Recent content by chickenwhisperer

you know, I havent been to the state fair, tho I always keep meaning to go. I believe they moved it to July last year. I hear all kinds of things about the fair, from great to terrible. I especially hear if you want to go with kids/family to go during the week during the day. I know theres...

Im sorry but this is the coolest thing I have ever seen. I am going to try to grow 2 of these and then design a nice patio around them. Says it takes roughly 10 years to grow something like this, I got plenty of time. Where I live, lots of people walk their dogs and ride their bikes and go...

Wow, I had forgot I posted this. Come back to 3 pages! Nice. So my fruit tree came from Dave Wilson Nursery which is not too far from where I live here in Ca, I still havent found any evidence of these things producing fruits. But who knows, right... All i can do is try. This is Dave...

Saw them at the local nursery and they looked real good, to me anyways... I picked one up and its been in the ground since late january. Ive seen lots of videos on youtube of people planting these things, but cant seem to find anybody that has actually grown one to production with evidence that...

Thanks everybody, privet is the one i was looking for!

Hi everybody, been a nice short and easy winter here in the middle of Ca, looking more and more like spring each day, even if we got rain forecasted this week... Time to start thinking about some projects that need doing. I know nothing about hedges other than the fact that I need one that...

Lol, which thing is that, The usb scope or breeding spiders?

Mmmm, sweet tomato-fattened pheasant... My stomach just growled ;)

Its a Celestron Hand-held USB microscope model #44300 20-400x magnification clicks pics but not videos(tho I believe they make a video model too) I suggest getting yourself a usb extension cord because this needs to be plugged in to the computer to work(again, there prolly is a wireless model...

Yes, they damaged the plant leaves. I thought the vines were just dying, but I noticed some dirt-like crustiness on the upper leaves where dirt couldnt possibly get to. Took the leaf inside to the usb microscope and thats what I found on the underside. To my naked eye, these all look like little...

Thanks for that pic digits, looks like they are in fact aphids. They look really different than last time tho... The last ones I was able to get a pic with my camera phone, these ones are much too small to be photographed this way. I WANT TO BE CERTAIN THESE ARE NOT SPIDER MITES

Found these guys on the underside of my cantalope plant, Its not really growing anymore so I pulled it. But I still have other plants I dont want these guys to get into... I sprayed everything down with really soapy water also. I have only seen these on the one cantalope plant. I guess they...

Lets just say that Im not exactly sure this is going to work.... The melon is kinda boxy, but not like in the youtube videos... The plastic wasnt as strong as I thought, and Im afraid to put them in the glass tanks now... Maybe Ill just try the cinderblock method...

So I did not end up buying the ladybugs... Yesterday I sprayed again with the dishsoap(I dont have plain garlic right now, so I didnt add any) and water, and also cut off the most heavily infested blossoms. Today I see very few aphids. Ill keep up the spraying until I see none.

Im having the same dilema. I hand pollinated about 20 of them, but I know my containered plant cant handle that many. I think Im gonna remove more than half and leave myself with say 6-8. Im also going to make sure there is not more than 2 on each individual vine. I staggered the pollination...