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Post by Tiirsys on May 20, 2014 21:22:19 GMT -5
My dog is pretty awesome. Her name is Alarah.
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Post by steev on May 20, 2014 23:27:30 GMT -5
I will have a dog again, one day, Inshallah!
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Post by kevin8715 on May 21, 2014 20:07:06 GMT -5
aw, nuts, got there too late. they're gone already... so i'm just growing yacon (probably around 300 plants this year) and oca (this variety of which can struggle in the heat here) this year. still looking for mauka, arracacha, and a more heat-tolerant oca. Looks like I was the last one to get them. Keep it bookmarked or something to check back in a couple of months. He recommend cactus soil for planting Andean tubers to reduce rot in tubers. His source is actually also Peace Seedlings, so if you get some from there don't bother from this source. A little sidetrack is I also might get Incan peanuts which require a 8 month growing season which I luckily have.  |
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Post by kevin8715 on May 22, 2014 20:56:17 GMT -5
Got some mauka seeds. Around 40. I will probably plant 10 right now and 10 in the fall.
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Post by Tiirsys on May 30, 2014 16:23:31 GMT -5
Yesssssss. My Mauka cuttings are growing some roots, finally. 'Cept that guy on the right. That one needs to catch up!  |
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Post by kevin8715 on May 30, 2014 19:22:11 GMT -5
One is up I think (compost in mix).  |
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Post by billw on Jun 1, 2014 12:17:51 GMT -5
I love seeing all the mauka activity! I hope you guys have better luck getting them established than I have. Here's the first oca flower of 2014 - almost a month earlier than last year. I hope that bodes well for the season.  The variety is one of orflo's (I think), but came to me mislabeled from another person, so I don't know what to call it. Maybe I'll be able to figure it out after harvest. It has a light pink tuber and is mid-styled. |
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Post by billw on Jun 3, 2014 12:21:51 GMT -5
Now getting flowers from oca varieties Sunset, Dylan Keating's, and "New Zealand Heirloom 2," so I guess oca flowering season has officially begun. I'm not even done planting yet!
By the way, after the disappointing start to the season, with a lot of my seedlings getting killed by wind, things have really bounced back. I have about 500 seedlings with multiple stems now and some are outpacing the plants started from tubers, so my optimism is recharged. Once they get a second stem, they've passed the vulnerable stage.
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Post by billw on Jun 5, 2014 13:53:24 GMT -5
Not a lot of information collected yet, but for the curious, here is a list of all the new ocas growing this year: artcwiki.cultivariable.com/index.php/Cv:Oca_Variety_Index(Long page, lots of pictures, probably slow to load.) This is what remains after nature did a first pass selection back in April that killed about half my seedlings. It is always tough to lose plants, particularly considering the amount of work that goes into getting the crosses, but hopefully that means I'm already making progress toward better adapted lines. Things seem stable at this point - some are growing quickly and some slowly, but they are all growing without any intervention on my part. Harvest will be a challenge. |
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Post by Tiirsys on Jun 6, 2014 0:06:27 GMT -5
No flowers for me yet. Though I do have a potato about to flower.
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Post by khoomeizhi on Jun 6, 2014 4:41:59 GMT -5
sacred succulents has both arracacha and mauka available now, but they're pretty spendy and limited to one per customer.
got nearly 400 yacon in the ground so far, nearly time to stop planting.
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Post by cesarz on Jun 6, 2014 19:29:23 GMT -5
Downunder, it is harvest time; Andean Harvest  |
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Post by philagardener on Jun 6, 2014 19:39:18 GMT -5
What a rainbow! Those are beautiful!
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Post by steev on Jun 6, 2014 20:18:35 GMT -5
I'm impressed and encouraged.
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Post by billw on Jun 6, 2014 22:12:26 GMT -5
Downunder, it is harvest time; Andean Harvest The one on the left is impressive. |
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