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Last year while walking my dog, I found a couple of cut off pieces of these plants on the sidewalk of our town. Someone had cut them off and dropped them on the street.

Brought them home, cleaned them up, removed some leafs and put it in pots on my balcony.

The App PlantNet identifies it as Heartleaf iceplant" or " Baby sun rose" (گل ناز یخی)
They have been growing beautifully since then and giving me cute pretty red flowers that turns into a slightly larger lighter red /dark pink color before drying out.

Now I have 3 of them, one has multiple branches, some over 60cm long.

#Gardening #BalconyGarden #Flowers #FlowerCutting #Propagation #MyPlants #ContainerGarden #France #Antibes @plants

Last year after a heavy storm, a branch of a tree broke in the park next door. I asked the Gardner if I could take it & he agreed.
Brought it home to the #balcony. planned it in a large pot with mix of old soil and compost.

Months later, all the leaves fell & I thought it was dead, but today I saw 3 new branches growing from the soil. I'm going to have a giant gorge flower tree in my next place,

#Plants #TreeCuttings #Propagation @plants@a.gup.pe #BalconyGarden #ContainerGarden #France

Last year after a heavy storm, a branch of a tree broke in the park next door. I asked the Gardner if I could take it & he agreed.
Brought it home to the #balcony. planned it in a large pot with mix of old soil and compost.

Months later, all the leaves fell & I thought it was dead, but today I saw 3 new branches growing from the soil. I'm going to have a giant gorge flower tree in my next place, for free.

#Plants #TreeCuttings #Propagation @plants #BalconyGarden #ContainerGarden #France

It's been very interesting to watch the radius of ft8 reception on 20m abruptly shrink at times over the past couple of weeks. I'm currently receiving nothing beyond very roughly 1,000 miles, the shortest reception radius I've ever seen for when the band has still been working at all. It's very striking to see on the map.

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Here are yesterday's dragon fruit cuttings being prepped for planting.

I snipped the bottoms and am letting them dry up. They dry pretty quickly (as you can see in pic 2, it's already dried quite a bit), but I'm going to give it another day or two before planting.

I call it "dragon fruit alley", located near punalu'u beach on the south side of the island.

These are growing wild on both sides of the road.

I didn't see any fruit, but I did see some buds.

Dragon fruit definitely like this sunny, hot environment. They would definitely be happy with more rain, but they rot in areas with a whole lot of rain.

Pic 1: dragon fruit alley
Pic 2: a huge and chaotic clump of dragon fruit in the alley
Pic 3: one of the buds I saw
Pic 4: the cuttings I took. I tried to pick fat, healthy cuttings. Dragon fruit plants are pretty slow-growing so I picked some fairly robust pieces.

Pro-tip for handling dragon fruit plants: the spikes ARE sharp, so wear gloves and be careful.

#Plant #propagation stand
Change of pace, switching from the fun of the marble run to something practical, I printed these test tube holders that snap together and we’re using them to propagate various house and garden plants. I chose filament colors I already had that were complimentary to our kitchen colors. The original 3D model holds a 1” diameter test tube so I scaled its diameter down 72.6% to fit the 18x150mm test tubes I just purchased.
Model, free download makerworld.com/en/models/44236

An air layering attempt on the old Santa Rosa plum. Harvested the sphagnum moss from the rock seen in the background. Now we wait.

Yes, I could just buy another Santa Rosa plum but then it's not THIS plum. This also ignores the fact that the chances of getting the same plum is near zero because "looks like" is more important than "actually is" in the buy a plant world these days.

So 'ohi'a lehua (cornerstone species on this island, sick with rapid 'ohi'a death, slow-growing, dominant canopy tree at my place) is known to be quite difficult to propagate.

They produce loads of tiny, airborne seeds, but they kind of need to land in the right medium to take off.

An ag person who has grown it before once recommended that I do a little pot of soil, top it with living moss, and sprinkle a lot of seeds on top of the moss. I did it one year, 0 sprouts.

Interestingly, as I was taking apart a rotten roof section yesterday, I noticed that one of the rotting 2x4's had loads of 'ohi'a seedlings growing with orchids in little pockets of moss that were growing on the side of the wood. 10 feet in the air!

I left them all on the wood and set it down in a shady spot. Unfortunately pig came last night and turned it over, but I turned it back up in the morning. I hope these little guys go! I would love to have a way to propagate 'ohi'a!!!

Pic 1 shows the largest seedling on the 2x4, and pics 2 and 3 show the other moss/orchid clumps with smaller seedlings. Pic 4 shows the entire 2x4 on the ground, while it was still attached to the roof section. You can see the moss clumps on the side of it.

#plants#hawaii#ohia

24 hours of #WSPR spots (via wspr.live) on the Pavel SDR receiver pulling in every band from 2200m to 10m.

You can see the higher frequency bands shutting down at night, and the nice little grayline peak before dawn as Europe starts to come in. 30m (10 MHz) is the most consistent band for 24h #propagation.

I had obviously sown something else in this pot... over the summer when something did not germinate I oversow it with something else, generally stacking the labels. These seeds have decided to germinate the minute I took the pot indoors that had a citrus seedling in it. It's been a messy season #plants #earlyautumn #propagation