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I live in Florida 10 b my dwarf cavendish flowered 8/2 thank you for the info. ❤

Your sand info is super interesting. #Toppot

The sound cuts out around 42:00

osmocote says its released by temp not time 🤔

Excellent content, audio is awful.

They Call It Mellow Yellow

This is my challenge hobby crop. Growing banana to fruit in Seattle area. 7 varieties in my collection. My second summer and hoping for a flower soon.

My Dwarf Hawaiian put its flower out on the first day of summer. Hoping to get ripe fruit by the time night time temperatures drop below 50 degrees in late October. Just noticed my Gran Nain put its flower out today, probably too late for good fruit this time.

Are Cavendish the kind you can smoke?

Take another week off, so that we get another Leah class.

Gary is back. He is wearing the denim shirt. All is right in the world.

Thanks Gary! For me in NorCal Praying Hands & Raja Puri have been the most impressive bananas for me in terms of performance.

I'm familiar with most of this but it is always a joy listening to Gary speak. Along with dwarf Brazilian, another excellent variety for our area is the tall and dwarf Namwah. It leans a little but still very wind resistant and won't tip over. It's a very versatile variety. Excellent ripe fruit, excellent cooked fruit, and excellent flower blossom to be used as a vegetable with no bitterness or off flavors.

Gophers certainly know what they are

Uncanny resemblance. She looks just like Gary, with braids.

Almost all school of gardening thoughts always advised to follow the dictum of "feed the soil and not the plant" for successful gardening. And one of the best way to feed the soil is by top dressing any soil ( clay included ) with a layer of compost mulch, as it promotes soil life and fertility by providing feed to microorganisms. It's the worms and microorganisms that aerates the soil and make it rich in oxygen. Although I get that mixing compost in clay soil will not be a good idea , but top dressing with compost should be. Right ?

Is there a specific sand you recommend? Pool filter sand? Playground sand? Quickrete All-purpose sand? Decomposed granite?

I get that compost shouldn't be mixed with clay soil. But what about top dressing such soil with compost as a 3-4" mulch layer ? This would improve soil structure overtime as it will promote soil life and also helps retain moisture due to a thick mulch layer . Is it advisable to follow this route ?

You sound like a robot

Thank you for all the information. I have many containers plants. Change my whole worldview on potting mix. Now, I need to go change all of them out as they are all sitting in potting mix I got from the store.

I purchased about a dozen Avo. trees from Gary's in little orange sleeves. I planted it straight in the grown on a mound. The trees were tiny and that was last year. This year most of the trees are fruiting. Gem, Carmen, Gwen, Gillogly, the trees is loaded with fruits and is hanging on to the fruits. I have to thin most of the fruit out. Gillogly fruits is about 4inch long at the moment. It is growing super fast. I am in Zone 8b Paso Robles Ca. elevation 2000 with calcarious clay soil. Hopefully next year the rest of trees will be bigger and able to hold more fruits. Including lots of my B varieties is producing fruits. I also have Florida varieties, Choquette, Oro Negro, Oh La La/Super Hass, Catilina, Monroe, Improve Pollock & Miguel. My Reed, Hass, Sir Prize, Lamb, Hellen, Choquette, Jan Boyce, Bacon, Edranol, Bonny Doon is holding fruits. My Oro Negro, Nabal, Queen, also fruiting this year. But all of the fruits dropped. Those trees is only two years old. Will be interesting to see next year with the trees being older to see how many trees will hold fruits ? The only tree didn't flower this year is Nimlioh. I planted most of my trees on a mound mix with sand & native soil and gypsum, with lots of leaves cutting & wood chip on top. Thanks Gary, you are very knowledgeable. Gary can you explain why all of my Avocado trees survive snow that lasted three day long without any protection Feb 25, 2023 ??? including young newly planted avocados & lime, key lime, lemon, orange, pomelos, lychee, longan, without any burn to the leaves ??? I have photos to prove it.

Name these books.

I would like to hear her reiterate what Gary says about global warming and having a kid turn out to be a jerk.

Great class !!! Thankyou from the east coast

Where are all the props? The soil samples, rebar, bags of top pot? Where's Gary's rock?

Audio always seems to be an issue! ❤Gary!!! He’s a treasure

Amazing. Gary spends 2 hours on every class. Leah knocks it out in half the time.

I use 3m micro pore tape very tacky but won’t rip any thing off even early on tape removal but it’s also has air flow through the tape great for grafting imho 😊

Where's the denim shirt?

BRONDO ITS WHAT PLANTS NEED, IT HAS ELOCTROLYTES.. a lot of you won’t get this some will

Thanks!

Does Charcoal same as Lump charcoal for BBQ ? Can I just buy the lump charcoal to add on it.

What size of perlite should I use ?

This is the video I share***

Growing all 3 in our backyard! Jackfruit, Lychee & several varieties of white Sapote! ❤helpful video. Take Care

Thank you Garry so adding compost to soil isn’t really helping anything?

Can you grow a new orange tree from an old one? HOW? From graft or seed ?

Is this potting mix good for Japanese Maple?

Gary with the fuckin conspiracies. Prove the climate scientists wrong and get a noble prize.

Which Amdro ant bait is he referring to? Thanks🙏🙏🙏

Have you tried rice hulls/husks in potting soil? Do you use it instead of peat moss?

Interesting tutorial. The sound of your voice is good to hear. Other plants grow in compost include squash varieties. Perhaps the warmth of the pile helps those seeds overwinter in Canada. Reclaiming deserts for plant growth utilizes manure for fertilizer since sand has next to none. Ok for some cactus maybe. Coconut coir killed some of my plants. Some mushrooms only grow where there was previously a fire. Potash is part of the big 3 fertilizer nutrients. Wood chips take years to break down. We are not stuck using this stuff. Some premium soil brands also dump non composted chunks of wood into their bags. The wood uses the available nitrogen in the soil to degrade and sucks it away from the plants causing leaves to yellow and or die. I sift my bagged soil prior to using it and pulled out a surprising 25 to 60% lumber branches up to 2 inches thick and 8 inches long what i repurposed as kindling. Some bagged soil brands are worse than others. A professional soil sold by the bale was filtered by the manufacturer better than what they put into smaller bags of the same soil brand mixture. I guess they figure larger purchasers know what they are doing more than occasional gardeners who buy less soil.

I don't think it's the soil that's the problem. It's the different plants with different needs. I live in South Africa and grew up in a Tropical area. That was no sandy area. The soil was red. Red clay. My grandmother used to say I have green fingers. I could take a leave, a twig, a pip, anything I stuffed in the ground grew. As I was just a child. I would shuff it in the ground and left it. Not thinking to water it. We had three avocado trees that where loaded with fruit. And not the tiny ones that are sold in shops. It was the huge big creamy flech ones.We had to different types of mangos. Apricots, A naartjie tree that where so loaded with fruits. We just could not eat all. A dwarf coffee tree. A orange tree loaded, guava trees, White and pink. Two ruff skinned lemon trees also loaded. A pomagrate, a quince, Tall banana trees and dwarf banana trees, The big round pawpaw trees. Male pawpaw trees with the fruits hanging a meter down on a thin string. Taro green and purple plants. A Maroela tree. And delicious monster that also had the most tastiest fruit. Catobwa grapes and white grapes. All had fruits. Al year long we could not eat it all. So I believe that different plants ant trees might need different soil. Maybe try plant your avocados 🥑 in clay soil. And if the leaves turn yellow it's a shortage of calsium. Try egg shells if shells take to long to break down. That's another story that people killing snails for doing their. They do their job, then die and turn to compost. Adding nutrients to the soil and probably a type of acid from their slim. And their shells put calsium into the soil. So where I grew up nature did it's thing and we did not use insecticides. The best way to put back a specific plants nutrients is it's own leaves. Unless it short some nutrients. Always remember anything you buy is a money making thing. So if something dont work. Try something diffrent.

Audio is absolutely terrible, but the contents are great need to fixed audio , some of the other videos including this video volume are ways to low and not clear maybe need a better microphone thx

You offer excellent info on gardening - for your area!. Here in Georgia, our basic soil is mostly clay and one of the best way to improve our soil is adding compost.

It’s amazing these people commenting haven’t actually listened to what he is saying.

We bought a property with a dwarf navel stock grafted with a Valencia. It is now at least 40 years old and produces 3 or 4 crops of the best oranges every year we give them away to everyone we know & still have more than we can eat. It is clay rocky soil we only add charcoal from our wood fireplace & fish fertilizer twice a year. We water 3ft away from the trunk. Only one crop was ruined by big locust in all that time. But recovered in 2 months! I've lived in FL & CA and I've only seen 2 dwarf trees in yards this good and we never had to prune height but they do take up 8 to 12 ft in width. Amazing ❤😊🎉

mission control this is Gary over on the dark side of the moon, how is my audio?

I would pay to hear Gary speak clearly. Just setup a patreon or membership page already and we will chip in for a proper microphone