2016 Goji Berries - Great in Seattle weather

The Goji Berries ripened early this year. Perhaps from the early heat or from the up pot. Maybe both. The goji berries are definitely looking good. I'll probably find a permanent home in the ground for these guys. They are super hardy and deserves a permanent home. It's survived 2 winters in a pot for me.

Goji Berries have the greenlight in the Seattle area.

Hardy Bananas

Hardy Bananas,

This is the first time growing Hardy Bananas. The surprising grow well here in Seattle. Or should I say they can survive the Seattle Winters.

These suckers grow fast too. They've outgrown the pot I've had them in. It maybe time to up pot after only 2 months or so.

April:

June

July

August 1st: Up Potted

August 10

Testing out my Self Watering Pot vs a Conventional pot

I'm not going to do another how to post about how to create your own self watering pot. There's a ton of those post that can be found through google. Instead I want to document the results of a self watering pot vs conventional pot.

Below I have two Castanhol fig plants. These guys seem to be vigorous growers and the fruit appears to super delicious.

Experiment started on 6/30/16

To make it completely fair I probably should pot the plant on the right into a 5 gallon. Which I'll probably change to this weekend.  The larger volume of soil will give an unfair advantage.

My objective is really to see how much more growth if any a self watering pot will give a plant.

More updates to come.

Update: 7/17/16
About 2 weeks later. The conventional pot is out performing the self watering pot.