Post #605190 by howlinowl on Fri, Sep 2, 2011 7:58 AM

Cool yards. No pics of mine....I've just started planting stuff around. Bought a papaya from the store and harvested the seeds from it. Sprouted a bunch of them and now I have about 17 waist size papaya plants scattered around the yard. They grow fast and should start producing fruit after about 8 months. Bought 5 small finger banana sprouts from a guy in the neighborhood who has a yard full of them. Also sprouted an avocado pit and transplanted that in the yard, it's one of the large smooth skinned ones that they grow here in Florida...not the bumpy small skinned ones they grow in Cali. About 20 pineapple growing in a plot by the house, got 4 fruit off them last year, but only one this year.

Got an accidental watermelon plant....noticed it growing by the compost bin and just let it go. A seed must of gotten loose during composting and started growing. Got one melon on it.

We have a calimansi tree (what they call it in the Philippines, where my wife is from...think it's called a calamodin or something like that here), it's a few years old, but hasn't produced any fruit or flowers yet. Wife bought it from the local Filipino store, so it may have been started from seed and just not mature yet. May buy another from a nursery so we have one that produces.

howlinowl

(edited to correct spelling)

[ Edited by: howlinowl 2011-09-02 08:00 ]