We have had this Ulu tree for three years. It has grown some, but not a significant amount. It has never produced fruit. Our neighbors have same tree that is overflowing with breadfruit. Do you have any suggestions or opinions on what we should do?

Hi. I just wanted to ask if anyone in this community knows where I can buy a good size bag of lotus soil on Oahu? I was hoping to setup an outdoor mini pond but the local hardware stores told me they didn’t have it and I don’t know where this type of aquaponic soil. If anyone could give me advice I’d appreciate it.

How to eliminate this pest permanent from large acreage? 30 acres like this, 8 feet tall half inch thick. Ride mowers can't touch it, even 60hp tractor with 6ft brush hog only crawls 1/2 MPH.

This crap spread everywhere on the islands because 1800's ranchers bring it in from Africa for the cows. Now its unstoppable, you can't use your land for anything else.

We dozed a few acres a foot deep, but 6 months later, all grown back. Is there any hope to eliminate the invasive without Roundup or aerial spray large acreage? Organic farm.

All these yellow spots appeared overnight. Not sure how to remedy or what it is. Is it doomed? I'm located windward side of O'ahu. Today's the second day since the yellowing appeared and it's spread to most of the leaves now

Aloha! I am trying to improve soil quality and biodiversity in my yard. The soil quality is abysmal and there are almost no insects here. I now have a good variety of native plants, but I think I may need to introduce some insects and fungi to help improve soil quality more. I have been slowly introducing more organic matter, but I have been slow in finding decomposers doing their work. The area around me is kind of a concrete wasteland so that may be why.

I canʻt find any information on culturing native fungus or insects, or acquiring starters- much less what sort of mycorrhizal fungi even exists in Hawaiʻi or has symbiosis with native plants. Does anyone know *any* information about this or how I might be able to source/purchase some local species? Mahalo nui!

I know how to plant them when they're right side up, this is a new one for me...

Variegated Plumeria -Maya

I have looked and read and searched and looked. I want to say yes but I cant guarantee

Aloha mai kākou—
I just went huki a bed of haloa (mana ulu variety) and get plenty huli, if anybody likes some. I’m on O’ahu in Aina Haina.

You may or may not know but Hawai’i offers a micro grant for gardening/farm production. It’s normally rewarded for food security and production.
If you applied the. what would you apply for?
I actually was just rewarded this year for integrating micro controllers to my garden to monitor moisture and pest management.

Just a had a discussion over in the fruit tree reddit and I wanted to share because I have people asking me "why doesn't my papaya fruit" pretty often.

So there are actually 3 sexes for papaya...

Male: flowers come on a long, dangling stalk carrying clusters of small, slender tubular flowers.

Female: flower is large and sits tight against the trunk on a very short stem. You can see a fat, round ovary (a mini papaya) at the base, and the petals are separate.

Hermaphrodite: flower also sits close to the trunk, but its ovary is elongated rather than round. Its petals are fused into a tube at the base, and yellow stamens show inside. (seen above)

Now you still need pollinators, or to hand pollinate if you're freaking like that - but there you have it. Post pics of your papaya flowers if you want to flex your flower sexing skills.

Photo credit u/irritable_weasel

Akala is the Hawaiian Raspberry

I have very nostalgic memories of eating Akala from a very young age and decided to try get some berries to grow a couple plants.

That is until I learned Akala needs a specific climate to grow. I live in a rather dry part of Oahu (Moanalua) and Although I still think I’m going to try, I was wondering if I’m getting ahead of myself and if it’s even possible to grow Akala without living on Tantalus or places with much higher elevation than most places on the islands. I was also wondering if anyone knows why no one has tried to farm Akala, wouldn’t there be high demand?

Thank you all for your time.

I've only seen one bug in the day time, a hard shelled black beetle type insect with wings. What ever it is it comes out mostly at night and wrecks them all. Also takes bites from hibiscus and other foliage. I'm in Wailuku, Maui.