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Greenhouse pics

19 years ago

Here's some pics of my indoor garden before winter is upon us. We keep squeezing out some decent days coming up to November. Nights are getting really cool so the heater is kicking on some then.

This is my severely pruned key lime that I swore was not coming back into the greenhouse. It's loaded with blooms and small fruit right now. Unfortunately I found no takers for it. Still hoping to hear back from our local conservatory for this and a few others. I've since made some successful grafts of the key lime onto my orange.

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My Namwah(fruiting) and dwarf cavendish nanas. They make for some adventurous trips in and out the door there!

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Nam doc mai mango settling in with a nice growth flush. It's sent out lots more since the pic was taken. It's recovered nicely since being transplanted into the ground.

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A Kohala longan air-layer that I took from my air-layered plant. So far so good. I got a tad impatient when I took it off the mother plant. Only had one decent root coming from the exposed area. That was a couple of months or so ago and it seems to be adjusting okay.

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Tamarind. I recently re-acquired a seedling "brother" of this plant. I gave it away as a small seedling over 3 years ago and the guy gave it back to me the other day. Size difference is night and day. Grow lights and eventually a greenhouse does make a difference. Still a nice little plant and I'm going to see if someone can bonsai it for me. No pics of it right now.

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Red and white varities of Dragon fruit sprouting and hanging all over the place. Where oh where are my blooms!?

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Inside the shade house. Left foreground and middle back are my two Garcinia Madronos and they've been flushing like crazy lately. Left and right back are two seedling langsats that I received from Sadhu a while back...which will be used in grafting experiment later hopefully. Right foreground is Garcinia Brasiliensis that is now flushing as well.

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One of two Cherapu's received from Sadhu as well. Lots of small seedling mangosteens in background.

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Couple of mangosteen seedlings received from ONg's Nursery a while back to be used in a grafting experiment later.

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My grumichama which is flushing again. Thrips have found this plant attractive...as well as others, much to my dismay. Hopefully some beneficial critters arriving next week will assist in their destruction.

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Gold nugget jakfruit which seems to grow several inches a day.

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Grafted longkong received a little while back from Montoso Gardens.

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Muntingia which gives me a couple of berries a week. This plant has been severly pruned more than a few times. Pruning did not seem to induce more lower branching like I thought it might. I was hoping to make it into a more compact plant.

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Another shot of DF.

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Comments (10)

  • 19 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Impressive.

    Hold old is your greenhouse? Connected right to the main house? Sliding glass doors or something?

  • 19 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Looking good Jay! Over here in California, you can trigger the dragonfruit to bloom by cutting about half an inch to an inch off the ending tips of the branches. This is usually done twice a year, earlier in the year around spring and later in the year around the end of summer, practically the two times in the year when you see the decrease and increase in daylight. If its too young it won't bloom and if its not the right time of the year it would just send out vegetative growths. Yours look to be a very good size and should start blooming soon.

    What is that blue flowering shrub growing under the mango?

  • 19 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Frank, Greenhouse has been in operation now for about 1 year. I finished it up just in time before the cold set in last year. Yes, it is attached to the back of my home to give one solid wall to help with heat...and cost. That's the sliding door to get in and out of the back of the home. There used to be a huge deck there. The greenhouse is much more fun.

    Eggo, After we talked yesterday, I went out and cut the tips off. We'll see what gets triggered, blooms or growth. While cutting the tips off, I had to smack myself a few times. I was actually considering planting out the tips! I have got to stop! I've got plumeria and DF cuttings all over the place.

  • 19 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Eggo...sorry. The flowering shrub below the mango is Plumbago.

  • 19 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Very nice going Jay. Got a great thing going for sure!

    Gary

  • 19 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago
  • 19 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    wow Jay,
    very impressive, once all that stuff starts to fruit, it will move to friggin amazing status! Seeing your GH almost makes me wish for colder weather (almost). What size pot is your muntingia in?

    -Ethan

  • 19 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Everything looks great - your mangosteens look much better than mine!

  • 19 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Your grumichama looks better than mine in the ground. Mine is starting to improve with new growth going now, but its had a tough road, along with its partner in pain, Cherry of the Rio Grande. Will try more wettable sulfur and perhaps pine bark soon.

    Gary

  • 19 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    The muntingia pot size is 14" I believe. I've had to transplant it about 3 times since spring. Fastest growing plant I've ever seen...besides the jakfruit. Roots spread fast and thick.

    I love the grumichama. I got that plant from Bryan at Montoso in April of 2006 as a small seedling...sent to me by mistake! Such a beautiful plant from the leaves to the wood. Can't wait for it to start blooming. It's probably at least a few good years out for that though...unless anybody out there can put a smile on my face and tell me it may be sooner??!

    Hey Maureen! Whopper of a flower stalk! What type of nanas are they? Mine are very very slow in getting any size at all. Thanks everyone. J

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