#the hoyas would be fucked if they spent longer than a summer evening outside up here

[insipid-drivel]

So, it's almost time to move my apple saplings into some larger pots. I'm planning on keeping most or all of them no larger than about dwarf size (~4ft tall), but ultimately get them established in outdoor pots that can be moved in and outdoors depending on how many babies the doe living in the back woods has. She tends to take her babies on tours in the back yard for "wild" (read: planted by me and the family and left for the animals) potatoes and other edible stuff.

And even though I know it's time to repot them, I did this...

At the same time I'll be repotting my saplings, I'll be setting up a warm, high-humidity nursery for these Hoya Carnosa seeds I broke down and bought. The packet came with hundreds of seeds, and while I've been informed by a gardener or two I already know that I'm a lunatic for trying to germinate them from seeds rather than cuttings, I'm still determined to ultimately wind up with a window full of these:

(via wikipedia; these are not my hoyas)

Also, the seeds for growing these:

The seeds for these ones show up on Wednesday.

#gardening #hoya carnosa #jacaranda #and yes the jacarandas are going to wind up as dwarves or bonsais for indoor keeping only #the hoyas would be fucked if they spent longer than a summer evening outside up here #the jacarandas on the other hand i don't trust since they already have reps for being invasive #but they're tropical trees that i doubt would survive the frost out here #so pretty little bonsai/dwarf trees they shall be!