Creating interest in winter
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Interested in creating a bonsai tree out of this schefflera
Comments (3)Hi, what's more important (than styling for now) is getting it into fast draining grit, and allowing it to mostly dry out between waterings, though if you keep it outdoors for the summer then you'd have to water more often, especially in the grit. Don't strip anything yet and while a somewhat shallower and wider pot is a good idea, there's no rush as bonsai pots slow growth, and you want more now to give you more to work with when styling....See Morei want to create an interesting hybrid
Comments (1)Thats like asking what color looks good on your house. LOL To me they all look good to me from my house.I don't have to pull into your driveway every night... Depending on your taste-opinion of whats yucky and whats great tasting is what you'll have to use to start out with before even trying to cross a couple unknowns to get what you are looking for in a pepper that has the taste and flavor YOUR taste buds like. Maybe you should start by growing several different peppers-sweet and hot.That should kill a couple seasons... Pick the ones of each that you like best then cross them for however generations it takes to get the cross stablized so it grows the same every year(8 generations I read is a good start). Also you would want seeds from a cross from both plants that you crossed.A+B will be different than B+A when grown out. Plant genes dominate differently in each cross. Crossing 2 good tasting plants might also make a nasty tasing one too.might take on un wanted traits too.Low production,sterile seeds or whatever. Unless you realy want to get into it and spend a lot of time growing out plants and selecting the best ones that you like to get or perfect your hybrid I'd just grow as many varieties as I can that already exists before messing with developing a hybrid. Especially since you are just starting out. See what Aji peppers taste like(I assume you mean C.Baccatums though there are other peppers refered to as Aji). Check out Aji amarillo,Aji Lemon/Lemon Drop for some of the common Aji's. E Mail me for either a seed trade or SASBE. Since you seem Pepper impared I can help you out with some seeds to grow several varieties out to see what you might like so you can get an idea of what you might like to play with crossing down the road or even if what you are looking for already exists....See MoreCreating A False Winter/Spring
Comments (1)I think if you post this message over on the Bulbs Forum you'll probably get lots of advice, Kim. Skybird Here is a link that might be useful: Bulbs Forum...See MoreWinter interest
Comments (40)The former director of the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden said once that the reason that Leucadendron don't get really big here is that eventually the roots find Phosphorus and the plant dies. I generally plant in raised mounds of a mixture of amended loam and 1/4" lava rock (and native soil, which is adobe, if it happens to be during the 20 minutes a year that it is friable) and I haven't yet had a Leucadendron die for no reason, but it's been less than 10 years for me. I saw a huge 'Safari Sunset' at the Gamble Garden in Palo Alto that obviously had been going for a while, and there are some biggies at SFBG. Usually Leucadendron are taken out in the winter here, as they can't withstand long periods of freezing. If they are small plants that usually does them in (a la December of 2013). If they are larger, they will suffer die back, but like a lot of Australians, they have epicormic buds and will push from old wood. I have a 'Jester' (a beautiful cultivar - check it out) that is lipstick red in the winter and it got hit badly in Dec 2013, but it was over 6' tall and I just waited until it budded out all over the stems and cut off the top. It's fine now. I think that the only thing that you can do that is critical is to not fertilize at all. I seldom fertilize anything, other than the citrus or throwing alfalfa pellets around things that need a bit of nitrogen, so I don't have to worry about it. You have some room back there for a nice grouping so have some fun!...See MoreTexasRanger10
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