I have a fish room in my basement, it change out water almost 50 gallons of water everyday. it’s a waste not to use it. Beside, the aquarium has natural fish waste. That’s a good fertilizer. My fish room has an automatic water change system. The water was pumped into the fish tank and flow […]
Protecting fig trees from wild animals
Nothing more frustrated than watching the hard work getting destroyed by the wild animals. Some of them can be very destructive, chew up the tender leaves and devours the fruits that almost ripe. We waited and waited for the whole season (The time starting from the formation of figlet to ripe and go anywhere between […]
Painting pots
The pots can become really hot during summer. The temperature of the pot can easily go over 100 degree F while air temperature is just above 80 degree. The nursery pots are typically black. They absorbed radiation heat from the sun. This can push the temperature even higher. Sometimes, it can get so high that […]
Treating Ambrosia Beetle Infestation
Ambrosia beetles are small wood destroying insect. They belong to the weevil family. Ambrosia beetles excavate tunnel in wood and transmit fungal diseases to the infested trees. The trees eventually weaken and die. It’s easy to spot the Ambrosia beetles in the tree. As they infested a tree, they produce strands of boring dust. The […]
Modified Whip and Tongue Graft
The whip and tongue graft is best suited when the scion and root stock have similar diameters. I have a scion wood with about half of the diameter of the root stock. To use the whip and tongue with different diameter, I have two choices: align the scion on one size or make off the […]
Watering the cuttings
Figs are very easy to root from cuttings. In the beginning of the rooting process, we moisten the rooting media to stimulate the root development. Water can be uptake by the roots. The consumption of water will be further accelerated by the development of leaves. In additional, we will also need to water to compensate […]
Moving indoor grown plant to outdoor
It’s time to move the plants to outdoor when the spring has come. Several factors to be considered: Temperature: Is the temperature consistently above 45 degree but get ready to move the plant indoor when the temperature dropped below 40 degree. Old and fully lignified trees are more tolerant to colder temperature. Younger and tender […]
Up potting
My cuttings have been growing in the 32 oz cups for more than two months. Their roots need more space to grow. A good sign for the up potting is the roots growing out of bottom. I am using transparent cup. I can see circular root down the bottom. The root ball will remain intact […]
Propagate fig tree by grafting
Last August, I grafted Col da dame Blanca-Negra onto my Celeste root stock. it has formed callus and a solid graft. It’s been growing couple nodes. The process is slow but I am sure that the root stock is taking the scion wood. Today, I tried additional three different types of grafting: Whip-and-tongue graft, cleft […]