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Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝

@cutflowergrower.bsky.social

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"To Garden is believe in tomorrow" -Audrey Hepburn 🌱 ⚘️🌺central Florida UnGardener for Wellbeing🌼🌸 👨‍🌾🌻🌷🐞🦋🐝 2 🐕 & 1 🐈, Mindfulness🧘‍♀️, Musicals🎭, Open Minded💭💡, Always Evolving💫❤️‍🔥 Humor & Truth Renew Me 🤪⚖️✨️🐦‍🔥 "Our one true Nationality is Mankind." 🇱🇷 -HG Wells

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Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · Mar 23

Hi #bluesky family! I'd like to introduce you to Checkers & Julie #dogs and Jasmine #cats My 3 reasons to go on living, no matter what--they're my obligations; I adore them; they keep me sane; I'm #blessed. Everyday simple pleasures.
#phonephotography #simplepleasures #animals #furbabies

Checkers (white cocker spaniel - poodle mix, male) & Julie (Italian Greyhound -- Mexican Chihuahua mix, female) both 4 1/2 years old in 2024 taken by Woofgang Bakery & Grooming's Tori.

Jasmine (female) 13 years old here 2024 with Julie in background, sitting comfortably on my bed. Queen of the castle indeed!

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Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 8d

Ranunculus Elegance series and Cloni series are new to my growing this year. Can't wait for them to yield all they promise.
#gardening #organic-gardening ##Floridagardening #flowers #bloomscrolling

Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 10d

#gardening #organic-gardening

Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 10d

My garden after storm last nite, hurricane Melissa
#gardening #organic-gardening #containergardening

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Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 10d

A wonderful morning to all. #HappyMonday #Bluesky family. Bless all y'all

#goodmorning #lily #lilies #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardening #organic-gardening #Floridagardening

A Stargazer Lily opened in last night's hurricane with massive downpours. God is blessing my garden.

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Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 11d

Looks so good karre!

Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 11d

I was awarded a partial scholarship to Floret Farm's Flower Farming Workshop that normally costs about $1,000 and runs 6 modules but unfortunately I cannot participate. Floret is such a beacon of educational wealth wanting to see others succeed. I will reapply when offered next year
#gardening

Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 11d

This is just a magnificent flower. Shape, color, everything. Thanks for sharing

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Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 11d

What radiant oranges and yellows. Thanks for sharing

Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 11d

That is an.amazing colored sage! Thanks for sharing

Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 11d

I had 3 dahlia tubers i had no identification for. So i planted 1 in a 7 gallon grow bags and 2 around the yard. Almost November, I seriously doubt any flowers to bloom for fall but the 2nd flush starting Feb will bring blooms I'm sure of it!
#dahlias #gardening #organic-gardening

Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 11d

Big gardening day today
I planted the presrpouts of succession 1 of Ranunculus & Anemone. For seeds, succession 1 direct sow of Night-Scented Stock, Clarkia & Blue Cornflower. Last, I soaked and laid in trays of vermiculite the 2nd succession of Ranunculus &Anemone.
#gardening #organic-gardening

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Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 11d

Succession 2 consists of Teceolote Ranunculus Picotee Mix, Red, White, and Pink. Ranunculus Aviv Variety Mix and Cafe Au Lait, and Anemone De Caen Variety Mix
#gardening #organic-gardening #anemone #ranunculus #floridagardening

Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 11d

Starting to soak succession 2 for 4 hours, changing water ea hour, then set up pre sprout in 75° outdoors with little spraying to maximize root growth, minimize rotted, & get sprouts growing. Mixture of vermiculite and potting soil will be used.
#gardening #organic-gardening #Ranunculus

Ranunculus variety mix and Cafe Au Lait Mix

Template Ranunculus PIcotee Mix, Red, White, and Pink

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Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 11d

When checking corm viability after storage, all gladiolus methods, which vary based on size, all begin with total removal of paper protection. Hot yellow corms meat told me under no uncertain doubts do I have Fusarium. An educational lesson.
#gladiolus #organic-gardening #gardening #fusarium

Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 11d

and when held by the tops of the pointed end of the sheath, 2 or 3 corms/cormels or some variation on the kind fall through as if the sheath was too dry.
#gardening #organic-gardening #Freesia #corms #cormels

The state of the Freesia corms on 10/22/2025. Never presprouted nor woken up

Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 11d

Ordered from East to Grow Bulbs, another Milwaukee based Dutch bulb vendor, These Freesisas, bought as doubles and singles mix, then absent mindedly combined without discretion in these egg crate holes, are no longer securing the corms inside their sheath. Now, the corms or morsels have separated

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Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 11d

1st week temps stay below 83° My 1st succession Ranunculus, Anemone, and Freesia get planted. I will split up my gladiolus corms to make 3 successions to last until the Spring 26 special cultivars arrive
Best effort made on the Freesia and gladiolus corners.
#gardening #gladiolus #organic-gardening

Planted April 4, 2025, yield of gladiolus corms and corners, cured and been in storage since late-August

Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 28d

Checkersntodaybatbthebgroomers and afterwards, posing for the camera
#dogsofbluesky

Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 28d

The offending 4 bags, already much drier under my covered lanai
#gardening ##organic-gardening #dahlias

3 weeks has gone by for the most part and with 1 rotted out, I'm quarantined the offending grow bags

Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 28d

Today's progress: a 5th grow bags has a new sprout I found just 1" under the soil. The 2 largest dahlias are growing lateral stems at quite a rate, after 7 days of nothing happened following pinching them
#gardening #dahlias ##organic-gardening

5 grow bags of dahlias definitely growing

The white mark is the newest found sprouts to breach the soil

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Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 28d

How will I reconcile if that soil can be dried & reused and even more unavoidable is the offending grow bags. How do I clean it & sanitize the insides? Soap and water from the hose and then run through the washing machine? I'm in Virgin territory here with grow bags.
#gardening #organic-gardening

Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 28d

A4 remaining grow bags under the covered lanai, that way no more rain and any sprouting will occur if it's meant to be. Disgusting thing to feel 6" down into a grow bags to have your fingers get submerged in a tuber so rotted, it was nearly gelatinous. And the smell
#gardening #organic-gardening

Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 28d

Today I learned the grow bags 3 weeks from tuber planting without sprouts yet have all rotted & remained soaking wet. I found 1 sprouts in 1 of the bags, but daily downpours that form puddles which act as moisture wicks for the grow bags has caused me to isolate the
#gardening #organic-gardening

Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 28d

will instantly cause Black burns on the leaves where applied, this being Orlando, FL zone 10a. I hope insecticidal soap works to smooth the eggs and any living worms. But thanks for the advice.

Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝 @cutflowergrower.bsky.social · 28d

and not a health concern that the dahlias will suffer from. But boy do I have an ecosystem completely out of whack since ladybugs died 12 hours after being delivered and parasitic wasps are unwilling to hang around when no pests are out feeding. And need oil, any oil based horticultural product

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