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I find letting the pods go brown and splitting open themselves works better than when I tried to split them open. They also take a while to germinate, so dropping them where you want them to grow and then leaving them can be tried, just make sure they are not drying out, and they will surprise you. I haven't had luck propagating from taking a cutting yet, but will keep trying. Wishing you success!, and thank you for the visit.🤩
Yes that's right, the male flowers are also scented. The other alternative is the hermaphroditic ones that have both sexes, they usually produce the long looking papayas, and will have a cluster of flowers while growing.
I got the bell clicked for your channel Amanda but it doesn't show in my notifications. I saw it on the home page. I love soursop. I planted one too recently cant wait for it to grow and fruit. Seems you have similar issues. I now have the policy if it looks like it needs one or 2 more days on the tree I pick it. If I don't the wildlife is going to beat me too it. Better to let it ripen a day or 2 inside than not get to eat it at all. Much love and blessings :)
Great idea, will definitely try it with the others that are growing. Good luck with your new tree. There was also some whitefly pest that seems to find their way on the fruit, the best solution so far was the soapy water and a drop of oil. Blessings to you.
Hello, Amanda! Having to start with so much plant material is a blessing! Here, in Cyprus, the weather is dry and the temperatures high. Desert like. Not the best environment to start a garden. Anyway, good luck and I will follow your creation process! 🎉 Again, good luck and success! 😊
Thank you Maria, I wish you success in your own garden. I would start by making sure wherever you place a plant you mulch with other plant material, try growing trees for shade and It will help to conserve water. When I first started there was only soil and rocks, but it has blossomed over time.
I know this is old but these are not scantius aegyptius, or the "red bug" but rather a boxelder bug or other seed bug. The aegyptuis has two black dots over the red on their backs. I'm currently dealing with an absolute infestation of them in my yard in AZ, i think soapy water is doing the trick but theres just so many! 😡
Thank you for the update. I hope you manage to get yours under control. I was shocked to see them, since I started gardening the amount of bugs I never knew existed, that seem to feel at home in my garden is unreal lol. I added neem oil to the soapy water which seem to do the trick.
Wow Amanda your aloes have bred like crazy and looking so healthy. I love how its such a low maintenance plant and so useful too. Much love and blessings :)
Wow seeing you have so much make me jealous! I have a plant here in Norway (inside ofc) and it barely survived the winter months due to lack of light. This plant is heaven on some fried eggs. A much more powerful taste than the thyme we have here.
Someone just gave me a cutting of this and first I was so confused with sooo many names for it. I haven’t done anything with it yet because I wasn’t sure how to handle it. But, now! Thank you for sharing how to care for this miracle plant! It has culinary and medicinal qualities! You explained well and showing the parts of the plant helped. ❤
Your welcome, and congratulations on your new plant. Broadleaf thyme is quite hardy, you will have it for life and it is so useful as a tea, for colds or in cooking, I use it all the time. Thank you for visiting
Wow Amanda that is a big project. Having seen what you did with your place I have no doubt you transform it into a beautiful space. As for my garden a cyclone and scrub turkeys rearranged it somewhat lol. The fact I keep changing my mind on how I want things redone is not helping. I am still going to keep moving forward though as gardens are never really finished just works in progress and lots of learning. Much love and blessings to you and Cole of course :)
Thank you for spending time with me in the garden, it has been a while, will be sharing over the weeks. Exciting project to work on at the moment. Let me know what you are working on in the garden.
When it was growing as a young plant I watered it every 3 or 4 days. But now it is fully grown I don't water at all. During the dry season they loose their leaves but it all comes back in the rainy season.
Hi, Amanda, We visited Barbados from the UK for the Barbados Independent Film Festival a few weeks ago and all had a great time. It was my first time in the Caribbean, too. On our week we saw lots of interesting places and met some friendly, kind and knowledgeable people. Besides doing tourist things we visited some old plantations and sites related to enslavement. At one of these, the Newton Slave Burial Ground, near Oistins, I picked up some seed pods from the Shak Shak growing in the site centre. I now have them germinating nicely on my window sill back in the UK. I will grow a few up and give them to close friends as indoor plants when they are established; a small, living monument. Thanks for your video.
Great you were able to visit, hope you had a lovely time. They have lovely scented flowers when they bloom. Be careful of planting the tree near any structures and they have an aggressive root system, though as an indoor plant you should be fine, do let me know how you get on. blessing
Hi there, depending on your location, you would need to do a search online, or check on FB market place you might find someone near you selling the plants.
Elephant ears have greatly confused me. I have seen at least twenty varieties that are labeled elephant ears. The common trait is extremely large leafs. The shape, edges, and growth patterns vary dramatically. Not sure what is correct and what is mislabeled...
I think that Elephant ears get mixed up with and taro as they both have large leaves but several differences in the shapes of their leaves and Taro root is edible while the elephants ears are not.
I haven't heard it called that here, I think that many countries have different names for some of the plants. There are quite a few varieties of thyme. I have also heard it called Cuban Oregano.
I haven't pruned mine, there are quite a few videos available if you do a search, here is one that I found. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XQQc1AyhynY.htmlsi=rAnjOkBfXXKftRHv hope it helps.
Yes, I have seen them quite big, mine didn't stand a chance with the monkeys and the rats. They munched on them before they could get bigger than a tennis ball :)
Amanda I think maybe the seeds from that tree we used to call them john crow beads in Jamaica ( meaning really vulture beads) because of the color. We used to use needle and thread and string them to make necklaces etc. as children.
Snails were trying to kill my breadfruit tree what saved it was wrapping the metal scouring pad around the base of the plant and it worked beautifully to keep them away. Obviously won’t be feasible large scale but maybe for the most vulnerable plants?
cotton plants will become 10 foot tall trees if you don't cut them. because it's so widely cultivated there are some beefy pesticide resistant guys that go after them.
I have been keeping the cotton plants short for this reason since I saw these bugs. I am always coming across some bug that I never new existed :) I have been using a lot of natural remedies to deal with the pests and trying to keep on top of them and encourage some of their predators. The Stink bug is next on the list to deal with :( :)
I love the coqui frogs and the chittering birds. reminds me of central florida next to the lakes before sunset. I was impressed that a bird managed to bring a sage to your garden that normally grows on the west coast here in the US, alas, there are two different kinds of black sage. If you have any chaparral oaks that need complementary planting to manage the damp salvia mellifera, aka the other black sage, is really good for that and feeding hummingbirds. since you have two species of hummingbirds where you garden consider Salvia mellifera :) I love hummingbirds.
Yes, I have been really lucky with the generosity of the birds. They also brought a couple of almond sees, and one has since germinated and is a fair size. The hummingbirds seem to also love the moringa flowers. Thank you so much for your visit.!
Thank you. It has a flavor unto itself, though you do get a slight curry flavor. I use it a lot in soups and stir frys. The powdered version of 'curry powder' that is normally on sale is a combination of curry, turmeric, cumin and other spices. It is worthwhile getting a plant if you can, they also have a lot of health benefits :)
My curry plant is not thriving. Loses leaves and I only have a few branches left. Mine is in a pot and has done much better since I moved it into full sun. Average temperature where I live is 69 to 82 degrees.
I have two growing outside for over 30 years but in massive pots. I have only now discovered they are actually indoor plants! I live in Cape Town, South Africa.
Thank you very much for doing this video. I just ordered Pride of Barbados seeds. On perhaps an unrelated note, in regards to destructive critters, I don't know. Awhile back I came out to where I do yard work and there is something called a Forsythia bush/shrub, one small Magnolia tree, and some other high branching type of bush. ALL were under attack by these vicious, destructive insects or critters in this u.s. gulf coast area. Not the least of which is Coptotermes formosanus, a.k.a. formosan termite. The most destructive termite, imported from china, in the world. It cut the trunk of that bush I spoke of in half, clean down to the ground. If I didn't do something, these things wouldn't last another season. These termites have obliterated neglected Magnolia trees in this area in other places. After alot of hard pruning on all this stuff, water and fertilizer, digging into the root system. I have no choice but to hard prune these. They weren't going to make it anyways. So, I used diatomacous earth. So, you want to do your watering first, and then sprinkle the diatomaceuous earth power around the plant. So far, I see a recovery in the plants/tree that was damaged. They will never bee the same, but at least they can survive and bloom now. I don't know about Pride of Barbados, but if I encounter this attack, I'll use diatomaceous earth as well. Again, thanks for doing this.
Thank you for your comment, it I just reread it and it came at the right time. I love Magnolia trees. I just found two termite mounds forming around the garden that i hadn't checked in a while. I will try the diatomaceous earth thanks for the tip!
