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Looks like my loquat flowers survived. Just have to get through Jan/Feb now.
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My loquat finally bloomed this year. It’s too big to fully cover so I threw a frost blanket over the top and stuck a wheel barrow of water underneath. Before bed I brought out 4 5gal buckets of hot water and put around the base. There was no ice in the buckets, so fingers crossed I was able to save the flowers.
The combo of goldenrod and the purple iron weed is stunning this time of year. I always encourage its growth outside of garden beds.
Do you season them? I haven’t tried okra in the freeze dryer yet.
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Planted a Spice Zee nectaplum from Zaiger Hybrids. This is a peach/nectarine/plum cross with purple spring foliage and allegedly incredible fruit. Stone fruit in LA is always dicey, especially south LA, but this one is on Citation root stock and planted high on a mound that is 1/3 sand. I have automatic irrigation and am hoping I can keep this one root healthy. I foresee a lot of systemic insecticides, systemic fungicides, and bird nets. But at least the cold can't kill it. 200-300 chill hours.
I have one of these (at least I think it’s this variety) from Dave Wilson nursery via Chapple farms. The foliage was absolutely stunning when it first leafed out. I just did the summer prune a couple of weeks ago and it already has new growth.
re: Championship Series Ticket Prices
Posted by audioguy on 6/17/25 at 7:10 pm to PenguinPubes
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They were anywhere from 250-350 behind home plate and dugouts and $100 in the outfields
This is more in line with what I was thinking. Hopefully prices will trend down over the next couple of days.
re: Championship Series Ticket Prices
Posted by audioguy on 6/17/25 at 6:06 pm to wutangfinancial
Is GA the same as standing room only?
Championship Series Ticket Prices
Posted by audioguy on 6/17/25 at 6:02 pm
Does anyone know what range the tickets for championship series usually settle at? A lot of the cheapest Saturday tickets are currently sitting between $250-300 and I’m wondering if that’s going to drop much by Friday.
re: Louisiana Tropical Fruit Gardening - Experiences and Updates
Posted by audioguy on 6/16/25 at 2:26 pm to TeddyPadillac
Thanks for the heads up. I’ll swing by next time I’m in the area. I’m guessing it’s a 4cu ft. Bag.
I have an improved Meyer Lemon that hasn’t been growing in the ground and I’m considering moving it to one of these 30 gallon pots.
I have an improved Meyer Lemon that hasn’t been growing in the ground and I’m considering moving it to one of these 30 gallon pots.
Nagami potted up in its hopefully permanent home. Nearly 30 gallons of sand/peat/perlite mix. Also added a couple inch layer of composted wood chips and a couple inches of bark mulch on top. Sprinkled in some azomite to the base mix and some dr. Earth + osmocote with the compost. We’ll see how this setup performs.
I really need to find a bulk source for perlite. The 8qt bags from Lowe’s aren’t going to cut it if I keep using this mixture.
re: Louisiana Tropical Fruit Gardening - Experiences and Updates
Posted by audioguy on 6/13/25 at 7:21 pm to LanierSpots
Got the Guava pruned and put a bigger stake in. It seems to be doing well. Went ahead and attempted some cuttings. I’ll keep things updated.
I do have a free 22” x 20” pot. I know that’s quite the jump in size but I guess it would be fine as long as drainage is good.
On another subject, I never got around to putting my Nagami in ground. Now I’m debating if it would be better to just up pot it and wait for late winter early spring. I know LSU recommends Jan/Feb for planting.
This is what I was afraid of. The YouTube stuff I watched seemed too good to be true. I’ll give it a try just because, but I’ll keep expectations low.
Have you tried propagating guava cuttings? I need to prune mine and was thinking about trying to root some of them.
I got a couple from either Clegg’s or Louisiana Nursery about 2 years ago. Can’t remember exactly which one.
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Limequat
My neighbors have a tree that they call a lemonquat. It’s alot like a Meyer lemon to me, but apparently has the cold tolerance of a kumquat. Their tree fruits profusely. They apparently brought it over from Mississippi years ago. I haven’t found anywhere that will ship one to Louisiana. I’m considering trying to graft a cutting from their tree if it recovers well from the freeze. I have a rootstock from a grapefruit that didn’t make it.
I checked my feijoa shrubs and no obvious blooms yet. There’s a few buds that I can’t tell yet if it’s just new branches/leaves or maybe a flower bud. Fingers crossed.
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Compost and fertilizer sits on the top only.
You mean like a forest?!
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tHe SoiL nEeDs NoOtRiEnTs
What it actually needs is life, that’s what the compost and dr earth is for.
I wonder if worms would survive in a pot like this, they’d certainly do the symbiotic thing to cycle material around. Probably hard to maintain the full soil web which is why I supplemented with some slow release fertilizer.
On another note, I’ve switched my indoor mix to this as well. My ficus trees are thriving the last few weeks.
Got the guava potted up. Ended up just using a 7 gallon pot since I probably didn’t have enough perlite to go straight to the bigger one. Mix was 1/1/1 peat/sand/perlite. Added a handful of azomite and osmocote to the top and then covered with roughly an inch of compost and a handful of dr earth. I’ll mulch it with a handful of leaves later. Fingers crossed it’ll take off and be happy.
I’ll go check mine later. Last I checked there was only new leaf growth on the tips.
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