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Mixing soil (compost, potting mix, peat moss, blood & bone) ready to fill another 20 x PB12 bags for new tamarillo seedlings, but its mainly to fill some much larger planter bags which I have been waiting to use, as I have plants that are waiting to go into them:
– 2 x finger lime plants
– 1 x blood orange
– 1 x mountain guava
– 1 x coffee plant
– 2 x lemon verbenas
– 2 x kaka beak
– 1 x bamboo

I’ve been experimenting propagating Tamarillo plants from seed. I saved the seeds from just one fruit, and dried them out on a paper towell:

A few months ago I planted them & lots sprouted, which led to the first batch of seedlings:

And a second batch is ready to transplant:

So the paddling pools will get used as per the first one, which along with Tamarillo seedlings now has a couple of KakaBeak plants and a Lemon Verbena in it….

The two tamarillos in my greenhouse have quite a lot of fruit on them – the fruit turns red when ripe…

And I have four tamarillo plants outside, in one of the few locations that is sheltered from the wind at my place. The biggest of these ones is a clone from a cutting from the plant in the greenhouse. The other three are newer, and each is a different variety.

You might think I am crazy growing so many, but they don’t fruit until the second year… and apparently they only live for five or six years, so need to always have new plants growing.

But this video shows how you grow them properly:

awesome!!!

I’m also trying to propagate kawakawa plants by taking cuttings. Kawakawa is a native plant to NZ and has well-known medicinal value and sicne theres a few plants growing wild at my place, it was easy to take some cuttings!

By the time the apocalypse/rapture eventually happens I should be almost self sufficient!