I'm old, but in my youth ALL soursop was like that

[eliteauto]

^^ nah I agree, all were like that growing up, but you'll almost never see one like that on sale and the price if you did, would pain you now

[De Dragon]

^^ nah I agree, all were like that growing up, but you'll almost never see one like that on sale and the price if you did, would pain you now

Seeing even the leaves on sale in some of those more countryside areas

[meccalli]

Noticed some changes in the bearing patterns of some of my plants during the pandemic, my passionfruit bore for almost the entire 2020, my soursop has been bearing continuously ( picked this one today, nice big one), lime trees under 3' tall in 10" setter pots are bearing ( not grafted, I grew them from seeds) and coconut trees with about 4-5' of trunk have started to bear. The reduction of human activity has done the environment and the plants good IMG_20210721_094000_583.jpg

I thought it was just me lol. Got one of my biggest soursops this year and the tree is full of em still. Soursop is usually a shy bearer but its prolific for me this season.

Maybe I'm old, but in my youth ALL soursop was like that

Yeah luckily for that generation. Unfortunately the prevalence of annona seed borers have become an issue over the years as well as the availability of nitidulid pollinators which are required for annona sp. fruit setting because of their minute stature.
Small and misshapen annonas like soursop are the result of incomplete pollination, i hand pollinate mine now and bag what i can to protect them. When borers get to the young fruit, if it's really bad, the tree will abort the fruit and it will turn mummified, much of those fruit are picked because the issues with borers before you see the effects of portions of the fruit becoming affected.
But 7lbs for a fruit isn't bad i'd say today. Times have certainly changed from back then when there was a far better ecological balance. Much of it has been anthropogenic influence and obsession with clean cut surroundings, pesticide and herbicide use etc.

[pugboy]

the insect/bee apocalypse with pesticide use is quite a scary thought

[supercharged turbo]

It is alleged that you might gt sometimes.Heard it from a friend of a friend

I brought in seeds before with no issues but those days packages weren't always opened

[Chimera]

You can openly bring in seeds with websource (not ganja)
I brought in a bunch of Japanese flower seeds just 2 weeks ago.
Email websource first and show them the seeds you want to bring in

Is there any law against imported seeds?Looking to bring in some hybrid eggplant seeds for a relative

Apparently seeds prohibited.

Screenshot_20210723-095114_Outlook.jpg

[Chimera]

Bucket and a half last night

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If you can get c purlins cheap, make a snail barrier

[pugboy]

thats a lot of protein going to waste

[NR8]

At least the shells could eventually add some calcium to soil. lol

[*KRONIK*]

thats a lot of protein going to waste

Is there a way to safely eat them?

If there is, or there can be, we may need to do like what we and other islands did with the lionfish. Make it known its edible and tell the ppl "kill them on sight"

[pugboy]

they grill them in africa
common snack

thats a lot of protein going to waste

Is there a way to safely eat them?

If there is, or there can be, we may need to do like what we and other islands did with the lionfish. Make it known its edible and tell the ppl "kill them on sight"

[pugboy]

similar prep to conch

https://youtu.be/DetzoYALOp4

[Chimera]

The ones in Africa don't have the diseases ours have. Or if they do they don't care.

they grill them in africa
common snack

thats a lot of protein going to waste

Is there a way to safely eat them?

If there is, or there can be, we may need to do like what we and other islands did with the lionfish. Make it known its edible and tell the ppl "kill them on sight"

[Chimera]

Lol those things climbing 2 inch steel posts 8 feet tall and crawling along barb wire.

You finding them in cherry trees 10 feet in the air.

C purlin not stopping them

If you can get c purlins cheap, make a snail barrier

[pugboy]

this might sound like a tall story
I used to ride chancellor hill twice a week, doing 3 runs up/down 5am

once I saw one of them snails around halfway up in the road moving up and leaving the slime trail, believe it or not it stayed on the road and travel a good distance for the 70mins or so I was there

they can move quite steadily when they ready

Lol those things climbing 2 inch steel posts 8 feet tall and crawling along barb wire.

You finding them in cherry trees 10 feet in the air.

C purlin not stopping them

If you can get c purlins cheap, make a snail barrier