Yes, Celosia Dragon, everywhere it grows from the lone seeds
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You canât eat those?
I cook all my pumpkins up for pies and dog treats. But I donât grow the giant ones. They last until Feb in the cold cellar too.
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Mixed up some acidic soil and repotted my new southern highbush blueberry bush. Iâll let it break down for a few weeks and check the ph
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Those are freaking cool. I have a huge highbush cranberry, which tastes nothing like cranberry, but my mom loves the jam it makes.
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This one is a self-pollinating dwarf. A test of my patience this will be as itâs gonna be 3 years until I can get a full harvest. Mmm! I want home grown fresh blueberries NOW! lol
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I planted a gooseberry/black currant hybrid last year, and same story - got 3 berries this season.
The area i live in is surrounded by blueberry farms, so the plants are usually bought from the farm when they reset a field. Usually they will sell you three kinds for 5 bucks, one early, one mid-season, and one late, so that theres always some blueberries to graze.
I have never seen a highbush though. Looks awesome, I think it will be worth the wait.
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Lucky!!! From my research only the southern highbush varieties will grow in my zone here in Southern Cali. This one does have some gorgeous foliage! I have yet to find a raspberry that will yet though.
From what I read, you are supposed to pick off all the flowers the first year and half the second year to get a good yield starting year 3.
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It surprises me that raspberries wont take - they are absolutely devouring the âback 40â of my 1/4 acre yard. Good thing they are thornless. Iâm at about 49 and a bit parallel, 40 miles in from the pacific coast
I havenât spent much time in southern cali. I stayed in Costa Mesa for about 3 months, but was buried in work. Dont even remember what it felt like outside other than âwarmâ and âkinda foggy sometimesâ or maybe that was LA smogâŚ
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Iâm plant zone 10b. Iâve seen some as high as zone 9. Wonder if I tried a zone 9 and just watered the hell out of it all the time if it would grow?
I did try one once before I knew a darn thing about gardening. No idea what itâs zone requirements were, but I may have given it too much shade, but all I know is all the flowers I got on the canes were devoured by ants, then it died. lol
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Try a Mysore raspberry. It is a black raspberry and a friend of mine grows in close to Miami, i have consulted the USDA map and he is also in 10b. He has had issues with the res varieties. I would never think that 10b exists kn California- Florida is so much stickier
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Itâs 78% humidity today. Just checked. Dayum! It felt stickier than usual, I was sweating this morning in 70 degrees. Our average humidity except winter is usually about 67%
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Wow, thatâs plenty sticky!
I think raspberries in general need the cold snap in the winter to produce. They did great in Ukraine (-30 winter, +30 summer); the black ones are from India or Pakistan or somewhere around there, somewhere hot and sticky 
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I wrote down the Mysore. Gonna check it out! I love all the sunshine here, but I love a lot of flowers that need the cold to grow. I get bored with tropical plants, just because they seem so ordinary to me. Itâs like eating crackers for every meal.
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Yeah, I saw a huge difference from temperate continental to coastal oceanic climate when I moved. My grandmother was a university professor in plant genetics, she grew some crazy shit (none of it terribly useful other than bitching tomatoes, but very cool), and when she came to visit me in Vancouver about 15 years ago, one of her comments was âI would have to rethink my whole garden if I lived here, itâs so wet. Just look at those peonys. Pitifulâ
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I canât imagine raspberries not taking over anyoneâs yard.
This patch started as a single plant. You can see it next to the green house from space, lol.
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I know, right? I can watch my kid disappear into the raspberry patch, and all I do is take the trusty shindaiwa to it twice a year to maintain some resemblance to a cultivated crop
I would have LOVED picking her brain! Awesome!
My Gramps had a huge boysenberry bush in the very back when I was a kid. I would gorge myself on them. The bush was full of thorns and terribly invasive too. It took him forever to get eradicate it. I think it was more fruit than he could can or freeze eventually and he hated to waste anything.
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If you speak Russian, you can read some of her books 
she was into strange vines related to Yams that had extraction potential for some pharmaceutically important alkaloid, thatâs all I remember of her work.
Unfortunately, when i was young, I was mainly interested in things that burned gasoline and went fast, so mostly picked my grandfatherâs brain. However, she had several microscopes at home and I have fond memories helping her prepare slides for lectures, and looking at all sorts of weird plant cells. Maybe I have learned something - things that get grown in our house mostly turn out, despite my better halfâs best efforts 
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Hasnât really grew much
These 2 pictures were taken on the 4th of October
I tied it down to the side of the pot and put it on my windowsill
The next 2 pictures were taken today which is the 10th of October
Notice the new growth already, itâs only been 6 days
Should of done that ages ago
I forgot I had pinched the top off so that would of slowed it down a bit
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What is it? Is it a Pothos? If so, they donât like direct sunlight (filtered only) and they are slow growers.