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Post by castanea on Mar 2, 2012 1:39:22 GMT -5
Thanks for the update
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Post by cletus on May 7, 2013 18:47:30 GMT -5
How did the mauka do last year, Orflo? Is anyone in the States getting on propagating some Mauka so that we can start experimenting here? Looks like a great plant.
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Post by khoomeizhi on May 8, 2013 5:16:55 GMT -5
Is anyone in the States getting on propagating some Mauka so that we can start experimenting here? Looks like a great plant. x2 |
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Post by kevin8715 on Apr 8, 2014 0:19:21 GMT -5
Bump. Sounds like a nice crop for me during the winter. Heavily mulched of course
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Post by billw on Apr 8, 2014 5:48:43 GMT -5
Maybe not, as it seems to take a few years to get a good crop. I imagine it would be difficult to get it through your summers, but it is an uncommon plant, so who knows? Probably nobody has tried it in SoCal.
I have a batch of plants in tissue culture and I'm looking to plant them out in mid-May. Hopefully that will produce enough to share some this year.
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Post by kevin8715 on Apr 8, 2014 9:11:26 GMT -5
Yep. That is why I want to try it as a winter crop. Still dry but better. That's why I'm starting the main oca seed sowing in the fall. I suck at starting small seed outside of fall and winter. Of course the problem of over summering them is still there, if I want seed. It got to 95 yesterday.
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Post by richardw on Apr 8, 2014 15:06:12 GMT -5
Kevin ,i'm unsure if you'll have any luck growing Oca tubers during your winter been daylight depended,but hey,be great if you could pull it off.
Been trying to find out if mauka produces seed or not??
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Post by billw on Jun 16, 2015 2:44:35 GMT -5
Mauka produces seed abundantly under the right conditions. I'm still not exactly certain what those are, but one plant here has been flowering since February and has produced nearly 800 seeds, with quite a few still drying on the plant. It is still flowering, but looks like it is winding down.
Several other plants of the same variety and age, kept under exactly the same conditions, flowered briefly in February and then stopped. The only possible difference I can see is that the plant that flowered is in the corner of the greenhouse and may therefore get just a little less light.
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Post by kevin8715 on Jul 28, 2015 10:13:15 GMT -5
Mauka so far has proven its worth here in Southern California. It gets through the summers just fine as long as it is watered sufficiently. I am attempting 3 cuttings of my most mature plant and when they take root, I will harvest the plant, pictures for sure.
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