I posted this with my last update but decided to make a seperate post so it doesn't get lost-
Calla lily flowered yesterday and the last barrel cactus.
Maybe a couple more 4 day growth shots-
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G.manicata on 6-10 and then 6-14-a little sun would help!
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Black Thai bananas-these are some of the fastest growing bananas I have ever seen
and they are still small !/I also think they are way cooler than Basjoo!
They are putting out leaves every 4 days,as you can see!
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Thai giant (Colocasia)-just about keeping pace with the TB bananas!
The newest leaf expanded about 4-5" since the last pic,this one will be fun to watch grow!
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Itinerans are incredibly fast too,once you see the new leaf it's out and open in 2 days!
Hard to tell in this pic but that's a full new leaf
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Scary to think what these Castors would have done if we would have had more sun to go with the 4.15"
of rain since 6-10-
The 4" pot is sitting on the next leaf(after the one it's on in the first pic)which is almost twice as big.
I knew they grew fast but when you look at pics you see just how fast they are!
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These Brugs are out of control!
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Thanks for looking-if we get the sun and heat forecast the next update should be spectacular,especially since it looks like another
1-3" before this rain shuts off today!
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The castor's are getting bigger for sure!! thanks for the update!
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Yes, the next few days should be astounding. The recent rains left the ground wet, and I put out fertilizer Sunday evening. Soil temp about 80oF, overnight lows coming up in mid-70soF with daily highs above 90oF, mild winds (10-15 mph). Longs days (well, for 35oN!).
I can pretty much watch plants grow! 😀
On the calla lilly questions from the older thread, I'll check on slugs/snails but I doubt it. For all my complaints about the chickens, they do a fantastic job of eating garden pests. They love escargot! I don't think they were really eating the Brugs themselves--just picking bugs off the leaves and ingesting a little plant tissue. So, the calla lilly demise is still a mystery.
Some day when I'm feeling too good about the garden I'll start a new thread to list all the plants I've killed in the past year. But for now I'm going to go back outside and watch plants grow. --Erik
Man Jim all that heat and rain has really kicked everything into high gear at your place. I can watch stuff grow here too must be the 50 pounds of fertilizer 😈
It's not even summer yet, I think where all in for a nice ride this year.
Bill
Man Jim all that heat and rain has really kicked everything into high gear at your place. I can watch stuff grow here too must be the 50 pounds of fertilizer 😈
It's not even summer yet, I think where all in for a nice ride this year.
Bill
You go 50 I'll go 100!
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With all that rain, you two are fertilizing 15 miles away...straight down 😆 😆
Barb
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If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
With all that rain, you two are fertilizing 15 miles away...straight down 😆 😆
Barb
I haven't been able to fertilize jack $7!^ lately!
I totaled up the rain amount since May 9-
14.88" and they are talking some serious rain through next week!
We may have totaled over 20" by this time next week- 😯
The dewpoint has been as high as 81 today with a heat index of 111 😯
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I got new fertilizer just for that reason 270 day time release deal know Barb. No matter how much it rains it makes no difference 8) It's a three stage commercial product.
Bill
With 15 inches of rain, that new 270 day stuff will free you up to plant more stuff.
Instead of fertilizing every four days to replace what was washed away.
Hey, Jim, could you pls post a pic of the 270 day label on Fertilizer topic?
Would like to see what it is/who makes it/instructions.
PS--you know you're getting old when you enjoy reading fertilizer labels 😛
Barb
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If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
Or when you................. 😉
That was Bill that said he uses that 😈
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With 15 inches of rain, that new 270 day stuff will free you up to plant more stuff.
Instead of fertilizing every four days to replace what was washed away.Hey, Jim, could you pls post a pic of the 270 day label on Fertilizer topic?
Would like to see what it is/who makes it/instructions.PS--you know you're getting old when you enjoy reading fertilizer labels 😛
Barb
Love your last statement......Oy, Guess I am over the hill....And I even hold the fertilizer label at 3 feet distance from my face to read it, is thatreally bad!!????
Mike Trautner
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Wish it would rain here!!!!!!!!! Two weeks with no rain and only a shower for 15 minutes for the week before that...Crazy!!!!!! 🙁 🙁 🙁
Mike Trautner
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hold the fertilizer label at 3 feet distance from my face to read it, is thatreally bad!
Really bad is when you take a photo of the fertilizer label's NPK, plus instructions. 😆 😆
Yup, that's weather change...too much--or not enough--rain.
We'd better get used to it. 👿
Barb
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If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
Wish it would rain here!!!!!!!!! Two weeks with no rain and only a shower for 15 minutes for the week before that...Crazy!!!!!! 🙁 🙁 🙁
Mike it seems like it rains out here and then the weather sytems are dried out
before they get there.
Supposed to be 98 tomorrow,we'll see.
If this heat shifts to the east you guys may get dumped on during the transition,in
the mean time enjoy the cooler temps,that was our whole summer last year(probably yours too),
we have already tripled our total of 90* weather over last year.
Last year we only had (at the longest)a couple stretches of 80+ temps of 2 weeks-
so far this season 31 days in a row 80 or more,not to hard to do when it's
80 at 8-9am-what a difference a year makes.
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Oops-
Just looked at the forecast and temp for Audubon New Jersey...............
guess it's not really that cool there 😳
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