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We're looking forward to a bumper crop of pears this year, our two trees are loaded.
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The first bunch of tiny clusters seem to be doing ok, so I did more. I'll give them all another week, and start sending them off to live with other people.
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Some plants were looking pretty ragged, so I had them near the sink. They're all gone now, but two oranges that went outside stayed out there near the blueberries, so they're still good. More recently, I found a tiny pot at a drugstore that was insanely crowded with tiny dragon fruit seedlings. They seem to be surviving the handling as I break up the bunch of them and repot them as much smaller groups. Everything online says they grow well (even outdoors here,) but require strong support or trellises.
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Update, I brought in the plants over the freeze, the ones I had listed before are still alive!
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Originally posted by airdrop View Post
More Radiation (UV) is getting thru the atmosphere frying and drying out plants , if they are small enough shade them , our trees here are stressed an losing leaves , grass drying out, garden so so , it'll just be getting worse until about 2035 , then it's a pole shift ( SHTF) time .
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Originally posted by W.Lynn View PostWith the heat, I'm down to 1 avocado, 2 blueberries, and a handful of the oranges, but that's still more than I would have had if I hadn't tried at all.
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With the heat, I'm down to 1 avocado, 2 blueberries, and a handful of the oranges, but that's still more than I would have had if I hadn't tried at all.
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Originally posted by W.Lynn View PostThis year's orange seedlings are doing well, all the ones that are still in plastic cups, and the first two that I thought might've died are up again. They're all getting direct sun for most of the day, and being watered every 3 or 4 days.
I have 3 blueberries now, the first two have gone into modest pots to allow them a little time to recover before I look for larger containers. The third one was on a separate order, and was pretty sorry looking when it came. It's been allowed to stay in the thin, torn, ratty-looking, nursery pot it arrived in so it could recover from shipping before it gets the added insult of being handled for repotting.
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This year's orange seedlings are doing well, all the ones that are still in plastic cups, and the first two that I thought might've died are up again. They're all getting direct sun for most of the day, and being watered every 3 or 4 days.
I have 3 blueberries now, the first two have gone into modest pots to allow them a little time to recover before I look for larger containers. The third one was on a separate order, and was pretty sorry looking when it came. It's been allowed to stay in the thin, torn, ratty-looking, nursery pot it arrived in so it could recover from shipping before it gets the added insult of being handled for repotting.
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I moved the orange seedlings outside. They may only be suitable as root stock, but I have to keep them alive until they either flower and set fruit, or obviously don't - then I learn grafting. Soaking some lemon seeds now.
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Still trying, even after I got my seedlings through the huge freeze in February of last year (complete with power outage, so no way to give them a heat lamp, so I put some long-burning candles around them to make microclimate just above freezing.) Starting again, got 6 more orange seedlings, and another avocado.
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I think with some fruit, it's also important to release additional pollinators occasionally, lacewings, butterfly caterpillars, keep bees if you can, whatever.
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The older one is a Yellow Delicious, which claims to be self-pollenating. I've planted another apple tree, a Gala, just in case, but it's a few years from blossoming.
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Olfart. I think many apple tree varieties require another variety to set fruit. You said tree, singular, so i think you may have to have another one, maybe of a different variety to get fruit.
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