California Pepper Tree
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Comments (3)I would like to try them too, please email me if you will. Thanks, Fran...See MoreCan plants be planted in the holes of large old trees?
Comments (4)You will be blown away by the wonderful wide world of bromeliads - they are mostly Epiphytic , meaning that they grow on other plants ( trees ) and hosts ( pieces of bark, dirftwood ) Some are terrestrial ( grown in the ground) and others are lithophytes ( grown on rocks ). Most are monocots. You can wire bromeliads to your pepper tree and it can become a beautiful blooming sight to behold. I have bromeliads wired to the trunks of my palm trees as well as a few orchids. My favorite website for bromeliad information is the Bromeliad Society of San Francisco http://www.sfbromeliad.org/ They have some great cultural information and some wonderful photographs of bromeliads in the garden . Bromeliads in a San Mateo palm tree From Bromeliad Society Tour 2008 Bromeliads in Ted Kippings garden From Bromeliad Society Tour 2008 A tillandsia set in a red banana From Pina Colada A sampling of bromeliads ( Aechema and Billbergia ) that could easily be wired to a tree David Feix design. From david's garden photos...See MoreGerminating California Pepper tree seeds
Comments (5)No personal experience, but it appears there are strong germination inhibitors in the mesocarp (flesh of the fruit) and care must be taken to clean the seed - "Typically, the seeds are soaked in water at room tem-perature for 48 to 72 hours (Schulte and others 1992). Treated seeds germinate in 20 to 25 days with a germination rate of 50 to 80 percent " "The seeds are sown in seedbeds or directly in containers with two seeds per container. It is recommended to use a light and permeable substrate, maybe because inhibitors need to be washed out before the seeds can germinate. Germination starts after about two weeks and is normally terminated after four weeks"...See MoreCalifornia pepper tree
Comments (3)Sounds about right. I gave a fellow I work with a Montezuma cypress (farely rare) I'd grow from a seedling into a 4 foot tree. A couple years later I asked the guy how it's doin, he said "Oh, it died". I asked him how that happened. He said "I told my boy to water it, and he never did". Plumerias will struggle without regular water and good drainage, and they don't like frost....See Moreplstqd
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