spiceoflife's Blog

Mangoes 2 out of three dead so far out of the last batch, and the third isn't looking too good.

Pineapple top is dead - the roots never grew.

Opuntia (prickly pear) leaves are doing nothing, not even rotting.  Weird.

Three more longan berry seeds sprouted - woohoo!

Nothing yet on the mangosteens, I'm not optimistic here.

Two Avocado pits are sitting happily in small pots full of moist peat moss covered in a sandwich bag.  I'm cautiously optimistic on these.

I potted up my 4 inch high pomegranate seedlings into bonsai pots - two singles and one group of three.  They are looking good if I do say so myself.  :-)

No action on the lychee seeds at all.

Sassafras is doing great.

My two walnut seedlings are doing great, too.  Those squirrels sure know what they're doing.

My lemon seedling was in trouble there for a while after I up-potted it.  It had dropped all of it's leaves, but has since put out a whole new batch.  Whew!

I found a great little maple seedling, so I harvested it to see what kind of bonsai it might make.  The leaves are pretty small, even for a seedling, so I'm optimistic here, too.

I had put one of my dragonfruit plants outside in the sun and TOTALLY scalded it!  what a rookie move that was!  If I had read the internet pages about it BEFORE I put it out there instead of after I would have known that despite the fact that it's a cactus it doesn't like full sun!  I think there are still a few stalks that aren't dying.  Luckily I still have 4 more pots full, and they root WICKED easy!

I've been enjoying lettuce on a regular basis from those two plants that managed to winter over.  Trim off the larger leaves and the new leaves keep right on coming.  cool.

That's it for now.  I know I've been promising pictures.......well I only lied if I died.  Pictures soon.  ;-)