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Post by italianlady on Feb 5, 2016 10:51:32 GMT -5
Ally, I did that with three avocado seeds the other night. I'll let you how if and how they turn out.
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Post by seekingpeace on Feb 5, 2016 11:47:58 GMT -5
hello! I tossed green furry oranges yesterday! I have planted and have a very nice vine from a sweet potato. I've had it a couple of years and it's beginning to look a bit raggedy. I also have an avocado in my living room. It was pushing against the ceiling!!! I'm quite fond of it's largness, and I had to cut about a foot of it off. Too cold here to ever put it outside, but I do enjoy having a tree in my house!
once upon a time, I was very fond of potatoes and usually ate them every day. Ohhhh, did my back ever begin to ache and I was all crippled . my friend was telling me about night shades and how they affect some people. I stopped cold potato! on eating potatoes and my pain was completely gone in a couple of days! So now I know not to eat them too often cuz when I do, I get achy bones.
we planted tomatoes in a tire on the farm this past summer, contained all the dirt nicely, it was out of view so didn't look too tacky! And they were the best and biggest tomatoes! The ones in the garden were scrawny and nothing.
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Post by Unswamping on Feb 5, 2016 14:01:24 GMT -5
seashell great job on the apples. I will work up the courage to check my apples, and my sweet potates. Now that Ally mentioned it (and ive been thinking about it any way), maybe i should check out that link and try growing some pretty vines for spring. Great job Ally on actually planting those sprouted potatoes. seekingpeace great job on tossing those oranges. Im envious of your avocado. I had an avocado tree years ago, not as big as yours. Its very nice having a tree in the house. Unforunately my produce and plant eating kitty would devour anything i plant.
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Post by dayeanu on Feb 5, 2016 15:28:16 GMT -5
Sweet potatoes grow well in the tire (or wood or brick) towers, too. Here's a thought on the economics of buying potatoes. If the big bag is much cheaper per pound, you could buy the big bag, use what you need, and share the rest with another family or charity food closet. That way you'd be getting cheap potatoes and helping someone else. Just a thought. Congratulations to everyone for.gerting rid of rotten food. I had a few bags of same in the huge haul of trash I did the other day...but fruit flies in the kitchen tell me there are probably more I haven't found yet. hiding, I love reading about plants..thanks for sharing! I tend to do a lot of reading about plants anyway, because I don't want any stoned goats or horses! I once grew an avocado seed into about a 5' tall tree. But I lived in town then, and there were no bright spots in my house to put it, so it was always sort of spindly. I might try it again here, sometime. seekingpeace, yes, there are a lot of advantages to raised bed gardening, aside from the potato towers. One advantage of using tires is that they are black, and they hold heat in cooler climates - which is great for tomatoes that are heat-loving plants anyway.
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Post by Ally on Feb 5, 2016 17:46:17 GMT -5
I tossed a lemon that had dehydrated in my fridge. I'm glad it wasn't growing fuzz.
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Post by mythreecats on Feb 5, 2016 18:23:23 GMT -5
It's extremely fun to harvest them and something children really get a kick out of, if it's new to them. Just digging in the dirt and PRESTO, there's an actual potato! Like buried treasure. :-) I love digging potatoes! Sadly I've got a black thumb for growing them. Sometimes I get the same volume in harvest that I planted, haha, but I keep trying.
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Post by Ally on Feb 5, 2016 18:48:26 GMT -5
It's extremely fun to harvest them and something children really get a kick out of, if it's new to them. Just digging in the dirt and PRESTO, there's an actual potato! Like buried treasure. :-) I love digging potatoes! Sadly I've got a black thumb for growing them. Sometimes I get the same volume in harvest that I planted, haha, but I keep trying. That's been my experience as well. I planted some yellow fingerling potatoes once, and only ended up with a tiny handful of little tiny potatoes.
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Post by hiding on Feb 7, 2016 20:45:02 GMT -5
One more thing I wanted to add about the Datura flower I showed you. It is South American and there is a hummingbird who is adapted to it's shape as well as other similarly shaped flowers.
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Post by Unswamping on Feb 8, 2016 20:12:33 GMT -5
hiding i love your posts about plants. I had an uncle who gave me a huge tome when i was about 10 or so on taxomony of plants. My mom tossed it because she said i couldnt read latin. I wish i still had it. I got rid of the bag of mushy apples today. A bit longer and it would have been applesauce. Im also chucking the rest of the acorn squash i cooked the other day. It didnt taste good after i cooked it (im sure it was well past its prime) and sitting in the frig isnt going to make it taste any better. Still havent looked at the sweet potatoes.
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Post by seashell on Feb 8, 2016 20:25:10 GMT -5
OK, I'm getting my nerve up to go check my sweet potatoes. Be right back.
Yay! They're still ok. One is just beginning to sprout. Now if I can just remember to cook them.
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Post by hiding on Feb 8, 2016 20:48:32 GMT -5
Swampy, you might like to hear about this. When I was in Plant Tax class, we were given a project of creating an imaginary plant family of 30 plants. The plant family had to be designed in such a way, that when completed and the characterics run through a computer cladistics* program, the results would show all the relationships that we intended. Besides that we had to draw all of our plants. I don't really know how to draw, but I was able to draw simple line drawings of my plants so that each one's characteristics was obvious. I used india ink on coated stock (glossy paper) and they did look fairly decent.
This may seem like a simple assignment on the face of it, but it turned out to be quite complex and time-consuming. At the same time such an exercise taught me more about plant classification than I probably could have learned any other way. I enjoyed it too. It was a brain twister that forces one to concentrate.
When I ran my imaginary plants through the cladistics program, it spit out exactly what I had intended. The project was worth 1 unit of the 4 unit plant tax class. For as much work as it was, I think the project could have been a separate class by itself.
*Cladistics - (from Greek κλάδος, klados, i.e. "branch")[1] is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized based on shared derived characteristics that can be traced to a group's most recent common ancestor and are not present in more distant ancestors. Therefore, members of a group are assumed to share a common history and are considered to be closely related. ~ From Wikipedia
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Post by Ally on Feb 10, 2016 14:53:25 GMT -5
Swampy, you might like to hear about this. When I was in Plant Tax class, we were given a project of creating an imaginary plant family of 30 plants. The plant family had to be designed in such a way, that when completed and the characterics run through a computer cladistics* program, the results would show all the relationships that we intended. Besides that we had to draw all of our plants. I don't really know how to draw, but I was able to draw simple line drawings of my plants so that each one's characteristics was obvious. I used india ink on coated stock (glossy paper) and they did look fairly decent. This may seem like a simple assignment on the face of it, but it turned out to be quite complex and time-consuming. At the same time such an exercise taught me more about plant classification than I probably could have learned any other way. I enjoyed it too. It was a brain twister that forces one to concentrate. When I ran my imaginary plants through the cladistics program, it spit out exactly what I had intended. The project was worth 1 unit of the 4 unit plant tax class. For as much work as it was, I think the project could have been a separate class by itself. *Cladistics - (from Greek κλάδος, klados, i.e. "branch")[1] is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized based on shared derived characteristics that can be traced to a group's most recent common ancestor and are not present in more distant ancestors. Therefore, members of a group are assumed to share a common history and are considered to be closely related. ~ From Wikipedia Hiding, last year I took a bio 2 class, and it was almost all about cladistics and cladograms... but probably only about 20% of the class was on plants. While researching/studying for the class, I happened to watch a video on all of the different species of hummingbirds and I think they talked about that one. It was fascinating.
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Post by hiding on Feb 11, 2016 0:30:14 GMT -5
Your bio class sounds like a class I would like.
Hummingbirds are amazing creatures, aren't they? Talk about taking biological miniaturization to a whole other level! I think about how small their hearts must be and how fine their blood vessels have to be. Truly a marvel!
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Post by Ally on Feb 24, 2016 8:01:39 GMT -5
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