bogfrog Posted March 22, 2013 Just harvested some pods from a variegated chilli, it has purple, white and green foliage with purple pods that turn red when ripe. I've got seeds for trade if anyones interested. I managed to slice my finger with the knife i was using to cut up the chillis, so my finger feels like its on fire .. Oops! Also played a bit of a mean trick on my cat, she was sitting next to me while i was removing the seeds and i held out my finger to her, she gave it the tiniest little lick and immediately jumped up and ran to her water bowl. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
etherealdrifter Posted March 24, 2013 today, with all the sunshine i dragged my arse outside and had a look around and took some photos of some loved but forgotten idgets....then i stuck a bunger in my gob and dreamed of white beaches and retsina. 1 is red qat 2 is cappi - thanks buttsack 3.is m.h 4. is piper auritum lets all be trying some peaceful manoeuvrings. cheers 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LokStok Posted March 24, 2013 nice tredley collection in 4 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bullit Posted March 24, 2013 Just harvested some pods from a variegated chilli, it has purple, white and green foliage with purple pods that turn red when ripe. I've got seeds for trade if anyones interested. yo bog whatz up, keen 4 a chilli trade 4 sure Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tarenna Posted March 24, 2013 Mowed rapidly growing grass, mulched and fertilised lots of trees and shrubs that have recent been heavily leached by almost 2m of rainfall since Jan 1 and protected (with appropriate fencing/caging) sacred plants that are fruiting (with yellow/orange/red berries) from the depredations of the Satin Bowerbirds that are abundant in our garden. And brought my 1 y.o boy along for the adventure that most of these activities constituted. Nice day for it.. Smiles.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tarenna Posted March 24, 2013 Oh forgot to mention that I found a pod approx 5cm long on a 30-40cm tall Anadenanthera colubrina var. cebil. It has grown very little in the 4 years that I have had it (unlike others in the garden), but it has flowered twice in as many years. Blown away that it has produced fertile fruit... Took me quite by surprise.. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
endorfinder Posted March 24, 2013 I've done an awful lot of sowing out and vegetative propagation while it's still warm enough here. I have only been gardening for a bit over 6 months, so most of my babies are still babies, and everything is very disorganised and partially landscaped. But I've had a few queries about my garden lately so here a few pics from around the place... come into my yard everyone! First 10: Mimosa hostilis, maybe 6 months old. Tobasco chilli - the local peacocks nibble the hell out of all my young chilli leaves, but nature found a way with this guy and the central branches bolted, now it's fruiting happily out of their reach Voacanga africana and negros chilli in my "nursery" garden bed. Still lots of new leaves sprouting vigorously! Bay tree (front) and stevia (back) with some marigolds to the side to keep the pests away. Little miracle berry with scorched leaves from when I took him in, the new growth is nice and healthy but these guys HATE being pruned so I'm not touching anything for now! Bebeh shipibo viridis and iboga plants (the former has been unfairly trimmed for cuttings ) Dwarf lime in the foreground with caapi climbing the fence in the background. Iboga, dragonfruit, passionfruit. Iboga has also been massacred for cuttings this season I'm pretty sure this is a gooseberry but if someone can clear things up that would be nice ! I'm too lazy to clean the insects off manually because it still doubles in size every 2 weeks! My vege garden was planted at a bad time of the year but a couple of seeds took, this one came to dominate the garden bed. I have a suspicion it's okra but I planted a bunch of things that day, again any ideas? 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TrailBlazer Posted March 24, 2013 Thats awesome tarenna, Its a warm fuzzy feeling when plants surprise you with unexpected gifts hey? Looking good endorfinder! I can confirm thats a cape gooseberry mate and your not wrong about them being bug magnets, Something about the leaves hey? Fruits are pretty average on those buggers but they look cool. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
endorfinder Posted March 24, 2013 next 10: Lion's ear seedlings, unidentified Rescue Cactus. My favourite little baby cebil. Plant concentration camp while I get my garden beds sorted... in this I can see catha ph2 from ph, a couple of phalaris grasses, cacao, habanero chilli, ylang ylang, henna, ephedra seedlings, caapi rooted cuttings, acacia acuminata seedlings, desmanthus seedlings, finger limes, nicotiana, mimosa pudica seedlings, lots lots more. Plant camp #2. Nexus young'ns on the left, a better look of some caapi and various others, if you can read the labels good luck to you. Plant camp #3. Ephedra sinica, ephedra nevadensis seedlings, epehedra gerardiana, nicotiana rustica and "virginia" seedlings, caapi babies, acuminata and desmanthus seedlings, sun opener, p. viridis, henna, ... Plant camp #4, mostly caapi and nicotiana seedlings. Salvia splendens "blaze of fire" first flowers P. alba, catha edulis Red x NL PH hybrids, lophipop from watertrade, various seedlings (wormwood, acuminata, catha), pere cuttings... Wormwood, syrian rue seedlings. Self explanatory (I gifted the other one amz ! ) ... and a few more to go ! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
endorfinder Posted March 24, 2013 And the last few: Staging into the light, mostly cacti (lots of rescue ones with nasty scale still). Backberg clone, TBM, pachanoi, various others. Some snake plant bulbs waiting to come up, some melissa sp, a bit of pere, other trichs. Recent sow-out and cuttings including viridis nexus, luna, iboga.. lots of seeds of all varieties including some acacia confusa and aroma sowed out tonight. Plants settling in, newly arrived from the SAB store - eph ger, cacao, caapi gold and black, yohimbe. Lemongrass seedlings, seed humidity tray, mimosa hostilis seedlings in the background. Vanilla bean orchid. Unidentified native orchid. Sliced 'n' diced pere cuttings just planted for propagation (maybe 20 odd), lion's ear seedlings in the background, salvia officinalis... and I don't think that's yerba mate on the left but he's around there somewhere. ...weeww that's it for now.. far from the prettiest garden (although these are hardly glamour shots), but i'm getting there! i've learnt a lot about gardening thus far but not so much on landscaping! -ef 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tarenna Posted March 24, 2013 (edited) Plant camp #2. Nexus young'ns on the left, a better look of some caapi and various others, if you can read the labels good luck to you. 2013-03-24 07.37.46.jpg No need to suss out the labels - there looks to be a Cinnamomum sp. .. verum or aromaticum ? Also a Pausinistaylia yohimbe ... Woo Edited March 24, 2013 by tarenna 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TrailBlazer Posted March 24, 2013 Don't matter how long you garden for mate, You always keep learning! Its a interest that never gets boring for life hey 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
endorfinder Posted March 24, 2013 Cinnamon it is, and there is yohimbe but not in that picture... maybe it's ilex you're looking at? Yohimbe is in the background in the fourth last pic. Trailblazer, that's how *all* good hobbies work Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theuserformallyknownasd00d Posted March 25, 2013 Today I tended to some seedling and unfortunately lost my ephedra and khat to dampening off. I didn't think they needed a spray last night but did it anyway My caapi is taking off after a mth at home. I'm getting at least an inch per day. For the rest of the afternoon I sniffed the leaves of my fragrant ethnos and dreamt off my first distillations with them next season! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mysubtleascention Posted March 28, 2013 (edited) mind - changin .. sacred soil truth garden ! Edited March 29, 2013 by mysubtleascention 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theuserformallyknownasd00d Posted March 28, 2013 (edited) Today I looked over this thread and realised I've hardly got a "sacred garden" and sat depressed at my limited space which is already over capacity... You guys with big blocks are very lucky! To counteract this I had a hot one, set up my 4th 4 tier greenhouse inside, and wired the CFLs. Took some viridis leaf cuttings and sowed another 15 varieties of seed I currently don't have planted. Just i gotta fill the other top shelves! I've now got 5 months to deal with the above crisis again D00d Ps - I also found a bag of 27 seed packets whilst cleaning out my van :-/ all with addresses on em to be posted so I'm sorry if anybody waiting these is following this thread. Brug seed is what they feel like, got me thinking how polite the 27 ppl were to not even message me once chasing these up after a mth ;) Edited March 28, 2013 by thed00dabides 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theuserformallyknownasd00d Posted March 28, 2013 Also; what are people sowing this time of year for their winter? Surely these plenty of cold hardy winter vegetating plants out there!? The only ones i can think of are not doable due to law Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
planthelper Posted March 28, 2013 Also; what are people sowing this time of year for their winter? Surely these plenty of cold hardy winter vegetating plants out there!? The only ones i can think of are not doable due to law and what do we do if that's the case? we move on to, the next best thing, Mexican, Californian, flanders, and oriental, they are all worth investigating! I wished I know how to disable the, red wiggly lines underneath my words, sigh... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TrailBlazer Posted March 29, 2013 (edited) Pink asian shallots, These are from malaysia so are perfect for tropical conditions. Planting them out today hey. Onions are very bloody difficult to grow in the tropics because of photoperiods. But these bad boys grow well and if your into asian and indian curries like me then they taste shit loads better. Only drawback is you have to cut lots of smaller ones up to make up for one large onion! All my veges are tropical and massive producers, Things like lima beans, Winged beans, Papuan giant bean (which is really a guord). Tropical tomatoes, Capsicums, chilli's and eggplants all grafted to Solanum torvum. I have eggplants 2m tall that produce all year round and same goes for the toms. They grow as trees rather than shrubs! Many types of sweet potatoes, Jicama, Peanuts, Abika, Kang kong, Taro, Choko, Cassava and much more hey. Its lucky they produce massive amounts because the pest factor is bad in the tropics but shit happens! Still trying to find a tropical garlic, I know they are out there because they grow in indo, Malaysia etc My family garden is very self sustainable. Thats without mentioning the hundreds of fruits I grow. ;) Edited March 29, 2013 by TrailBlazer Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
whitewind Posted March 29, 2013 (edited) My Rauvolfia caffra, undoubtedly a weedy species in Sydney, is growing nuts in it's 140mm pot, needs watering every day even when it rains! Quinine Tree. The bark is used as a dressing for wounds and the infusion is used to kill maggots in wounds. Pieces of bark are chewed to treat coughs. The latex is used to treat diarrhoea and other stomach ailments. The latex contains alkaloids that are used in preparations for the treatment of high blood pressure and certain mental aberrations. The leaves, flowers and fruits serve as the source of food to vervet monkeys. Eupomatia laurina, leaning slightly. Bolwarra or Native Guava. The sweet, aromatic fruit is used as a spice-fruit in cooking, being included in beverage, jams and desserts. It is best used in combination with other ingredients that compliment its strong flavor, and hence should be considered one of the Australian spices. EDIT fixed pic orientation and added text Edited September 29, 2013 by whitewind Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
whitewind Posted March 29, 2013 (edited) / Edited September 29, 2013 by whitewind 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bogfrog Posted March 29, 2013 Hey WW, what are the origins of that NZ piper? Definately not our standard macropiper excelsium. Everyone's gardens are looking fantastic. Dood, i was just wondering about those brug seeds the other day. Good to hear they are still safe with you. Bullit, chilli trade sounds great. I'll pm you soon. Hope you've got some mild-ish varieties lol. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TrailBlazer Posted March 30, 2013 I consider my orchard sacred haha! I picked 2 awesome monthong durians today and a couple of mamey sapotes. This is the second year they have fruited and it has taken me bloody 10 years to grow these buggers from seed! The smell of durians has perfumed my entire house bring back memories of asia once again! mmmmmm durians! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoLaNuT Posted March 30, 2013 I would love to grow durians! Hey TrailBlazer.....care to share pics of your trees? How tall are they at ten years of age? Cheers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sallubrious Posted March 30, 2013 Today I composted approx. 600 lophs 2000 trichs 90 P.nexus A swathe of Salvia several hundred A.acuminata and almost everything else. Back to the earth from whence they came. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
