Gardening In Puna

[nanasohana]

I came across this excellant information I thought I would pass along to my fellow gardeners!
http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/apr2/gardning.htm

[adias]

What happened to the gardening forum...? It’s a shame that all types of interesting gardening information is scattered all over the place.

[nanasohana]

I emailed Rob about a garden forum and he said lets see if there is enough interest. It sure seems there is plenty of interest! This being Robs site, it is up to him to make the decision if we have one, so perhaps those interested need to let him know?

[oink]

If a forum on gardening were to be
I would certainly come to look and see.

My green thumbs now only in my mind,
but I would come to lurk and hope to find
knowledge to green my thumb for real
for when I have time, I'll have gardening zeal.

Veggies for sure, someday I'd much like to grow.
But right now there's another I'd love to know,
how to grow wild orchid seeds I smuggled home.
It seems I must study some great weighty tome.

So do put me down for a yes vote. oh please.
I want to learn to grow veggies, plants and trees.



Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.

Edited by - oink on 04/02/2007 15:38:33

[oink]

I was given a yellow passion fruit from a Puerto Ricans yard that I dried for seed. Very sticky stuff. What would be the best way to get them started, now that the seeds are separated and dry? Also, I was told that there are other colors of passion fruit that are sweeter and less tart than the yellow ones. Anyone know about that?

Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.

[scuba_man7]

Found this reference on the growing cycle:

http://www.sdnp.org.gy/minagri/nari/publ...nfruit.pdf

It looks like it is from the government of Guyana, but it references growing passion fruit in a tropical climate, so it seems like the info will apply to Puna as well.

[Les C]

I was recently in Costa Rica and had some granadillos, which is what they call their passionfruits. The ones I had were yellow and they weren't tart.

It might be difficult to sort out relative sweetness without comparing soil and other growing conditions. Also, you may have better luck refering to scientific binomials and trinomials; common names are often given by apparent similarity to other plants rather than actual genus and species relationships. And the color of fruit can mean very little.

[oink]

Thanks for the response,
Well, I hope drying didn't hurt them as I only had one fruit. I will look for purple ones. I downloaded the Guyana PDF for later reading.

Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.

[scuba_man7]

Coffee plant question: what is the best elevation for coffee plants, and what elevation extremes can they handle and still produce drinkable beans?

[Les C]

I, personally, hate drinking the beans....

Sorry, it was just sitting there, waiting for a pointless response. I know nuttin' about growing good coffee. Why don't you get in touch with the Hilo Coffee Mill? They roast a lot of beans on this side and may have good info.

Whoa! That was weird. Right in the middle of posting this response, it got moved to the new forum! I'm sure that you have a full plate, Rob, so thanks for taking the time to add this forum.

Edited by - Les C on 04/04/2007 12:33:42

Edited by - Les C on 04/04/2007 12:40:29