Pigeon Peas-a prolific and versatile food crop!! and like Moringa, will be vital in the near future!

we have a heat wave in this moment with 38 to 39C during the day and 20C+ in the night so i supposed this is the main reason... my tropical fruit trees are growing fast on this temp. and some are flowering!

It's a good thing you have diversified your plant portfolio with both tropicals and cold hardy plants. Global warming, new ice age or pole shift, you'll be fine.

I am diversified too.

Ok you really started something. I did a sneak attack on the kids during a movie. It's been all out war. Tomorrow I will have to pick peas out of the carpet and plant them. Hehe

Legumes... not sure about those even in a survival situation because of the lectins.

Is there a way to get rid of 100 percent of the elections from legumes?

yes, if you let them 12 to 24h in whater, or take cover like indian people do

yes i like diversification and adaptation capabilities of plants are amazing too... so we have to try

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Check out this guy's jaboticaba. He is about 30 min away from me.

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He also has Inga trees.

Thank you. I hope people will take a look.

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my pigeon pea sprouts are growing very very fast! Already several leaves...

Yes turn your back and they grow inches. Lol

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Florida cranberry a.k.a. Jamacian sorrel.
I started some of these seeds a little late as I just discovered it. Has anyone tried this plant?

WOW!!! What is this? It's a fruit or what? This flower is very beautifull!!!

It is a type of hibiscus that flowers in the fall. When the flower dies, the calyx is edible and supposedly tastes like cranberry. It is used in tea. Celestial seasonings "red zinger " I think.

I may or may not get production because of late planting. If I do I will send you seeds for next spring. If not we will have to wait one year :(
I will overwinter a couple of the plants in pots just to be sure because I planted all the seeds I have.

Also you can pop them in the freezer until you are ready to eat them.

Thank you op. 5 star and then some.

You are welcome!

Well i thank you so much! Ypu are such a friend! I have to see what i will send you too... This site on florida survival gardening is amazing... but your weather is even better than mine!

you know this one? Germinating a hamburger bean

Here's another shot of the hamburger bean (Mucuna urens) I showed you in my previous post on drift seeds:


And now here it is a week after I sawed a notch in it with a pocket knife, soaked it for a day or two, then put it in moist peat moss and vermiculite:

See the little root peeking out? And how weirdly black and swollen the bean looks? That sucker took on a lot of water (and piercing its seed coat was no easy feat). I replanted the bean after the above picture and let it alone for a few more days... until a shoot rapidly emerged from the ground. And I do mean rapidly! It grew about 12" in a couple of days and started rotating around in a circle looking for something to grasp. It moved so fast that my wife and I sat on the porch and watched it make an entire rotation in about an hour. I stuck a little pole in for it to grab... which it did - and twisted itself completely tight to it within another hour's time.

From what I read, this particular bean grows many tens of feet into the air... reaching the top of tall trees... so I have no idea how I'll be able to keep it contained. I'd like to raise it to a point where it bears beans of its own, but that will mean protecting it from frosts this coming winter.

Here it is now:


Mucuna urens is a close relative of the velvet beans (Mucuna pruriens) I've been growing but it's apparently even more tropical. Who would've thought you could find a bean on the beach and grow it? I picked these things up dozens of times without ever thinking about germinating one. There's a first time for everything, I suppose. And even if this doesn't do anything for my "survival gardener" cred, it's at the very least a rather satisfying experiment.
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Protecting moringa trees from frost [link to www.floridasurvivalgardening.com]

I read somewhere the green pod inside the Florida cranberry calyx can be fed to chickens.

you only eat the red calix?

I will do that for my primary moringa plantings. The others I will make a mound of sand around the base like the citrus growers here in Fla do or a mound of used horse stall bedding. The later will produce heat (hopefully not too much heat, a little risky but worth a shot)

The green pod is edible too but I cant wait to try the cranberry calyx. I hope it does taste like cranberries and can be baked into orange cranberry muffins.

I've never heard of it. Soon I will be visiting a south Florida beach where I grew up (gulf side). I will look for drift seeds.