#vinegang — Public Fediverse posts

Friends, *I'm* the one who brought this deeply annoying, invasive, and aggressive vine to my place. I'm pretty certain I know how: it was probably in some coconuts I brought in from an ex-friend's property for use as mulch (I remember these vines growing amongst the coconuts at his place).

And now it's a huge problem. It grows so fast and covers everything and even if you get most of it in an area, it'll come back from the tiniest pieces. and it sends out vines underneath a bunch of other plants and puts up leaves where it finds an opening. The vine breaks very easily, so pieces of it easily remain in the soil. I honestly am not even sure everywhere that it's vined to at this point, and I just have to keep cleaning and cleaning till I can hopefully at least contain it.

It's fabaceae, and if it wasn't so aggressive in covering everything, it might even be tolerable. But it's very aggressive and since we don't have freezing temps, it'll just keep going...

It pains me so much to know that I, through my own ignorance and carelessness, brought this thing to my place, and now it hurts my other plants and is a huge problem for me - a problem I may not be able to contain.

Before I got here, this horrible invasive wasn't here...and now it is and I did it. So I work on it a bit at a time, and hopefully I'll eventually get rid of it and go back to zero. If I'm lucky.

#InvasiveSpecies #kuleana #hawaii #plants #gardening #environment #ecology #VineGang

have you ever had an orange/jamaican lilikoi (passiflora laurifolia)?

they're quite different from yellow/purple passionfruit. the shell is soft-ish. the inside is mild & perfumed. not sour at all.

they have beautiful purple flowers & cover everything (like other passionfruit). it seems like the flowers & fruits only occur on the "outside" of the plant curtain, so maybe i should thin it out a bit to get more fruit..

#plants @plants #tropicalAg #fruit #gardening #VineGang #vines

this visually-confusing scene shows vine-on-vine action: lilikoi (passionfruit) vine crosses horizontally.

climbing vertically, and holding on to the lilikoi vine, are some water spinach plants (which, although they are considered water plants, do indeed climb as well!).

on the left is an unripe lilikoi hanging from a different section of that same lilikoi plant. so in this case, the lilikoi vine is acting as a trellis for the water spinach!

#gardening #plants #VineGang #tropicalAg

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any tips for fertilizing plants that are mostly or entirely in the air?

i have some #vanilla plants that are crawling their way through the forest. i have no idea where they touch the ground, but they have plenty of air roots.

i was thinking of fertilizing them, but realized i don't know what to do. maybe a mist or spray bottle? but then what goes in the bottle? at what concentration?

thanks in advance!

#TropicalAg #VineGang #tropical #epiphytes

yesterday's vine work: freeing the 'ohi'a lehua in image 1 from a bunch of lilikoi (passionfruit) that had nearly covered it. i needed a ladder & everything. pic 2 shows some of the vine after i pulled it off. it's really remarkable how heavy it can be. the poor 'ohi'a was overburdened.

once again, i did it to myself: i put some lilikoi starts next to the 'ohi'a & forgot to put them in final locations. so they grew & grew.

#VineGang #gardening #TropicalAg

more vine removal tips on day ?? of vine clearing:

if you can find where the vine emanates from, you can cut a perimeter & then slowly shrink the circle (or circles).

i don't pull vine all day every day, but i do try to pull a little vine almost every day.

the vine expands, i trim it back, & the cycle continues. i merely surf the vine growth. the vine creeps forward, i push it back. it is a dance i do, me & the vine. fin.

#VineGang #TropicalAg #FoodForest #InvasiveSpecies #gardening