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My pretty pony,… sorry, baobab.

Adansonia digitata, baobab

Easy to grow tree, but will get aphids when brought indoors in winter. See AltText for further growing details.

Leaves taste slightly peppery, and are very nice in salads. Can be juiced, cooked and stewed. Also dried, it tastes mildly herbal, tea-like. Can be ground easily into powder for soups and baking.

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A beautiful two year old baobab seedling growing in a clay pot. It is sitting on a clay saucer with stones lifting the plant. The plant is sitting on top of green grass. The leaves are a darker and shinier green than the grass. The seedling has been cut at about ten inches from the ground and has four tall branches emerging from this cut. The cut isn’t visible and will look natural over time. The leaves are large and teardrop shaped. Each leaf stem produces three leaves but a stem will emerge out of this so on the branch, 2 leaves appear opposite each other. The plant is easy to grow, but has a few growing requirements. It cannot sit in water and it needs very well-draining soil. The soil I have for this plant is around 50% sand and potting soil with perlite. It is growing in a clay pot and there are rocks at the bottom of the pot to keep the roots from sitting in damp. The plant is sitting on rocks on top of the tray filled with rocks so any roots that emerge out of the pot will also not sit in water. I water this plant everyday in warm/hot temperatures. When temperatures start going below 50F/10C at night, bring indoors in a well-lit space. Do not water or water only once a month while it is in cooler temperatures. My baobabs do not defoliate in the sunroom but they don’t grow very much. I unleash hordes of ladybugs in the sunroom to control the aphid population. Occasionally, I will go on a squishing campaign.
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This is my larger baobab growing in a larger pot. Baobabs will adapt to the size of the growing space. I harvest leaves mostly from this plant. It is also growing with stones at the bottom and 50% sand. It is a struggle to lift up stairs into the sunroom for its seasonal migration. At these times, I regret all my life decisions.

See AltText for more growing details.

Pic shows a larger baobab tree sitting in front of a brick wall. It is 5 foot including the pot. It has two large branches coming out of the lower right and middle left and a bunch of new branches growing from the top where there was a hard cut. Baobabs cannot sit in water and need to be kept lifted off dampness. They can get root rot. I live in a place that gets nearly 50 inches of rainfall so I regularly have to tip the saucer filled with stones you see below. There are rocks at the bottom of the pot besides the potting soil being 50% sand. It is so intensely heavy, I have to tip the pot and saucer on heavy duty shoes or concrete slabs to drain the water. Being a bigger pot and so holding more water than the smaller pot, I do not water this baobab nearly as often in the summer. If you want to grow a baobab, put seeds in a cup of water over a seedling warming mat for a couple days. In two days, the seeds will crack open. Plant germinated seeds in seedling potting mix (not sand yet) in a seedling pot and let grow until true leaves appear. Then plant the seedling in 50% sand and potting mix with perlite.
#gardening#plants#GrowYourOwn
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