washintonia 🌴 My first ever outdoor planting 🌴

[JohnAndSancho]

5 hours ago, SueinAZ said:

Looks like quite a project. Don't forget the B vitamins when transplanting, it stimulates the plant to grow roots. I keep giving the B vitamins for a few weeks until I am sure it is growing good. Mix a quarter cup to a gallon of water.

My palms are getting old, so this year I am starting "the replacements" from seedlings growing here and there. That's why I am so into the B vitamins, found next to the fertilizer at the big box store.

Re- the ants, you can sprinkle some pure Diatomaceous Earth on their trails and hills and they will gradually die off. The pure DE is non toxic to people and pets, but eliminates all types of crawling insects. You will need to reapply after rains.

It is hot here also, I can relate. There is a type of shade cloth from Australia called coolaroo that works pretty good. Their claim is that it lowers the temp by 15 degrees. My plants can still flower under that shade cloth.🌼

I would like to publicly apologize for thinking you were an AI bot. 

[SueinAZ]

7 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

I would like to publicly apologize for thinking you were an AI bot. 

No worries. I got a pretty good laugh out of that.🙂

[JohnAndSancho]

I haven't done anything here in a while, and it shows. I pulled up a ton of weeds, and I saw this crap coming back... So I grabbed the shovel and peeled the roots up and absolutely drenched them with my cheap weed killer. It doesn't look great, let's hope it worked. I'm sure I'll see more next week. 

 

Anyway, I dunno if this is cause for celebration or not, but I pulled the training wheels (stakes) off this guy, and he's getting the color and the teeth already. I need to come up with another creative name for it. The other volunteer is Droopy, and the Filifera needs a name too. If it was a Filibusta, I'd name it FiliBusta Rhymes. 

Maybe that can be this one's name, since I'm pretty sure it's a mutt. Y'all tell me.