Let's swap some seeds.....

[islafarm]

I will look these things up to see if It is a small enough tree to handle a 100 gallon pot. Our key limes are in 60 gallons and are doing very well.
I think the longan are small enough. It is a 90X107 greenhouse about 40 feet tall, so I will have some room.

I have a vanilla orchid growing through my key lime, which is not ideal because of the thorns..I wanted to propogate it and now I don't want to dive in to get it.

That sounds like an amazing greenhouse! Yep, you could do jackfruit or champedak, they can be kept relatively small. You can take a cutting of the vanilla - about 2 foot long with some nice looking nodes and start it on a post or friendlier tree. Burying most of it horizontally just below deep mulch. The flowers will probably have to be hand pollinated so you'll want to keep them within easy reach. The vanilla feeds in the mulch so it will grow up then send runners down again to feed in the leaf litter - it needs a fair amount of support. We grow ours on living posts. Same as the pepper.

You know what I would like are those little ones. about the size of your thumb? How does one go about getting bananas?
I have read that the red are good.

Bananas come from the suckers the rhizome sends up (each banana 'tree' is actually a flower stalk) - some wild bananas still have seeds, but the ones you're looking for will come from suckers. Sorry. The red are okay, but taste is all subjective My favourite is the gros michel (big Mike

).

I love your blog!
Do you have pepper vine? here is a question, sometimes I can get herbs growing from planting store bought herb/seeds like coriander and fennel, and once I got chamomile from a tea bag, Can I plant black pepper seed and get pepper vine?

Wow, a plant from a teabag?! You must have green thumbs all the way up to your elbows Black pepper has been blanched then dried, so probably not, and if you did it would probably result in a vine that didn't produce flowers, just a healthy long snaking vine that goes for ever. Pepper plants are usually from cuttings - much the same as vanilla. Glad you like the blog

It's so unfair; I can't have cacao or limes or bananas or any of that huge list of exotic sounding fruit....


Nobway a cacao tree could withstand -20 F?

Shortgrass - you get raspberries and strawberries and peaches and pears and persimmons, and figs and probably walnuts and hazelnuts, and pluots and plums and apricots and damsons and sloes, and heirloom tomatoes and all types of squash, and maybe even gooseberries and salmonberries and elderberries and rosehips, and mushrooms! How could I forget mushrooms!! And loganberries and blueberries and spinach! And kale and turnips and swedes and parsnips! And good potatoes! And apples!!! Cherries!!!!!!

I miss those things

Do you dry fruit? I'll trade you chocolate for some dried pears

There are a couple of good nurseries in Florida, probably further south - in Homestead, Pine Island? And Excalibur in Boynton Beach. The Fruit and Spice Park in Homestead is excellent too. Echo are quite good for seeds, they're in Florida, but I don't know where.

Yay! Something I know about - not like chickens

 

[shortgrass]

That sounds like an amazing greenhouse! Yep, you could do jackfruit or champedak, they can be kept relatively small. You can take a cutting of the vanilla - about 2 foot long with some nice looking nodes and start it on a post or friendlier tree. Burying most of it horizontally just below deep mulch. The flowers will probably have to be hand pollinated so you'll want to keep them within easy reach. The vanilla feeds in the mulch so it will grow up then send runners down again to feed in the leaf litter - it needs a fair amount of support. We grow ours on living posts. Same as the pepper. 




Bananas come from the suckers the rhizome sends up (each banana 'tree' is actually a flower stalk) - some wild bananas still have seeds, but the ones you're looking for will come from suckers. Sorry. The red are okay, but taste is all subjective My favourite is the gros michel (big Mike ).



Wow, a plant from a teabag?! You must have green thumbs all the way up to your elbows Black pepper has been blanched then dried, so probably not, and if you did it would probably result in a vine that didn't produce flowers, just a healthy long snaking vine that goes for ever. Pepper plants are usually from cuttings - much the same as vanilla. Glad you like the blog


Shortgrass - you get raspberries and strawberries and peaches and pears and persimmons, and figs and probably walnuts and hazelnuts, and pluots and plums and apricots and damsons and sloes, and heirloom tomatoes and all types of squash, and maybe even gooseberries and salmonberries and elderberries and rosehips, and mushrooms! How could I forget mushrooms!! And loganberries and blueberries and spinach! And kale and turnips and swedes and parsnips! And good potatoes! And apples!!! Cherries!!!!!!

I miss those things   Do you dry fruit? I'll trade you chocolate for some dried pears   

There are a couple of good nurseries in Florida, probably further south - in Homestead, Pine Island? And Excalibur in Boynton Beach. The Fruit and Spice Park in Homestead is excellent too. Echo are quite good for seeds, they're in Florida, but I don't know where. 

Yay! Something I know about - not like chickens 

Lol you make a good point I'm picking chokecherries today

Absolutely I would trade some dried Bartlett pears grown right here in Colorado for some hand made chocolate! Or peaches....apples... Sounds like a fair trade to me

Wow I want to come see your greenhouse, 3goodeggs

 

[islafarm]

Lol you make a good point I'm picking chokecherries today

Absolutely I would trade some dried Bartlett pears grown right here in Colorado for some hand made chocolate! Or peaches....apples... Sounds like a fair trade to me

Wow I want to come see your greenhouse, 3goodeggs

You're on! I'll pm you for your address

 

[copper2]

What about Texas peaches? Oh peach season just ended : )

 

[copper2]

Have you every had peach cider? It's the best!

 

[Beer can]

I want to get some determinate tomato seeds for next year so I can make pasta sauce.

I got tomato seeds from 'Totally Tomatoes' catalog. Bloody Butcher and Alaskan fancy, both quick maturing and one of them is determinate. I didn't plant them this yr, bought early girl plants instead. I will be planting them both next yr, separate areas, they are open pollinated heirloom, want to get away from hybrids and start saving seeds

Have you every had peach cider? It's the best!

Bought a gallon in Georgia once, it was good.

 

[Beer can]

Wow, great thread. Have you saw SandHill Preservation Center's seed catalog? They have tons of varieties of heirloom seeds and sweet potato slips. I haven't seen so many varieties anywhere. I plan on ordering a bunch in the spring and then saving my own seeds after.

 

[1FlewOver]

Have you every had peach cider? It's the best!

Not really....just on the outskirts os Weatherford,Texas is a little place called 'Dicken's Fruit Stand'....

They sell all kinds of local produce....but their real claim to fame is their apple cider....it's world renown....and especially popular with the ladies....

Women have been known to travel great distances just to get some "Dicken's cider"....

Almost every woman I know around these parts has had some Dicken's Cider at one point or another....even my mom enjoys some Dicken's Cider every now and then....(Somehow or another....that's supposed to have something to do with me being here in the first place
...) IDK......

EDIT: Just on case this makes no sense .....have someone read it to you....

 

[islafarm]

What about Texas peaches? Oh peach season just ended : )

That surely means you have dried peaches a plenty?

What about Texas peaches? Oh peach season just ended : )

Have you every had peach cider? It's the best!

No, but sounds incredible! I like apple and pear cider, is peach cider sweeter, or are there certain varieties to use? Really, there's a peach cider? Sounds great!

 

[Beer can]

No, but sounds incredible! I like apple and pear cider, is peach cider sweeter, or are there certain varieties to use? Really, there's a peach cider? Sounds great!

Wasn't what I expected, not like a apple cider. Very sweet, and not what you'd expect 'peach juice' to taste like either.
I really liked it, the kids didn't which was odd.
I think it would make great peach wine, or actually peach hard cider lol.