Recent content by Drunken Bee

Thought I’d share where I ended up….this is a crafting storage box designed for holding beads and stuff….

Not sharing seedling development photos because they’re not developing. I struggled with temperature control this year and now am grappling fungus gnats too. 😞

Pruned back Aji melocoton this morning. She needs a feed but this gives some feel for scale Meanwhile Oculto clef is also thinking about flowering. This is a much more vining type rocoto than most I’ve grown:

The joys of overwintering - Chocolate XPS…. This is made all the more pertinent by the fact my seedlings are growing at a glacial perspective

Chocolate CPS still looking very healthy after a long winter and oculto clef firing out new growth. Pubescens and Baccatum seem perfectly placed to do well in the climate the greenhouse provides here - hence my desire to build out my collection of them (and their wild relatives). Having big...

for what its worth, I've found flex very hard to germinate. I've tried fresh seed from berries, seed from a few different sources and I've really struggled, more so than I have with any other wild. I do have seed coming up at present though so perhaps there is or was something about my process...

The Flex is up and leafing out nicely. First annums went in this morning: - Thunder Cacho Brown - Pippin's Golden Honey (have decided I'm definitely gonna have a real think about doing a Horace Pippin tribute grow next year) - Petit Marseillais Still to go: - Capia - Romanian Sweet -...

Baby flexuosum after a load of failures. Please let the seed cap come off 🤞🤞🤞🤞

Wow that is quite a greenhouse! 😲 It’s pretty special - I’m just renting a bit of it but I’d love to someday own one and live out all my tropical plant dreams at once!

Not sure what’s prompted it but despite the cold snap this little Florida wild bird has decided to grow full speed ahead and he started pushing flowers in January!

A slight cold-fried dwarf Brazilian banana Some ripe turkey berries / devils figs / Thai pea eggplants. Poisonous at this stage as I understand it. We eat them green. slightly grumpy tamarillo and very grumpy red dacca bananas not enjoying this week's cold! You can see some physallis...

Since people expressed an interest in what else I’m growing I thought I’d share a few pictures…. The most successful thing are these physalis ground cherries/ physallis - they were here when I got here and are a massive pain to be honest… They take over and perennialise in the greenhouse and if...

alas frost today and snow last week. I've not dared look in the greenhouses yet!

It's a beast isn't it? I only have a little section - most of it is operated by someone who grows indigo commercially. My section has bananas, figs, tamarillo, mountain papaya and passiflora as well as a few other bits and is a sort of ramshackle foodforest in a greenhouse in design.

Some baby rocotos…. Mini olive and de la selva rojo Arequipa