Sometimes when it’s very hot and dry, the pollen is not viable, maybe a lack of pollinators also due to the weather. Anyway it’s all looking very green and undesertlike and very lovely. It’s lovely to see it evolve😊
@@WestTexasGardenExperiment my patch is doing well at the moment, the last two years have been very good for rain, this spring so far has been very wet. The past year or so has been quite busy for me personally, and I struggle to get motivated to post the photos as it takes so long, but I have taken photos, and I would like to post some as it still gets brown in the summer, but has also been much greener and less bare in the cooler months. Soon maybe 😏
I like what you are doing here. I am in the Lubbock area lookin to relocate out towards Crosbyton and grab a few acres. I am very fascinated with your channel as I was looking to do some experimenting myself. I am a native but lived half my life farming a bit back east some and want to green up the property and have something to eat. Thanks for sharing what you do. Look forward to more videos from you.
@@WestTexasGardenExperiment git yours while you can brother, my channel not going anywhere. I love your updates, how does your hugelkulture work with no rain? I'm currently digging up mine,not enough moisture to break it down. All the wood ,joshua trees ,which are soft didn't break down any. I believe they actually hurt the area it was in . Robbing nutrients and water from anything I planted there.
@@ourrockydreamontheelephant4188 how long have you had the hugelkultur? Are they above ground or below? One thing I abandoned any above ground hugel because of what you say with it being too dry. The below ground seems to be doing ok, but I also planted wildflowers on top, and periodically spray that with the hose wand to help keep it more moist. I also have a tree in the middle of my hugel pits that receive drip irrigation once or twice a week.
@@ourrockydreamontheelephant4188 did you bury your wood below ground, or is it in an above ground mound? Also, did you frequently water the area where the wood was covered up?
@@WestTexasGardenExperiment yeah,it was above ground, the pits seem to work better. We only get 5 inches per year and I'm trying a type of dry farming. We only water twice a week and very little at that. 2 quarts per plant per week and 2 gallons per week on the trees.
I wrote a comment and it got autodeleted (so check spam bin) and this is part of it. consider adding NPK, fish-blood-bone powder and labellling trial pots indoors with some hand-pollinated and some outdoors by bees/butterflies. Use inuque codes per potted plant and log water diaries in a book against ecah unique plant code. Passion Fruit (Passiflora edulis) Perennial: TLDR, It is doable and you'd probably do the following as in hand pollinate with a wee paintbrush but also check soil nutirents, light wavelength (day duration such as using a blackout cover or moving them in pots indoors), moisture and nutrients in soil and have different plant origin cuttings nearby each other for bumper crops _(labelling them a unique number each if possible, maybe logged in a notebook too with a column-row to show what plant was their forbear)._ (end TLDR) Fruit is part of the reproductive system of a plant, and comes after the pollinaton of the flower _(often by an insect between two plants nearby each other and not the same cutting as in genetically too close)._ Before that, the flower must exist, and before that, the plant must have the resources (e.g. bone meal added to the soil for a gooseberry) and then stress (which like you say can involve heat/conditions forcng a plant to bolt in length to make a flower and also humidity can affect it and so forth). Bumper crops in fruit can come from placing near to each other two plants (known for sure to be different enough to not be of the same cuttings). It is preferable to not have identical cuttings growing near to each other instead of a mix of cuttings, although it is fine generally to have lots of both 9becaus eventually nough "different and same" plants will mix pollen from insects to fruit). Plants lacking suitable insects to interact with the shape and scent and UV/colour frequencies of the flower (petals around a stamen, stigma etc.) can be pollinated by hand and some gardeners use a feather. However, a cotton-swab or small paint brush is a commonplace choice for successful hand pollination of a passion flower. Get an approximate idea of what makes a passion flower shape the way it is by glancing at a photo of a how-to guide online showing hand pollination with a cotton-swab or small paint brush and you will notice the flower has a shape to gently aim for with the brush/swab. You can "count backwards" the tree of life (classical taxonomy) to notice that thet "family" of a plant will indicate the shape of the flower. This makes sense if you think about it because the reproductive system of the plant (in this case a flower) is where family would logically come from. The taxonomy letters go like this. KPCOFGS. That is "Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species". Then you might get a "cultivar" for say a particular apple tree or whatevr the species of edible plant is. So for the passion flower, it would be in Passiflora (genus) edulis. So the family is Passifloraceae. Whatever creatures pollinate those might pollinate your passionfruit. Bees do go for them and are in photos. Not only does a dryness or moisture (and temperature) stress a plant into flowering but also so does wavelength of light such as an increased red on the rainbow at thet end of some summer perhaps instead of blue long days. The wavelength of light from the Sun (and moisture etc.) will be "compatible" or incompatible with a given insect you are after. Passifloraceae tend to be somewhat South America but it is broad in range so you might not do too bad for natural pollinators in Texas. Easily, you'd find five different species of bees pollinate the aforementioned passion fruit in Brazil. A pollinator includes Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) frontalis. Xylocopa mordax Smith is another bee that can poiilnate it. The bee gets pollen stuck to its "hairs". If a flower (perhaps this is similar with passion flower) is too well fed such as in soil, it will stay lush and green and won't stress enough from mild starvation to bolt into a great length to make a flower in an attempt to survive by means of reproduction (or if it does it might do so too late). In te trpoics, bees, birds and bats tend to pollinate things. Plants can change sex when besides each other if say no other plant is around to be that opposite sex plant. Look up keywords "Flower, Calyx, Corolla, androecium, Gynoecium", and then "pollination Modes and Pollinators" (such as the transfer of pollen from anther to stigma). My comment has no hate in it and I do no harm. I am not appalled or afraid, boasting or envying or complaining... Just saying. Psalms23: Giving thanks and praise to the Lord and peace and love. Also, I'd say Matthew6.
Congratulations, I think you set the record for the longest RUclips reply ever! Seriously though, I do need to experiment more with hand pollination. I have three varieties of passionflower, so it will just be a matter of waiting until a couple of varieties are blooming at the same time. I wonder if the lack of humidity here may be part of the issue 🤷♂️
@@WestTexasGardenExperiment People grow them without the desired humidity and so I think your chances of success are perfectly possible without needing to worry too much on that part. For humidity, it probably has an effect but only so much. Leaves photosynthesize when light _(which btw is also heat, like infrared)_ of a given wavelength triggers some biological mechanism (sometimes an inhibitor hormone breaking down) to stress the plant into flowering stages. Leaves are generally green to "bounce off" the ligt that won't do that thing ( and other light that does or does not do another "thing", etc.). Considering people (rather cleverly) manage to get a passion fruit fruiting indoors in the British Isles, in Texas, you'd be able to nail it. I really do think you have a high chance of success with some tweaks. People use lamps to trigger a plant to do "thing" ABC _(altering a wavelength colour versus the amount of light and dark hours per day, and so on, combined with water levels changing)_ when making a flower or plant create a burgeoning reproductive part of a plant, etc. Think for example of forcing a rhubarb to bolt under a dark bucket upturned. My comment i managed to get to you clearly has typos and is out of my copy-paste and I reckon you can figure out my typos like a "9" where there would be a "(" parenthesis. Bits that were missed out (IIRC) are the need to avoid breaking the flower, and really though you'd fathom what to do when glancing at a how-to guide. So the typo "inuque codes" is "unique codes" so I mean you would write a unique code you invent like ABC123 vs ABC 124 and so on (showing thet parent plant where possible) for every plant in a pot. As soon as you see a how-to photo or video you will already gather what I wrote in my high wordcount. The thing I was trying to add (from myself) though is that a logbook you write on paper (or in a spreadsheet in libreoffice) could have a simple table (rows and columns) where you write the unique-code of thet plant in a pot and the time-date stamp that you did a thing _(like add nutirents to a soil such as NPK or watering or hand-pollinating)._ It is really just to save you time by doing that. Also blah blah waldpit this... blah blah waldpit that. You get the idea of what my comment could have been like in the utopian timeline had this autodelete tragedy not befallen our humble gardening community. Humbly now, I must fly. My people need me. Also waldpit. p.s. caliche layer removal.
Hello, I work in a French consulting company located in the south of the country. We are in charge of the storage and composting of invasive alien plants in a national park near Marseille (mostly oponcia and agaves). Although we are specialized in composting sewage sludge and biomass in general, we have never composted oponcia before. The bibliography on the topic is very poor, and your videos have been a source of information for us. Can we get in touch by email to ask you some questions on the subject? Thank you very much Thomas
Sometimes when it’s very hot and dry, the pollen is not viable, maybe a lack of pollinators also due to the weather. Anyway it’s all looking very green and undesertlike and very lovely. It’s lovely to see it evolve😊
Thank you! How's your garden been doing? I haven't seen you post an update in a couple of years.
@@WestTexasGardenExperiment my patch is doing well at the moment, the last two years have been very good for rain, this spring so far has been very wet. The past year or so has been quite busy for me personally, and I struggle to get motivated to post the photos as it takes so long, but I have taken photos, and I would like to post some as it still gets brown in the summer, but has also been much greener and less bare in the cooler months. Soon maybe 😏
I understand not having the time or motivation to make garden videos. I’ve struggled with this quite a bit the past couple of years.
It’s looking great 👍🏼 I think I started watching your channel near the beginning. Keep up the good work 🪴
Thanks, Tina!
that fig tree looks really healthy and the jalapeno plant also looking really good.
Thanks, the figs are doing awesome since I put that drip irrigation on them! I’m hoping the winter isn’t so bad it kills them to ground this year.
I like what you are doing here. I am in the Lubbock area lookin to relocate out towards Crosbyton and grab a few acres. I am very fascinated with your channel as I was looking to do some experimenting myself. I am a native but lived half my life farming a bit back east some and want to green up the property and have something to eat. Thanks for sharing what you do. Look forward to more videos from you.
Hello, glad you have found my channel useful!
Looks great.
Thanks! I need to check out your channel again to see how it's going out in the desert; I haven't had time to watch much RUclips lately.
@@WestTexasGardenExperiment git yours while you can brother, my channel not going anywhere. I love your updates, how does your hugelkulture work with no rain? I'm currently digging up mine,not enough moisture to break it down. All the wood ,joshua trees ,which are soft didn't break down any. I believe they actually hurt the area it was in . Robbing nutrients and water from anything I planted there.
@@ourrockydreamontheelephant4188 how long have you had the hugelkultur? Are they above ground or below? One thing I abandoned any above ground hugel because of what you say with it being too dry. The below ground seems to be doing ok, but I also planted wildflowers on top, and periodically spray that with the hose wand to help keep it more moist. I also have a tree in the middle of my hugel pits that receive drip irrigation once or twice a week.
@@ourrockydreamontheelephant4188 did you bury your wood below ground, or is it in an above ground mound? Also, did you frequently water the area where the wood was covered up?
@@WestTexasGardenExperiment yeah,it was above ground, the pits seem to work better. We only get 5 inches per year and I'm trying a type of dry farming. We only water twice a week and very little at that. 2 quarts per plant per week and 2 gallons per week on the trees.
I wrote a comment and it got autodeleted (so check spam bin) and this is part of it. consider adding NPK, fish-blood-bone powder and labellling trial pots indoors with some hand-pollinated and some outdoors by bees/butterflies. Use inuque codes per potted plant and log water diaries in a book against ecah unique plant code.
Passion Fruit (Passiflora edulis) Perennial:
TLDR, It is doable and you'd probably do the following as in hand pollinate with a wee paintbrush but also check soil nutirents, light wavelength (day duration such as using a blackout cover or moving them in pots indoors), moisture and nutrients in soil and have different plant origin cuttings nearby each other for bumper crops _(labelling them a unique number each if possible, maybe logged in a notebook too with a column-row to show what plant was their forbear)._
(end TLDR)
Fruit is part of the reproductive system of a plant, and comes after the pollinaton of the flower _(often by an insect between two plants nearby each other and not the same cutting as in genetically too close)._ Before that, the flower must exist, and before that, the plant must have the resources (e.g. bone meal added to the soil for a gooseberry) and then stress (which like you say can involve heat/conditions forcng a plant to bolt in length to make a flower and also humidity can affect it and so forth).
Bumper crops in fruit can come from placing near to each other two plants (known for sure to be different enough to not be of the same cuttings). It is preferable to not have identical cuttings growing near to each other instead of a mix of cuttings, although it is fine generally to have lots of both 9becaus eventually nough "different and same" plants will mix pollen from insects to fruit).
Plants lacking suitable insects to interact with the shape and scent and UV/colour frequencies of the flower (petals around a stamen, stigma etc.) can be pollinated by hand and some gardeners use a feather. However, a cotton-swab or small paint brush is a commonplace choice for successful hand pollination of a passion flower.
Get an approximate idea of what makes a passion flower shape the way it is by glancing at a photo of a how-to guide online showing hand pollination with a cotton-swab or small paint brush and you will notice the flower has a shape to gently aim for with the brush/swab. You can "count backwards" the tree of life (classical taxonomy) to notice that thet "family" of a plant will indicate the shape of the flower. This makes sense if you think about it because the reproductive system of the plant (in this case a flower) is where family would logically come from. The taxonomy letters go like this.
KPCOFGS. That is "Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species". Then you might get a "cultivar" for say a particular apple tree or whatevr the species of edible plant is.
So for the passion flower, it would be in Passiflora (genus) edulis. So the family is Passifloraceae. Whatever creatures pollinate those might pollinate your passionfruit. Bees do go for them and are in photos. Not only does a dryness or moisture (and temperature) stress a plant into flowering but also so does wavelength of light such as an increased red on the rainbow at thet end of some summer perhaps instead of blue long days. The wavelength of light from the Sun (and moisture etc.) will be "compatible" or incompatible with a given insect you are after. Passifloraceae tend to be somewhat South America but it is broad in range so you might not do too bad for natural pollinators in Texas. Easily, you'd find five different species of bees pollinate the aforementioned passion fruit in Brazil. A pollinator includes Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) frontalis. Xylocopa mordax Smith is another bee that can poiilnate it. The bee gets pollen stuck to its "hairs". If a flower (perhaps this is similar with passion flower) is too well fed such as in soil, it will stay lush and green and won't stress enough from mild starvation to bolt into a great length to make a flower in an attempt to survive by means of reproduction (or if it does it might do so too late). In te trpoics, bees, birds and bats tend to pollinate things.
Plants can change sex when besides each other if say no other plant is around to be that opposite sex plant. Look up keywords "Flower, Calyx, Corolla, androecium, Gynoecium", and then "pollination Modes and Pollinators" (such as the transfer of pollen from anther to stigma).
My comment has no hate in it and I do no harm. I am not appalled or afraid, boasting or envying or complaining... Just saying. Psalms23: Giving thanks and praise to the Lord and peace and love. Also, I'd say Matthew6.
Congratulations, I think you set the record for the longest RUclips reply ever! Seriously though, I do need to experiment more with hand pollination. I have three varieties of passionflower, so it will just be a matter of waiting until a couple of varieties are blooming at the same time. I wonder if the lack of humidity here may be part of the issue 🤷♂️
@@WestTexasGardenExperiment People grow them without the desired humidity and so I think your chances of success are perfectly possible without needing to worry too much on that part. For humidity, it probably has an effect but only so much. Leaves photosynthesize when light _(which btw is also heat, like infrared)_ of a given wavelength triggers some biological mechanism (sometimes an inhibitor hormone breaking down) to stress the plant into flowering stages. Leaves are generally green to "bounce off" the ligt that won't do that thing ( and other light that does or does not do another "thing", etc.).
Considering people (rather cleverly) manage to get a passion fruit fruiting indoors in the British Isles, in Texas, you'd be able to nail it. I really do think you have a high chance of success with some tweaks.
People use lamps to trigger a plant to do "thing" ABC _(altering a wavelength colour versus the amount of light and dark hours per day, and so on, combined with water levels changing)_ when making a flower or plant create a burgeoning reproductive part of a plant, etc. Think for example of forcing a rhubarb to bolt under a dark bucket upturned.
My comment i managed to get to you clearly has typos and is out of my copy-paste and I reckon you can figure out my typos like a "9" where there would be a "(" parenthesis. Bits that were missed out (IIRC) are the need to avoid breaking the flower, and really though you'd fathom what to do when glancing at a how-to guide.
So the typo "inuque codes" is "unique codes" so I mean you would write a unique code you invent like ABC123 vs ABC 124 and so on (showing thet parent plant where possible) for every plant in a pot. As soon as you see a how-to photo or video you will already gather what I wrote in my high wordcount.
The thing I was trying to add (from myself) though is that a logbook you write on paper (or in a spreadsheet in libreoffice) could have a simple table (rows and columns) where you write the unique-code of thet plant in a pot and the time-date stamp that you did a thing _(like add nutirents to a soil such as NPK or watering or hand-pollinating)._ It is really just to save you time by doing that.
Also blah blah waldpit this... blah blah waldpit that. You get the idea of what my comment could have been like in the utopian timeline had this autodelete tragedy not befallen our humble gardening community. Humbly now, I must fly. My people need me.
Also waldpit.
p.s. caliche layer removal.
Hello,
I work in a French consulting company located in the south of the country. We are in charge of the storage and composting of invasive alien plants in a national park near Marseille (mostly oponcia and agaves). Although we are specialized in composting sewage sludge and biomass in general, we have never composted oponcia before. The bibliography on the topic is very poor, and your videos have been a source of information for us. Can we get in touch by email to ask you some questions on the subject?
Thank you very much
Thomas
Hello, I’d be glad to help if I can. I left my email exposed for a day. Let me know if you didn't get it. Thanks