{"id":27,"date":"2006-11-25T19:52:51","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T05:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/?p=27"},"modified":"2006-11-25T19:52:51","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T05:52:51","slug":"the-ookala-tea-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2006\/11\/the-ookala-tea-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ookala Tea Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Jim and i made a trip to our friend&#8217;s land in Ookala.  While Jim tended the banana patch, i tended to the big old tea plant there.  It is probably 30 years old, and easily 6-7m tall.  On a previous trip, i used a ladder to take a little material home to propagate, which did not do so well as the branches are quite tough.  This time, i brought heavy loppers and pruned off major branches.  Here is a picture from August showing the full-sized tree, and a picture today after the pruning:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-2\/DSC05802-ookala-tea-tree.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"137\" height=\"220\" border=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-2\/DSC05802-ookala-tea-tree_small.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-2\/DSC00556-2.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"158\" height=\"220\" border=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-2\/DSC00556-2_small.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The branches i lopped off, and the resulting material for propagation:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-2\/DSC00554-2.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"232\" height=\"120\" border=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-2\/DSC00554-2_small.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-2\/DSC00573-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"223\" height=\"120\" border=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-2\/DSC00573-2_small.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deb and i spent this afternoon making 100 cuttings (so far).  Once again, it will be five years until we learn whether this is good tasting tea or not.  At least it&#8217;s already known to grown vigorously!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Jim and i made a trip to our friend&#8217;s land in Ookala. While Jim tended the banana patch, i tended to the big old tea plant there. It is probably 30 years old, and easily 6-7m tall. On a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2006\/11\/the-ookala-tea-tree\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}