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.
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
