Silkiecuddles Chat Thread!!! ANYBODY welcome!!!

[dan26552]

 

[chickendreams24]

Hi Dan Hi Silkie

 

[dan26552]

I have four avocados going you can start them in a glass of water in the house too. They start wonderfully in our sun porch.

To start one clean the pit off very well after removing and put three or four tooth picks around it. It's going to be placed so about an inch of it sticks our of the water can be a bit less. Make sure you change water periodically, to prevent mold, and keep the water level high. The tooth picks keep the seed sitting half in half out of the water and will eventually break from being continually submerged when that happens just place new ones. The flatter side goes in the water(aka side with the bump I'll call that a belly button

) the skin on the top half will eventually dry out and crack so the seed can open(note: when the seed opens it is vulnerable to snapping killing the growth) if the skin is thick you may have to manually peal a line. Being in WI I can not keep them outside all year around I wish I could. Also note that avocados and the trees are poisonous to animals we keep our in the sun porch and then in a mini green house to keep our pets safe. I will say before we got the greenhouse our great dane ate half my first tree. She had explosive diarrhea for two days. I recommend the greenhouse. Let me know if you have questions.





Please excuse our dust lol the sun porch has been my greenhouse and our chick room this year lets just say its in very dire need of dusting.

My sister and I started one like that maybe 8 years ago, my little brother kicked it off the porch after we'd potted it

 

[dan26552]

Hi Dan Hi Silkie

 

[dan26552]

 

[silkiecuddles]

Thanks for the avocado info, Chickendream. I'll try that next time we get some avocados

in sorry to hear that, Dan. (About your seedling being kicked over)

 

[chickendreams24]

They can get quite large 40 feet is overwhelming my plan is to prune them back, thus keeping them smaller. And eventually taking them out of the greenhouse once they're large enough that the branches aren't within reach. I figure if I put a squirrel guard on the trunk the cats will be safe too. That is my hope at least.

 

[dan26552]

Thanks for the avocado info, Chickendream. I'll try that next time we get some avocados

in sorry to hear that, Dan. (About your seedling being kicked over)

 

[chickendreams24]

Yeah that's a bummer, Dan. I admit I was devastated when Bella ate 8 inches of my tree and then ate the new growth a second time another three or 4 inches. It is still recovering. See it took me about six tries to get my first tree started. Unfortunately the window I was putting them in at that point was so drafty it took them months to do anything and then they died anyway. And I love my plants I put a lot of work into them and they really have helped me during the winter. It gets so bleak up here that any green let alone flowers is such a blessing. Last year I had two pots of petunias inside flowering into February before I lost them. I think they were just too worn out. This year I'm going to have way more than I had planned as we started strawberries both from seed and from root. But they weren't put outside because last year our great dane dug up and ate strawberry roots four or five times. You seeing a pattern? Lol so we wanted them to have the best start but I think it is too late to put them out now and after losing 40 last year they are staying in. We also have geraniums and aloes and a mini rose bush and a Christmas cactus. I may be forgetting something. We also have a mixed pot of greenery from my DH2B's grandmother's funeral. Needless to say another mini greenhouse is in order. I hope everything makes it. Of course I know they're just plants but its nice knowing I can keep them alive and like I said they bring us joy.

 

[chickendreams24]

Just reread my message... I sound crazy lol well I don't care. We don't have the money nor the frame of mind to go out and buy flowers new every year. Geraniums can survive decades if brought in up here yet people go out and spend hundreds of dollars on flowers every year. It makes no sense to me. I have seeds from my petunias last year that I plan to plant and enjoy. We would rather be able to do for ourselves and its nice knowing that I can. Does that make sense?