What other kinds of plants are people growing?

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wwjbrickd

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Posted 1431549411	Reply with quote #1

I built a small greenhouse and am playing around with tropical edibles which got me wondering what other plants y'all are growing? I'm in western washington and have bananas, a meyer lemon, bearss lime, a kaffir/makrut lime, a coffee tree, a mango seedling, and several types of ginger. I'm hoping to get a pomegranate, olive, and a longan. __________________ Josh, WA zone 7/8 depending on who you ask Wish list: Anything I don't have Currently Have: Celeste, Deana, DK, Ghzali, Green Ischia, Kadota, LSU Purple, Mission, VDB and a random purple fig from Portugal.

DesertDance

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Posted 1431553893 · Edited	Reply with quote #2

I don't have a greenhouse. We have 2 Anna Apples, 3 Avocados, 1 Mango, 1 Macadamia, 2 Wonderful Pomegranates, 4 Blood Oranges, 2 lemons, 1 lime, 1 Navel Orange, and one Valencia orange... A satsuma Mandarin, a ruby red grapefruit, 1 peach, 1 Apricot, 1 plum, 2 Olives, 2 Pakistan Mulberries, a backyard vineyard, many fig trees, top setting walking onions, many roses and other flowering plants. I forgot one tomato and one jalapeno. __________________ Zone 9b, Southern California. "First year they sleep, Second year they creep, Third year they leap!" Wish List: I wish all of you happy fig collecting! My wishes have been fulfilled!

dkirtexas

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Posted 1431555913 · Edited	Reply with quote #3

And a Partridge and a Pear tree. 4 Elberta Peach, Redskin Peach, Dixieland Peach, Methly Plum, Santa Rosa Plum, 2 Orient Pear trees, 10 Blueberry bushes, 10 Kiwi vines, Tangerine, Meyer's Lemon, Pomagranate, Blackberries, Raspberries, 6 different grape vines, 4 different Brugmansia. 300 fig trees (50 different cultivars) from cups up through 35 gal, 12 in ground. Passed on Chicago Hardy, Ischia, Mexican Guava, Cavendish Banana, Papaya today at Lowe's, Lots of will power, and SHE spoke up, LOL Edit- Plus 2 Cherry Tomatoes __________________ Thx, glad to be here Danny K "EL CAZADOR DE HIGO" Waskom Tx Zone 7B/8 Wish list: anything anyone wants me to have. LSU RED. Any LSU fig.

sarahkt

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Posted 1431564539 · Edited	Reply with quote #4

I don't have a greenhouse either. Aside from the plethora of figs, there's: Meyer lemon Eureka lemon Chandler pomelo Red Haven peach Elberta peach Artic Jay nectarine Fuji apple 5-in-1 apple Austin pomegranate Flavor King pluot (will graft on Flavor Supreme and Flavor Grenade) lots of strawberries (Alpine, Albion, Seascapes, Sequoia, Chandler) Sunshine Blue Dwarf Blueberry lots of baba berries and other raspberries tayberry lots of tomatoes summer squashes (Hurakan, yellow crookneck, zucchini, pattipans) butternut squash cantaloupe watermelon English and Japanese cucumbers lots of eggplant types lots of peppers (chili and sweet) kale swiss chard beets lettuces giant sunflowers roses lots of herbs ... the list goes on. We kept planting until we ran out of space, and then we resorted to pots. :) __________________ Sarah from Bay Area, CA (zone: 9B) Wishlist: Sangue Dolce, Black Ischia (UCD), Peloponnisiaka Aspra Sika

GeneDaniels

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Posted 1431566358	Reply with quote #5

Aside from several varieties of figs, I have: blueberries blackberries 3 varieties kinds of raspberry elderberries clove currants black currants 3 varieties of gooseberry 3 varieties of muscadine 2 varieties of seedless grape pear sweet cherry (has never fruited) rhubarb (just started this year) plus misc vegetable garden plants __________________ Zone 7b (Central Arkansas) Seven trees in the ground: Hardy Chicago, Celeste(?), LSU gold, Italian Black, Southern Brown Turkey(?), Strawberry Verte, and Unk yellow. Trees in pots: VdB, CdD, and Sicilian?

don_sanders

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Posted 1431566782	Reply with quote #6

Mostly just planted last year but Raspberries Blackberries Gooseberries Honeyberries Blueberries June berries Choke berries Goji berries Concord Grapes Meyer and Lisbon lemons Avocados just as a house plant Ginger Tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, etc. Various mints and herbs __________________ Don - Columbus, OH. Zone 5b/6a Wish list: Rafed/Adriano's Genovese Nero, Your favorite fig.

DevIsgro

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Posted 1431567840	Reply with quote #7

I have about 25 figs mostly French varieties. Pomegranate, nagami kumquat, Meyer lemon, tangerines, rosemary, miracle berry, avocado, fig bearing focus, 4 season lemons, blood oranges, and soon to come black pomegranate, ugly fruits(jaimaican tamgelo), and kassia limes __________________ Currently growing 50-60 varieties, this season's cuttings dependant. Hopefully I'll get to taste a few more this year...

DevIsgro

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Posted 1431567904	Reply with quote #8

Working on getting a winter proof greenhouse for my trees to get them out of the home before I get the ultimatum... __________________ Currently growing 50-60 varieties, this season's cuttings dependant. Hopefully I'll get to taste a few more this year...

Speedmaster

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Posted 1431568137 · Edited	Reply with quote #9

Guamochil, mango, jackfruit, mulberries, cherimoyas, sugar apples, boswellia sacra, jujubies, kumquats, pomelos, acerola, bananas, and normal citrus from limes to oranges and madarines. also I forgot persimmon And curry leaves tree And guava. (((( and I would advise on removing the "seedling" mango)))). __________________ Weather: Winter: 10C+ Summer: 42C+ Growing: Syrian Unk., Atreano, Egyptian Unk., Lebanese Unk., Col de dame Gris, Beall, Negronne, Ronde de bordeaux, Brogiotto Bianco Wish List: Panache.

indestructible87

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Posted 1431568691	Reply with quote #10

Other than figs I have Allegheny pawpaw, Kasandra and Imoto Fuyu persimmons, salavatski pomegranate, few juneberries, gojis, red currant, jujube, asparagus, sunflowers, strawberries, hatch chiles and I just planted a very special item today, a patch of kentucky bluegrass directly from Pirates' PNC Park. (I hope noone turns me in) __________________ Travis Pittsburgh, PA

baust55

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Posted 1431616638	Reply with quote #11

I have 4 apple trees three pear tees . two apricots, a nectarine . . kiwi . grapes , Plumcot , Pecotum , 4 kinds of cherries . blackberries , raspberrys , straw berrys , red currents ,goose berries 6 fig trees I just planted 3 hardy almonds from Ukraine .. two leafed out one might be dead :( __________________ AUSTIN Read more mad non- scientist stuff ....check out my post on KITTY LITTER ! http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/kitty-litter-really-kitty-litter-7398708?pid=1287129765#post1287129765 "I grow fruit of the wine!" Zone 5 Fig trees I have : Hardy Chicago , Weeping Black , Ginoso , Excel , VEBT , and Genovese Nero . My Wish list: Panache, Florea,Desert King , RdB, Marseilles black vs, Vdb , Abruzzi, JH Adriatic , Nero 600 , MvsB, Malta Black,

binbin9

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Posted 1431620856	Reply with quote #12

I like this game: I live in Renton and have more plants than I probably should. It's a bad addiction. I did have greenhouse but it blew apart in the wind last winter. I do have a couple of pomegranates I can trade you for that survives our winters here. Apples: Spartan, Rubinette, Beni Shogun, Akane, Columnar apple - Grafts Macoun, Honey crisp, gala Asian pears, IZU & Fuyu Persimmons, Nectarines, Italian and Shiro plums Goji berry, a few varieties of Blueberry bushes, a couple of honey berry bushes, quince, bing cherry, 3 varieties of hardy kiwi, chayotes, and apricots, oh and the blueberry tree Trying to grow pawpaws I have a few 2 ft trees. I planted 3 bareroot 4ft trees but they have not leafed out yet. Figs: Negronne, Olympian, Hardy Chicago, Petite Negra, Kadota, (Rooting: Black Mission, peter's honey, Ronde De Bordeaux, Panache, LSU Gold, Atreano,) (In the mail: Desert King, Violette De bordeaux, Cordi Stella) -Ben Mulberries: Dwarf Issai, Rooting a bunch of Black mulberry cuttings let me know if you want any when they root, and Waiting for the pakistan plant to come in the mail as well as the CHE mulberry. Tropical stuff: Pomagranates, Li & Lang Jujubes, couple of 2yr old paypayas grown from seed, Jaboticaba, June plums, longans, sapotes, miracle fruit, cherimoyas, gynura procumbens, dragon fruit, Moringa, yacon __________________ Renton, WA My Seattle Garden Blog \| Fig Addiction WISH LIST: Genovese Nero Rafeds \| UCR 187-25 \| Black Tuscan \| Black Triana \| Jack Lilly \| Barbillone \| St Rita \| Tauro \| Jin Ao Fen \| Lampeira Preto \| Any fig over 100grams =)

Egghead

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Posted 1431641455	Reply with quote #13

No greenhouse here -- well, that's not quite true. The property has a small leanto greenhouse, but the year I moved in the dogs I had at the time tore the plastic sheeting to shreds and I've never repaired it. Maybe this year! I do have a nice (but cold in the winter) sunroom. I grow a little of everything. A few plum trees, now 21 figs, plus water lilies and many other water plants, and many assorted ornamentals from agaves to yuccas (no zinnias!). I just spent the afternoon putting six more of the figs in large pots, and then planting various basils, peppers, and greens around them in the pots. My parents have much better soil than I do, so I plant peach trees at their house. Since you were asking about tropicals, I also have bromeliads, including two variegated pineapples. __________________ -- Ione -- amazondoc on ebay -- http://www.eggheadhill.com (website coming eventually!) Lebanon, TN 6b/7a Figs (currently all babies): Atreano, Battaglia Green, Black Bethlehem, Desert King (Wellspring), Ischia Green (Wellspring), Janice, Kathleen's Black, Lattarula/Italian Honey (Wellspring), Letizia/Florea? (Wayside), LSU Black (PFTP), LSU Gold, LSU Purple, Lyndhurst White, Magnolia/Brunswick (Wellspring), Marseilles Black VS, Nero 600M, "North China"/Magnolia?, O'Rourke (PFTP), Olympian (Wellspring), Osborn, Panache (yay!), Peter's Honey, Petite Black Dwarf/Petite Negri? (Wellspring), Poppa John (PFTP), Red Lebanese (cuttings), Red Sicilian, Sal's (EL), Ronde de Bordeaux, Sicilian Black (Robin), Stella, Violette de Bordeaux (Wellspring) wishlist: Florea, Hollier, LaRadek English Brown Turkey, Rockaway Green, Smith, Vasilika Sika, Weeping Black, any Rimada -- and Jolly Tiger someday!

wwjbrickd

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Posted 1431643758 · Edited	Reply with quote #14

Ben, That's cool! And yea I'd def be up for trading sometime :) Ione, I'm rooting a pineapple top too so hopefully I'll have one soon, and i just saved some seeds from a jackfruit and some longans so we'll see if i can get those to sprout. I'm so jealous of all of the people up here down in zones 9 and 10 haha. Oh and I just got a cutting of a frangipani/plumeria that I'm pretty excited about. __________________ Josh, WA zone 7/8 depending on who you ask Wish list: Anything I don't have Currently Have: Celeste, Deana, DK, Ghzali, Green Ischia, Kadota, LSU Purple, Mission, VDB and a random purple fig from Portugal.

Egghead

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Posted 1431700327	Reply with quote #15

Josh -- I'm a variegated plant addict. If it's variegated, I'll probably buy it. ;-) __________________ -- Ione -- amazondoc on ebay -- http://www.eggheadhill.com (website coming eventually!) Lebanon, TN 6b/7a Figs (currently all babies): Atreano, Battaglia Green, Black Bethlehem, Desert King (Wellspring), Ischia Green (Wellspring), Janice, Kathleen's Black, Lattarula/Italian Honey (Wellspring), Letizia/Florea? (Wayside), LSU Black (PFTP), LSU Gold, LSU Purple, Lyndhurst White, Magnolia/Brunswick (Wellspring), Marseilles Black VS, Nero 600M, "North China"/Magnolia?, O'Rourke (PFTP), Olympian (Wellspring), Osborn, Panache (yay!), Peter's Honey, Petite Black Dwarf/Petite Negri? (Wellspring), Poppa John (PFTP), Red Lebanese (cuttings), Red Sicilian, Sal's (EL), Ronde de Bordeaux, Sicilian Black (Robin), Stella, Violette de Bordeaux (Wellspring) wishlist: Florea, Hollier, LaRadek English Brown Turkey, Rockaway Green, Smith, Vasilika Sika, Weeping Black, any Rimada -- and Jolly Tiger someday!

jkuo

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Posted 1431739613	Reply with quote #16

Most of what I've planted has gone in the last couple of years: Fruit: Blackberry - 2 types Blueberry - 9 varieties Bush Cherry White Currant Elderberry Goosberry - 2 types Jostaberry Goumi Jujube - 2 varieties Arctic Kiwi (kolomikta) Mulberry Paw Paw - 3 varieties, soon to be 4 Pears - 2 trees Asian Persimmon - to be planted as soon as I get my tree Raspberries - 16 varieties Juneberries Strawberry - 7 varieties Veggies: Asparagus Cherry tomatoes Zucchini Cucumbers Sweet potatoes Peas Bush beans Kale Swiss chard I want a greenhouse, but the boss shot down that idea. Something about the kids still needing a yard to play in. __________________ Johnny - Lancaster, PA, Zone 6b Plants I'm growing: Google Doc

pino

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Posted 1431750984	Reply with quote #17

There has been similar topics posted before (some very interesting things being grown); http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/what-else-do-you-grow-5792979?highlight=what+growing http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/What-else-do-you-grow-5009908 For my part I am growing way too many edibles and I am starting to reduce; Countless figs Prickly pear cactus including the cold hardy prickly pear native to the prairies and my area Blackberry, Blueberry, Currants, Elderberry, Goosberry, red raspberry blue and yellow plums yellow and white flesh peaches grapes (table, wine, seedless) Jujube seedlings Arctic Kiwi Mulberry sweet and sour cherries, black cherry Paw Paw seedling Pears, apples American Persimmon seedlings Carpathian walnuts, chestnuts (Chinese and American), hazelnuts pomegranate __________________ Pino, zone 6, Niagara, JCJ Acres Wish; Peace on earth and more figs Italian 258, Galicia Negra, Luv, trade suggestions welcome.

luteo

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Posted 1441079278	Reply with quote #18

Edibles: Lemon, Ruby Red Grapefruit, Valencia Orange, Cherimoya, basil, coffee, pineapple, Bay Laurel, figs, manzano banana, op tomatoes, kale, asparagus, chamomile, strawberries, passionflower, tea/camellia, leeks, elderberries, herbs Things I have killed: Tree collards, more citrus, adenium, plumeria, madder, avocado, mango Ornamentals: roses, agave, plumeria, various bonsai, orchids, platycerium ferns, african violets, philodendrons, monstera deliciosa, fig cousins the ornamental ficus, sensitive plant mimosa, Tea tree maleluca, aloe, jade, cacti, euphorbia, indigo, medinilla, poppies, aglaonema, cordyline, milkweed Looking to add: olives, brugmansia, blueberries, ylang ylang, hardy kiwi, terrestrial hardy orchids, wine grapes, anything for the bees, peaches, pomegranates, asian pears surely, there's more! __________________ Seghen Ohio Zone 6a Loading Doc: Panache, Vista, Aubique Petite, CDG, Takoma Violet Growing: Texas Everbearing, VDB, Desert King, Fico Pesco d'Oro, Unk. Calderwood/LSU Tiger Wish List: Red Israel, Italian 258, LSU Purple, Vasilika Sika, Valle Negra, Vesuviana Bianca, O'Rourke, Galicia Negra, Syrian Honey, Nero 600M, Souadi, Panevino Dark, Black Weeping, Sweet Joy, Red Lebanese Bekaa, LSU Gold, Panache, Bourjassot Rosa de la Senia, Genovese Nero

Shanejennings

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Posted 1452096982	Reply with quote #19

Hello, I was just curious if you got a pomegranate tree yet that was on your wish list? If so, what variety did you get? I live in Alabama. I love to grow anything fruit. Apples, pears, cherry, plum, persimmon, fig, peach, pomegranates. I now love growing pomegranates. I'm growing 67 varieties to see which takes the humidity best here in Alabama. If you want to know what I'm growing, check out my Facebook page Alabama Pomegranate Association. Also very curious what variety you are or plan on growing in Washington. Do you have a wet climate also? Thanks Shane

wwjbrickd

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Posted 1456779577	Reply with quote #20

Shane, I got some cuttings of the wonderful variety but now I'm having trouble getting them to root. It's very wet here in the winters but dry and cool in the summers. I'm renting so I plan to keep mine in a pot in my greenhouse so hopefully it won't be too much of an issue. __________________ Josh, WA zone 7/8 depending on who you ask Wish list: Anything I don't have Currently Have: Celeste, Deana, DK, Ghzali, Green Ischia, Kadota, LSU Purple, Mission, VDB and a random purple fig from Portugal.

elin

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Posted 1456780574 · Edited	Reply with quote #21

im growing only in pots 7-15 gallons: above 50 cultivars of figs Jujube1 loquats2 seedlings passion fruit apricot1 pomegranate1 plums1 Kari star fruit1 dragon fruit concord- isabella grape Choco sapote And a newcomer for the year a peach seedling i found growing in my potted figs :) Maybe ill buy a lychee this year. Shane Hi - ever heard of a large black pomegranate- Check my last shared FB post from Ariel Shay - a local Agronomer. https://www.facebook.com/ariel.shai.7/posts/10206218091154713?pnref=story __________________ Eli ,Israel ,Zone 10? Too humid and hot, yada yada yada https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1298814119 Growing: Sbayi, Hmadi, Black Portugal, Black Brazil,Excell, Flanders, Hmari , RDB, Niagra Black,Natalina, CDDN,Maya, Preto Torres, Preto Arge

bgli

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Posted 1456781178	Reply with quote #22

Hi and I am also interested in any cold hardy pomegranite cuttings or trees that anyone might have for sale. I live in Long Island NY zone 7 and tried rooting some pomegranite cuttings which developed leaves but have not seen any roots whatsoever. I have heard that Kazake pomegranite is a highly recommended cold hardy variety. Happy to pay for nice cuttings or small trees. Thanks __________________ Barry

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