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  1. solar1

    Store-bought Tomato

    tomato & sprout sandwich anyone?
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    Variegated Basil from Cutting

    You may think this is crazy but it really does help. Take you cuttings on the night of a full moon, at sunset or later. the next phase of the moon encourages root growth, opposed to the phases leading up to a full moon that encourage foliar growth,
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    I love living here

    My partner & I have 2 hectares of coffee farms, & a little house on a lot. The prices are on the rise, but I think it's a buyers market all around the world right now. I live in the mountains near Monteverde, in my town prices are still somewhat reasonable, anything near the beach you can just...
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    I love living here

    I'm a herper & the Fer de Lance is one snake I avoid, if I can. Sometimes it's in the field where I'm working & I have to move it, afterwards it's on my mind all day.
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    I love living here

    4 1/2 years, I've been coming down here once a year, since 98' In early 2006 I decided I'd had enough of the US for a while. Don't get me wrong, I love the US if you cut I bleed red, white, & blue, (which is a good thing because the CR flag is the same colors) It just got too expensive to...
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    free free castor bean seeds to the first to reply

    Like I said they're extremely effective for controlling moles so, if you know someone who has a mole problem, this is the answer.
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    I love living here

    Thankfully they're only active in the daytime, I encounter at least 1 a month in the spring, summer, & fall. This one looks like he just had a few fat rats.
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    free free castor bean seeds to the first to reply

    Castor oil trees are the BEST natural mole control!
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    reptiles

    Oh yeah it's got the typical Jungle attitude, that pic was in between strikes. that Bredli is beautiful, they're EXTREMELY RARE, in the US, the owners can be counted on 1 hand. I often wondered how common or rare hypomelanism was in Bredli, it seems to me all the pics Ive seen & the 1 in...
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    reptiles

    It's a colubrid, Erythrolamprus bizono, I think I spelled that correct, my memory aint what it used to be, they're mildly venomous but all the ones I've found have been very mellow unlike the false Fer de Lance, which is venomous also but very nervous. Yes, it's a Jungle. All the really high...
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    what's this pepper?

    No, but I'll take some as soon as it stops raining long enough. The rain is beating the hell out of it, in another month and a half, the wind starts.
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    what's this pepper?

    correction, it's over 6'
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    I love living here

    that is correct. I live in the mountains near Monteverde.
  14. solar1

    what's this pepper?

    I don't think so, the plant, is over 5' all I can find on Numex is around 2'-4'
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    what's this pepper?

  16. solar1

    reptiles

    Very pretty snake! You don't know how much I envy you, I would love to go herping there. Carpets are one of my favorite snakes. here's a baby from one of the pairs I bred, It's the only pic I have on the pc right now, a friend of mine is scanning some of my old pics for me now. the...
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    I love living here

    things like this just don't visit your yard in the US....... I Love these birds, it's called a Mmoto, the come back year after year & burrow into the dirt wall outside my dining room window & lay a few eggs Sloths are the coolest, this is in the front yard. I was petting this...
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    reptiles

    Hey Joe, Come across any northern pines out there, or black rats?
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    some of the fruits I growing & trying to grow

    If you ever need any coffee tips let me know, I'm no expert but, I know a good deal about growing it.
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    some of the fruits I growing & trying to grow

    If you check out the link, there's plenty of pics. Actually I don't have any pics at the moment because I just cut down all the coffee, we do it every 5-6 years, because it's all handpicked and the trees will get to tall to harvest. In a few months I'll take some pics for you, of everything...
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