Todays hunt results.

[Danny13]

Love those plums silver . Looks like a nice crop this year mate

 

[silver]

Love those plums silver . Looks like a nice crop this year mate

Would be ,.... could be ,.... but , unfortunately Dan it needs a mate apparently for cross pollination to produce the ripper crop we can both envisage going by the flowers. Not sure, but I think it may need to be a different tree too so I'm unsure if the cross pollination could occur from another tree grown by cutting from this one or not. I'd assume that they both would still be the one tree in effect ,... bit of a bugga that too cause my tree is a cutting from a tree where my parents used to live, and it took well and grew superbly without the need for grafting onto a stock root at all.
Maybe I'll have to grow up a few seedlings from it to get that bit of genetic biodiversity into availability for a good crop result. The Tropical plum that I have would be a hybrid at anyrate so any seedlings it produces won't be true to seed at all and would be a genetic mix of the original grandparent trees and that may be enough to get me over the line for a good crop in the long run ,.... or I could just stop being a scrooge and spend the money on one from a nursery and hope for it to be not the one and same as I already have ,... hopefully there would be a different type available after 25 years from when this ones mother woulda been created.
At any rate, I'm gunna do some cuttings from mine this comming winter when it's in hibernation. :Y:
but hey, I still get a dozen or so fruit a year from this one atm.

 

[Danny13]

Yeah first time I had even heard of a tropical plum tree. It's impressive with the amount of flowers Silver , reckon the branches would be hanging low with the weight of the fruit. If there is another tree in the neighbourhood pollination should'nt be an issue if the bees are doing their job . I heard of farmers in America hiring bee hives to pollinate their trees , might be an idea Silver ?

 

[ktmman]

They do that up here with the Macadamia trees,they are all in flower at the moment and there are 30-40 beehives placed near them.

 

[silver]

Someone is removing all the residential behives from towns. I hear on a grapevine that they are being boxed up and sold($400-$600 per hive) ,.... thus no more bee's in town limits.

 

[Danny13]

If your near bushland , you might get a few bees getting to the flowers

 

[silver]

I've been watching with due diligence and both normal and native bees are conspicuous by their almost total absence ,..... nothing like the bees of old through childhood, youthful & yesteryear days that danced around the flowers in busy droves.

 

[Danny13]

Yeah I remember getting stung in the backyard every so often when the clover was in flower . But your right with the abscence of bees in saburbia these days. And that might be the issue right there with the plums

 

[rocketaroo]

remember as a kid, mowing the lawn, and aiming at the bees in the clover. I hardly ever see bees, but plenty of wasps.

 

[silver]

Grevillea Robusta (silky oak)
Big enough tree
No bee's

lots of nectar in that lot
gives you good energy too
might just start my day with some of that lot when the sun comes up.
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how to find silver,........
8) look for the place with no bee's lol

 

[Danny13]

Makes a good timber tree also silver

 

[silver]

Sorry everyone no silver finds (crook with the flue and me backs gone on me too)
B U T, lol, the bananas have ripened

but being stooped over with my bad back I was unable to see they were ready ,.... but I knew when I heard the bats fighting over the booty (buuuuugga)

still, I got the most in the deal of nature (win win for me)
And I'll be much more vigilant on this lot

on a lighter note ,.... my mulberry tree is coming back with a vengeance after getting a severe chop.

just have a gecko at the size of some of these new leaves lol :Y:

and I better finish up with a beans update :Y:
growing pretty well

hopefully next time I'll have some fresh found silver to show.

 

[Heatho]

Looking good mate, hope you're feeling better soon. :Y:

 

[ktmman]

Beans are coming along nicely :Y:

 

[rocketaroo]

vege gardens are very satisfying things, your in the dirt, and can still pluck some silver.......beets!

 

[Bluecurrant]

Looks like you have a green thumb next to the silver one. I still miss eating bananas from my parents banana farm. Best tasting bananas when left to ripen on the stalk.

 

[silver]

Looking good mate, hope you're feeling better soon. :Y:

Thanks mate, getting to that stage where the twinges have abated but still a need to be carefull with the back just in case ,.... and that sore throat cough stuff up but it hurts stage of the flue.
Aussie Green Custard Flue ,... worst type yet I recon lol :Y: I'll be right soon enough though, just don't wanta pass it beyond me to anyone !

 

[silver]

Beans are coming along nicely :Y:

Ain't they just ,.... getting hungry for raw bean already just looking at them mate (which I do, just sit beside them n watch em grow) :Y:

 

[Ryan]

Might have to change your name from Silver to Mr Bean :lol:

 

[silver]

vege gardens are very satisfying things, your in the dirt, and can still pluck some silver.......beets!

Something about that playing in the dirt hey mate ,... we all got that in common in here !
:Y: :Y: