Orchids in my garden

[sonjack2847]

10 hours ago, Queenie O. said:

Not difficult to do Sonjack. Jut get a flower pot or container and add some decent garden soil. Just plant the seeds of a fruit that you particularly liked the taste of-- maybe one to two per pot, about 2 inches deep. Place them in a part sun spot and wait for them to sprout. Once they've sprouted, just water them every day. Can't remember how long it took. Once they get about six inches, you can put your plants in a permanent spot in the ground if you want. The lemon can stay in a larger pot or go in the ground too. Some dried cow manure can go in the hole or pot when planting too, to give a head start.

Have fun!

Thanks Queenie I will give it a go I don`t need cow poo though I have fertilizer.

[sonjack2847]

11 hours ago, Queenie O. said:

Not difficult to do Sonjack. Jut get a flower pot or container and add some decent garden soil. Just plant the seeds of a fruit that you particularly liked the taste of-- maybe one to two per pot, about 2 inches deep. Place them in a part sun spot and wait for them to sprout. Once they've sprouted, just water them every day. Can't remember how long it took. Once they get about six inches, you can put your plants in a permanent spot in the ground if you want. The lemon can stay in a larger pot or go in the ground too. Some dried cow manure can go in the hole or pot when planting too, to give a head start.

Have fun!

They were selling Orchids at the boulevard yesterday.They were about a foot tall and the cost was 100 peso,I would have bought some but I never had the money on me and could not be bothered to go to the atm. Oh well next time maybe.

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[mogo51]

12 hours ago, Queenie O. said:

Not difficult to do Sonjack. Jut get a flower pot or container and add some decent garden soil. Just plant the seeds of a fruit that you particularly liked the taste of-- maybe one to two per pot, about 2 inches deep. Place them in a part sun spot and wait for them to sprout. Once they've sprouted, just water them every day. Can't remember how long it took. Once they get about six inches, you can put your plants in a permanent spot in the ground if you want. The lemon can stay in a larger pot or go in the ground too. Some dried cow manure can go in the hole or pot when planting too, to give a head start.

Have fun!

Avacados are a favourite of mine, once we settle eventually into a house, avo trees are first in, along with lemon/lime, paw paw.  Queenie, do you mean putting the avo seed into the pot, no drying needed etc?

[Queenie O.]

2 minutes ago, mogo51 said:

Avacados are a favourite of mine, once we settle eventually into a house, avo trees are first in, along with lemon/lime, paw paw.  Queenie, do you mean putting the avo seed into the pot, no drying needed etc?

Mogo--avacados are very easy to start.  Here's a youtube post showing you how it's done. Once it's this size it can go into a bigger pot, or just in a sunny spot in the ground. 

 

[mogo51]

22 minutes ago, Queenie O. said:

Mogo--avacados are very easy to start.  Here's a youtube post showing you how it's done. Once it's this size it can go into a bigger pot, or just in a sunny spot in the ground. 

 

Many thanks Queenie.  Very interesting.

[sonjack2847]

1 hour ago, Queenie O. said:

Mogo--avacados are very easy to start.  Here's a youtube post showing you how it's done. Once it's this size it can go into a bigger pot, or just in a sunny spot in the ground. 

 

Yes that`s how I started mine.

[Gratefuled]

On 6/16/2017 at 7:30 AM, Queenie O. said:

Mogo--avacados are very easy to start.  Here's a youtube post showing you how it's done. Once it's this size it can go into a bigger pot, or just in a sunny spot in the ground. 

Many people start their avocado trees this way. In California, there are 2 popular avocados. The "Fuerte"  and the "Hass". Both grow very big and produce many avocados. One of my sons has a Fuerte avocado tree in his back yard and the avocados are huge and lots of them. He has to gather them up and give them away or the dog will play with them like as if they were green balls. 

I don't eat avocados but mixed with sour cream and chives and green chili they make a good dip , eaten with with corn tortilla chips.

That's what "they" say but what do "they" know. 

Who are "they"?

Anyone other than me.

[Queenie O.]

2 hours ago, Gratefuled said:

Many people start their avocado trees this way. In California, there are 2 popular avocados. The "Fuerte"  and the "Hass". Both grow very big and produce many avocados. One of my sons has a Fuerte avocado tree in his back yard and the avocados are huge and lots of them. He has to gather them up and give them away or the dog will play with them like as if they were green balls. 

I don't eat avocados but mixed with sour cream and chives and green chili they make a good dip , eaten with with corn tortilla chips.

That's what "they" say but what do "they" know. 

Who are "they"?

Anyone other than me.

I had never even tasted an avocado until I became an adult. I can't say that I eat them in many savory ways, but know that they're good for you. Mostly I like them mixed in with ice cream, or in a smoothie with ice, evaporated milk and other tropical fruits.

I see both those varieties that you mention growing here. Those trees must be huge at your son's in California. Those trees get very big I've read. There is also a smooth skinned green variety.  My husband planted a variety of this tree  at his family's home when he was in the fifth grade,  and although not that big, it still bears a lot of fruit.

Edited June 17, 2017 by Queenie O.

[Gerald Glatt]

We put 'Russell' avocados in here (long and shaped like a gourd.)  In season I eat ar least one a day just cut in half squirt a bit of citrus and salt eat out of peel/shell.  They supposedly have omga 3 + 6 and goodfat  

[Steve GCC]

MIL found a couple Peso 500 and has kindly attached to couple of paper trees in my front garden............