I start to feed mine as soon as they start to show growth in the spring AND I know it won't freeze any more.  I don't mind a bit of frost after I have encouraged them to grow, but I want to avoid a hard freeze.  For us, that is usually March.
I give them Osmocote Plus and Espoma soil acidifier.
Don't know what the equivalent would be in your area. 

Cheers,
Carolyn

I have had plants do this while still in the warmth of my greenhouse, and always wondered what happened.  Mango, miracle fruit, finger lime, and a couple of citrus.  They just suddenly turn brown and die. 
Wish they could talk...

Carolyn

Good luck!  it may be very over-ripe.  The ones I have seen are yellow or red when fresh.  If it is too old, the seeds may not be good, so I will keep my fingers crossed for you!

Carolyn

So we had a winter storm last night with lots of heavy, wet snow.  Neighbors lost power overnight, so this morning I decided that now would be a good time to finally buy that backup generator we have been talking about for the greenhouse.  The furnaces are gas, but unless the fans are on, the heat piles up in the ceiling, doing the plants little good.

Literally as I was Googling generators, our power went down (just came back on after 14 hours).

Harbor Freight, here we come! Along with half the city...
Got the very last generator (a lady even tried to buy it off of us in the parking lot as we were putting it our car!!!), and had the greenhouse hooked up lickety split. 

Hubby and I enjoyed a wonderful dinner out there in our little seating area, basking in the warmth of the furnace, with a nice glass of wine, the parrots chatting to us and the quail laughing, beneath the only lights in the neighborhood!  Quite fun for Valentine's weekend! 

Cheers,
Carolyn

I never kill anything that comes up.  I LOVE dandelions! When people ask why I am letting them grow in my lawn, I tell them that they are genuine imported European Lion's Tooth Asters! Plus they are beautiful!

One of my favorite plants is garden plantain (no relation to musa...). The seed heads are delcious, and my baby parrots especially love them.  When I tried to identify it, I took it to a local garden store.  They just said "it is some broadleaf weed. You can kill it with this". They were very confused when I said I didn't want to kill it!

As a matter of fact, my greenhouse has formed its own country - The Commonwealth of North Daintree. The country's motto is "Taraxacum in Perpetuum!"
 Dandelions Forever!

Carolyn

Bing cherries are awesome! They are my favorite!
The taste has nothing to do with the ultra dwarfing rootstock, so they will taste like any other Bing.
They do need about 700 hours below 45 degrees, so I don't know if you'll get fruit in your area.
Sometimes Home Depot will carry things if the zone is correct for the area, regardless of whether it will actually fruit in that area.  They are catering to all of us zone-pushing addicts.
Maybe you could borrow a ski resort's snow machine next winter. . . 

Cheers,
Carolyn

Thanks!
They always seem to just drop all their leaves when they get about 2 ft tall.
Any ideas?

So, I have great luck sprouting jackfruit seeds, but poor luck keeping seedlings alive. I wanted to try again (being a glutton for punishment), and went the cheap route by buying a slice of jackfruit at our local grocery store.  It had been packaged a week earlier and was in the refrigerated section.  From a $2 slice, I got four seeds, and they all came up!
I thought that was pretty interesting.
Now, if I can just keep them alive!

Carolyn

I don't think the second one is caimito. When I zoom in on the pic, it is missing that glorious, coppery gold sheen on the backs of the leaves.

Carolyn

Rebalancing works when the natural progression of things happens over long periods of time. But when man introduces things, the native species don't have time to adapt. Then we are left with "the cane toad dilema", so we had better clean up our mess.  Let's make some yummy python, kudzu, lionfish and iguana soup!
I do find iguana kind of tough. I recommend a stint in a pressure cooker before grilling.

Carolyn

Don't put the shade cloth right onto the greenhouse. It will rub the UV coating off the polycarbonate. My frame is a foot above the greenhouse. It is made out of metal pipe and fixtures that I bought at the camping outlet.  The current cloth is 40%. I used to have 80% but it was way too dark inside. 40% is still too dark for my high-light plants.

Checked the tag, I have had it since 2017. January of 2020 all the leaves dropped. The pic shows tiny flushes of leaves, but they have looked like that for months. The tiny leaves never get anyy bigger. 1/4 mm long.

I am SO ready to give up on citrus all together, unless I can get this figured out.

This is it. I call her "Baldy"


You can see a tiny cluster of leaves. It pushed these out this summer and this is all the bigger they got.