tlongstretch

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[–] tlongstretch 2 points 1 year ago

Hey my comment showed up, and humans are here!

[–] tlongstretch 1 points 1 year ago

It is fairly soft, maybe like melon flesh texture. Flavor is like vanilla.

It is easy to grow if you have a place to keep it above 45F or so, they won't take frost! Mine is happy in a container. They seem okay with dry air so might be okay inside a house in winter. Mine is in a humid greenhouse in winter so hard to say

[–] tlongstretch 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My wife gets upset when I water her succulents, she says she is training them to be air plants

[–] tlongstretch 7 points 1 year ago

Always be willing to walk away, or you are working for free for somebody else's profit. If it isn't fun, quit.

[–] tlongstretch 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah its weird that people keep talking about "Reddit's content" when they haven't created shit. At least Slashdot has always said "These comments are owned by whoever wrote them"

Not that slashdot hasn't become crap, but it's something.

[–] tlongstretch 5 points 1 year ago

Paper, softcover, thin rough pages.

Hardback is hard to hold on to, and I hate those book jackets they come with yet it pains me to just throw them away

[–] tlongstretch 18 points 1 year ago

"Nobody goes there anymore, its too crowded."

Really, though. What's the point of contributing to a thread that already has hundreds of top level posts. Something new and fresh is worth a try.

[–] tlongstretch 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah, if you have one big tree already you can plant smaller ones under it, but if you don't have the shade to begin with it may be quite hard.

I only have experience with temperate climates, I fail to grow cactus even if I try

[–] tlongstretch 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Not in the peach tree, luckily, but there are a million birds & nests in the bushes around my house. I live in the home town of John James Audubon.

Robin are outstandingly successful gatherers, no wonder there are so many of them. My wife and I can see a nest from our living room window, and the parents make trips every 5min or so out to the yard and come back with giant mouthfuls of worms. I have no idea how they find the so quickly in the dry grass, but the babies get fat quick and are out on their own in no time.

 

One cherry makes two beans, about 1/10th of a cup of coffee.

I always wanted to try it, and now that I have I will ditch the plant. The fruit has little flesh and little flavor, and the seeds are rock hard even fresh and have no typical coffee taste. The plant looks nice enough at least

 

These clone themselves, no need for seeds. I have given away dozens of the babies. Good for Indian cooking

[–] tlongstretch 3 points 1 year ago

Creating sublemmies hangs forever it seems. I was able to create one on day one of the reckoning, but not anymore.

Also, I thought Lemmy was broken but for whatever reason it performs badly in Firefox but Chrome works okay. I don't like this because I hate Chrome/Google but it isn't clear what the issue is in Firefox. I have NoScript, Ublock, etc. there so likely plugins

[–] tlongstretch 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They hatched a year ago, the babies are now adults and taking over my landscaping!

[–] tlongstretch 1 points 1 year ago

over-fertilization typically appears as leaf tip burn, I don't think this is it

 

This was from last spring. The robins have since grown up and have their own families now in "the big evergreen bush", while the peach tree is looking like a bumper crop this year!

 

poor production, meh fruit quality, poor "blood" coloration. This was an 8ft tall tree in my greenhouse. It was replaced with some mandarins. Blood oranges are overrated :-/

 

I'm not sure what type this is, at it was labelled as a white guava, but it is really tasty and large fruited. Grows and produces well in a container

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This praying mantis must have just hatched. I leave my container trees outside during the warm months and always end up with a few mantis egg sacks, the babies emerge in the greenhouse in mid winter (its hot in greenhouse)

picture taken ~feb 2023

 

This guy is the likely replacement for the cherimoya if it isn't up to snuff

 

They call it 'eggfruit' or yellow sapote, I think taste & texture is similar to undercooked white cake

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I figure I'll give some context... my brother and I (and father-in-law and some friends) built this from a kit. I hired a guy on Craigslist to excavate, and I bought ready-mix-concrete delivery, but literally everything else we did ourselves. Building concrete forms, managing the pour, insulating foundation, stucco on foundation, assembling the structure, the glazing, running electric+water+gas service, wiring everything, installing heater, fans, thermostats, lighting, evaporative cooling (fogger), etc.

It was the most difficult thing I've ever done but incredibly rewarding. Now I just mess around with plants and stuff.

Again these pictures are from ~2018, I'll post a recent picture soon, now that I have large in-ground trees

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This in-ground grafted 'El Bumpo' tree is 3-4 years old and requires regular pruning to avoid hitting the greenhouse ceiling, but has yet to produce any fruitlets until now. Cherimoya unfortunately requires hand-pollination to set fruit, and even worse the flowers & pollen are only viable for a few hours... and I only even bother to try paintbrush pollination when I am already out there and see some fresh flowers.

If this fruit is not fantastic I'm digging this whole tree up and replacing with a Geffner atemoya I already have in a pot that is a better producer, without any hand pollination.

 

This in-ground grafted 'El Bumpo' tree is 3-4 years old and requires regular pruning to avoid hitting the greenhouse ceiling, but has yet to produce any fruitlets until now. Cherimoya unfortunately requires hand-pollination to set fruit, and even worse the flowers & pollen are only viable for a few hours... and I only even bother to try paintbrush pollination when I am already out there and see some fresh flowers.

If this fruit is not fantastic I'm digging this whole tree up and replacing with a Geffner atemoya I already have in a pot that is a better producer, without any hand pollination.

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