The Tropical Fruit Forum

200ppm is not much, but be careful it will make your plants leggy and week once they start growing
I wonder how you make the ga3 solution, do you know the protocol?

I use 500 ppm as the lowest dose.What protocol are you talking? To mix the acid with alcohool or acetone first?

Epigenetics its a controversial domain but you know much better than me about grafts and im willing to learn about the issue.Im also interested in genetics of the plants regarding cold hardiness but im following another route by studying plant fossils to havr an idea about the newer species.For example in europe we used to have Dalbergia rosewoods species that now are extinct and i think somme of the extant species today might still have somme of those genes.
The most interesting thing about genetics wich is a mistery ,its why the flora and fauna in China are soo much related to the east American ones.

My biggest mistake on grafting was to tie a rope soo tight around the graft wich choked the plant vessels.

I dont think its possible.Lets say if a plant breeds sexually then it would have the ADN of the father from pollen available to travel and make changes to the mother .In animals and even in humans its well documented that somme ADN of the father passes from the fetus to the mother spine marrow.But animals are a lot more complex than plants.

I agree it was my fault for the watering schedule and not the type of pots but in winter ,the water freezes here thats why i couldnt wet them.Water freezed in the pots and evaporated through the holes because frost weather makes a verry dry enviroment.Somme people dry their clothes outdoor by freezing where they first freeze solid.Thats what happened to my pots and these pots altough they are made from a cheap material ,they are unique and i dont think youl find such tall pots ,70 cm tall and narrow that will also have holes to the sides.The air pruning pots used by forest services only have the base cut out and they are not that tall as my pots.

After manny plans and crazy ideas i started beekekping and its the nicest thing.Now instead of food crops i plant flowers for the bees .Phacelia tanacetifolia can make a ton of nectar per hectare wich its a lot more expensive than corn and can be planted 2 times a year.You dont even need to have a big land.With aquacoulture there is a high risk that you could loose everything over night.Chickens,goats ,pigs and otther animals i dont like to farm because its a dirty job ,big responsability,time consuming and i dont like to kill animals.

Only 2 inch without holes on the upper part its too little for such long and narrow pots like mein are.Also my pots are also verry resistant,one single pot weights 15-16 kilos.
For planting to the ground i will open the pot by cutting it. The idea its to have a strong and long tap root for pecans that will go deep when transplanted to the soil ,where its always wet.Air prunning roots for pecans its an idea older than the modern airpots with hooles to the sides and such pecan pots only used to have no base where the tap root got air prunned(no holes to the sides).
Ive used sewage pipes as airpots,they are shown in the pics in the end of the pecan collection.
For me it was a bad idea because i couldnt water in the winter,they got dry and most of them died.I hope i can salvage a few that if they do survive,should be really drought tolerant and even cold hardy as they got minus 15C(0 F) and frozen solid.

Somme pictures with the pink fleshed pear.Bark its somewhat reddish and the leaves start reddish also. In the last picture its a williams pear .The picture its just for comparisson between the reddish bark of the pink fleshed pear and the grey green bark of the williams.

If the succulents release allelopathic chemicals ,it could be possible that the stong blooms are because the trees feel threatened by the succulents and they try to breed in case they dont make it till next year.All plants are allelopathic ,somme much more than otthers.For succulents wich i assume they grow on poore soil and harsh weather where they dont have much competition from otther plants ,id expect them to be less allelopathic.

The dome structure today.

This is the tool that i invented to to measure the compound angles.
On this triangular board i cut all the struts by hand( with a hand saw ).
This is the joint of a hexagon.On exterior they fit perfect but on the interior i had somme gaps wich i filled with injected fiberglass adhesive.All the joints and the triangles have to be arranged in one direction,clockwise or anticlockwise and the result is a pattern that looks like a swastica with 5 or 6 arms.

Isostud its the brand i use.The cost its 25 dollars per 20 X 1m.

Interesting, I'll have to see whether I can get that here. Looks like the type of product that US construction might discover in the next century... 

Update: I looked into the specs of two manufacturers and I didn't see anything about UV resistance, which makes sense given that these membranes are designed to be installed underground. I'm not a plastic expert, but as far as I know, UV resistance doesn't come for free, it requires relatively expensive additives. Plastic without such additives breaks down after 6-9 months in the California sun. Unless I'm missing something, that kills this idea for me  .

i keep them outdoor and in full sun .The plastic its verry thin but on the most exposed parts looks like new,didnt discolored or lost flexibility.Only a single pot has a dimple that cracked and i toght its because of UV radiation but its not because its almost in the shade.If kept in a greenhouse then the UV its filtered or best would be to keep them in the shade .They are made for constructions and are a tough material.

This is how thick the shell of the white walnut is.And its called butternut because the native americans used to boil the nuts and collect the fat that was rising on the surface of the water so that they avoid cracking them.Altough its indeed verry fat,the fats from it are the healthy type and its the healthyest walnut for that reason,followed by the carpathian walnut.Black walnuts are not that healthy because they live in hotter climates and the hotter the climate is,the worst they taste and the less they have the good, heart protective oils .