Early Risers an update
As it is nearly a month since my First Signs post I thought you may like to see what progress has been made.
First Love and MA. have become temporary greenhouse residents as it is easier to give frost protection when necessary from there.
Outside, Frank Lloyd Wright seems to be ahead of the game.
Antioch
and Sagae are the only others just starting to stir.
Dave
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josephines167 z5 ON Canada
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoTiddisolo Wales UK thanked josephines167 z5 ON CanadaRelated Discussions
Early Riser/Kwintus
Comments (4)I got mine from: WI MI B - 2008: 55-90, tender long flat green pods, 7-9 seeds per pod, delicious sweet bean flavor, high yields, CV Abu 00 This year one SSE member who also got his seed from WI MI B offers it: NY MO J - 2013: 55/snap 90/dry, excellent snap/Romano bean, goes to 11' on the front of our woodshed then stops, bears heavily at 55 days, leave a few pods for shell beans/next year's seed, reblooms in August for a nice fall crop, WI MI B Sorry I do not have seed available for this one. - Dick...See MoreEarly Riser
Comments (10)Babka, when you google it according to your first spelling, it gets spelled out with the "a" at the end. In some places it referred to it simply as "Tuac" so you used the vernacular form. Do not know if they sell it in AL, but will try to find it for the holidays. Fig trees can be quite tolerant of upheaval. My DH says his dad had a fig tree up in MA that he would dig up each winter when it went dormant, wrap the ball in burlap, and winter it in the basement with the carrots and onions and apples and no telling what else in I think it was sawdust? Or sand? I don't recall that bit of info. But each spring it was put in the ground again. The old orangeries with potted citrus trees are something I understand better. Potted and on a rolling stand, in and out of protection and pretty in the winter. My cumquat bushes are loaded with fruit this time of year, the Meyer lemon is new and only has one lemon on it, the spring freeze we had made it drop all its blossoms. The tree itself is fine. Try one of the Meyer lemon trees, BK. They are fine to grow....See MoreSo what's the deal with early risers and deciduous trees?
Comments (3)spring and fall sun is much less intense than summer shade .. akin to dusk and dawn being lesser ... i simply wouldnt consider it a variable ... they should emerge acclimated to ambient sun .. no big deal there ... i would think.. emergence time is genetic.. based on where it came from.. back in history .. with no leaves on the trees .. a frost freeze event could be bigger ... if your pushing that envelope a bit ...and of course.. they need to be hardened off if they came from a warmer clime ken...See MoreEarly riser gets punished again this year
Comments (2)Having a pot of mini hostas sounds pretty nice. I guess it wouldn't be that difficult to harden them off when it's time to put them outside. Someday I'll try some potted minis again....See Morejosephines167 z5 ON Canada
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoHere is another version of "early riser", lol. The only hosta I could find at my local nursery earlier this week was a bare root H. 'Loyalist'. I bought one in 2011 from a fella who split his own plants and sold them but it didn't survive.
The only reason I bought this one was so I could "garden" indoors, lol. It has been in water 3 days and the tips (3 mauve-coloured eyes) are slowly showing a speck of green albeit barely. I will pot it up once the shoots are about the size of Dave's in the first photo.
This snow is driving me crazy already! I had to do something!
some of my minis and last year's Hosta Choice acquisitions buried in snow...all you can see is some humps of snow! :( the trough that housed the minis is sitting there empty of hostas but full of snow. The pots are all on their sides. We had 13 one day, then two days later we are -12! Bah, humbug!!!!!!
Pieter zone 7/8 B.C.
7 years agojosephines167 z5 ON Canada
7 years agoPieter zone 7/8 B.C.
7 years agoHey Jo, yes I have things finally coming to life out west, but man are we late compared to last year. 'Chinese Sunrise' was almost completely unfurled this date last year, this year it's barely broken ground...
We've had a cold and long winter and I cannot believe the difference between last year and this year. My wife and I have been doing table sales at a couple of the local plant clubs over the past few years and the first one of the season is always the first Saturday in April. Last year we had a decent looking table, this year I'll be lucky to have anything at all, very discouraging.
Interesting about your bare root experience, thanks for sharing.
Pieter
There IS colour in the yard right now but last year we had these in bloom 20 Feb....
josephines167 z5 ON Canada
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