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Native Jungle Like Plants on SSI

by Banana Joe » 28 minutes ago in Pacific Northwest

May 21

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Some pics from the yard

by RodneyS » 7 hours ago in Fruits, Rare Fruits, Orchards and Exotics

Sharpblue blueberry
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Blackkrim tomato
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Portuguese fig
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Sugarcane jujube flowers
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American Beauty DF buds
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Kohala longan
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Papaya fruit dropping prematurely ?(green )

by badman62 » 8 hours ago in Fruits, Rare Fruits, Orchards and Exotics

My Papaya plants are about 8-9 ft tall,
made it through the winter OK
(New Orleans)
They still had several fruit on them that have been there for several MONTHS .

Recently, we had a lot of rain, but in the last week or so we have had LOTS of sunshine, the plants look very healthy and lots of new flowers at the top.

All of a sudden 4 fruit dropped (2 off of 2 trees each)
that were green and about 1/3 grown - size of a baseball or so.
They look healthy, i cant figure what is causing them to drop ?

The pics were taken yesterday.
they fruit fell off the tree today.
The larger ones did not drop, they are still on the tree.


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any ideas appreciated
thanks
Brad

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Newly Arrived Palms

by earthworm73 » 1 day ago in Pacific Northwest

Here are two new palms that I've purchased in the past couple of weeks. I got the brahea clara a few weeks ago and I got the butia eriospatha today. It is me or does the b. eriospatha look a little too light green like a capitata (or whatever the "in" word for it is now)? I have high hopes for both but especially the butia as my climate seems more suited for it over the clara slightly. Any long term plantings of b. eriospatha in this area? Here are the pic.
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Butia Eriospatha
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Brahea Clara
I know they are kinda skinny but they are mine. Thanks for looking.

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Tropical Looking Garden on the Pacific Ocean / SSI

by Banana Joe » 1 day ago in Pacific Northwest

May 20

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