🌺 How to get rid of pests on Hibiscus?

Hibiscus flowers are beautiful but the plants are also... tasty! So they can face a variety of pests, including:

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  · Aphids: small insects cluster on new growth, sucking sap from the plant and causing distortion or yellowing of leaves.
• · Whiteflies: look like tiny moths and can be found on the undersides of leaves, sucking plant juices.
• · Spider Mites: can form webs on the undersides of leaves and cause discoloration and stippling.
• · Thrips: slender insects that feed on flower buds and young leaves, causing them to become distorted and discolored.
• · Scales: small, immobile bumps on stems and leaves, sucking sap and weakening the plant.

🧯 Treatment methods:

1. Pruning: Remove heavily infested parts of the plant and dispose of them properly to prevent the spread of pests.
2. Natural Predators: Introduce beneficial insects like ladybugs, lacewings, or wasps, which prey on common garden pests.
3. Horticultural Oils: Neem oil or insecticidal soap can be effective against soft-bodied pests like aphids, mealybugs, and spider mites. Sunshine Nobug is a perfect organic solution that contains oil and soap.
4. Water Spray: Regularly spraying your hibiscus with a strong stream of water can help dislodge pests like aphids and whiteflies from the plant.
5. Systemic Insecticides: These are chemicals absorbed by the plant, making it toxic to insects feeding on it. However, use them cautiously and follow the instructions to minimize harm to beneficial insects and the environment.

❗️Always monitor your hibiscus plants closely for signs of pest infestation, and take prompt action to prevent damage. Regular maintenance, such as proper watering and fertilizing, can also help keep plants healthy and more resistant to pests 🕷🐛

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🍇 How to get a HUGE crop of grapes, like in this post, or any other fruit crop?👆

🍝 Your answer is SUNSHINE C-Cibus - eco-friendly concentrated nutrition booster for fruiting plants.

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  🟢 Helps to produce strong growth, high yield, larger fruit size.
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  🟢 Improves quantity and quality of flowers and ability to set fruit. Encourages profuse blooming and reduces bud-flower-fruit drop.
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  🟢 Can be used as often as with every watering and year around.
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  🟢 Scientifically-balanced stable formula is organic Amino-acid based and has NO EDTA chelators to eliminate nutrients lockup; it does not affect crop taste.
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  🟢 Great for edibles! Based on Organic Amino Acids.
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  🟢 Pollinating insects friendly!

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🛒Get food for your Grape Vines

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🥭 How to get a HUGE crop of mango, like in previous post👆

All you need is SUNSHINE Mango Tango - Mango Tree Booster - eco-friendly concentrated nutrition booster for Mango trees, as we mentioned earlier.

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  🟢 Helps to produce strong growth, high yield, larger fruit size.
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  🟢 Improves quantity and quality of flowers and ability to set fruit. Encourages profuse blooming and reduces bud-flower-fruit drop.
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  🟢 Can be used as often as with every watering and year around.
• 
  🟢 Scientifically-balanced stable formula is organic Amino-acid based and has NO EDTA chelators to eliminate nutrients lockup; it does not affect crop taste.
• 
  🟢 Great for edibles! Based on Organic Amino Acids.
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  🟢 Pollinating insects friendly!

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🛒Get your Mango trees some food!

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🏡 How to get a big flowering bush quickly? Calliandra - Powderpuff - is your answer for blocking the unwanted view!

💗 With so many varieties to choose from, Calliandras are the winners when you need to create a screen quickly. Just in one season you can have a nice dense shrub with benefits - the Powderpuff flowers are so pretty! Everbloomer.

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🍐 How to grow the biggest fruit on Earth.

Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) is one of the most fascinating tropical fruit, as we showed earlier.

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  👉 In spite of reputation being ultra tropical, the tree is not as cold sensitive as everyone believes. Mature trees can withstand light frost for a few hours without significant damage. Keeping Jackfruit in a pot is also an option in colder areas.
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  👉 The fruit is so large and heavy that the tree has a smart feature to produce only at the base of the trunk. This makes it possible to keep Jackfruit tree at very short height - 6-7 ft tall. It can be grown in containers considering regular topping/pruning.

🔻 Secrets of Jackfruit successful production:

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  📍 Frost free temperatures
• 📍 Soil rich of organic matter (compost, manure, peat moss)
• 📍 Moist soil and regular watering
• 📍 Constant pruning and keeping under 7-10 ft
• 📍Regular application of fertilizer, microelements and SUNSHINE-Honey supplement for better quality fruit.

🎥 Videos: of the fruit and of the tree

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🧪 How to learn the Truth about fertilizers.

Spring is here and so is the time to give your plants more food for active growth!

❓ How to decide which fertilizer to chose with so many of them on the market? The basic idea is -

❗️ All fertilizers and good for plants, because it's food!

But like with every food in must be in right time, right kind, and right amount.

Basic types of fertilizers:

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  ❇️ Controlled-release fertilizer is coated and release nutrients slowly and constantly within labeled amount of time (3-6-12 months). Good for stepping-up and transplanting.
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  ❇️ Slow release granulated fertilizer breaks down quickly, especially in the heat, and should be used as a top-dress only occasionally (for example, to green up a plant quickly).
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  ❇️ Liquid fertilizers are the most efficient in a long run. They make plants strong, resistant, healthy and productive, slowly but surely building up energy in their system. This is why all professional food farms, from veggies to hemp, stick to liquid plant food.

We suggest Sunshine Boosters, they are safe to use with every watering and year around. Their formulas are natural (based on organic amino-acids) and great for edibles.

🛒Get your plants some food

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☘️ How to keep weeds away?

"Give a weed an inch and it’ll take a yard...."

Hot season started, and so did the weed season!

💚 Ways to keep your yard weed-free without use of herbicide:

1. Mulch, mulch, mulch
2. Cover the area with cardboard (still getting those Amazon boxes?) and put mulch, mulch, mulch on top.
3. Plant dense ground cover plants! Weeds will lose competition for food and light.


🎥 Did you know that Confederate Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides) makes not only a trellis/fence solution, but also a dense fragrant ground cover? It's not demanding, fast growing, drought tolerant plant, takes full sun or shade. Sweet, deliciously fragrant flowers is a pleasant bonus!

🛒Get your fragrant ground cover

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🥑 New Complete Guide to Avocado Varieties. How to choose the right type of Avocado.
How many varieties of Avocado are there in cultivation? Did you know that there are hundreds of them? You probably thought there were only 2 kinds - black and green?

You may not realize is that this basic (but practical!) classification doesn't encompass all the wonderful qualities avocados have to offer.

There are numerous hybrids in cultivation, and once you plant your first tree and taste the REAL fruit (not from the grocery store), you'll be eager to explore other varieties. It's a guarantee! While it's true that avocado fruit can vary in "butter" content, most superior varieties are equally delicious.

This Avocado Variety Guide helps to choose the right variety for you. With its interactive tool, you can sort cultivars by fruit shape and quality, cold hardiness, origin, crop season, flower type A or B, tree habit and more.

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🫒 How to grow your own Olive Oil

Olive trees are:

• 🔹 Easy to grow
• 🔹 Heat- and drought-tolerant
• 🔹 Beautiful in landscape
• 🔹 Symbol of Prosperity
• 🔹 Source of excellent superfood - Healthy Olive Oil

📚 Learn how to grow your own olive tree

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🍹 How to make Dragon Fruit Smoothie? What to do with a Dragon Fruit?

Dragon fruit, regardless of variety, makes excellent smoothies. A perfect Dragon Fruit Smoothie can be made with a creamy blend of dragon fruit, mango, and banana. The tropical flavor is played up with a squeeze of fresh lime.

Recipe:
Mix in a blender:
2 dragon fruit, peeled

1. cup of mango pulp
   1 banana
   1 cup of milk of your preference
2. tbsp sugar
   1/2 tsp Lime juce

Some Ice
Add Mint for decoration

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