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Those look delicious. I love the fact that you are into growing so many different kinds of fruits. It's really cool to see them all.Getting a nice harvest of jaboticaba now. Best way to describe it would be Brazilian tree grape as the fruit grows directly on the trunk of the tree. They have a very short shelf life so you don't see them in commercial markets, but this is like the national fruit of Brazil for good reason. I'd describe the consistency as a grape and the flavor somewhere between passion fruit/pineapple. Makes a nice interlude to the hundreds of mangoes piling up.
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Macrophylla type hydrangea are so pretty/showy when they bloom. There is just nothing else quite like like them in the landscape especially if you alter the ph of the soil. They can be finicky to say the least and getting them to rebloom consistently from year to year can be a challenge. I get that question at least a couple dozen times a year and honestly there is no straight forward answer to that question which is kind of a bummer because when they do bloom they are gorgeous.Hydrangea...thansplanted it 5+ years ago but didn't bloom again until last year. Looks like it's making up for lost time.
Oh Jeeebus, how long did your Jabuticaba take to bear fruits?


tomato's like it hot. what is your indoor temperature in the summer? they will grow pretty slowly until the temps are in the 80s during the day.
Looks great! Can't wait to see how it looks after your stuff gets rooted in and starts to flush out. Tell me more about your watering setup it looks interesting. How does it work?
Wow VERY impressive. I'm still rereading your post and trying to wrap my head around your irrigation system.I have an orbit bhyve controller and 12 1 in rainbird valves with flow control in a deck box. 6 are hose connections and 6 have spots to slide 1/2 poly tubing on. each raised bed and where appropriate has a pvc pipe with holes drilled every 10 inches or so connected to a hose, connected to a valve. I have various drip methods on our in ground beds, and fruit trees. ill grab a few pics of the hardware. the greenhouse is in progress, but basically a pvc pipe along one wall with a T every 4 feet and a drip manifold that has a little valve at each outlet at each T. this is still triggered by the same controller/valve setup. I will be able to quickly change the setup for whatever we are growing. The previous owner left me a bunch of crappy garden hose so I keep cutting it up as I need for lines in this system. Right now there are 11 zones allocated.
I have it water in several short cycles in the morning, kind of round robin so that I don't have surface water for long, It's hard to overwater here. its been a very cool spring, I think this week will be our first 90 degree day this week. The soil temps are still mid to high 50s, we have only had a couple days with lows above 50 so far this year. stuff starts to really grow once soil temps are consistently above 60/65.
i use wireless tags for temp/humidity/lux monitoring. In the winter I have them in with the plants to make sure i'm keeping them warm enough and now we use them to monitor avg temps to approximate soil temp. we have them outside and in a few spots in the greenhouse. In the greenhouse I use an inkbird controller to turn on and off fans in the summer, and fans and heat in the winter. as you saw in the video, the front few feet of the greenhouse gets opened up and some netting put in its place. even with this, it can be 20*+ warmer in the greenhouse on a very sunny day. with everything closed up, we have seen 80+ degree differences. so 20 degrees outside and 100+ inside in the afternoon on a clear/sunny day.
I ran a 20 amp 110v circuit to our garden, chicken coop, and sheds and a 3/4 pex water line to the garden to support this stuff.
