mskitty38583

i planted 2 aloes, a pot of sedum, rooting sedum leaves, and rooting yellow star jasmine. i think im the only person in this town who buys dirt at the end of nov. if i would of thought of it before the freeze hit, i would have brought one of my bohemian lilies inside and put it in a pot. duh!

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well it started out homework day....then the mailman came. . so far today i have planted: 1. a goldfinger banana (who is happy in his new home!): 2. i have planted 11 alocasia odora. (i thought i would have to dig out the 25 gallon pots to plant them.) will post pics later tonight. thank you jarred!

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mskitty38583

planted canna seeds,( thanks to mr. smith). planted loofa seeds,(thanks to mr. t. loves bananas) and taylor i only planted 8.....for now.

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mskitty38583

fixing to plant a double purple datura, 1 1/2 ft white bird of paridise, varigated jade, and a basjoo. wahoo.....dont know if ill repot all 5 high color mini musa nanas. i love dirt. i love plants.. i love my bananas!

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bencelest

I plant a pineapple tops hoping for the best with my calif gold banana.

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Tally Man . . . Great idea. I just thought of this myself, then when I got to the top here, I saw that you already started ! What did I plant today, or: A day in the life of a plant nut !

I grow plants for the retail trade. No matter how many hundreds of plants I may be potting, I mix the soil for each specie seperately by hand. Today I'm potting starters of Allamanda dwarf (small green leaves on low bushy plants with Canary yellow flowers) (known in Puerto Rico as "Canario").

Into the mixing tray (an old wheel barrel without legs) mounted on a table at waists height. In goes half a bag of Natural Cypress Mulch. I pick out big sticks and chunks. In goes a 2 gallon nursery pot of river sand. I mix this well (by hand) and then about a 3 gallon pot full of previously broken up Canadian Peat. Mix again. My paid helper, or more often my free help (the wife) fills 4" pots into 10" x 20" trays.

We place previously grown plants on a table next to trays of newly filled pots. With a pair of clippers, I cut short 3" new groth cuttings, trim a few lower leaves and stick in a pre-poked hole two cuttings per pot. The trays of new cuttings go to another table to be watered and then placed in a location under a sprinkler in morning sun. ( Shade in Summer, morning Sun in Winter). In one week these cuttings are dependably rooted. Now they get a drenching of "Blue water", 3 tablespoons of Peters 20-20-20 per 2 gallon sprinkler can. It will take 5 to 8 weeks to be ready to sell.

Today, we completed 300 4" pots of "Canario" If I had not taken so many "coffee breaks" we may have done 400 !

Tomorrow we will divide and pot up Heliconia "Jamaican dwarf" which might be a bit more exciting ?

Business might be a bit monotonous, but its nice being your own boss. I cannot think of anything els I would rather due day after day than working with plants.
Love the Earth, Logos

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mskitty38583

nothing! believe it or not, ive planted nothing in the last 2 days...ok wheres my dirt,pots....im going through withdrawls! need dirt!need plants! uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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well maybe in about a week or two i maybe planting pineapples. i cleaned out their water and we have slightly longer roots. they are actually rooting. im so happy. and then probably tomorrow i will be trying my hand at some tangerine seeds. hope that works out well. told yall i was going through planting withdrawls.

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marco

Where do you have the room for all this stuff?

Can we go 'outside' for a second and talk exterior plants?

mskitty you might be a little surprised to find out that I'm one of the few folks up here brave enough to successfully grow and transplant one of the trees that are fairly common in your neck of the woods- Mimosas!

My father had an addiction to mimosas when we used to go canoeing in TN and NC back in the 70's, and he (I'm sure) illegally brought a few back one year to plant at our farm.
The only time we had problems at all was the bad winter of '76 and the blizzard of '77, but they did come back eventually, sometimes not until JULY!
Who knows! If 'global warming' is really happening (which I believe it is NOT man-made)
I'll then be READY up here with both Nanas AND Mimosas!

mskitty38583

no you dont have memosas! i love those trees.especiall the males. their flowers are more brilliant the the females. whhooosa. you can send me one ill keep it in the house

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i have turned my den into my greenhouse since my sunroom isnt done.(hopefully by my b.day)i have removed all the furniture except the puter my printer table and my bookshelves. everywhere in my den is a plant. hanging from the celing to sitting on the floor. i have enough room for 12 more nanas, and some other stuff. hee hee hee

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marco

Are you kidding?
You've got lots more mimosas down there than I do!

F.Y.I. -We drove to Hilton Head SC in June of this year and I told my wife that I'd like to get another 'variety' of mimosa from a nursery somewhere down there, just to 'diversify' what I have in our own yard a little.

(I also have 15 mimosas growing that I will use in landscaping projects in the area in the future)

So I found a nursery called 'The Greenery' on the way back in Bluffton that had a different type of mimosa. The thing was that it was 7 feet tall and I had to trim it down to fit it in to our Saturn Vue!
( The kids in the back seat were P.O. ed!)

So...addictions can indeed go beyond nanas!

g'night!

mskitty38583

i know we have mosas( thats what we called them) here, i was giving you a hard time!im sure the kids were ill. i came home last sat with 5 nanas in the backseat of my car, my 16 yr old wasnt happy."all you worry about is that stupid tree." she almost walked home.

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formontcalamus

Today I planted 32 5" pots of cuttings to root of Confederate Jasmine. (trachylospermum jasminoides). I hope to introduce it to the garden centers of Puerto Rico since no one here knows the plant.

This is where I usually check in after loging in, so I thought I might ask if anyone has Gardenia radicans "Variegata". I am desperate for cutting material or rooted plants. I will trade my first born child or anything on my web-site: w. plantcollectors. net . . . Logos

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mskitty38583

http://chittysnursery.com/

http://rcwnurseries.com/

these are two places that i found that has the varigated gardenia. both places are in texas. sorry i dont have any. happy hunting

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mskitty38583

http://harrisnursery.com/

http://tawakoni.com/

these places should have it also.

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island cassie

5 days ago I planted 10 seeds of morenga oliefera sent over from India, and this morning found that the first one had sprouted. Very quick!

mskitty38583

ok.. im all out to sea when it comes to the nautical.... what is it you planted? is it a fruit or tree? ive never heard of mongera olerifla. it sounds like a diease. rotflmao. im sorry cassie i could not help that one. well i thought it was funny...

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Westwood

OK so can I plant pinapple um the ones ya buy In the house in a pot and get them started that way ? Its in the 30's here? Tammy

mskitty38583

i planted 2 whole ruby red grapefruit seed. i planted about 12 ponderosa lemon seeds. one of my pineapple tops didnt make it. it was sad i almost cried. 3 days ago(?) i planted fall glo tangerine seeds, and reg. tangerine seeds. and i have run out of little pots. have resorted to yougart cups with holes poked in the bottoms. and that, i think is about it. might have to eat another pom...my new babies are lonely. lol

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