Mississippi Squad

[JohnAndSancho]

Lol

 

I just sprayed everything with neem oil twice. And I sprayed the baseboards and the corners and around the pots, everything. And I bumped the humidity way up by filling up one of my new 27g totes with water and there's no place I can put it where the heater won't hit it, so it's a freaking sauna in there right now. And I have no idea how hot or how humid it is because my $6 meter 💩 the bed and died on me so I'm guessing it's pretty damn humid. Plants should love it but I'm def gonna have to dial that back a bit. 

[JohnAndSancho]

This palmetto is pushing a new frond after this MASSIVE strap leaf. I should be more like @kinzyjr and put dates and labels on these things instead of having to dig through this thread to figure out when I potted it. 

Honestly had no idea if these would even sprout, this was just a FAFO experiment. Large variety clementines from Peru I bought at a Mexican market. 

 

I really hope it wasn't too premature of me to bring these all out here after yesterday's spider mite spray bombing. Dragonfruits Bien Hoa, Condor, and Laverne Red plus Red Lady papaya and a Mona Lisa banana. I think they'll all be a lot happier in this sweat lodge. 

 

Poor little things died before they ever had a chance. Pour one out for this week's dead homies, a couple grocery store papayas and some mango seeds that rotted. 

Big mama colocasia is pupping again and so are her pups - so onto this 

 

This damn thing just doesn't want to be built and it's adamant about it. I literally need to buy a new set of drill bits because I've broken all of the small ones. I really miss the good old days when Craftsman was sold by Sears and you could go in there with like, a wrench that has been floating in the ocean for 11 years and on the spot they'd give you a replacement. Anyway that still wouldn't matter because these came from Harbor Freight and they're probably made out of glitter and yak farts. 

[kinzyjr]

1 hour ago, JohnAndSancho said:

I should be more like @kinzyjr and put dates and labels on these things instead of having to dig through this thread to figure out when I potted it. 

It certainly saves your memory as you age.

[JohnAndSancho]

47 minutes ago, kinzyjr said:

It certainly saves your memory as you age.

At least I wrote SP in sharpie on the cup so I'd remember it was a palmetto. I mean, between the mistings and the light and the clear cup, it's pretty faded but it was still legible. 

[JohnAndSancho]

 

Now it's ready for soil, bulbs and cuttings. 

This one should be easier. Just clean it up and lay out heat mats and hang a light. 

 

Then I have this corner to clear out and build up. 

 

Still need to adjust a few lights, refractor experiments, but right now I just want to eat something and take a shower. I figured out why my mango seeds kept rotting so we're good there and I'm learning to like the smell of this neem. 

 

And I got La Chancla for the haters

 

[JohnAndSancho]

Baby Mango, 10 baby palmettos (from the tree I swung a shop light at from the ground) and 5 more Silver Saws from @Boca Palms. 

 

Still waiting on one batch of minors, still need to clean and germinate 2 more batches of minors, and then pull the weevil infested palmetto seeds out of the freezer. Also have 2 varieties of kiwi marinating, uhh like a dozen more mangos, God only knows how many white guava seeds, more clementines, God only knows how many more papaya seeds, still need to cut holes in the totes for the 15 pounds of bulbs, still need to split up community pots, I think I killed most of the Sabal Etonia that @kinzyjr sent me, 2 pineapple crowns rooting, I want to root propagate more of the pink guava, banana and more papaya seeds are somewhere in the mail, I'm pretty sure what's left of my mom's Ficus Elastica is toast but this thing has come back from the dead twice before, uhhhh - split up the ti plants as soon as they don't look dead, eat more mangos, grow stuff. 

 

Collect underwear 

Step 2

Profit. 

[JohnAndSancho]

Bench. 

 

Screw Bama. 

[kinzyjr]

@JohnAndSancho I've tried to figure out how the profit happens, but haven't seen it materialize yet. LOL

[JohnAndSancho]

3 hours ago, kinzyjr said:

@JohnAndSancho I've tried to figure out how the profit happens, but haven't seen it materialize yet. LOL

You gotta collect the underpants. Just like the old South Park episode. Nobody knows what step 2 is. But step 3 is profit. 

[JohnAndSancho]

And this morning I got a visit from the MS Dept of Agriculture, and all is well. Plus he got to meet Sancho. He said he wondered about the name of the nursery, but it makes sense now. Next up is grant applications. 

[JohnAndSancho]

Guava 'sperimentin!

 

 

 

[JohnAndSancho]

Gonna throw these pics on here too since this is my all-encompassing plant thread. 

Tfw duct tape won't stick to brick but you realize there's like 93 sets of curtain rods in your house for some reason. Anyway. 

[JohnAndSancho]

Today I started soaking some Sungold Kiwi seeds (delicious! I should have fruit by the time I'm 60), another mango, pulled out a crap ton of native Sabal Minor seeds and put them in cups, refilled all my water bins, and that was enough for me today. Still have soooo much to do. 

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Baby mango. Now that I've figured out how to handle them, this should be the start of many more. 

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The wifi at the house is horrible, so these are already out of date lol. Anyway youtube.com/dbljzzl 

 

I'm going to finish my refractors and shower curtain ghetto tent and carve up the tote bulb factory this week, and try to get the rest of the bananas in buckets. I found another plastic tote that fits perfectly in the corner and holds a 5g bucket and a kitty litter bucket so EVERY banana (....so far) can get space. 

 

A friend of mine sent me an invite link to PalmStreet and a live show - a bit fast for my taste, it's kinda like plant tiktok on cocaine - but I got some tissue culture bananas with winter shipping for a total of $16 so I can't be too mad. I've never played with tissue culture before so it'll be interesting. 

[JohnAndSancho]

Posted a couple more YouTube vids while I had the hospital Wi-Fi. 

Stills for y'all for now. 

Monstera's first fenestration 

 

Ti plants recovering. God these things are drama queens. 

 

New frond opening on the Red Latan, finally. Which is nice because I had to cut all the other ones off. 

 

WALL OF BANANAS. ALL CAPS BECAUSE I'M PRETTY DAMN PROUD OF THIS AND MY GHETTO LIGHT HACKS AND THE FERTILIZER ARE ONLY GOING TO MAKE THEM BIGGER. WALL OF BANANAS. 

Mat of mangos. Not nearly as exciting and I think one of them is dead, but I will keep eating them and keep planting the seeds as long as I can get them for $1 each. Or get the good Kietts from the Guatemalan market in Waynesboro. 

It's time to buy more coir and perlite. I think my mix comes out to 3 bricks of coir to 4 cu ft of perlite and I'm not doing math right now. 5 gallons of water per brick, whatever. 

Heater is working. I guess one of the fans was magically bouncing into something that was just enough to blow the pilot light out, so I've got yellow tote lids scattered around the room and it's working. We hit 19 degrees twice and it didn't drop below 75 in here. 

 

We'll be getting better Internet soon so I can do more YouTube for all 3 of the people that watch. 

[JohnAndSancho]

I guess I didn't take pictures of everything. But I potted up this yellow mango seed and these 2 Sabal Uresana, another Brahea Edulis sprout, and a handful of Sabal Minors. I also, sadly, cleared out a lot of what I'm calling the "papaya learning curve." 

 

I'd love to say I needed the space, and - I might? - but I've still got a folding table to clean off, a light to hang over it still in the box, 2 48x20 heat mats still in the box - ok, I have tons of community pots I need to split up before they get crazy so yeah we'll run with needing the space. 

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Well 💩 

 

There are worse problems to have, but I've got tons of stuff pushing roots out the bottom of their 1g pots. Mangos, papayas, the freaking Loquats are pushing roots out the bottom. 

[JohnAndSancho]

Ok. Lots of pics inbound. 

Pilot light in the heater keeps going out, there's a gap by the door. I doubt it's wind since it faces southeast, I think it's the box fans bouncing something. Anyway here's my ghetto hot box humidifier. It works. 

 

White Princess. Yeah, the $5 one that came with a free baby. So pretty, and I'm wondering now if it's the super variegated one since it gets red and pink on the stems? I dunno. 

Pink Princess. Soooooo many nodes. I still can't decide if I should chop and prop or just sell it for a healthy profit once it hits 3 gallon size. It doesn't seem too far from there. 

 

If you know who this is, you're a real one. And it's time to get your prostate checked. 

 

Whale fin getting fat. Maybe it's time to give it a bigger pot so it has room to make babies again. 

I think this is gonna be my setup for Sabal seedlings (say that 3 times fast) Just surround the bananas with the cups and let them bottom water from the overflow, the shade shouldn't phase them. 

This dragonfruit looks like it's suffering from symptoms they advertise on sports shows, and I don't mean plaque psoriasis. But it's rooting. 

Papaya survivors. I still haven't given up hope for the Kahuka that didn't sprout and I've got 2 more varieties germinating on the mats as we speak. 

Mango leaves are starting to turn green! And it's pushing roots out the bottom of the 1g pot. 

 

@5am this is the banana pup from the pottery shop that had no roots. The Orinoco. 

 

Mr. Mekong Giant is fixing to throw a MASSIVE leaf. 

 

 

 

This blue Java - I don't know how long I've had it 2 months. 2 months!!!!! I checked Etsy. 

Maybe a 13 foot wide wall of bananas in the winter time wasn't the greatest idea? But you know what? We get crazy down here in the south. There's probably a reason nobody else can say "hey, I've got a 13 foot wide wall of bananas indoors," but the fact is they can't say it and I can. 

One day. One day, this table will be cleaned off and it'll have heat mats and a shop light above it. One day. A clean desk means a cluttered mind, remember that. My mind is still very cluttered, but at least my desk is messy. 

 

Looking north towards the house. That light needs to be brought down a couple feet and brought back about one foot. Ceiling gonna look like Swiss cheese. 

I think I'm gonna use this table for the Butia hybrid and the Butias and just hang a pendant lamp over them. They'll be happy. Next to La Chancla. 

I'm ready for seeds. Cups for days. Just kidding, I need another 100 pack easy. I was gonna use cut down coke bottles but pulling roots out of those little notches at the bottom completely sucks. 

 

FINALLY brought this bench back here. It's gonna go under the back window, ordered a shop light for it, plastic totes with one gallons. It's 49.5" wide so I still have room to get stupid and build another table. 

Tote Row. I'm probably gonna hold off on more bulbs but just put really tall stuff here for now so I don't give myself any more anxiety attacks. 

WALL OF BANANAS© - I'm scared what they're gonna do when I hang that other curtain and start giving them more fert. The tables might have to come out and just put them on the floor. The shower curtain looks ghetto as hell, but a) so does everything else in here and b) it gave me a measured and confirmed 50% boost in PPFD. 

Dirt supply is looking kinda sparse there. 20 lbs of coir and 4 cu ft of perlite will be here late this week. That'll make me roughly 75 gallons of soil give or take depending on how much I'm spending the pots with compost and other goodies. I do not wear size 18 Crocs, these are size 11 Ooh-Ahh by Oofos and yeah they sound kinda whatevery but they're comfy and great for my neuropathy. 

 

Okie dokie. 

[Phoenikakias]

I think your soil blend needs more perlite.

[JohnAndSancho]

8 hours ago, Phoenikakias said:

I think your soil blend needs more perlite.

It's pretty much 55/45, this is just the very bottom of the tote. 

[JohnAndSancho]

Perlite and another shop light showed up today. I guess the porch pirates aren't just limited to porches anymore, since all of the packing tape on the perlite box was sliced open. I dunno what they expected to find in a box that big that weighs nothing - clothes? Purses? I know it didn't happen at the house because we're in BFE my nearest neighbor is 1/4 mile away and we woulda heard and seen them coming up the driveway. But whatever. Coir will be here Sunday. 

 

I haven't done much of anything other than sleep for like a week, I dunno if I'm sick or just exhausted or what, but I finally hauled the last bag of garbage out last night. I think my Ensete Marrelli is unhappy from getting too much light, the 3rd pineapple crown I was gonna attempt pretty much crumbled into nothing but I'm still gonna stick it in some dirt and see what happens. I got nothing to lose but time. Aside from needing a big pile of larger pots, we're doing well - and I'm gonna order those soon. 5g pots for the keepers and try to limit stuff to 3g for what I want to sell. 

The bedroom jungle is pretty sparse now, I need to work on that again. Because, you know, I just don't have enough stuff growing right now or whatever. I have dozens of Sabal Minors to pot, there's probably another Brahea or 2 ready too. And hundreds of more Sabal seeds to sprout.