Calamondin seedling growing unusually fast?
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Comments (37)This is a follow-up to initial post that started this thread from June 27 about growing 6 Sunshine Blue blueberries purchased from ebay. The plants were small but healthy, with good rootballs. The plan was to grow them as fast as was possible, yet keep them healthy. I am over-joyed with the results. They have more than doubled in size, and the leaves and stems strong and whole, and are a very nice dark green. Very nice. If I saw plants that looked this good in a nursery, I would buy them in a second. I ended up planting them in 3 gallon black plastic squat-pots in a mix of 50% sifted compost and 50% sifted, very well composted wood chips and their leaves, with a handfull of sulfur mixed in. This drains very well, but also retains moisture. I intended to, but no peat was used. I also mulched the tops of the pots with about 2 inches of ground green garden waste from the landfill. The plants where placed in full sun all day, and watered about every other day with pH adjusted water with acid to a pH of about 4.5 to 5. (I started with vinegar then graduated to new battery acid - see thread 'blueberries on acid' or something like that, for details and health/safety cautions) I use pH strips cut in tiny pieces to determine pH. I also added a small, unmeasured amount of soluable fertizer with each watering. About 10% strength or so. Usually ammonium sulfate is used, but every once in a while some generic miracle grow or chelated iron was added for other minerals. There has been no leaf-burn at all. This solution was mixed in a garbage can and the plants watered with sprinkler cans. Yes, its added work, but its worth it judging by the plants. The results have been so good, I've also been watering my older plants in pots with this as well, and they too are looking wonderful and showing good, healthy growth, including many new basal shoots. Of course they were doing well anyway, but not this good. We live where frost is rare, and blueberries can keep their leaves through the winter. Because of this, I'm intending to keep using this enriched water for as long as it seems to help the plants. I'm not worried about soft growth heading into the winter and any potential frost damage - because we dont get frost. Once in 15 years, and the tomatoes didnt even die. But if it happens, I'll curse a bit under my breath, and live with it....See MoreWS foxglove seedlings, Wow how fast they grow.
Comments (7)Tiffy, my foxglove have stayed green all winter since the first seedlings went in the ground 3 years ago. They get buried in snow, get hit with a few nights of below zero temps as well as teens and single numbers without any snow cover. I can tell you this though. There is nothing prettier than seeing the snow begin to melt at the base of the foundation of the house and presto, last years green leaves of the foxglove are right there saying "hello, can you move this snow faster, melt it faster, warm up the temps already. Time to grow some new leaves, a bunch of stems and get those buds and blooms going already." Even if we get hit with more snow, it's a pleasure to walk on the front door and see that green there and now that those plants will keep on growing and keep on blooming year after year after year. I have no idea what kind they are. I got the seeds in a trade several years ago and where labeled "foxglove cream and pink mix". Apparently the seeds where either labeled with the wrong color or a hybrid and it does not come true to the parent plant. Either way, I love the colors I have. Next spring there will be a foundation of the house hidden by the blooms of at least 15 foxglove blooming. I've never dead headed them before. First year I had no blooms or stems from the seedlings, second year each had one stem. This past spring into early summer, each one had 3 stems and all of a sudden 2 more stems popped out of the plants and bloomed with a smaller show. that was a surprise. Blooming in November? Has it been really warm this fall for you? I've never seen that either? Fran...See MoreHorse Chestnut seedling with unusual looking leaves
Comments (6)I'll have to see if I can crank up the old camera, might not be until tomorrow though. Before putting it outside it had spent about the first week of its life in an east facing window (as did the older tree) - basically when it went outside it went underneath the same window (as did the other one) so both were receiving sunlight in the morning only. In other words both have had the exact same growing conditions, but the youngest one went outside a little earlier in its life. Having said that, an additional observation - even while the leaves were forming on the youngest one (and while it was still inside) the leaf formation was "odd" and even then they were a pale green, almost yellow. In addition to the above I should have added this to the above message: the "umbrealla" leaf formation is getting tighter and tighter. Also, the leaves are quite firm, so it doesn't appear to be "wilting" as such. The stem is still good and straight too. Not sure if that helps with the diagnosis....See MoreStarting and growing conifer seedlings, relative humidity.
Comments (78)7-22-2023: I may have solved a mystery about this tree. I was checking out the lammas growth yesterday. It appeared it was hardening off; you could see the winter buds ripening/browning (note there isn't a branch segment longer than 5" or so). A couple of weeks ago, I thought it unusual how the new growth spread out into multiple leaders (5), with no center leader. Yesterday, I noticed a short growth in the center that looked a little odd, so I stopped to check it out. . Then the epiphany, the parent broom wasn't necessarily a dwarf, but branching segments were shorter and closer together than a 'normal' Jack Pine and that made it appear denser than normal JP. So, if this tree continues to grow in this same manner, perhaps I'm getting just what can be expected from all this and will look like a clone of the parent broom. I never got a close-up picture of the parent broom, but you can see in the only picture I have of the broom, how its growth form differs from the rest of the tree, not that it's a small or tiny broom, it's just denser with shorter segments. Anyone still with me on this? ;-) .;-)...See Moreponcirusguy6b452xx
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