Deborah recently commented onmy pigeon pea survival profile pageabout her winner in grow pigeon pea plant in North Florida :
“ I planted pigeon pea here in N. Florida ( Gainesville ) a few year ago . We had a meek wintertime that twelvemonth , and both of them flourish and came back unassailable in the give . They blossom in belated winter , other spring and gave me a great harvest . The next year , we were predicted to have a harsh winter , so I cut them back to about 2 feet and covered them with turgid pots overgorge full of leaves . Both survived and came back out and grew well , blooming in the fall . I had heard that the production goes down significantly in year three , so I did n’t protect them , but I did implant some seeds next to them so I could use the dead trunks as stakes ( the flora be given to light over when young . ) As expected , the tree diagram freeze , but the seeded player sprouted in the spring and lived two years using the same method I used before . I have two plants growing now , one next to an elderberry which is arise like mad , and one volunteer inside my courtyard that is n’t growing so well . I ’m moving next summer , so I ’ll protect the smaller one this wintertime hoping for spring peak , but if it freezes , so be it .
I be intimate that the pollinators get it on them . I live in SW Gainesville in a high - density population orbit and have a hard fourth dimension getting pollinators , but the carpenter bee love my pigeon pea . ”
effective to know !
I try pigeon peas for a couple of geezerhood a small S of Gainesville without much luck . We got a few peas , but both of the year we grew them the winter frosts would take off the blooms and pods before we got a harvest time . They were still worth grow for chopper - and - drop , atomic number 7 - fixing and rocket - stove fuel ( the stems are decent and hard forest ) , but not for food . The master job with pigeon peas outside the tropics is they have a blooming season that is good before the inhuman sets in , meaning that they set up pods just in fourth dimension to have them frozen off . I have heard that there are varieties that are not day - duration sensitive , but I have not ever develop them myself .
sound work , Deborah ! It ’s also near to hear that they came back after being cropped down and brood . I dothe same affair with moringa .
Finally , Deborah has a Florida horticulture blog whichyou’ll get here .
