Why isn't my yellow squash fruiting?
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Comments (7)What you don't want to do is pot the plant where the level of the media is too high to the crown of the plant. The crown of the plant must remain above the potting media, whichever potting media you choose. (If growing in moss, I would grow in a clay pot, by the way. For bark, I prefer the plastic pot.) Never allow water to collect in the crown of the plant: you'll get crown rot. Up the humidity for the plant if the plant has few roots. Don't overpot the plant either. If there are few roots on the plant, then keep to somewhat small diameter pot....See MoreWhy isn't my orange tree growing?
Comments (17)You will have to keep it inside if your winters are cold. Citrus will die in freezing weather. I live where big commercial citrus orchards grow, but they do have turbines in the orchards, and you can hear those things miles away when a freeze hits. They are LOUD! But this is Southern California, and these trees are in ground. Mine are all outside in ground. We are in a microclimate, so the clouds generate snow now and then, and it drops, but it's too warm here for the snow to stick. The citrus are fine here outside. You MUST keep your plant inside. I'd harvest those oranges now and have fresh orange juice for breakfast. That will give the tree more energy to just grow....See MoreWhy are my squash fruit dying and falling off the vine?
Comments (7)We have an Update. It's Squash Vine Borers. As of this morning we trimmed our 3rd and only surviving Turban/Buttercup (not quite sure which was planted) plant. We found the larvae in the stem. For some reason we thought we might not have as much pests as we live in the middle of a city. That was wrong. These are the Squash and the Damage done: - 2 Buttercups/turban completely dead and stem base is mushy as if its rotted - 1 Buttercup/Turban has been trimmed in half, other half is still thriving - 1 Pink Banana has fruit growing, 1 leaf is wilting, will keep careful eye on this as it is susceptible to SVB - 1 Pink Banana is growing with no signs of SVB - 1 Pink Banana was growing find and has been wilting on and off for 2 days, will keep a close eye on this too - 1 Fairytale looks very healthy, not susceptible to SVB or Squash Bugs, but has 1 or 2 small holes in one leaf. Fruit is growing strong. Most healthy plant we have! - 1 pepo at the front is just making a fruit now, appears to be the delicata we planted, appears healthy, has 1 burst or damaged vine either from SVB or when we moved it and strung up said vine to our tree. Will keep an eye on this and possibly use some surgical methods (as Grow Veg would say) to slice open and inspect for the SVB grubs. - 1 Casper/Pink Banana, again not sure which germinated in this pot. Has no damage, also is so small it hasn't any male flowers yet. - 4 Early Butternuts, these are also so small they don't have male flowers yet. Looking healthy though, and they aren't susceptible to SVB. I should note some of these plants were not closely inspected today. Got turned off gardening after seeing the wrigglies, so we will do a closer inspection soon. We are looking at methods of killing them. Does anyone know if amending the soil with say, selenium or sulphur could help the plant kill insects? Recently found a paper saying selenium in plants kills aphids when they eat the plant. One more question: Does anyone know if C. pepo is susceptible to SVB or Squash Bugs? Thank you....See MoreWhy isn't my potting mix drying out?
Comments (6)Lack of adequate aeration is the negative force in media that retain an excess of water. Adding perlite or bark to a water-retentive medium does precious little to increase aeration, and only minimally reduces water retention. Start with a container half full of potting media, poor by virtue of the fact it holds too much water/too little air. Add a perlite particle to it. Does it increase aeration? No, not so the plant would notice. Add another particle, then another and yet another. Any change in aeration or water retention? Nope. Now add enough perlite to fill up the jar and mix well, a 1:1 mix of perlite and poor potting soil. One might think the perlite is a good fix; however, if we examine the 1:1 mix we can clearly see, even in the mind's eye, all the fine material is tightly packed around the perlite or whatever other course ingredient with which we might have attempted to 'amend' the water-retentive medium. In fact, as you add chunky material to a water-retentive medium, the % of air porosity actually decreases. Let's say we start with a pint of medium in a quart jar. In that pint of medium, there are 10 units of aeration. Add enough marbles to fill the jar, and what do you end up with? You end up with 10 units of aeration and twice the volume, so you have effectively reduced the % of air porosity by 1/2. Though "Threshold Proportion" is a term most growers haven't heard, understanding what it represents is a key factor for anyone with a desire to build or amend their container substrates. Simply put, 'threshold proportion' occurs at the point where there is exactly enough fine material to fill all the larger spaces between the coarse material. To fully enjoy the significant benefits offered by highly aerated media with moderate water retention, it's important the medium is structured so the coarse ingredients represent, by far, the largest volume fraction of the medium. 75% minimum, up to 95% should be particles larger than about 1/8". How much fine material you add to the larger fraction of coarse material depends on the size range of the coarse material. Example - many readers know the 5:1:1 mix consists of 5 parts pine bark size dust to 3/8 1 part perlite, preferably coarse 1 part sphagnum peat moss plus, an appropriate measure of dolomitic/garden lime; however, after gauging the volume of fine material in the bark, I very often reduce the volume of peat or eliminate it altogether; this, to make sure I'm taking full advantage of the materials/ingredients at hand by ensuring a minimal fraction of fine materials in the medium. Whether a grower knows it or not, (s)he can have near complete control over water retention and aeration, within the parameters of reason, by having on hand a few coarse ingredients as a base for their grow medium, to which small fractions of vine ingredients can be added to adjust water retention. For the most part, based on physical characteristics, plantings utilizing media which force the grower to water very frequently can be counted on to offer plants a far superior opportunity for plants to realize as much of their genetic potential as possible. Al...See MoreRelated Professionals
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