Thread: What's in your garden?

Can't find my Sativa thread so I'll just post this here. After trimming most fan leaves I'm left with fat buds rippening in the Thai sun.

That's an absolute monster.

What a yield.

Mine is just starting to bud and it's only 3ft tall.

What a yield is right. And to think the way the law is right now, I could have 6 of those. I could keep this whole village stoned on 6 of those. I mean stoned as in a medical way.

Check again Tunk, 15 per household…

Really ? Thats crazy.

Originally Posted by tunk

Can't find my Sativa thread so I'll just post this here. After trimming most fan leaves I'm left with fat buds rippening in the Thai sun.

That is one incredible specimen tunk. Enjoy what Mother Nature provided.

If I didn't have a job or drive a car I would have the maximum legal number of plants and smoke regularly.

One of the agaves decided to pop its rude sprout skywards this week

They explode in a festival of flowers and baby agaves called pups at the end of their life and then die

A couple of birds (Scaly-breasted munia we think) just landed in our garden, never sat so close to the window. Of course the two little fury owners of our house were on the case immediately.

Originally Posted by Looper

One of the agaves decided to pop its rude sprout skywards this week

They explode in a festival of flowers and baby agaves called pups at the end of their life and then die

It really is a special moment, definitely brightens your day!

Harvest time.







Topped out at 10 feet 2 inches.

Originally Posted by tunk

Topped out at 10 feet 2 inches.

That is an impressive harvest.

This little chap, about 2cm, appeared on a clothes hangar on the drying rack outside, that is about 1.8m off the ground. I guess some kind of tree frog?

Not sure what kind of frog, but he kind of looks like me after burning one.

Another frog today:

A Monstera grown from seed and an avocado grown from stone

I very much hope that this guy is now in the garden.

I usually get the wife to sort out spiders but she'd had an early night last night so it was down to me. I don't like to kill them and usually try to trap them under a cup, slide under a piece of card and then run to the door and throw the lot outside while screaming. But this one was too high and it was too big for the average cup anyway.

While I was debating the problem with the daughter the bladdy thing disappeared, and the only thing worse than a dirty great spider you can see is one that you can't see.



I've always thought that one of the good things about living in Thailand is that spiders aren't really a problem. Certainly nothing like the horrors of living in rural Western Australia where I had many sleepless nights after a Huntsman or one of those horrible black, hairy stubby-legged things disappeared in the bedroom.

I've always thought that one of the good things about living in Thailand is that spiders aren't really a problem. Certainly nothing like the horrors of living in rural Western Australia where I had many sleepless nights after a Huntsman or one of those horrible black, hairy stubby-legged things disappeared in the bedroom.

Spiders back home in Oz never worried me but one here the other night scared the hell out of me. There I was, standing at the toilet, concentrating on my aim, when I noticed movement out of the corner of my eye. I looked down and saw an 8 legged monster moving towards my bare feet. The wife gave me one of those electrified tennis raquet things to zap it....NO WAY was I getting that close to it by choice. Sprayed half a can of Chaindrite to kill it, even when dead and curled up it was the size of my palm.

Originally Posted by Looper

an avocado grown from stone

I have nursed one from a stone to a healthy plant about 1m tall, watered every day during the dry weather, it was looking very healthy. Then 2 days ago all the leaves drooped, I don't think it's coming back.

Originally Posted by Shutree

Then 2 days ago all the leaves drooped, I don't think it's coming back.

the curse of Shu strikes again, try growing cress

I seem to be doing well with frogs. I associate them with water, which we don't have. Another tiny frog today:

^ you know what they say Shu, you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your princess or something like that. I kissed a few but i didn't go with the whole natural hairy armpits thing.

M'Sahib spotted a couple of new residents this morning whilst watering the front garden. Small nest hidden in what is a fairly dense bush. Seems to be a pair, with what I take to be the male perched on another tree nearby keeping watch.

Originally Posted by Mendip

a Huntsman or one of those horrible black, hairy stubby-legged things

Originally Posted by mikenot

when I noticed movement out of the corner of my eye

The huge huntsman that had set up shop in my bathroom recently also gave me a fright by appearing out of the corner of my eye this week. But my bathroom friend had appeared in my line of sight by descending from the ceiling on a silk thread about 3 inches from my face. I was surveying myself bollick naked in the mirror at the time and his rapid rate of descent took him within a few inches of my humble manservant. It was quite the heart stopper.

I don't think I have ever seen a huntsman descend mid air on silk before. I can only surmise that the steam from my shower a few minutes earlier had made him uncomfortable and he felt an urgent need to get off the ceiling. If he had landed on my head I would of shitted meself as he was proper big. Anyway I will remember that trick and keep an eye out in future.

Originally Posted by Shutree

I have nursed one from a stone to a healthy plant about 1m tall, watered every day during the dry weather, it was looking very healthy. Then 2 days ago all the leaves drooped, I don't think it's coming back.

You are still doing better than me Shu

I strolled out one morning just as the sun was rising this week to find an avocado-stone shaped void in my potting yogurt tub

My sproutling avo had been rustled from its crib by a mystery species of bird which I am naming the Australian koont-bird

^ Must have been a cockortwo.

^I hope this new bar mega-complex is going to have a gay night LT

Our LGBTN brothers have been trodden in the mud for long enough and it is time for them to rise up in public, proud and erect!