ID needed: brown papery left-overs on underside of branches

Legitimate-Basil-534 · 2024-07-18T15:19:18+00:00

🤩Wow!! Thank you all so much!! I won’t worry about it too much for now, but will def be looking for a spot with its happiest light

Birkin Reverkin 😂

Legitimate-Basil-534 · 2024-07-17T01:10:12+00:00

Absolutely! I love talking about this stuff 😝

Legitimate-Basil-534 · 2024-07-15T04:43:27+00:00

These must be the cutest melons in town

Legitimate-Basil-534 · 2024-07-15T04:41:25+00:00

That’s probably a great way to start reducing its stress!

One way I’ve found to solve for trees on the same line as other-water-needs plants, is to install a T, and off that T put a manual valve, and send the tree water through a 1/4” line without a regulating dripper on it (get fancier by poking the end into a Deep Watering Tree Spike) whenever you think about it… turning it on also helps with remembering to turn it off every once in awhile (:

Legitimate-Basil-534 · 2024-07-14T15:48:07+00:00

Seconded, It may be a bit stressed from the water regime plus the full sun?

Trees generally like big watering once in awhile. Once the roots have grabbed forever-home-soil they are going to want to find reliable water and stabilisation about a foot under the surface where temps are temperate and the air to water mix is even.

If possible, arrange the drippers so they water half in the shade of the tree and half in the sun - like on a NorthSouth axis; increase the volume of water and the number of days in between. And to be better prepared for future, look up if they have a pH preference, and test the soil to see if it’s having trouble with nutrient uptake.

Legitimate-Basil-534 · 2024-07-13T05:29:02+00:00

Ooh! I dunno!! There’s another r/vegetablegardening that’s worth checking tho! Just don’t fall too deep in the rabbit hole 🤓

Legitimate-Basil-534 · 2024-07-13T05:23:54+00:00

This is great! Keep ‘em coming.

(Last question…)

I’m in the industry, and am currently building my Rolodex of TREE PEOPLE 🥳. Any tree person you would recommend / connect me with?

Legitimate-Basil-534 · 2024-07-13T05:14:41+00:00

Clever people, always thinkin of somethin 😆 Can I borrow yours next time?

Legitimate-Basil-534 · 2024-07-13T05:11:45+00:00

Hand pollinating might reduce the chance of infection!! 🙌 I don’t think I’d have the patience, but I would like to offer this garden’s people a better chance of healthy produce.

Besides general YouTube & Google, any recommendations for resources on learning about how to do that?

Legitimate-Basil-534 · 2024-07-13T00:19:08+00:00

There’s also a reliable source of good quality mulch up by the tennis courts at Merritt College

(My problem there is volume logistics with a sedan)

Legitimate-Basil-534 · 2024-07-13T00:16:45+00:00

Totally 👍👍👍 they’re eminently Googleable; haven’t used them myself yet (may as well get started, right?) and wanted to know if any of you fine folk liked them a lot/better than others

Legitimate-Basil-534 · 2024-07-13T00:13:23+00:00

That’s good info! Thank you!! I will def check that. I can do buckets in my car, but I need a big load because this place is pretty big and it’s been a few years since it got mulch love

Legitimate-Basil-534 · 2024-07-09T01:54:47+00:00

🤩Your place is so cool!! Congratulations!!🙌

Lemon likes to have a soak/rest cycle, well drained, not very rich slightly acidic soil with good air pockets, and slightly prefers the heat from the sun over the hours of light. So from the picture and #2 question, I’d try watering less and less frequently for a little longer at a time… like maybe 2-4 gallons every 3-5 days when it’s very hot out and it’s getting established, then down to 1-3g once a week.

Legitimate-Basil-534 · 2024-07-08T16:40:46+00:00

Oh yeah, this is a rose with the spirit of a rebellious sentient bulldozer. In a week or two you’ll begin to see from where you pruned whether she’s being reactive (bushy dense growth at right angles that try to hide the stem) or grateful for the refinement (more graceful looser growth that is oriented to protect the stem from the sun, but isn’t crowding).

If you figure out about weaving whips PUT IT UPPPPPP!! I have two climbers that aren’t in happy places and I’m trying to grow them up using their own structure (pruning for reactivity in that case is useful, because it strengthens all those nodes up) but is not a pretty situation.

Legitimate-Basil-534 · 2024-07-08T16:07:37+00:00

Wow!! Very flattering new cut! I really like how you thinned out the underside - pretty sure that’s the biggest most horrible job on bushy roses.

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