Comments by "Me Here" (@mehere8038) on "Business Insider"
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@Me-fz5vq well you can try, but in my experience, you've got Buckleys! Maybe for the small, edible fruits, but I really do struggle to get any to maturity before the weather cools & the plant dies & they stop growing - and I'm not even in an area with frost, they just stop growing when night time temps get down to about 15c in my experience, or it might be daylenght related, not sure, but I know I find them a hard one - and I grow sugarcane, sweet potato, coffee & tropical carnivorous plants with ease!
If you do try them, fertilise the first 2 luffas, then pluck off the rest of the female flowers, so that the plant devotes all it's energy into just the 2, so as to mature them as fast as possible. If you have 3 months or less of growing time left when the fruit sets, as soon as you're sure one of the 2 is fertilised & growing well, pluck off the smaller & try to get just one to mature. I found this by accident, with a vine with about 5 or 6 fruits on it & none matured, while the one that only had 1 fruit set almost made it, so next year I plucked off all additional flowers before the plant could waste energy on them & got 1-2 fruits to mature/near mature on each vine.
Just don't dedicate space to this in the place of other plants you want more. If you want to grow something fun & interesting to experiment with, linen/linseed/flax is a good one that will love your climate there
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@johnrussell7996 Australia's NOT rich in good soils, or water to grow the sort of crops that usually go with rich soil growing, so I guess Madagascar wins on that one. Would be potentially interesting to compare totals though, cause Australia's 13 times bigger, but only around 8% of land that can grow crops year round, so that would seem to potentially give similar arable land areas to both. Australia produces enough food to feed 100 million people, any idea how much Madagascar produces? If lower though, that could be due to corruption & less efficient systems, or it could be due to focusing on high value, low calorie crops, like the ones you speak of, while Australia does wheat & other grains & beef (and wool, so lamb as a bi-product of that) If it's lower calories due to higher value crops, then it should be even richer than Australia. Population size is on par, so export amounts could be similar
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@isabutchers5591 why don't you enlighten us on why you can't eat corn grown for biofuel?
Again, as I detailed in a previous comment, the corn used in bio-fuel is the same type that is in demand as a wheat/starch replacement grain. Sweet corn is used for eating as fresh corn, but field/dent/flour/biofuel corn or whatever you want to call it is what is needed for all uses other than fresh corn eating, whether that's corn chips, corn flour, tortillas, corn bread, corn flakes, corn syrup (which is wasteful to produce), corn oil (also wasteful) popcorn or ANY corn uses other than fresh eating or biofuel, all use the same corn! Prove to me otherwise or admit you have been conned by biofuel propaganda!
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@boardcertifiable meanwhile, cockies don't bother opening the door, they just eat it off - literally!
My bistro blind has a cocky sized hole in it cause they wanted in. My security screen's metal, so they couldn't get get past it to eat the main front door, but they tried. Kangaroos are probably the main ones here that open doors, but not really in super urban areas, really only smaller wallabies here (except during droughts). Our animals are mostly too small to really open doors themselves, so they just demand we do it, or eat their way though the door or window or roof or whatever, who knows how they get in! Wildlife group I'm with even had a call many years ago for a drunk possum lying on a board room table on the 10th floor of an inner city office building, and just to top it all off, it did it on April fools day! Was real though, it somehow got into the building & onto that floor & into the board room where it knocked over a bottle of red wine in it's panic & since they like grapes, it then drank the wine until it was so drunk it couldn't move. Staff came in in the morning to find the office ransacked & the drunk possum that did it just lying there passed out. She was put into a nice, dark recovery cage for a couple of days & then released to bushland as close as practical to where she was found, but had to be a distance away, since there was no bushland there to release her into. No idea how she got there, or in! The snakes are common in those settings, they hitch a ride in the car engines, then get out as soon as the car stops, cause it got much hotter than they liked & they then make their way from the underground carparks into the lifts & office proper & hide in various locations, totally freaking out staff that were NOT expecting to find the 2nd or 6th most venomous snake in the world in the cupboard of their office building when they opened it to get a cup for their coffee. Suburbs are full of wildlife corridors to make sure the wildlife can free roam everywhere, but the office buildings don't back onto bushland like suburban houses & apartments do
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we do, but it's the forbidden fruit they want lol. It's like if people have fruit trees, the dam cockies will take one bite out of every piece of fruit, as they pick it & drop it to the ground while laughing at us.
I grew some sunflowers a few years back, same thing, cocky didn't even bother eating the seeds, just had fun shredding the flower & threw it all on the ground. These birds are so well fed it's not funny! I actually feed some a bit, but I put the food in dog smart toys, so that they can get the mental stimulation they're really craving. They'll only choose their favourite seeds too btw & just ignore the rest & when I tried to give them something more healthy, sweet potato, carrots, bok choy, sprouted seeds, beans etc etc - all the stuff good parrot owners give their pet birds so the birds can enjoy the food & also get good nutrition, my wild cockies just turned up their noses at it all & didn't come back for a week!
Meanwhile, one of mine has taken up chewing chewing gum, presumably found in a bin. Seems he likes that better than sweet potato etc!
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@lzl4226 I think I'm about 100-200 metres above sealevel, does that count as "higher altitude"? j/k obviously :)
No right equipment for roasting, all the videos I've seen seem to use a frying pan, but seem to heat really hot & fast till black, which this video seems to be suggesting the opposite of. I have an air frier oven, I'm actually thinking of trying using that
Anyway, I've mostly just grown it for fun, so I don't really care that much if it's not great quality, I just like that I've grown it myself, which it sounds like is going to be a good thing, cause it probably won't be great coffee. Has still been a fun experience though & I can try different things each year now I'm getting lots of beans, who knows, maybe I will end up experienced over time :)
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@TamagoHead I'm guessing it would have been observed prior to written history, probably even more than post written history, as people were beginning to detach from nature as writing was starting. Yew trees are a bit different, but have a look into them, they're often found in church yards in Europe & considered sacred, but they weren't planted there because of that, the church was built there because of them! They naturally hollow out over time & get hollowed out by humans to live in & all sorts of stuff. I'm not sure if their branches "graft" onto themselves or not, but they're probably doing similar stuff, close enough to give an idea of what people were seeing & understanding of trees before a time when most people were literate.
I doubt people would have been intentionally grafting plant types that we graft today before written history, back then, they were more interested in increasing seed sizes & getting them all to mature at the one time & other stuff that today we refer to as "domestication". Domestication of plants occurred on every continent (except Antarctica & Zealandia, due to no humans there)
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