Hi Kay, I feed most everything Osmocote. For many years I used 14-14-14 thinking I had at least 3 to 4 months of slow release food for the plants until I read charts on how fast the food is released at temps of 90 degrees or more ( or somewhere around there ). I buy two or three hundred pounds a year in fifty pound bags. When I read it was dumping its contents in about a month at those temps, my head spun around. Well as it turns out, osmocote 13-13-13 is rated at about 9 or 10 months at lower temps and at our Oklahoma Dutch Oven temps from mid June on I get a three to four month release rate. Hope that makes sense but anyhow I get an actual 3 to 4 month slow release fertilizer using 13-13-13 at high temps. So don’t buy 14-14-14 unless it’s for cool season or greenhouse use.
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Yo Mikey, the parent plant that these seeds came from is in the photo below and required no other plant to produce fruit, so it must have been a dioecious plant, but I’ve read that they can be monecious, so I guess I was lucky with the parent plant. Since it was a gift and was about two or two and a half feet high already when it was brought to me and I have no idea how old it was but I will be posting the progress on thes new ones. I think I read something on changing the sex of a plant but I can’t remember the growers web address.
Paul
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