Garden Blog - Top Tropicals
Date: 9 Jul 2025
Scooby and Ant (or Scooby and Booger?)
Scooby and Niki the cats
🐜 Scooby and Ant (or Scooby and Booger?)
"It's not the things you don't know that get you into trouble. It's the things you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain
🐈📸 Scooby and Niki at TopTropicals
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Date: 9 Jul 2025
How to re-pot a plant properly?
Re-potting a plant quick guide
How to re-pot a plant properly?
✔️ Take a pot a few inches bigger - just enough for the root ball.
✔️ Add some well-drained potting mix at the bottom.
❗️Make sure the plant sits at the same level as before - this is the key!
✔️ Add a good fertilizer at the bottom. We use professional Green Magic - controlled release.
✔️ Turn the plant upside down and gently remove it from the old pot. Loosen up roots if root bound. Set it on top of the soil and check the level again.
✔️ Add more fertilizer around the sides and fill in with soil, pressing around the edges.
✔️ Check the level one more time.
✔️ Water thoroughly - and you are done! Happy growing!
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Potting soil Abundance - professional soilless potting mix
Green Magic - controlled release fettilizer
📚 Learn more:
How to Plant a Tree - A Fun Guide
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Date: 9 Jul 2025
Do you see Musical Notes in this flower?
Clerodendrum incisum - Musical Note, Morning Kiss Clerodendrum
🎶 Do you see Musical Notes in this flower?
🎶 Our garden’s putting on a concert - Clerodendrum incisum is in full bloom, and these quirky little musical notes are ready to jazz up your space!
🎶 Musical Note, or Morning Kiss Clerodendrum blooms at Top Tropicals garden most of the year, several times - during the warm period, from Spring to late Fall.
ℹ️ The unopened flowers resemble musical notes, giving the plant its name.
🛒 Bring home the bloom that sings
· How to add Music to your garden
· Why it is called Musical Notes
· Musical Note hits its peak
#Hedges_with_benefits #Butterfly_Plants
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🎶 Our garden’s putting on a concert - Clerodendrum incisum is in full bloom, and these quirky little musical notes are ready to jazz up your space!
🎶 Musical Note, or Morning Kiss Clerodendrum blooms at Top Tropicals garden most of the year, several times - during the warm period, from Spring to late Fall.
ℹ️ The unopened flowers resemble musical notes, giving the plant its name.
🛒 Bring home the bloom that sings
📚 Learn more about Music Notes:
· How to add Music to your garden
· Why it is called Musical Notes
· Musical Note hits its peak
#Hedges_with_benefits #Butterfly_Plants
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Date: 8 Jul 2025
Think of a future
😋 Think of a future
"It’s hard to think of a future when you’re buried in the past." - Margaret Mitchell
🐈📸 Mr B is thinking about the future. At TopTropicals.
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Date: 8 Jul 2025
How to grow Dragon Fruit from a cutting - Quick Guide
Dragon fruit, Pitaya - Hylocereus sp.
🌵 How to grow Dragon Fruit from a cutting - Quick Guide
🐉 Get a healthy cutting
Use a 6-10 inch long stem cutting from a mature dragon fruit plant. Let the cut end dry in the shade for 2-5 days so it forms a callus. This also helps prevent rot and fungus.
🐉 Prepare the soil
Use well-draining soil - well drained potting mix, Adenium mix, or cactus mix is ideal. Dragon fruit hates wet feet!
🐉 Plant the cutting
Stick the callused end about 2-3 inches deep into the soil. Make sure it's planted upright (the way it grew on the parent plant).
🐉 Support it
Add a trellis or post. Dragon fruit is a climbing cactus and needs something to grow on.
🐉 Water lightly
Water once after planting, then wait until the soil dries before watering again. Overwatering can rot the cutting.
🐉 Give it sun and warmth
Place in bright, indirect sunlight while it roots. Once established, it can handle full sun.
🐉 Watch it grow!
Roots usually form in 2-4 weeks. New growth means it's taking off! This is the time to Ferilize it!
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📚 Learn more:
· 📱
· Planting your own Dragon Fruit plantation
· Do-It-Yourself Support Structure for Dragon Fruit
· Grow Your Own Exotic Dragon Fruit Garden
· Top 10 fruit you'll ever need for your health benefits: Dragon fruit
· What does Dragon Fruit Flower look like?
· Why you need to grow your own dragon fruit
· Do red, white and yellow Dragon fruit taste differently?
· What to do with a lot of Dragon Fruit
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