My "other" plants.

heres one part of my indoor house plants.spring comes early around here. included in pics are coleus, angel wing begonias, rex begonia, calladiums, avacado tree, random mosses, canna.. etc. enjoy!

wow awesome indoor plants there

Nice indoor.
I do a bit of indoor gardening, too. I lived in HI for 8 yrs and my house kinda looks like I'm still there. I have 2 ficus, a rubber tree, 3 orchids, a jade plant, pony tail palm, Most of my plants are in 5 gal pots now. The one ficus has a trunk the diameter of my ankle.Various philodendron [a swiss cheese in a 7gal-it's name is Sponge] and pothos and several that are recovering from a move to a veritable cave. I've gotta cut some windows in!!! I like your begonias. I was given one for our wedding and it took me a bit to figure out what light it likes. Things are a little different here. Too much sun at times. I put most of the plants out during the summer, but I do it carefully. Lattice is the order of the day.

regards,
Azoned

love the swiss cheese. mine go our as soon as weather permits. ive also got a few dwarf peach trees as well as a fruit cocktail tree which is a peach rootstock with an apple and apricot grafted as well as the peach. its still quite young so its only put off peaches thus far. will look amazing with all three on the same tree. i actually root the angel wings in an aerogarden and sell the cuttings at yard sales. id like to see some pics of your plants man. thanks for the rep!

Those fruit trees sound delicious.

Those trees do sound interesting. Let us know how it goes with them.
I'm just starting to get into trees. A permanent location helps. I have 2 granny smith apple seed trees. One bloomed last year. No fruit. Still waiting for my citrus. Who knows what they will be. I can say they were seeds from Navel orange, lemon, grapefruit and kumquats.
Don't really have any dedicated photos of the plants, sorry.
I can say, if I put them all in the same place, they take up a 12' X 12' room. I'm in the planning process for a greenhouse. My plumeria and banana will like that.
I'll post some pix in the near future.\
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regards.
Azoned

They were all seeds? How old are those trees to be blooming?
You're growing citrus seeds where you can grow apples? Wow, I hope it works out.

Azoned said:

Those trees do sound interesting. Let us know how it goes with them.
I'm just starting to get into trees. A permanent location helps. I have 2 granny smith apple seed trees. One bloomed last year. No fruit. Still waiting for my citrus. Who knows what they will be. I can say they were seeds from Navel orange, lemon, grapefruit and kumquats.
Don't really have any dedicated photos of the plants, sorry.
I can say, if I put them all in the same place, they take up a 12' X 12' room. I'm in the planning process for a greenhouse. My plumeria and banana will like that.
I'll post some pix in the near future.\
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regards.
Azoned

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very true.. trees dont like to be moved around at all..

Yep, all the fruit trees were started from seed.
The apples are in the ground. Age on them....I have to think. About 7yrs. I dug them up and moved them last spring....
The citrus are as old, but I have been struggling with them stinking spider mites in the winter. And then I get a die back.The kumquat has tried to die every other year. This is one of those years. It has a spark of life yet.
Too cold w/o a greenhouse for the citrus. I bring them in for the winter. The grapefruit and lemon are in 15gal pots.

Are the citrus producing any fruit yet?

Hey midi, was that avocado from seed? Most likely if it is an ornamental houseplant.

i actually got it on ebay sprouted. it will put off fruit although.. ive had it for about 3 years now and ive not seen one flower. theyve gotta be aged on well to put off some fruit. im waiting patiently. it was doing really well a month ago and then i had to move some things around.. it did not like being moved. it thrives in the summer though. its put more growth off this year than it ever has.

Trees are a long term project. Most don't do much for 5yrs, a lot are just getting started at that age. Be patient.

Starting a fruit tree from seed can take up to 10 years to mature and produce fruit. That is why grafting is sooo awesome.
Avocados from seed generally produce year 8-10, but it is always questionable what kind of fruit you will get. Sometime they will never produce fruit.
The youngest tree I've had fruit from seed is a three year old Loquat, It grew like weed.

i got a few, it depends. mango, avacado , take fucking forever, got one where i liv (mango) its older than me and some years it just decides not to bud , but with others like papaya , 1 year your good. if you take care . but fruit trees are a serious commitment. we have two grafted avocado trees that are fruiting and started last year at 3 years tho. the only grafted mango tree we have is 5 years in and nothing , but they do provide awesome shade and they attract awesome looking birds . if your into that kinda stuff .

How big is your mango...they get quite large. There was one at a park, by where I lived in HI, that had a 3' trunk dia at chest height. BIG tree, and produced at that "advanced" age. It would drop so many that we would stomp on them to squirt the seeds at each other. You could locate wild trees [in season] by the smell of fermenting fruit under them.
Can you do figs? Sounds like the temp is warm and stable enough to grow them w/o all the BS cooler climates dictate.
You heard all the recipes for zucchini? HI has mango recipes like that. Mango anything/everything.

I was noticing your "Growing veggies in the tropics"...
Have you grown sweet corn? The corn I saw on Kauai was spindly and rather puny looking to a Hoosier. I was wondering if it's the short "long days"...being so near to 12/12 all the time. Any thoughts?

regards,
Azoned

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How big is your mango...they get quite large. There was one at a park, by where I lived in HI, that had a 3' trunk dia at chest height. BIG tree, and produced at that "advanced" age. It would drop so many that we would stomp on them to squirt the seeds at each other. You could locate wild trees [in season] by the smell of fermenting fruit under them.

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So true. There are some around here that are that big. You can smell them from a mile away. The funny this is the animals get shitfaced off all the fermenting mangos. Drunk squirrels are a trip.