As fall is approaching my basket of cacti are having their fruit become quite ripe. Soon it will be time to pick them and remove the spines and eat some. There are seeds inside but the flavor of the fruit is quite nice. Something to me like a cross between a strawberry and watermelon. I have grown them to the point they have fruited in the past, so its always a treat getting them big enough where they finally produce edible sweet fruit.
They just started turning red a few weeks ago, I think they are going to plump up more before done. But worst comes to worst I can just pick them before the frosts start to save the fruit for eating.
Many of the transplanted pines are growing and seem to be entering a period of stability before their winter dormancy activates. Hopefully they will be fine in those pots, seem like hardy plants.
I do not really see any noticeable difference in the ones where I adding the mycorrhiza powder. That is what the orange marker indicates. The others are planted without the powder used.
One of them has a little bit of yellowing, but I hope that just occurred when they were in little pots and will now grow out of that issue with their large seven gallon cloth pots.
Some have these long pine needles coming out, they only did that once they were transplanted. A sign they are happy in their new pots.
I will leave them outside during the winter, and hopefully they will come out the other side on the spring and grow big and strong. Eventually they will go into the ground, but I am hoping to grow them a few feet tall before I give them their final transplant into ground.
Its always funny seeing the cacti grow over their baskets and flow out, this prickly pear paddle reached out and is now laying on the decking full of fruit.. lol
Seems they are forming just fine like that. Maybe next year I will trim off the pieces hanging off and plant them somewhere.
My lavender seedlings are growing into quite the plants.
I saw lots of growth shortly after planting, seems now they are just adding more leaves. Hopefully next spring they will grow even more.
Starting these seeds almost a year ago, they were just a pack of tiny seeds. They went into the refrigerator for a few weeks to simulate the cold weather period. Then grew them in little cell pots, moved them to bigger ones and finally these. So they have gone through many stages to get these lavender plants to where they are now.
Next year I hope they will grow big enough they can go out into the ground. I really love the smell of them and would love to enjoy the smell every day when the sun hits the leaves releasing the herbal goodness inside. Its hard to say if they will be ready next year, just like the pine trees. But at least they have some big pots now they can get bigger in. Hard to say how far the roots go down on these, but with the cloth pots I should be able to see signs of them trying to poke through the fabric if it gets really bad with root balling. Hopefully I will catch them early and that will truly be the time they will go into the ground at that point, once they have outgrown these seven gallon cloth pots.
