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[Gandalfalfa]

Yeah, nice. Love the strawberry ones! Actually, I love all guavas.

 

[geologic]

Around here about the only folks who want guavas are Mexicans and Indians (Sikhs);
most of mine end up at the 7-Eleven--
or with the neighbors' gardeners...

 

[Seamaiden]

Are you kidding me? I'll take some guayaba! I'm SUPPOSED to be getting some pasta de guayaba from a military friend of mine, but she keeps forgetting. I may have to cut her off. :o I have a recipe of my grandmother's for "Isla Flotante" (floating island) that uses guava paste instead of sugar syrup for the Italian meringue. Then limones are used to flavor the custard with almost no sweetening and the result is absolutely sublime, far beyond any other floating island you could eat.

 

[geologic]

I have a recipe of my grandmother's for "Isla Flotante" (floating island) that uses guava paste instead of sugar syrup for the Italian meringue.

Got a recipe for guava paste???

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@Sativied
I finally found GMT's thread,
not via Google but from Yahoo:
http://www.mrnice.nl/forum/6-breeders-support-information/6012-3-3%3D-print.html
The Farm doesn't prohibit links to other sites--
in fact Mr. Nice has seeds here on The Bay...


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Good stuff there,
too bad it's been dormant for three years and some links are broken;
I liked "tri tri and tri again,,," and "don't stop tri'ing!".

Even tho he was told otherwise,
he stuck with 'Trifoliate' because "I can't spell whorled phyloxi" <or whatever...>;
your "Tri-whorl" and "Quad-whorl" terminology works great--
and are accurate...

I snagged a few pics--
before they disappear...

 

[geologic]

Sounds reel Heh good--

Sounds pretty good too...
https://archive.org/details/gd72-11-17.sbd.warner.15982.sbeok.shnf

 

[Sativied]

The Farm doesn't prohibit links to other sites--

In that case, here's one of the other threads I was referring to: https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=256517

Even tho he was told otherwise,
he stuck with 'Trifoliate' because "I can't spell whorled phyloxi" <or whatever...>;
your "Tri-whorl" and "Quad-whorl" terminology works great--
and are accurate...

Thanks, trifoliate is indeed something completely different. The second set of true leaves of a cannabis plant are usually trifoliate. It describes a single leaf (a compound leaf with 3 leaflets that is) and not the arrangement of multiple leaves. Quite a common misconception, just as them being labeled as polyploids.

Nice pics, the first one shows the better leaf arrangement quite nicely.

 

[Seamaiden]

Got a recipe for guava paste???

No, we just cook 'em down, down, down.

 

[geologic]

No, we just cook 'em down, down, down.

With skins???

 

[Seamaiden]

I don't recall peeling the guavas first, I do recall it's then passed through a food mill or something like that, to make it smoother.

 

[geologic]

I don't recall peeling the guavas first, I do recall it's then passed through a food mill or something like that, to make it smoother.

Before or after cook-down???

 

[Seamaiden]

Passing through the food mill occurs after it's cooked down, it's a lot easier that way. Pectin may or may not need to be added to make the paste gel. Let me see if I can find a recipe that matches what I saw my grandmother do when I was young.

 

[Seamaiden]

Here we go (I actually didn't think I'd find a recipe that sounds so close to how she did it).
http://fruitguys.com/almanac/2012/02/08/guayabate-guava-paste

 

[geologic]

Here we go (I actually didn't think I'd find a recipe that sounds so close to how she did it).
http://fruitguys.com/almanac/2012/02/08/guayabate-guava-paste

Yep--
they gotta be peeled...

 

[geologic]

First "worm" of the year--
time for Cap's Foliar...

 

[Seamaiden]

Uh oh.... !

Yep--
they gotta be peeled...

Then Mamai got 'em peeled without me paying attention. :o

 

[geologic]

Uh oh.... !
Then Mamai got 'em peeled without me paying attention. :eek:

Maybe I'll get some peeled this year--
good practice for trimmingHeh/Ouch...

First "worm" of the year--
time for Cap's Foliar...

I had a conversation with a "New Farmer" earlier this week,
he PM'd me some questions about tea;
saw a post in Cap's subforum, I think--
this is what I told him:

I just started making ACT this year, after reading about it here for a year an' a half previously.
I need to do a vortex brewer, but I'm using 5gal buckets this first year.
I use a paint strainer in the bucket, and 4-4 1/2 gallons of water.

I have "city" water and I worry about chloramines,
so I throw in a cup of Dr. Earth's potting soil;
and let it bubble for ~24 hours.

Next day I throw in another cup of the DrEPS,
along with a cereal bowl (2 cups???) of EWC,
a bowel of my own compost (see pic) and ~100ml molasses.

I also have a cup (I really don't measure anything...) of alfalfa until flowering,
then stop (causes "foxtailing" during flowering.)

If doing a root drench (up to flowering), I add Cap's Root Pak 4 hours before,
and then Cap's Nute Pak after straining;
and ~1/2 hour before use.

For foliar spraying I only add the Foliar Pak if there's a problem (the "worms" will show-up shortly),
I don't do preventative (I did at first, but didn't wanna get any good bugs without a reason).

I also add B2 at first, and I started using Sea Green, Humalogic, Rootamentry for root drenches, and now TruBlooms for flowering http://www.beneficialbiologics.com/index.php/sea-green .

Of course, I learned all of this stuff here on The Farm and then just kinda "adjust it" for me--
happy growing...

I add leftover tea (with Cap's Bennies) back to the compost pile--
the plants growing in the compost cultivate the mycorrhizae fungi on their roots...

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I forgot,
I'm using Insect Frass too;
half commercial--
and half from the mealworms I raise to feed the porch lizards...

 

[geologic]

In that case, here's one of the other threads I was referring to: https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=256517quote]

Those links are fine.
'Hotlinks" are disallowed here,
because they break the SSL;
and put the entire Farm in danger--
"You must also agree to following conditions to become a member:
Links to External Images: Due to the nature of SSL, posting links to images hosted outside THCFarmer is prohibited. To protect your privacy and online security, we block any external image links. Please use our Photo Upload Manager to securely store all your images into THCFarmer database"...

 

[Seamaiden]

Thank you, geologic. :)

I've been raising mealworms for a bit over a year now, they're for my chickens. I've finally found a sifter that sifts out everything *but* the frass. I need to buy a new one because it's a sifter we use for our food.

 

[caregiverken]

My wife and I raise Cockroaches :) for our reptiles.
Man, I bet the chickens would like em! (never dawned on me!)
They make lots of Frass :)
we had to cut down the heard last winter..but i threw the waste in my beds, dead bodies and all
I didnt sift it :wtf:

Hey while I have you two together here..quick question
When you spray BT or spinosad, You add a wetting agent/spreader?
i have pro-tekt, SM 90, or Dr Bronners castle soap.
will any of those work?..or hurt?

 

[caregiverken]

Maybe I'll get some peeled this year--
good practice for trimmingHeh/Ouch...



I had a conversation with a "New Farmer" earlier this week,
he PM'd me some questions about tea;
saw a post in Cap's subforum, I think--
this is what I told him:

I just started making ACT this year, after reading about it here for a year an' a half previously.
I need to do a vortex brewer, but I'm using 5gal buckets this first year.
I use a paint strainer in the bucket, and 4-4 1/2 gallons of water.

I have "city" water and I worry about chloramines,
so I throw in a cup of Dr. Earth's potting soil;
and let it bubble for ~24 hours.

Next day I throw in another cup of the DrEPS,
along with a cereal bowl (2 cups???) of EWC,
a bowel of my own compost (see pic) and ~100ml molasses.

I also have a cup (I really don't measure anything...) of alfalfa until flowering,
then stop (causes "foxtailing" during flowering.)

If doing a root drench (up to flowering), I add Cap's Root Pak 4 hours before,
and then Cap's Nute Pak after straining;
and ~1/2 hour before use.

For foliar spraying I only add the Foliar Pak if there's a problem (the "worms" will show-up shortly),
I don't do preventative (I did at first, but didn't wanna get any good bugs without a reason).

I also add B2 at first, and I started using Sea Green, Humalogic, Rootamentry for root drenches, and now TruBlooms for flowering http://www.beneficialbiologics.com/index.php/sea-green .

Of course, I learned all of this stuff here on The Farm and then just kinda "adjust it" for me--
happy growing...

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I add leftover tea (with Cap's Bennies) back to the compost pile--
the plants growing in the compost cultivate the mycorrhizae fungi on their roots...

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I forgot,
I'm using Insect Frass too;
half commercial--
and half from the mealworms I raise to feed the porch lizards...
View attachment 433246

I can tell you have been feeding those porch lizards! :woot: they are fat!