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Wesley eating a cake

🍴 Wesley eating a cake

"Cake is the answer. Who cares what the question is?"

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What Fertilizer to Use Now and How?

Sunshine Boosters liquid fertilizers

Sunshine Boosters liquid fertilizers

🍲 What Fertilizer to Use Now and How?
Part 1. What are important keys to healthy plants


Q: It's early Spring this year. Should I start fertilizing my plants sooner than usual?
  • ✔️ A: Most fertilizer instructions recommend fertilizing tropical plants from March to November. This is because plants don't need as much food during the cooler months when many go dormant, and excess nutrients can burn the roots if not absorbed. However, for the most effective fertilizer program and healthy plants, consider these points:
  • ✔️ Sunshine Boosters Year-Round


  • Liquid amino-acid-based fertilizers like Sunshine Boosters are safe to use year-round. Since watering is reduced in cooler weather, the intake of water-soluble fertilizer is also lower, providing plants with just the essential nutrients for their minimal needs.
  • ✔️ Dry Fertilizer Schedule


  • Be cautious with dry fertilizers. Apply them only during active growth in the hot season.
  • ✔️ Temperature Is Key


  • If March is still cold, delay dry fertilizer use. However, if nighttime temperatures in February stay above 65F, you can start a dry fertilizer program using slow-release, granulated plant food.
  • ✔️ What Fertilizers to Use and How


Check out our Sunshine Boosters selection for different types of plants and choose the right type for your needs. These can be applied as often as with every watering. We will explain in details about every type of fertilizer in our next post🔽

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Why Adeniums are the most popular container plants

Varieties of Desert roses - Adeniums - chart

Varieties of Desert roses - Adeniums - chart

🌸 Why Adeniums are the most popular container plants
  • 🌸 Desert roses - Adeniums - are among the most popular container plants. Why? Because they are:

· Easy to grow and can thrive in both sun and shade, indoors, and in low humidity.
  • · Drought-tolerant, requiring minimal water and able to go long periods without it.
  • · Not fussy about soil pH.
  • · Stunning bloomers with showy flowers.
  • · Unique and eye-catching, with a curious caudex that forms unusual shapes.

  • 🌸 How many varieties and colors of desert roses out there?

· At Top Tropicals, we offer over 200 varieties of Adeniums, with more than 100 available in stock at any time.
  • · With so many colors of hybrids available in cultivation, you want to collect them all!
  • · Double flowers, red, purple, yellow, striped, dotted, rainbow, and even black flowers!


🌸 The secret to creating a large, swollen caudex:
Raise the plant slightly every time you repot it, exposing the upper part of the roots. This encourages the plant to form more roots that grow downward.
Unlike most tropical and houseplants, Adeniums prefer neutral to hard water. They have very low water needs and can grow in full sun or shade.

📸 In the photo: Selected Adenium hybrids currently available from TopTropicals

📚 More about Adeniums:
How to grow a happy Adenium
What is the easiest container plant with beautiful flowers
Multi-grafted Adenium with different colors of flowers on the same plant
What you need for successful growing Adeniums

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Over 100 new Adenium varieties just arrived!

Potted Desert roses - Adeniums

💯 Over 100 new Adenium varieties just arrived!

🆕 We received a THOUSAND NEW ADENIUMS from Thailand - beautiful, well-developed plants with big caudexes, ready to bloom!
They are finally available for those on the waiting list for specific colors.

🔥 But hurry! Each variety is available in limited quantities (under 10 plants), and they will go fast - first come, first served!

✔️ Check out our online store to see the available colors, and don’t miss our next post for pictures of selected varieties! ⬇️

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Flowers and cats

💯 Flowers and cats

“I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.” - Ursula Andress

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Enjoy selected photos of todays Spring Plant Market

Enjoy selected photos of todays Spring Plant Market Enjoy selected photos of todays Spring Plant Market Enjoy selected photos of todays Spring Plant Market Enjoy selected photos of todays Spring Plant Market Enjoy selected photos of todays Spring Plant Market Enjoy selected photos of todays Spring Plant Market Enjoy selected photos of todays Spring Plant Market Enjoy selected photos of todays Spring Plant Market Enjoy selected photos of todays Spring Plant Market Enjoy selected photos of todays Spring Plant Market
🖥 Enjoy selected photos of today's Spring Plant Market

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Hand Pan Lady performance

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Listen to the Magic Hand Pan Lady Performance at Top Tropicals

🎤 Listen to the Magic Hand Pan Lady Performance at Top Tropicals 🔈

🌈 March 1, 2025 @ Spring Plant Market

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About Hand Pan Lady
Previous performance at Top Tropicals

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March 1, 2025 - SATURDAY - Spring Plant Market

March 1, 2025 - SATURDAY - Spring Plant Market
🛍 March 1, 2025 - SATURDAY - Spring Plant Market

🟢 Spring into Green at Our Spring Plant Market! Join us today, March 1, for a vibrant celebration of nature!

🥰 Bring your friends and family to explore a tropical oasis where our friendly #PeopleCats are ready to help you find the perfect plants to brighten your space.

🗓 Highlights of the event include:

- 30% OFF online prices (*excluding 15 gallon material and rare plants)
- Exciting raffle prizes
- Special discounts on selected plants
- Complimentary gift bags for the first 25 ccustomers with an order $50+
- Life Music: the Famous Hand Pan Lady! (see her previous performance at Top Tropicals)

🆓 Free plant with any purchase as a token of our appreciation

📍Event discounts and specials valid at both locations:
Ft Myers Garden Center: 13890 Orange River, Ft Myers, FL
Sebring Farm: 9100 McRoy Rd, Sebring, FL

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Tiger seedlings

Tiger seedlings
😐 Tiger seedlings

"You never know what weeds may pop up in those pots..."

📸 Matilda & Vasily from indoor PeopleCatGarden of Tatiana I.

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How Avocado trees set fruit

Flowering Avocado tree

👍 How Avocado trees set fruit
  • 🥑 Similar to Mango trees we mentioned earlier, Avocado trees start flowering from late Winter to Spring, depending on variety. During this time, avocado trees produce small, yellow-green flowers in clusters, and the pollination process is crucial for fruit set. Avocados have both male and female flower parts, but they open at different times, requiring cross-pollination between flowers for successful fruit production. During flowering, avocado trees need warm temperatures and plenty of sunlight to encourage pollination.
  • 🥑 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.


📚 For more information on Avocado varieties, including fruit color and size, tree habit, season, and much more - check out our interactive Avocado Variety Guide. It will 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.

🎥
This tiny avocado tree is covered with hundreds of flowers soon to become lots of fruit

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