Bark Soil for Pomegranate Trees?
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Comments (2)Try posting again to the main forum. Since the gallery is for pictures, maybe no one has seen your question...See Morepine bark fines, potting soil, window question
Comments (1)To get the best answer regarding the pine fines, I would ask Al, tapla, over at the Container Gardening Forum. He would know the best answer to that question. He's very knowledgeable, and very helpful... I'm sure he'd be more than happy to answer any questions you may have. I grow my bulbs indoors all year 'round... most of my bulbs share an unobstructed east facing window, and have supplemental lighting to help. A few of my bulbs, the ones that won't fit into the east window alcove, share the south window, which is shaded all summer and fall by two huge Sycamore trees... I trade them out with bulbs from the east window every once in a while, so everyone gets decent amounts of light. Hippeastrum bulbs require tons of light, and while an unobstructed south window would probably be best for indoor growing, a summer outdoors in the garden would be even better... a shaded south window with supplemental lighting would be fine, too. My advice would be to give your indoor bulbs as much light as you can. I keep my bulbs in their pots, and only take them out to re-pot into the next size larger, or to change soil after a year or two... I treat my bulbs like houseplants, and I don't force them to bloom out of their natural season. I give them as much light as I can, water and fertilize as they need it, and keep a close eye out for pests and other potential problems. There are a few different ways to treat Hippeastrum bulbs... you can grow them indoors all year, summer them outdoors and bring them in before frost... you can force them to rest, and have them bloom on your schedule, or allow them to keep their own schedule... different growers treat their bulbs differently. I'm not sure if I've answered all of your questions... I've only explained how I treat my bulbs... after you've read about and understand the different methods for growing these beauties, you'll no doubt choose the way that works best for you. Keep in mind that Hippeastrum bulbs are sort of like batteries... they expend a lot of energy blooming, and they need lots of light and to be fed well so they can recharge for the next bloom season....See MorePine Bark Fines and Soil ph or Acidity
Comments (22)The best medium to plant newly rooted figs in is one that provides the greatest amount of aeration and ensures that aeration for the expected interval between repots but is still something you can deal with as far as the intervals between watering. IOW, you'll get the best growth from a soil you need to water daily or even twice a day, but if that is too inconvenient, you'll need to adjust to something more tolerable. How much vitality you sacrifice for convenience depends almost entirely on how far you go in the other direction and how fast air returns to the soil after a thorough watering. E.g., if you were using a soil/plant combination that required daily watering and could magically change the soil to one that only required watering every two days, there would be some degree of sacrifice in potential growth and vitality. If though, you could magically change to a soil that required watering only every 5 days, there would be a considerable sacrifice in growth potential and vitality. Soils that remain waterlogged for extended periods kill roots, and the plant pays to regenerate those roots by spending energy it would normally have put toward increasing mass, more blooms or fruit, extending branches ...... You may be referring to something I wrote about roots: While fig cuttings may root readily in water, the roots produced this way are quite different from those produced in a solid, soil-like or highly aerated medium (perlite, screened Turface, very coarse sand, e.g.). Physiologically, you will find these roots to be much more brittle than normal roots due to a much higher % of aerenchyma (a tissue with a greater percentage of inter-cellular air spaces than normal parenchyma). If you want to eventually plant your rooted cuttings in soil, it is probably not best to root them in water because of the frequent difficulty in transplanting them to soil. The "water roots" often break during transplanting & those that don't break are very poor at water absorption and often die. The practical effect is nearly equivalent to starting the cutting process over again with a cutting having diminished energy reserves. If you do a side by side comparison of cuttings rooted in water & cuttings rooted in a solid well-aerated medium, the cuttings in a solid well-aerated medium will always (for an extremely high % of plants) have a leg up in development on those moved from water to a solid medium for the reasons outlined above. Al...See MorePomegranate tree
Comments (0)The pomegranate never survives. They always have holes in them. Right now I am watching an ant crawl on spotted bark. It is right next to the compost. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. And then, my camera is fine and those are not sunspots, those are on the tree itself....See Morewestes Zone 9b California SF Bay
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