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Oh wow, the first flower on one of the chillie plants. I can hardly believe it. Exciting times :)

What do I do now?
Suggestions and experiences with pollination methods for indoor chilli plants are more than welcome.

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Look, look, the first flower buds on one of my chilli plants. I am so excited :)

Enjoy your Sunday!

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If you grow any citrus at all, grow this one.

Citrus obovata, Fukushu kumquat

Cold hardy to 28F/-2C, can be grown in a pot. Fruits 4-5 yrs from seed.

It’s the fruit that makes it so special. The peel is very sweet and chewy and the fruit inside balances it with a nice tartness. And bc you eat fruit+peel, it’s very nutritious.

I sell seedlings for $15 plus shipping available in early spring. Open to reservations now.

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Carnauba wax, per wikipedia

- comes from the carnauba palm
- Carnauba palm comes from NE brazil
- melting point higher than beeswax. very hard
- beat, refine, bleach (yum) carnauba palm leaves
- used in shoe polish (yum) and candy. and more.
-produced under poor-to-slavery working conditions
- here is an org (industry-based by the looks of it) working on better working conditions for carnauba wax workers: https://uebt.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicia_prunifera
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnauba_wax
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Monarch caterpillar on swamp milkweed.
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UPDATE: Solanum abutiloides

Winter didn’t kill this perennial even though it dipped below freezing. The fruits grown from seed are highly variable and mine taste like sugary battery acid.

Well, it’s fruiting this summer and I was letting the birds have it (even they rejected it). The berries ripened until they fell off the plant. I tried the fallen berries and there is almost no caustic taste. Yay?

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One of my cardinal flowers is in full display! NE-Ohio
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Tradescantia virginiana, spiderwort

Every part of this plant is edible if the bunnies don’t beat you to it. 🐰

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First beans harvested. Aren’t they so pretty? 😊

They were intercropped with Solanum corymbiflora (seen in the background) and that kept the bunnies away. This Solanum “hardy tamarillo” is supposedly cold hardy to 15F/-9C and lives for 12 years.

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if i stick these pieces of christmas cactus into cactus potting soil (brown paper bark end down), do you think they'll grow new roots?

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In search of new instance! #boostOK

Does anyone know of any #gardening #plants #florespondence #bloomscrolling #sustainability #instances that are accepting new folks?

I am on mastodon.gardensoul.org, but the instance has been down for almost a full day now without any notice or status update. While I hope it'll come back, might be good to have a plan b.

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the redcurrants are ripe! i hear they're edible but i've never tried one before. now might be the time 🍒

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#ForestForensics: i noticed these interesting shoreline plants growing on the sides of the des plaines river in wheeling, il. the river is having a very dry summer but these guys seem to be doing ok. anyone know what they are?

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First maypop flower of the season. 🥳🎉

Passiflora incarnata

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My balcony is coming along very nicely. Tomatoes are doing really great, carrots are doing good and my wildflowers are starting to bloom. #Plants #Pflanzen #BalconyGarden #Gardening #GardenersOfMastodon @plants

My cacti and succulents that I ordered arrived today. First row left to right: Cotyledon tomentosa ( so soft and fluffy) , Cotyledon tomentosa variegata, Mamillaria plumosa, Second row left to right: Euphorbia horrida, Polaskia chichipe, Eulychnia castanea ‘Spiralis‘, Third row left to right: Haworthia limifolia ‘Twister‘, Opuntia spinosior, Rhipsalis baccifera
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@plants #Plants #Nature #photography . Bee balm first bloom.

Ordered some Orius bugs in order to fight the sudden infestation of trips...

What is your experience with them?

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Jasminum officinale blooming near Paris, France. #plants #jasmine #plantes #jasmin

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