11-13-2007, 12:30 AM
Make sure to dig well and if rocky use an o'o'. Amend the soil which has come from the hole before re-introduction and water well to establish deep roots. Always look for the very best species and when you find one take clones from that exceptional plant. I started with three species of Samoan spinach but one was so much better than the rest ... so now all my plants come from that original plant. I always carry a bottle with wet tissue in my vehicle and a knife and when I run into an obvious superior plant I ask for a cutting and of course here in Hawaii people always say yes. Some of my very best species of plants have come to me this way. Right now I have a passion fruit which is hybridized somehow between the large yellow and the small red and I got it because I was curious and asked for a cutting. The plant is three years old now and producing very large orange with green ribs on the surface of the fruit and delicious.
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