the craziest plant you grew in home

pon521

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hello there! I love growing different plants in home but those crazy/tropic/strange looking/exotic are the most exciting for me! I think that the most amazing and also challanging plant I have ever grown was kiwano! Fruits looked amazing; however, unfortunately plant withered after giving them. Next year I am going to buy strawberry corn seeds! Don't you think they look stunning? Have you heard about them? What plants of this kind have you grown on your own?
 

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Strawberry popcorn is pretty but I’d rather eat hulless.

Craziest-garden huckleberry. Amazing production of a bitter, worthless fruit.....
 

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I'm assuming the question is in the home, not at home?

Now: Kalamansi (a.k.a. calamondin) a miniature lime-like citrus. Sampaguita (Philippine jasmine) for its powerful, sweetly scented flowers... it is blooming like crazy now. Both of those shrubs will perfume the house when in bloom. Am trying to grow water spinach under lights this year, in an attempt to get seed.

Previously: We used to over-winter Moringa oleifera (a tree with many healthful properties) until the trees were 5-6 years old; but the small harvest wasn't worth the large hassle of moving the heavy pots back & forth. Now we just grow them in the garden en masse from transplants... they don't survive the freeze, but grow to 4-5', and we get several large harvests of leaves. We moved Egyptian spinach indoors once several years ago, in a successful attempt to get seed.
 

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Oh boy where do I start!

I've done Kiwano too (COMPLETELY indoors fruit included) when I was a kid.

In term of trees

Cinnamon (Cinnamonium Zeylancium) from sapling
Jambu from seed cluster
Lychee from seed
Malabar Chestnut from sapling
Grey Nickernut (Caesalpinia bonduc) from seed (needed an emery wheel to get through seed coat)
Conehead thyme (Cordiothymus capitatus)
Yuzu (Citrus junos)
Sudachi
Calamondin
Kumquat
Giant Bird of Paradise (currently about 10 feet tall)
I'm sure there are more but that's a good start.
 

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Gardenia. Originally $75.00 at grocery store gardening center, I bought it for $16.00
HA!! Paid for it at a self serve register with almost ALL pennies! :cool:
It did great outside, then slowly died INside. They are super fussy and need like laser bright light during the winter. I am not the only one who has failed with a gardenia. WOW, the flowers smell great!!
 

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Just to have a single flower this winter I am growing a Thumblina Zinnia to dispel the winter gloom.

Zinnia.jpg
 

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