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19 years ago

Here's some of the latest developments in my little Thai greenhouse! Aside from one of my electronic devices giving me migraines, things are going well.

Here are the wax jambu fruit developing. Pretty interesting transformation with this from flower to fruit. Either the plant did not need help with pollination or I did something right for a change. If there are more flowers next time, I will experiment.

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First flowers/fruit on my key lime! Pretty geeked about this. This is the first plant I ever planted from seed. This plant has litterally gone thru hell and back many many times. From spider mite infestations, harsh insecticides, and even harsher pruning for these reasons as well as space reasons, it's a wonder the plant still lives. Last year at this time, it was barely alive and barely had any branches. Now it is a monster and the largest plant in the greenhouse. It is 4 years old and should have bloomed 1-2 years ago if not for all the pruning. The plan is to graft a few branches of this onto my orange tree to create more needed space!

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My 3 year old sugar apples are blooming for the first time. I have not caught the pollination window for these yet. Only two blooms have opened and they were nearly a week apart. Both have dried up and dropped. Doesn't look promising for any fruit developing this time around. Trees are still probably too young.

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Namwah banana. Going to be pushing on the glass before too long. Dwarf cavendish is below and out of the picture.

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Plumeria really took off this year. One of the greenhouse frog's favorite place to lounge. It started making noise recently for the first time. Scared the hell out of us! Sounded like the bearings were going out of one of my fans!

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My latest endevor. My Alano sapodilla. This hole originally had a non-flourishing papaya in it all winter. I finally put it and myself out of our misery. I expanded the hole out some and ringed with the stone. I was going to bring it out further from the "pit" in the corner but it was just too much darn work! All I can say is this: "creative pruning" my friends.

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Another shot.

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The sapodilla has been flowering since last spring/summer but never developed a single fruit. Pollination issues or still too young. However, as you can see in the pic, a tiny fruit seems to be developing. This will actually be the SECOND one. The first one got pulled off. A case of the stupids came over me in a rush the other night. Just overwhelmed me. I reached down, grabbed it wondering if this was on there pretty good or drying up like all the rest to soon drop. Guess I tugged at it one too many times. My butt is still sore from kicking it!

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Well...that's it for right now. Leaving for Thailand in a few weeks. I'll be sure to take lots of pics and eat lots and lots of fruit!

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