Where I live, Tokyo is getting warm enough with its daily low temperature is back in 2 digit zone, so that I can now comfortably leave the pots outside. But I found out that my plant #4, which just had its 3rd spring, got some scale insects on it, then I did another hard prune […]
8 weeks have passed since hard prune in February. I let the plant to stay outside for one week to test how exposure to the low temperature would affect producing flower buds toward coming summer. The buds here are about 4cm long from where they are shooting from. I put the pot out in the […]
My curry leaf #1 got new buds shooting 5 weeks after the hard prune. (<please visit a page with video!) Though I experienced prune many times, it just reliefs me as I find the new buds. I tested to find out if low ambient would influence “flower-bud differentiation” by leaving the pot outside for a […]
It is already February. It is time for the curry leaf plant growers to prune to promote new buds to shoot while in winter. While the prune is so simple, I understand that a lot of curry leaf plant growers are reluctant to carry out hard prune. But, I am hearing from a lot of […]
My 3rd curry leaf plant was pruned in July, in order to have new buds to come out. There were 3 new buds, but after several weeks since then, there is only healthy one while the remaining two were wilted and withered. As I have been advocating to prune the plant to increase number of […]
Because of unseasonably long monsoon with limited sunshine, my 3rd plant is not doing well. Loosing most of the leaves experienced overwintering is not so good to see int he middle of summer here in Tokyo. So, I decided to do hard prune on this plant, after hard pruning my first and second plant earlier […]
My curry leaf #2 which I did hard prune to remove all the leaves as to the damage from sooty disease being so bad, now has 40 mm long new buds. This is 10 days after my previous update. We had 18 consecutive days with sun shine less than 3 hours a day, which should […]
Due to sooty mold, one of the diseases many of the growers experience, I did hard prune on June 30. 10 days after, There are 4 new buds shooting ! What a joy! Nice to see them within such a short period. Just think about where the plant is grown, which is tropical climate where […]