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[Sea Mac]

That Hummingbird DID IT!

I took this picture this evening:


Oh, yeah!

Isabell here and that Hummingbird are fixin to have a shotgun wedding ... 

Find the ripening seeds in this Photo ...  

[Sea Mac]

The Severe storm we had Sunday Ripped up my ancient tarp right down the middle.

Finally, Sunday night, a 30+ MPH Gust blew my 4 prodigies over into a train wreck

Sally, Sammy, Sweetie, and Queenie all collapsed in a big tangled heap across the walkway and onto the Fence (fence at my back)! I was upset!



I finally got Sally untangled and set upright again:

and then I had to sort out these 3 giant plants ...


Tried to patch up the tarp from up on the roof ....

I just got another 6 or 7 plants ... Presuming all those snapped off branches put roots out! 

[Arcygenical]

Agh!!!

How were the seeds?!

[Sea Mac]

Agh!!!

How were the seeds?!

My Computer's in the shop. I've been offlined.

Despite having thousands of flowers so far I have yet to harvest a single seed. No seeds were lost from those toppled giants: none I could find.

In January the wind blew them over again.

Groundhog's day 2008: 4 of the Giant plants that kept blowing over got upgrades to 16" pots in the last week and now stand firm in high winds.

I needed the Money so I thought I'd climb Sally up to the Giant's Castle for some gold ...
 

Notice that the 3 central plants are 1 year and 2 days old: see how tall above that 6 foot fence they are growing? Sweetie (Sw003), Sally (Sw004), and Sammy (Sw005) were all cut from Calvin (C3) on the evening of Jan 31st 2007. They were helpless little sticks - I raised them all from little sticks!

I Measured Sally at 8 feet Above dirt level in her first year of Growth.

I now have a forest of healthy happy Salvia trees. Today is EXACTLY 4 years to the day of my First Salvia experience. In 2 weeks I will have been gardening Salvia for 4 years and the first plant I bought has become 100 Plants. 

[Paradoxic]

Thats pretty crazy, happy 4th birthday to, at least some of your Salvia plants 

I just realized how small your pots are for the size of the plants in them. Those are only like 4 gal or so, I'm surprised your plants have not gotten root bound. Do you ever notice slowed growth that you think might have been due to root bound?

[Sea Mac]

No: my Computer is STILL in the shop!

I took it in under warranty and they've replaced the enclosure and the motherboard so far ...

So: I used my OLD Computer to post this photo - taken tonight - of Salvia Divinorum plants growing steadily towards the roof line of my house.



These are the Tallest Salvia Divinorum plants I have ever seen ... and this is MOST of the east wall of my House! I took down the old ripped up Tarp tonight and tomorrow I'll put the new tarp up!

I've got a couple more photos of me dwarfed by Salvia redwood trees (Taken tonight) to post yet ... Stay Tuned!

[JD1stTimer]

WOW! That is friggin' sweet! Happy 4th also!  I made a virtual cake with a depiction of the leaves and flower spike, but I couldn't seem to link it up to a post, so I just deleted the post.   It was a flash animation, but I needed to pass a parameter and I couldn't figure out how to do it.  I am curious, is there an advantage to staking them so they keep growing upward, or is it just for looks or space requirements?  If your soil is moist enough, it would be sweet to see a lawn of divinorum rooted all over your yard. (Oh, I guess since you raise plants from seed though you need to keep your strains separate and properly labeled. Duh, I was just having a synapticflatulence. )

[Sea Mac]

Thank you!

Here is one of those special pictures I make:


OK: try this ...  Stand next to your Tallest Salvia divinorum Plant and get a picture. You tower over that poor plant, right?
Well, "Sally" here is a year and 9 days old and she towers over me in the same way you tower over your plants!

So, all I can do is look up her skirt - as seen here ...  If not staked they can grow crooked/sideways and the plant will tip over in it's pot!

Good God I can Hardly believe it myself: but that photo is only a few hours old!

I sleep with my head just on the other side of that wall from these redwoods - it's a wonder I don't have Salvia Plant dreams!

[JD1stTimer]

Hehehe, that's beautiful Sea Mac.  I sure do hope I can have a greenhouse like that one day.

[Sea Mac]

Feb 9th, 2008:





I'm 5' 8" - the fence is 6 feet - several plants are 10 feet (above ground)!

Happy Growing!

[zaorr]

That is some good fertilizer.

From the earlier pic the plants on the right hand side was a little yellow but they jumped right back looking at your last picture.

You’re in a league of your own Seamac, must be lonely without any competition. 

[Arcygenical]

That is some good fertilizer.

From the earlier pic the plants on the right hand side was a little yellow but they jumped right back looking at your last picture.

You’re in a league of your own Seamac, must be lonely without any competition. 

Agreed! I can't wait to move to a semi-tropical area 

[Sea Mac]

That is some good fertilizer.

From the earlier pic the plants on the right hand side was a little yellow but they jumped right back looking at your last picture.

You’re in a league of your own Seamac, must be lonely without any competition. 

There are a couple of plants that are still yellow: both of my "Phoenix" Strain plants are light yellow still.

Calvin DOES look lighter in the top photo but it's a lighting trick ... He's generally a healthy dark emerald green all the time!

I've got a pineapple growing and several neighbors grow bananas! This area sure is warm!

[zaorr]

Calvin DOES look lighter in the top photo but it's a lighting trick ... He's generally a healthy dark emerald green all the time!

I see.

So I take it you don't have any frost? The rest of us will have to face a setback each year if we wanted to do the same but at least Jupe proved that it can be done, even if...

ps. Tell the people who grow bananas to grow out of it.  I never knew heat could do that to people.

[Sea Mac]

Calvin DOES look lighter in the top photo but it's a lighting trick: I took that photo at night ... He's generally a healthy dark emerald green all the time!

I see.

So I take it you don't have any frost? The rest of us will have to face a setback each year if we wanted to do the same but at least Jupe proved that it can be done, even if...

ps. Tell the people who grow bananas to grow out of it.  I never knew heat could do that to people.

I live on the hills just south of Mission Valley in San Diego. Tomorrow will be the four-year anniversary of the day I brought my first Salvia plant home from the nursery.  That plant died over a year-ago but by the time it had died I had taken many cuttings from her.

I haven't had any frost in my garden in four years. These potted plants are outdoors year-round - and they get plenty of indirect and reflected sunshine too! The oldest two plants in my garden are two and three quarters years old: the ones frequently seen in the recent pictures are only a year old. Even Jupe doesn't get much frost. But when Sally and Sammy grew 8 feet above dirt level in their first year EVEN I was Impressed! They just don't DO it any faster than that: I think the Fairies were out there each night dancing in a ring around them and throwing grow dust at them!

We've got all kinds of fruits in our neighborhood.  The joke is, When God created America he tilted it to the left, because all the fruits and nuts rolled out to California. (I'm one of the nuts: except I'm green all over ... under the plastic skin ... )