A citrus-themed update!
—The two lemon babies that germinated are coming along well and now have their own planters!
—After struggling for the last six months, the kumquats are putting on more growth and seem to be going somewhere! Apparently they’re notoriously hard to get going according to folks in a forum I looked for help on.
—One of the people I gave a Jacaranda seedling to gave me a yuzu (a Japanese citrus uncommon elsewhere) in return in hopes that I’d be able to potentially get plants from it!
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The Oxalis gigantea is absolutely loaded with flowers! I’m wondering is these are everblooming and just keep flowering until they need to go dormant. (Which is unlikely in Seattle unless they’re on a strict yearly schedule like some of the other desert Oxalis.)
Moved the black Hungarian pepper babies into their final homes! It looks like with maturity the rest of the plant also turns black as well, so they’ll be fun decorative plants as well as foodstuffs!
I’m excited to see how this experiment turns out and if I’m able to get agricultural grade plants to fruit with just my own grow lights.
My date palm (Phoenix dactylifera, 1 year) is getting its first split leaf!
It sort of looks like it’s reaching for a hi-five!
Dug up a cucamelon (Melothria scabra) planter and was happy to find that they had produced a bunch of healthy-looking tubers!
I’m not 100% sure how you’re supposed to store them, but I put them in paper shopping bags and stashed them in the garage so I can hopefully get a head start next spring and a larger harvest!
Continuing my stream of posts featuring tiny plants I found at the shop…
Tiny Pinguiculas… (Also purple!!)
I think I’ve gotten mostly everyone ready to be overwintered!
I’ve still got a few glitches to work out and I’m still deciding whether I can justify buying a professional-quality overhead fixture.
I was floored to see this at one of the local plant shops! (If you’re in Seattle, please visit the Indoor Sun Shoppe. They have so many weird plant beebs that aren’t being sold!)
This is Oxalis gigantea, which as the name suggests, is a giant, shrub-like form of Oxalis. In general I’ve really been getting into the more exotic Oxalis species and had been wanting this one but, it’s been tricky to find online and in stock.
I took one of the larger planters and put the Oxalis palmifrons in it as well to create a desert Oxalis planter!
Wishlist: For someone to breed a glochid-free Opuntia
Opuntias have managed to evolve the worst and most terrifying spines out of any (non-toxic) living organism.
(And yet I still feel the urge to poke mine every now and then on the stems.)
People have successfully bred out the spines out of Opuntias in the past….. glochids on the other hand I’m not as sure. However I do agree that a glochidless cultivars/variety would be heaven for multiple reasons.
It’s been a little over a month since the Spiral Gingers (Costus afer) were sown and since then four seedlings have popped up.
This one already has a second true leaf coming in! I like how a lot of Zingiberales put out new leaves by unfurling them in a way that looks like a lot of Arum flowers.
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