growing apples from seed in a tropical climate
Elifius William
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Comments (8)Not all DAs like the warmer climates but most of the ones i have tried so far have done well-with the notable exception of Gertrude Jekyll. Mr. Austin lists roses for warmer climates on his website and in his books. Mine are young roses so it's hard to say for sure but it seemed like they took a small break around December January. Nothing wrong with the weather during those months so i wonder if it was day length related. Here is a list of DAs & OGRs the Honolulu Rose Society recommends. I can add Jubilee Celebraton to the list. Abraham Darby has been a bit of a mess but i have recently moved him hoping he will do better. Most of my others are too young to comment. OGRS, Shrubs Abraham Darby - Pink/Apricot Archduke Charles - Red Blend Blush Noisette - Light Pink/Lilac Boule de Neige - White Cecile Brunner - Light Pink Comte de Chambord - Pink Eugene de Beauharnais - Burgundy Evelyn - Pink/Apricot Fair Bianca - White Francis Dubreuil - Dark Red Giant of Battles - Deep Pink Gruss an Aachen - White/Pink Jacques Cartier - Light Pink Jude the Obscure - Apricot Louis Phillipe - Red Blend Monsieur Tillier - Orange Pink Old Blush - Medium Pink Pretty Jessica - Pink Prospero - Red/Burgundy Rose de Rescht - Dark Pink Sharifa Asma - Lt. Pink Sombreuil - White Souvenir de la Malmaison - Pink Tamora - Apricot The Fairy - Light Pink The Prince - Red/Purple Nattaporn grows some DAs and posts from Thailand occasionally-you might try a search....See MoreGrowing Tumeric in the tropical climate
Comments (6)Turmeric is a Curcuma, it's botanical name is Curcuma longa. The curcumas are deciduous gingers, they naturally go dormant in the winter season, even in the tropics. Their main trigger for dormancy is the fact that the rainfall in the tropics is seasonal, and they go dormant in the dry season. They re-emerge when the rains start up again. Temperature has very little to do with it in the true tropics. The dry season in the true tropics coincides pretty nicely with winter here in the temperate zones. Deciduous gingers like curcumas, zingibers and globbas go dormant A) when the rainy summer season passes and B) when the days really start to shorten. My Curcuma petiolata has already started going dormant. It is always the first one to do so. The others (Scarlet Fever, inodora, australasica, etc) usually can hang on til first frost in NOvember/December. I keep my Turmeric in a pot just because we have a lot of predation by armadillos and wild pigs, and I actually want to get a large enough rhizome mass to harvest some for cooking someday. I just stash the pot in a corner of the greenhouse when it gets cold and let the plant go dormant, then I ignore it until about March 15th. I start watering again then and the plants pop back up and then apply Nutricote. My plants have tripled in number over 2 seasons....See Morelooking to see if any berries would grow in tropical climate
Comments (3)The climate there would vary greatly depending on how close to the large bodies of water (the lakes) you are. Also your altitude and which side of the large mountain ranges. Generally, the types of berries you mention are cold climate. Unless you're at high altitude they'd literally have "a snowflakes chance in hell" of surviving. They need a large temperature range (difference between day and night). Also, where you are you'll have noticed that there's hardly any difference between your longest and shortest days, those berries need very long days during their growing season. What you need to do is look around and see what the local people are growing. That will give you a better idea of what the climate actually is. Plants don't lie. Some plants will survive a wide climatic range, other will only survive a very narrow range....See MoreGrowing Apple Trees from Seed
Comments (6)if you want from seed, choose from mango or pommegranate, both will give you reliable fruit trees if grown fom seed and both are very easy and quick... Mango: after eating a good mango, with a knife crack open the seed, and will be inside a bean, just wrap the bean in humid paper and close it in a sealed bag...(in 3 to 4 days it is sprouting) even in winter...2-3 year and you have fruit pommegranate: eat one and with your fingers smash some of the read things to get the seeds from inside (do like 20) let the seeds dry for 2 days, then put them in water for 24h and jus sow them on pots or something, from 20, maybe 18 will grow...one month after, choose the bigger one...(do this on spring or summer) you will have your first flowers in 18months (first flowers ever sometimes fall)...you can have them on pots......See Moresocalgal_gw Zone USDA 10b Sunset 24
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