RE: [CH] Grow light questions (was CHD V5 #83)
Dave Sacerdote (davesas@tiac.net)
Thu, 22 Oct 1998 20:09:40 -0400 (EDT)
>For those of you who bring plants in, what's your goal? Are you trying
>to just maintain the plants until the next spring/summer or is anyone
>aggressively going for fruit yield? I've got little bit of a green
>thumb and I'm just playing around here but if anyone's interested in
>hearing how things turn out, feel free to drop me a line.
I grew two red savina bushes this year that have been amazingly prolific.
The larger of the two is still actively flowering and setting fruit and
ripening savinas are clustered on it like grapes on a vine. We had a mild
frost (not killing) last night, but tonight it's supposed to go down to 25 F,
so I dug it out and have brought it in.
Here in my living room, the plant seems a lot bigger than it did out in the
garden! <g> The main trunk of the bush is almost two inches in diameter, the
plant stands three feet tall and it is at least that wide. I'll be turning
it every day to keep the sun coming at it evenly.
My goal is not necessarily to have the plant bear fruit all winter - cool as
that would be - but rather just to have the bush survive the winter to be
replanted in the garden again in the spring. I'm hoping I can have it hold
out until March, when I will start heating the greenhouse again and starting
my seeds.
Unbelievable that I actually grew this thing from a seed, in New England.
I've picked so many savvies off of these two shrubs that I've had enough to
eat, make hot sauce, dry for powder, and even give away to my heat-seeking
neighbors.
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Dave Sacerdote
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