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Date: 28 Dec 2025

What I really want is a cat

What I really want is a cat

🐈🐈🐈 What I really want is a cat

"I don't want another man in my bed ever again. What I really want is a cat." - Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head

🐈📸 Cat Jim II - TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden.

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Date: 28 Dec 2025

Mango tree tipping - Quick Field Guide: why it improves flowering and production

Mango tree tipping - Quick Field Guide: why it improves flowering and production

Mango tree tipping - Quick Field Guide: why it improves flowering and production

📊 Mango Tree Tipping - Quick Field Guide

It is mid-winter. While early mango varieties like Nam Doc Mai are already flowering, late varieties still have a month or two before they start. Trees such as Keitt, Honey Kiss, Kent, Venus, Beverly, Palmer, and Neelam bloom later in the season. In warm climates without expected cold snaps, this is still a good window for tipping before flowering begins. Tipping encourages more branching, more flower tips, and better fruit production. If cold weather is still possible, save this guide and tip after the risk of cold has passed - but always before the tree enters the flowering stage.

✔️ What tipping is

✔️ When to tip

· Young, actively growing trees
· After a flush hardens slightly (not brand-new soft growth)
· Warm weather when the tree is growing strongly
· Best during the training years, not heavy fruiting years

✔️ How to tip (step-by-step)

· Let a branch grow to about 20 inches
· Using clean pruners, remove 1-2 inches from the tip
· Cut just above a node (leaf joint)
· Do not cut into thick woody growth - this is a light heading cut

✔️ What happens next

· 2-4 new branches usually form below the cut
· The tree becomes shorter, wider, and stronger
· More branch tips = more flowering points
· Better light penetration inside the canopy

✔️ Why it improves flowering and production

· Mango flowers form at branch tips
· More branches = more tips
· A well-shaped tree puts energy into fruiting, not height
· Easier harvesting and long-term structure

❌ Common mistakes to avoid

· Letting branches get too long before tipping
· Tipping weak or stressed trees
· Over-tipping all at once (stagger cuts)
· Doing it right before cold weather
· Doing it too close to flowering

✍️ Simple rule to remember

→ grow 20 inches → tip → repeat
This builds a compact, productive mango tree from the start.

🛒 Explore mango trees

📚 Learn more:
▫️Tipping mango trees
📱 Why tipping mango trees makes them fruiting machines (DIY Garden Tip)

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Date: 28 Dec 2025

🎉 2026 Gardening Resolution That Actually Works

According to our experts: Smokey and Sunshine. When we say experts, we do not mean consultants or trend writers. We mean two real gardeners. Smokey watches patterns. Sunshine notices when people rush. Together, they explain what actually works.

Smokey the tuxedo cat writes gardening plans for 2026 at a table while
Sunshine the ginger cat rides a hobby horse holding coffee, with donuts,
plants, and a fireplace in a winter
room.

Sunshine: Smokey, thank you for the Christmas present. I am riding this hobby horse straight into the Year of the Horse!
Smokey: I am making the plans for 2026. Planning makes gardening successful.
Sunshine: Coffee and donuts help too, so please include them in your plan.

Smokey: Hello gardeners. 2026 is the Year of the Horse.

Sunshine: Horses do not garden.

Smokey: Please do not interrupt me. No, they do not. That is just the calendar. What matters is what gardeners do at the start of every new year. They often rush and repeat the same mistakes.

Sunshine: The biggest one is rushing the garden before morning coffee.

Smokey: Correct. Rushing looks like effort, but it is usually just impatience. Gardens punish impatience very reliably.

Most early-season problems come from doing things too soon:
- watering before roots are active
- fertilizing before growth begins
- planting before conditions settle
- poking plants daily to check how the roots are growing

Sunshine: If you are poking the roots, the plant was fine until you started poking it.

Smokey: Good gardening is not constant action. It is knowing when to act and when to stop interfering.
- Plant when the timing is right.
- Let roots work quietly.
- Leave resting plants alone.

Sunshine: Coffee first. Donuts optional, but highly recommended.

Smokey: One last thing, while you are not rushing.

Our gift cards are still on promotion. They do not need planting, watering, or timing decisions today.

A gift card is a symbol of patience. Buy it now. Use it when the moment is right.

Smokey and Sunshine:
Our resolution for 2026 is simple: stop rushing the garden. Wishing you a calm, steady, coffee-fueled 2026 garden 🐾🌿

Date: 27 Dec 2025

Cat treadmill New Year Resolution: progress pending

Cat treadmill New Year Resolution: progress pending

Cat treadmill New Year Resolution: progress pending

🏃‍♂️ Cat treadmill New Year Resolution: progress pending

🐈📸Kiwi, Jim II, and Serge kicking off their New Year resolution - lose weight by Summer… at least by next New Year.
Step one: lay down on the treadmill and let motivation spin around.
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Date: 27 Dec 2025

Stop planting shade plants until you see this one!

Stop planting shade plants until you see this one!

🚩Megaskepasma erythrochlamys - Brazilian plume or Red Cloak is one of my favorite winter colors in the garden. It comes from a plant most people overlook.

🚩It handles sun or shade, attracts butterflies and hummingbirds, and even surprises people with light cold tolerance. Big leaves, strong structure, and steady color make it a solid choice for beds, fences, or large containers.
🚩If your garden needs color that does not quit when the season changes, this one earns its space.

🛒 Get the winter bloomer most gardens are missing

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