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What is growing on? So, another follow-up video here at the home nursery. Um, you can thank DJI and this easy to carry Osmo for the more videos. This thing has been a game changer for me. Weighs like a quarter of a pound. Throw it in my pocket, peel it out. A little easier obviously to use in the phone. It’s not going off every time I’m trying to make a phone call. [Music] I have been working around the home nursery here for I guess about the last two weeks on and off in between jobs. Next week we are back on a job. So progress is slowing down again unfortunately. Um and fortunately in a way too because I’m not excited about it. I don’t have you a finished greenhouse over here to uh to show you guys yet. All of this base that you see here behind me that is crushed granite. that is lime rock screenings, basically crushed lime rock. We use that as a hard base under all of our weed mat areas that’s going to be going underneath that greenhouse. Um that makes it, you know, really nice hard base after we compact it. Kind of similar like what you would do for pavers or hardscape. Longterm walking over it, we don’t end up with a lot of holes that way. If we were to just put it over the dirt, it ends up really lumpy. Even though with all the work that we’re doing, we still do get some holes and things over time, but it is better than just using dirt. So, greenhouse is coming. We trimmed a bunch of the trees back there. I have a couple of stumps to get out. I’m not going to show you a video until we get some more progress in that area. Where I do have a little bit of progress is over here. So, we started doing some landscaping up along the fence. And I actually did that other fence line over there, too. I guess I could show you guys that. I forgot about that. We’ve planted out two areas in the last two weeks, and I’m working my way over to the third zone now. We’ve got a wet zone here. This is something that I need to deal with once we get into dry season. Um because of how high I raised the shade house and all the buildings we’re putting in. That water has to have somewhere to go. So I I’m ending up with a little bit of a wet spot here during the day. Goal is to put in a drain, put in a super gutter, another pickup over there, and run all of this out to the ditch. We do have a retention ditch that runs around the property, which I’ve never seen water in. Um, so the goal is to move that water to the south over here to this ditch. You’ll be able to see it here as I walk up on our newest bed. And this new bed has those eucalyptus trees I was just talking about in the last video. Um, or a couple of videos ago. I’m sure you guys have seen a few job site videos now and some follow-up videos, but these were planted a little less than a week ago. No irrigation, although you do do see a hose here. We have hand watered them once or twice. I had that hose out front yesterday filling some of the trees in that we planted out front. Um, we have viver grass and eucalyptus going all the way down this fence line here. And as it cuts through the corner over here and look at this new beautiful fuzzy growth on this, they really are pretty pretty. The new growth has that pinkish red color to it. And then over here, put a couple of fire bush and a couple more vetiviver grass. And the vetiviver grass is just kind of acting as that placeholder, giving us a little bit of in between privacy until things fill up. Obviously, the uh fire bush is going to become 5, six foot in here. Kind of give us a little bit of buffer because we have that hole here and give you a little bit of a sneak peek into that uh greenhouse zone. I’d like to try to keep that live oak over there. It’s one of the few live oaks we’ve got on the property. Most of the oak trees I have here are laurel oaks and water oaks. So, what few live oaks we have, we are going to try to retain and keep. But these guys grow super fast. I mean, we’re going to have 10ft trees by next year, by the end of next summer. Probably 15t trees. So, stay tuned because before you know it, these guys are going to be over the fence. I guess we could do a quick little cut through along the nursery. What do you guys think? Um, this is all overstock. I’ve talked about this in the past. Catly guavas for days. Um, Barbados cherry basically just to restock the other side once we run out. Irrigation was on in all of these areas this morning. So things were a little wet and a little soggy yet. And this is one of those areas where I happened to just be talking about the base going down underneath the weed mat that I didn’t have base. um wasn’t in the budget to put it underneath here when we were doing it. Needed to rush this area. Ended up just putting it on the dirt and this is a very very soggy zone. Eventually, this will probably get ripped up, redone. Um but for now, it’s doing its job. And we don’t get a lot of clients in here, so it’s not as big of an issue with just the employees working through walking through the space. But over there on that side, obviously, we’re very hard packed. That is new. I did some tree work out front. took down a big tree. Actually, that large live oak that’s been dead um or dying since we bought the property. It completely died within the last year and a half, two years. That’s one of the stumps. I don’t know if that’s going to second over as a seat or what. I want to landscape this kind of shade zone over here next. So, we’ll see. So, this fence line was just planted. We did this one two days ago. Um, we basically have grafted lowquats, avocado, um, and mulberry coming all the way down the fence. Put a couple different breeder varieties in here that I haven’t had in the ground yet. I think we’ve got giant, shangerlaw, and ty. I need to plant a few more. Six street. Um, I did some of the dwarf vitex through here. I did dwarf sweet almond and dwarf fire bush kind of as a pattern going all the way down as a filler. and lemongrass and the uh oh the large red grass in the back as a chop and drop looking good. And that one was on the tip of my tongue. So large red grass would be the uh the red napier grass. And then along the front for a little bit of color I put the perennial penta which most pentas are not perennial. That is one that’ll last 10, 20, 30 years. Got that from a collector. And that’s that napier grass along the back. And you can see that’s this week installed. Here’s them in the nursery. This is where I go when I need plants for planting. I just literally walk right over here, steal them out of the nursery. Definitely pretty lucky. There’s some of the red napier grass in the three gallon pots. But I wanted to show you one that we planted, I don’t know, five, six weeks ago. I think I pointed out this planting a recent video, but I want to show you how much bigger it’s gotten since. I mean, these guys are already up at the top of the shipping container. big, beautiful, dark, you know, reddish purple um to the leaves. Really good biomass. Really cool filler plant. I like how they look here in the landscape. So, eventually that lowquat’s going to fill a little more space. That banana is kicking that banana’s ass. Definitely growing a lot quicker. Um then we have a world’s best and a tie dwarf malberry. There’s that little tide dwarf. All right, let’s head out front. That’s where all the exciting stuff’s been happening the last week. Had a couple of uh big wholesale orders go out for Japot Cabos. I had a full 28 foot U-Haul truck leave last week to a nursery in Tampa. Bought a bunch of uh giant reds, griml, scarlet, white, you name it. Um about 70% of the way through the papayas. I’d like to get rid of those before winter. We’ve got seven or eight really rare varieties right now. Red varieties and um Saba. I mean, varieties I’ve never even heard of before in a papaya. Yes, I said Saba. Um we had a client bring us one. She told us the name of it was Saba. So, we’re just going with it. Uh native zone looking a little thin right now. Got to get some more plants in here. Sunshine mimosa still sleeping. Got lots of work we still want to do up here by the office. I’m actually going to expand this road about another 3 to 4 foot. Want to take all that mulch off that edge. Kind of widen this up a little bit. Working on a canopy for all of our bag material, compost, biochar, potting soil, potting mix, uh, etc. Somewhere we can keep it out of the rain. That’s the next big goal. It’s getting towards the end of the season for that moloia. Egyptian spinach. If you know, you know, guys, we just had a bunch of adamoya off the trees. sugar apples up the trees at my house. Um, I’ve been selling sapadilla, been selling starf fruit like crazy. We’ve probably sold about 500 starf fruit in the last, I don’t know, month or so. They have been flying off the shelves. I’ve thinned the trees pretty hard, but we put fresh fruit out when we open on the counter over here. So, I just recently scored a couple more tracking trailers. That is not one I thought it was from the distance. It was made by the same company, but the 10-footers. There was a nursery going out of business up in Eberness. So, I picked up two more, added to our fleet of tracking trailers. Those things are great. Can’t have enough of them. And let’s head up front. I don’t know if you guys saw that epic B-roll in one of the newest videos I put out, but this new camera is absolutely epic. It literally has a flip over for B-roll mode, 120 in like 2 seconds. I can’t say enough good stuff about it. The footage turned out epic. Robbie, you did a killer job on the B-roll for the Crystal Reese project, Crystal Beach project. Uh, turned out really good. Oh, you guys have to see what I’m seeing. This is so beautiful here in the mornings. So, last year’s planting of fakahhatche grass, beauty berry, fire bush, and a loquat. These grasses have filled out really, really nice. Look at that sunshine coming up through here in the morning. It is something else. So, we just recently um put a micro zone through all these beds, actually two. One for that side, one for this side. And those are just running off a hose bib. So, when we remember, flip it on while we’re here if it’s dry. Not really a rainy season thing, but more of a dry season thing. These tumerics are all getting huge. Look at the size of that thing. Eventually, this is going to end up being another road for coming in and exiting. We’re ending up with a little bit of a bottleneck over here. I say eventually, probably within the next few weeks, going to expand the road around this island and it’s going to tie in and go around our new island out here in the front. Ended up having to stick the flatbed here yesterday. I was hauling some uh telephone poles, a little bit of uh sod. Don’t tell anybody. Don’t be a grasshole. Finally got these stumps ground out. I had to take about six or seven trees out front here out. Um, this driveway is going to tie in, connect to the main gate, but also go around this new center island we just planted. Turned out really good. And we used cabbage palms, fakahache grass, cypress trees, thatch palms, and uh, one large oak tree. Shout out to my neighbor with the big tree farm, Hunter with BMAC Tree Farms. We’re actually going to put a bunch of in the ground trees over here along the fence. And I’ll have B&B, oaks, mags, uh, cedar, cyprus, elm, maple, any native tree. We’re going to keep them probably two, three, four lines here along the front. Maybe 30 or 40 trees in stock at all times. So, this side will kind of be a little bit different where we’re typically doing stuff in containers. This is going to be in the ground trees. And as you can tell, we are still closed. The dirt pounding station is not open yet. Not open yet. Stay tuned. So, here is our next zone for nursery. We have started the prep work. I have started the leveling. I have started to bring this whole space up. Trying to pitch everything down into the new retention zone over there. Um, basically to that pole is where the nursery is going to go. Tying over to that corner. We’re going to end up with two tree lines where I can put things on drip. And this will just be an overhead zone over here. So probably about three zones of irrigation in this area. And we might even have some fufu crap out here. I don’t know. But most of our pretty stuff. So vitex and fire bush and sweet almond flowering species stuff that we can see from the road. Hopefully attract a little bit more attention. Guys, we do do a little bit of a a niche thing with just being edibles. Um, being on a highway with 44,000 cars a day going by, got to have to get a little bit more attention for right now. We’ve just been a giant pile of mulch out here. And it’s nice to finally start to get some curb appeal, get this place organized. Um, I have been working my butt off on the soil bin over here. I think I’ve got 40 blocks in there right now. They’re about 4,000 lbs a piece. So, there’s a lot of concrete. Those blocks are going to end up coming all the way to this corner over here. This little 10-ft section is going to be a little, let’s just say, agroforestry row, food forest block, whatever we want to call it. Um, this will be our long-term dumping for our mulch bin organization. Hopefully, one side will be fresh. Hopefully, one side will have the more broken down stuff. Eventually, this pile will be gone. This is what is left of the old broken down mulch. Eventually, this um semi-truck full of pine needles will be gone. Although, we will carry pine needles. I’m just not going to keep them in that truck. Long-term goal is to have some type of building over here. Offices a couple years down the line, but it is in the scopes. The old Swiss Army knife out here grading stuff. Still got a lot of grade work to do, but we did our tie into the well yesterday. We ran hose bib. We put a valve there that’s going to go back to the uh bamboo, which is just on a ho or hose bib timer at this time. Uh currently just running one of these little Rainirds, which works pretty good. but we’d rather have it on a regular valve. The Rainbird does cut off a lot of water. That’s our ball valve to shut off this entire zone over here. This is going to end up being a soil bin, compost bin once we get around to getting some more blocks. Already kind of moved the compost over here, but we need to get a little bit more organized. This is all still very fresh. I was hoping to be out here this morning laying black mat. It is Friday, but unfortunately two of the guys were sick today. starting a new project next week. So, probably be a couple weeks before I get back over here to wrap this up. One of my buddies is taking these logs. He wants to use them to line some beds. But otherwise, I did put a little bit of Baya in here, guys. Personally was really worried about getting into hurricane. Well, obviously we’re in hurricane season, getting some monsunal rain events. This whole thing washing in here, I really wanted to lock it together. So, ended up picking up 800 square foot, two pallets of Baya. never going to get fertilized, never going to get uh irrigated. Um long term, I wanted to have an entry point to get in with the mower, though. I didn’t want to have to weed eat that space. All of these grasses were just cut back. We chose the pine needles as the ground cover on top of the mulch. I thought it added a nice look. Doing something a little bit different out here, but making some progress. So, trees down, nurseries expanded, retention pond, landscape, mulch bin started. Lots of exciting stuff going on here at the nursery. If you haven’t been in to see it, come on down. Check us out. See what we’ve been working on. What do you know about the Great Wall of Green Dreams? Working on building one here. So, those things have a really nice hook on the top of them. That’s actually a waste product from a local concrete company. When they come back, if they have a yard left, you know, two yards left, sometimes they even told me 10 yards left of concrete, um, they have these molds. Instead of just dumping it on the ground, they put them into the mold. Uh, so somebody has paid for this concrete, not the company that’s actually making them. Uh, and these things just go together like Legos. They got a nice little hookup on the top. Pretty cool. All right. Great wall of green dreams. All right. So, lots of exciting stuff happening out here by the road. If you haven’t been in here to see it yet, come in and check us out here. I’m always here, or I say I’m always here. I try to be here on and off during the week, but typically on Saturdays. Um, new other new news to share is I did get a new drone. Um, just recently picked up another uh DJI, unfortunately. Cannot fly it here at the new property still. Um, I am really close to an airport. When I say really close, probably within 5 miles. I used to be able to put a code in and fly up. I have a friend that’s probably a little bit more technology savvy than I am that looked through my uh drone, did a little research. She told me that DJI is no longer on the approved flight list. So, when I asked for approval to fly here, they’re not one of the approved platforms, I guess, that gets a code to fly here. I don’t know exactly what that is. Um, know it’s a pain in the butt. I know I can still fly at my house. I know I can fly it other places, just not using it here at the nursery. So, whoa. I am going to go try right now one more time. Even if it let me go up just like 15t around the property, I would be happy. I don’t have to go up 398 ft or whatever it is. Um, but little followup here at the nursery. Trees down, nursery expansion, new plants in the ground. Uh, lots of exciting stuff happening. So, come on down, check us out. I hope you guys enjoyed this quick video. I hope you started a food forest. I hope you’ve been ripping out some grass. And I hope you’ve been pounding some dirt. [Music]