Another 4 day growth update 6-10 to 6-14

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:16 am

I posted this with my last update but decided to make a seperate post so it doesn't get lost-

Calla lily flowered yesterday and the last barrel cactus.
Maybe a couple more 4 day growth shots-
<img src="http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm22 ... -10050.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

<img src="http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm22 ... -10048.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

G.manicata on 6-10 and then 6-14-a little sun would help!
<img src="http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm22 ... -10003.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<img src="http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm22 ... -10031.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

Black Thai bananas-these are some of the fastest growing bananas I have ever seen
and they are still small !/I also think they are way cooler than Basjoo!
They are putting out leaves every 4 days,as you can see!

<img src="http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm22 ... 0005-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<img src="http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm22 ... -10036.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

Thai giant (Colocasia)-just about keeping pace with the TB bananas!
The newest leaf expanded about 4-5" since the last pic,this one will be fun to watch grow!

<img src="http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm22 ... -10012.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<img src="http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm22 ... -10041.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

Itinerans are incredibly fast too,once you see the new leaf it's out and open in 2 days!
Hard to tell in this pic but that's a full new leaf

</a> <img src="http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm22 ... -10001.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<img src="http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm22 ... -10034.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket">

Scary to think what these Castors would have done if we would have had more sun to go with the 4.15"
of rain since 6-10-
The 4" pot is sitting on the next leaf(after the one it's on in the first pic)which is almost twice as big.
I knew they grew fast but when you look at pics you see just how fast they are!

<img src="http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm22 ... -10004.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket">
</a> <img src="http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm22 ... -10032.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

These Brugs are out of control!

<img src="http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm22 ... -10007.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<img src="http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm22 ... -10038.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

Thanks for looking-if we get the sun and heat forecast the next update should be spectacular,especially since it looks like another
1-3" before this rain shuts off today!

ScottyON · Post by **ScottyON** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 8:45 am

The castor's are getting bigger for sure!! thanks for the update!

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:27 am

Yes, the next few days should be astounding. The recent rains left the ground wet, and I put out fertilizer Sunday evening. Soil temp about 80oF, overnight lows coming up in mid-70soF with daily highs above 90oF, mild winds (10-15 mph). Longs days (well, for 35oN!).
I can pretty much watch plants grow!

On the calla lilly questions from the older thread, I'll check on slugs/snails but I doubt it. For all my complaints about the chickens, they do a fantastic job of eating garden pests. They love escargot! I don't think they were really eating the Brugs themselves--just picking bugs off the leaves and ingesting a little plant tissue. So, the calla lilly demise is still a mystery.

Some day when I'm feeling too good about the garden I'll start a new thread to list all the plants I've killed in the past year. But for now I'm going to go back outside and watch plants grow. --Erik

BILL MA · Post by **BILL MA** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:29 pm

Man Jim all that heat and rain has really kicked everything into high gear at your place. I can watch stuff grow here too must be the 50 pounds of fertilizer

It's not even summer yet, I think where all in for a nice ride this year.

Bill

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 2:10 pm

BILL MA wrote:Man Jim all that heat and rain has really kicked everything into high gear at your place. I can watch stuff grow here too must be the 50 pounds of fertilizer

It's not even summer yet, I think where all in for a nice ride this year.

Bill

You go 50 I'll go 100!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 1:39 pm

With all that rain, you two are fertilizing 15 miles away...straight down

Barb

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 4:13 pm

lucky1 wrote:With all that rain, you two are fertilizing 15 miles away...straight down
Barb

I haven't been able to fertilize jack $7!^ lately!

I totaled up the rain amount since May 9-
14.88" and they are talking some serious rain through next week!
We may have totaled over 20" by this time next week-

The dewpoint has been as high as 81 today with a heat index of 111

BILL MA · Post by **BILL MA** » Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:00 am

I got new fertilizer just for that reason 270 day time release deal know Barb. No matter how much it rains it makes no difference

It's a three stage commercial product.

Bill

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat Jun 19, 2010 11:11 am

With 15 inches of rain, that new 270 day stuff will free you up to plant more stuff.
Instead of fertilizing every four days to replace what was washed away.

Hey, Jim, could you pls post a pic of the 270 day label on Fertilizer topic?
Would like to see what it is/who makes it/instructions.

PS--you know you're getting old when you enjoy reading fertilizer labels

Barb

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 7:55 am

Or when you.................

That was Bill that said he uses that

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 6:22 pm

lucky1 wrote:With 15 inches of rain, that new 270 day stuff will free you up to plant more stuff.
Instead of fertilizing every four days to replace what was washed away.

Hey, Jim, could you pls post a pic of the 270 day label on Fertilizer topic?
Would like to see what it is/who makes it/instructions.

PS--you know you're getting old when you enjoy reading fertilizer labels
Barb

Love your last statement......Oy, Guess I am over the hill....And I even hold the fertilizer label at 3 feet distance from my face to read it, is thatreally bad!!????

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 6:24 pm

Wish it would rain here!!!!!!!!! Two weeks with no rain and only a shower for 15 minutes for the week before that...Crazy!!!!!!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 6:40 pm

...

hold the fertilizer label at 3 feet distance from my face to read it, is thatreally bad!

Really bad is when you take a photo of the fertilizer label's NPK, plus instructions.

Yup, that's weather change...too much--or not enough--rain.
We'd better get used to it.

Barb

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:48 am

sidpook wrote:Wish it would rain here!!!!!!!!! Two weeks with no rain and only a shower for 15 minutes for the week before that...Crazy!!!!!!

Mike it seems like it rains out here and then the weather sytems are dried out
before they get there.
Supposed to be 98 tomorrow,we'll see.
If this heat shifts to the east you guys may get dumped on during the transition,in
the mean time enjoy the cooler temps,that was our whole summer last year(probably yours too),
we have already tripled our total of 90* weather over last year.
Last year we only had (at the longest)a couple stretches of 80+ temps of 2 weeks-
so far this season 31 days in a row 80 or more,not to hard to do when it's
80 at 8-9am-what a difference a year makes.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 8:12 am

Oops-

Just looked at the forecast and temp for Audubon New Jersey...............

guess it's not really that cool there

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:29 am

hardyjim wrote:Oops-

Just looked at the forecast and temp for Audubon New Jersey...............

guess it's not really that cool there

Hey Jim,
It's never cool here in the summer. Usually day temps average 85 to 92 and evenings in the low 70's Humidity is an ongoing thing here too, but at least we usually getrain in the afternoons a few days a week...not this year! I'll keep forging on with my hoses and sprinklers! LOL

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:31 am

lucky1 wrote:...
hold the fertilizer label at 3 feet distance from my face to read it, is thatreally bad!
Really bad is when you take a photo of the fertilizer label's NPK, plus instructions.

Yup, that's weather change...too much--or not enough--rain.
We'd better get used to it.
Barb

Right, it is gonna' do what it is gonna' do no matter how much we worry about it....

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 8:16 am

Finally getting a little break from the heat here(that means mid to upper 80s)but
of course more rain!

BILL MA · Post by **BILL MA** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:58 pm

128f heat index today there! That must be really refreshing! Kind of like swimming in a pool everywhere you go

Just insane 86f dew point, how does that happen??? Hope that storm didn't do any damage buddy.

Bill

wxman · Post by **wxman** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 7:53 pm

Jim -

Great yard. I hope one day my yard can be as great as yours. Wife won't let me get too out of hand though.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:15 am

What's that silly story about the frog jumping out of the butter if it's thrown in while the butters
already hot?????

but if you raise the temp slowly he'll stay in there

Not saying you should put your wife in butter

(unless you guys are into that),
what I am saying is by doing a little each year,month,day(gorilla planting)she might not notice!

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 2:54 pm

I try the guerrilla planting trick myself. It often works.
Yesterday, however, she beat me home from work and found two boxes from Jungle Music in the driveway.

--Erik

JackLord · Post by **JackLord** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 6:36 am

TerdalFarm wrote:I try the guerrilla planting trick myself. It often works.
Yesterday, however, she beat me home from work and found two boxes from Jungle Music in the driveway.
--Erik

Yea that happened to me once. Two boxes with palms plus another box containing a Tiki statue.

BILL MA · Post by **BILL MA** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 6:45 am

Sounds like you guys need to send your packages to work. Then you can go on a covert planting mission when you get home

Bill

JackLord · Post by **JackLord** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:57 am

BILL MA wrote:Sounds like you guys need to send your packages to work. Then you can go on a covert planting mission when you get home

Bill

LOL! Then I would have to haul it home on the Metro. Its really no big thing. Mrs Lord looks at it as an eccentric hobby. But there is always the inference that I may go haywire and saturate the entire yard with palms.

Which I might...

BILL MA · Post by **BILL MA** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 7:08 am

I would!
Oops to late I already did

Palms in your area need so little if not zero protection after a year or so anyways, I'd have a rain forest for sure. Your wife will get adjusted eventually.

I would take a trip to New Bern NC to see Gary for your next palm purchase, he has some really nice 7 gal. sabal birminghams for sale. I wish I bought more then one. That should be a pretty bullet proof palm for your place. There a awesome color too.

Bill

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 7:13 am

That would be a fun trip Bill,even if you don't buy anything-
just going there and seeing everything!

BILL MA · Post by **BILL MA** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 7:17 am

I was there in the middle of winter and It was awesome then, a summer trip would be well worth the drive for sure.