Yeehaa! They better earn their keep..NA, we have chickens that don't lay, they will always be here with us...
I'm glad I'm not the only one keeping a barren chicken around. She's only ever laid 6 eggs in her life. Cute bluish/green eggs. She's the biggest chicken we have and laid the smallest strangest shaped eggs. Didn't get to even eat them because they were pullet size and the shell was so thin. Our RIR laid the jumbo eggs that kept the lid from closing on the carton. She was our smallest and laid the biggest egg but she passed this summer. Gotta love our girls.
....if you don't mind sir, I hate it ask you to do anymore, but if its possible would you put one or two cuttings to start for me as well please, I live near City Farm so maybe I can meet up with her, or if I happen to come down to Tucson take them both up.thanks for letting me ask, lol. I used to love eating them when I was in Hawaii and I have been able to buy them at some of the Hispanic markets in Arizona and I love them. Oahu was a great place to live for tropical fruits back in the early 1990's for me. I've also been able to start papayas here by seed, but the frost kills them off and I started them from a dried Hawaiian sunrise papaya seeds!Next year I will start them inside and then bring him outside right after the frost clears. I tend to grow these on the east side of my house so that way they have shade from the afternoon full sun. I have a man called the, "organic Gardener, " near me and I think he has some different suggestions on growing papayas here. I'll have one extra of what I believe it's called a Caribbean guava started, that I had bought from either Home Depot or Lowe's; that has done really well for me here and I just planted it a little over year ago and it is fruiting its second time this year! It is quite tasty if you let it ripen up enough and get on the yellow side. I hear some people eat them green with salt. Keep in mind this guava is sensitive to the frost, so it would need to be covered with a sheet or have Christmas lights placed on it to help keep it warm during frost times. currently, I do not know if it will come back during the spring if it dies down from a hard frost. Last winter I did not have a hard frost here so my guava didn't seem to be affected too much. And with that being said my pear tree seemed to do well
Not a problem, I made about a dozen cuttings this morning. That's great about experiencing the fruits in Hawaii! I read that a lot of passion fruits are grown commercially there. I think that with their short shelf life it's difficult to find them to buy fresh. My Fuji apple has three apples this year! Which is three more than it's ever produced.I'm not sure if we could grow a true guava here in Tucson with our colder winter temps. My pineapple guava flowered like crazy this spring, but no fruit developed.
Passion fruit for me too, please! I can transport from Tucson when they are ready. We travel back and forth a lot. When are they ripe?
My Moringa just died. I grew it from seed directly in the ground and it was doing great. It was about 2 feet tall but it looks like some kind of insect ate the stem and the whole thing died. :-(
I guess I'll try again next spring.
Not a problem, I made about a dozen cuttings this morning. That's great about experiencing the fruits in Hawaii! I read that a lot of passion fruits are grown commercially there. I think that with their short shelf life it's difficult to find them to buy fresh. My Fuji apple has three apples this year! Which is three more than it's ever produced.
Gallo, if you are making cuttings, I'd like a couple. Will trade you something--eggs? I have a friend who grows Brazilian guavas. He gets fruit but goes to extreme lengths to protect it in the winter. He also has it against a south wall and it is protected on the west side as well and he covers the whole thing in the winter. I have 2 trees from him but they are just in 5-gal pots and not doing that well. I have problems with grubs getting in and feeding on the roots. I have a pineapple guava but never get any fruit and very few flowers.
in Mesa and most of the East Valley I was told that we have to have stone fruit trees that work well in under a hundred or 90 hours of chill time.
So the Dorsett Apple seems to do well here for most of us in the Mesa and in the San Tan Valley, based on the people I have surveyed. I didn't realize Tucson was so much colder than us up North, but you're more of a desert down there I believe. Or so it seems. Thank you for the info of possibly a Phoenix CA Rate fruit growers group!
I think you're probably closer to 200 hours. Here are some chill hour links.
This one is to the raw data. They have deactivated some stations lessening accuracy.
http://ag.arizona.edu/azmet/az-data.htm
This one tells you how to input the data to better read it.
http://www.phoenixpermaculture.org/forum/topics/winter-chill-data-for-phoenix
FIRST BLACK COPPER MARANS EGG THIS MORNING!
The TPPFC club had a small show this weekend, and I had made prior arrangements with @desertmarcy to meet me there with some Black Copper Marans pullets. She was running low on BCM pullets, so she included one hen that was already laying, so this morning, I got my first BCM egg! Thank you, Marcy!
I was told if I keep it inside during the winter and outside during the summer it would grow and produce. I figure cannot hurt to plant it in a pot, if no fruit it should be a pretty tree. I am thinking of keeping it in my chicken room because their is higher humidity in there.
I have some seeds to plant, is now the best time and should I plant in ground or in a pot?
wow beautiful color!!! so nice. congratsFIRST BLACK COPPER MARANS EGG THIS MORNING!
The TPPFC club had a small show this weekend, and I had made prior arrangements with @desertmarcy to meet me there with some Black Copper Marans pullets. She was running low on BCM pullets, so she included one hen that was already laying, so this morning, I got my first BCM egg! Thank you, Marcy!
