Have you thought about the tea plant Camellia sinensis or, another caffeine containing plant, yaupon holly (Ilex vomitora)?

I’m in zone 8b. Winter before last we got down to 17 degrees for a low and temps never climbed above freezing for a week. I was surprised by what didn’t come back but, equally surprised by what did. A friend down the road a bit had a kratom in ground (don’t know the variety) that died to the ground but resprouted in the spring. Justicia pectoralis took a beating but is doing fine as well.

Acacia maidenii can't remember the specific temperature but it remained below freezing for over 24 hours. This happened two years ago. I thought the plant was done. Ended up pulling down a dead tree. It broke off a couple inches above the roots. Next spring it started sprouting back from the roots.

What was your soil mix for germination and growing out?

Heya, welcome to the forum! I'm not sure what the issue was regarding your activation email, but us mods are trying our best to work out the kinks of the forum as of late and hopefully this doesn't happen again.

At any rate, glad you're here 😊

I've been waiting YEARS for an activation email, and wow surprise it just came in today!

So I'm an enthusiastic plant grower. My latest efforts are propagating Calea and P.viridis, and making sure I have a replacement for my
short lived Passiflora edulis. At the moment, I'm processing too many passion flower fruits into frozen juice. The next will be turned into a lemon+passion flower curd. I wonder how long its shelf life is...?

I'm ready to share my knowledge and living material. Here we go!

Lots of great stuff you have growing on up there. I'd trade you for some seeds or small plants of many of your herbs. If interested pm me whenever. I've got a huge collection of random edibles. Lots of the perennial veggies and such.

🌞 Well Hello and welcome!
I am up the road a bit from you in CT.
I also grow veggies, berries, fruit, and trichocereus.

Perhaps we can trade some different varieties?
My growing & wish lists are out of date.
Is there anything in particular you're looking for?

Hey everyone! I’m located in NJ, USA and I grow a lot of medicinal and culinary herbs as well as vegetables and berries. My mother is an herbalist and we make a lot of teas, tinctures, salves, and balms. I also make soap!

Some of the plants going right now are elderberry, sumac, feverfew, holy basil, lemon balm, several mints, several sages, rosemary, thyme, oregano, ephedra, valerian, calendula, skullcap, Solomon’s seal, May apple, paw paw, and more. Some of the vegetables going right now are tomatoes, peppers, Asian greens, lettuce, potatoes, beets, cucumbers, beans, and sweet potatoes. Raspberries and blueberries too! I have some Trichocereus cacti and a prickly pear as well as a night blooming cereus.

Looking forward to see what y’all have got going on!

To retrofit the dual lid of the 75gal aquarium it cost me around $40. When I used aquariums previously I also elevated the plants off the bottom as shamichael mentioned. The one thing I had before was lots of free time. So I could manually mist the plants and/or walls of the aquarium and open the lid often for air exchange. Now I am not home for a ten hour window each day. In the past for when I wasn't home I had a vent on one side and a fogger on the other. It was set up on a timer which would handle air exchange as well as humidity. Maybe with my current schedule I should do something along those lines again. Hopefully next year at this time, if I meet all of my growing goals, I'll have a reason to put up my greenhouse. Thanks for the input so far guys! Hoping to hear what other people do too.