Did you start your wasabi from seed or from plant? And do you do anything special to grow it? Its one of those plants that I will be attempting to grow from seed dispite the high pontential for disappointment. Yours looks so big and healthy.
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My mom actually bought it years ago, then I saved it from her forgetting it existed. Had it for a couple years and then transferred it to this bigger pot last year. It has a metal food tray molded to fit the bottom to retain water. I have not tried splitting it or anything. The leaves are good though.
Surprisingly to slugs or maybe grasshoppers. It had quiteva few holes last year but was not decimated.
Oh. Also the spot I have it in gets morning sun, afternoon shade, and evening sun. Harsh part of the day it is in the shadow of my pond and the neighbor’s tree.
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Osage blackberry in full bloom. Really big berries that taste super good to me.
Dwarf everbearing is starting to ripen. Had one today that was about a day under ripe (just a little red still).
Not my plant, but Lowes had strawberries with red flowers which I’ve never seen.
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Thank God, everything (including jujubes) is waking up for me in East Texas, except for Asian persimmons which I planted this fall.
Is this normal? Should I be worried? These are the buds
Thanks
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My persimmons are similarly along in bud. They are always almost last to break bud, yours look fine.
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Here in North Georgia, the pears are past the midpoint of their flowering.
Pear
Warren was the first to open flowers:
Korean Giant has flowers aplenty:
Daisui Li has several clusters:
Its sister Shin Li, still recovering from surgery after having been assaulted by a joint task force of deer and rabbits, popped out a few as well:
Shinko has become my old reliable and is loaded up with flowers. This is less than a third of the tree:
No flowers on a 2nd leaf Hood, but it definitely leafed out well ahead of everyone. I hope it tolerates surprise frosts well in the future.
While a Bell pear only 11 months in the ground is pushing a few flowers. I’m debating over whether to leave them.
Walnut
A Carpathian walnut seedling just broke bud this morning:
Sour Cherry
Danube is about to unfurl:
Montmorency is about a week behind:
Chestnut
Chinese chestnut seedlings are sporting green buds:
Szego and the other named cultivars are still sleeping:
Jujube
Honey Jar is consistently my first jujube to awaken in the spring:
Black Sea is on its heels:
Followed by So:
Out of the whole bunch, Chico is reliably the last to wake up, usually weeks behind the others, but perhaps the warm winter we just had will speed it along this year:
Mulberry
A Morus rubra seedling is leafing out:
The little Gerardis are still asleep:
Oscar is unfurling leaves:
Silk Hope is just breaking bud:
Varaha has green buds:
King James (M. nigra) is still dormant:
Persimmon
Leading out the group for the Asians, Coffee Cake has green buds (note that this tree is on lotus rootstock, which seems to make it break dormancy early, usually to its detriment):
One Giombo has a few green buds (the other is still dormant):
Bud swelling on Saijo:
Maybe a teeny bit of swelling on Tanenashi:
The Fuyus, however, are still asleep:
On the American side, Prok’s buds are swelling:
Yates is still asleep:
Pawpaw
No leaves on any pawpaws, but there are some flowers.
Campbell’s NC-1:
KSU Benson:
KSU Chappell:
Sunflower:
Berries
The Ponca blackberry canes are all well underway:
The blueberries just started opening flowers a few days ago. This is a mixed blessing. The bees had been vigorously servicing my pears, but once the blueberries came online, every single bee heard about it within hours, abandoned the pear flowers, and headed for the blueberry rows. The blueberries are now literally humming with constant activity from I don’t even know how many different species of bees – bumblebees, honeybees, carpenter bees, stingless bees, etc. Hundreds of them. They have to fly over or through the pears to get to the blueberries, which they are perfectly willing to do. It seems that the only insects with any residual interest in the pear flowers are lightning bugs, which probably don’t contribute much to pollination. Other than that, they’re now a ghost town.
Lightning bug on pear flower:
Meanwhile, the bees are all on the blueberry flowers:
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This is amazing. Thank you.
Question for you since you mention the buds on some Asian persimmon swelling… do they turn kind of white on the tips before opening? Is that what you call swelling?
Thanks
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Haha, there is likely a much more precise and technical definition for bud “swelling” that the real plant physiologists here will know, and there’s a chance that I’m using the term incorrectly. I’m still a relative novice, and when I say “swelling,” I just mean that the buds are becoming at least somewhat noticeably bigger than they were, say, a week ago – which precedes green tips pushing out from the bud.
The walnut trees seem to be the most dramatic examples of “bud break” in my little orchard. Here are photos of the same Carpathian walnut bud, with an interval of about a day or two between photos:
You can see that the bud casing has literally broken due to the swelling of the bud. That bud will now rapidly turn green and start unfurling into leaves.
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First asimina parviflora flowers. This is a less than a foot tall plant and I’ve only had it for a year at most, so very strange that it is flowering. Its leafing out very well though, so not worried about it too much.
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Spring has sprung late and suddenly here:
Nanking cherry
Spring Satin getting ready to bloom
Redhaven not far behind
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Persimmon Nikita x Taishu - first year flowering.
Malus Sieversii - first year flowering
(Ireland 53N)
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So interesting to me that folks in the pnw and Ireland have their persimmons so far ahead of mine. Mine haven’t thought about waking up yet
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It’s inside a polytunnel so it’s warmer earlier. Our winters are about 10a, just cold wet summers. I have another persimmon outside thats showing green buds, and a third outside that’s only just breaking bud but still light brown.
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Asian pear budding, then flowers
Special, Asian pear budding and flowers on apple tree. Graft it directly.
Nectarine and Plum on one tree flower
First time Brooks cherry and Bing cherry bud on 2nd year. Brooks flowered.
Honey Halo doughnut nectarine flowered 2nd year. Can’t wait to try it.
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