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My plant is tall, staked, no blooms. It's early October. I'm in Centra California and they DIDN'T bloom in spring . . . What to do right now? I need blooms please help!
Thanks, I bought grape a vine on line and one at the local grocery store and wondered what happened to the grapes that 1st year. Your vine looks great. Thank you for sharing that patience will pay off and the schedule for feeding them.
I love Chickpea and they are So nutritious! It’s good to know that they also can be grown in the fall as I live in Texas and we have long growing seasons ❤😊. I appreciate your information. Thank you so very much
Cool video. My beets and radishes havent germinated but some lettuce starts have and chinese mustards. carrots germinated fairly well compared to past experience. Cole crop transplants are thrinving but had to spray some Bt for cabbage loopers.
Peat is partly decomposed plant matter used to enrich the soil. Natural peat bogs significantly reduce global warming by storing carbon . So avoid using peat and replace it with quality compost. If you buy organic soil, make sure it's peat free. Thank you.
Nice video! You gave usable information. I lived in southern Cali for 7 years and never noticed Banana plants growing there. It makes sense that they would grow there. I live in south west Florida, and they grow well here. My Kavendish produce wonderfully, but the Plantain trees I have do not, so far high winds from hurricanes and storms have snapped the trees off😥 when they had fruit on them.
Your comment about seedling mangos taking 10+ year to fruit is only accurate if you are planting a monoembryonic seed, and few people would plant a monoembryonic seed for anything other than a really vigorous rootstock to graft onto. Polyembryonic seeds grow true to the tree they came from and fruit in 2-3 years.
Mangoes can be monoembryonic or polyembryonic, dependingon the variety. For most people it would be very difficult to know. Having said that, grafted trees will produce mangoes the same year. But good info!
@@CaliforniaGardening It’s actually pretty easy to tell the difference. Polyembryonic seeds look like a katydid wing - like a bunch of small pieces of seed smashed together. Monoembryonic seeds do not. Polyembryonic mangos are almost exclusively Southeast Asian in origin and the fruit is usually green or yellow (almost never red). Monoembryonic fruit comes mostly from India and China. It is larger and rounder and more often than not gets red when ripe. Finally, the “honey” or “Champaign” mangos sold in California grocery stores are actually Ataulfo mangos - a polyembryonic fruit that grows well in California.
Peat moss is hydrophobic when dry and prone to wind erosion. I personally wouldn't use it as a mulch layer and prefer to just use the compost. If you want you can mix peat with compost at even ratios to "stretch" your compost farther. The two mixed together (50/50) with a small amount of perlite, organic fertalizer, and worm castings is my seed starting/potting mix. A "chunkier" what I call mulching compost makes an excellent mulch layer for long season transplanted crops like peppers and tomatoes. One of the added benefit of this is it reduces or eliminates the splashing of smaller particles and is the reason I also use it for lettuce transplants (reduces cleaning time) Good luck with your growing. Both the garden and your channel
After researching and trialing both products, I've chosen peat. Admittedly, it is partially due to cost, but mostly because I have found it to be a superior product for my application. The soil blocking that I use for most of my plant starts hold together with peat. Those soil blocks allow me to eliminate 90% of the plastic cell trays that we had previously been using for transplants. If you pull back the curtain on coco-coir production, you find it isn't the sustainable and clean product it's often portrayed as, and not all coir is of the same quality. Also, the peat I use travels a relatively short distance, compared to the coir available in my area, which comes all the way from Asia. They both have their faults. Ultimately, I wouldn't use either product for mulch but instead prefer just using compost. Locally sourced free materials like leaves, arborist chips, lawn trimmings (no chemicals), and used coffee grounds from shops nearby are the best. I'll fill 10 cubic yards worth of compost bins this year with the leaves and lawn clippings from neighbors who I've convinced to stop burning and bagging and just dump them on my property Sorry about the rambling. The most important thing imo is to get growing
Nice harvest! I grew okra a year ago during the summer and got similar sized okra, but the actual plants were way taller than the variety you showed lol. I'll try this variety during the next summer, because I won't have to wait for the plant to get tall before harvesting.
