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07-18-2020, 02:22 PM | #46 |
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You got a lot of room, and cover, for a few weed weeds. I assume you have some steady winds coming off the water?
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07-18-2020, 02:25 PM | #47 |
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Called plunging, put smaller plumeria in pot in larger pot. Protects the roots in the hot desert heat. All my plumerias are in pots currently as they were all cuttings. Once they get more established and have built up their roots, I can likely put them directly in ground. Sometimes they require a shade structure for the first few years and wrapping their trunks in tinfoil to avoid burning. |
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07-18-2020, 02:30 PM | #48 |
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I'm supposed to be the vigilant Gardner while she’s out of town. I’ve spent at least a 1/2 hour a day pulling weeds and tending to her stuff. We get storms in the summer almost every day with 30-40 mph winds.
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They need a lot of water. Mine came from under the fence from my neighbors plants and thrive near a sprinkler head. If you want the bananas to grow, you need to cut down the plant every year. A new plant will grow back quickly that will bear bananas, |
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07-18-2020, 02:30 PM | #50 |
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07-18-2020, 02:33 PM | #51 | |
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07-18-2020, 02:35 PM | #52 |
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Here it's mostly shade they need as the dry, desert heat in the middle of the summer is too much for them, even with all the water you can give them. They lose to much water evaporation from their huge leaves. Many tropicals can be grown in Phoenix, but need shade after 11 a.m. to survive these weeks of 110+ degree days with very little humidity. So it adds in extra work with companion planting, building shade structures or trying to minimize heat throw off from the brick fences that surround most AZ backyards.
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07-18-2020, 02:41 PM | #53 |
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heres what we have going. It's a ice cream flavored banana. We use to have several 6 ft. ones with tons of bananas. Then the hurricane came and 3 years later they are still hanging in there trying to grow.
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07-18-2020, 02:41 PM | #54 | |
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That's exactly how my daughter got them. She found them in curbside yard waste while walking her dogs. I'll have her look out for the White ones in her neighborhood. |
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07-18-2020, 02:44 PM | #55 |
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The first and last are mandevilla and the middle ones are bougainvilla.
I grow these as annuals here, they get too massive to try to overwinter after a few seasons. Plumeria can be found at local nurseries/plant stores as houseplants here, takes them quite a while to get that big as a houseplant. |
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07-18-2020, 02:45 PM | #56 | |
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Holy shit that is just so awesome! I realize how easy things can be there. It's just incredible to me. Easiest things here are citrus and most stone fruits.
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07-18-2020, 03:09 PM | #58 |
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Water them or aim a sprinkler on them. Saw them down in October. Use a hand saw or sawzall. They'll come back quickly.
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07-19-2020, 02:23 PM | #59 |
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I think they are getting crowded out for sunlight. That vine/bush on the right I keep cutting back. Now whatever that thing is on the left I have to cut back to keep it on that side of the fence. What do you think?
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07-20-2020, 02:35 AM | #60 |
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I didn't know one of the symptoms of COVID was turning into Martha Stewart.
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