Kalo Flower

The new kalo I just bought is sending up a flower stalk! I have never seen flowers on any of my other kalo. I will be sure to take photos of it; not sure if they will be useful for identification since I have never seen a kalo key that mentions flowers.

After I watered the kalo, I checked out some of the other plants. The dragonfruit is coming along well; there will probably be about a dozen ripe fruit over the next month or so. The navel orange is also doing well; I will need to judiciously prune it & put weights on some of the branches to direct their growth outward instead of upward. The jaboticaba bark is peeling nicely. I was told by another jaboticaba owner that the bark needs to flake off in order for a good crop to grow on the fresh bark; have not found anything on the Internet about that but it doesn't seem to hurt the tree. 

There are 4 fruit in this photo.

I should harvest some of these & make juice.

Flowers & fruit form on bark of trunk.

I heard a strange noise in the cat yard; it sounded like someone leaping up on the fence then down again. So I went to investigate. I think one of the boys jumped on the fence to catch something then brought it back down; or perhaps it was Moʻo trying to get in on the fun. I found Hoʻokoa & ʻAlani near the fence, playing with something in the grass but I could not tell what it was. I left them alone to play with it.

They're up near where I heard the sound.

Definitely focused on something there.

ʻŌhuna relaxing in the shade.

I saw a pair of ʻIo soaring above the house this morning. 

 

I finished high enough to get promoted to the Amethyst level in Duolingo. But not high enough to score more gems; you have to be in the top 3 in order to win those.

For the next episode of the eruption at Kīlauea they have now narrowed the time frame down to between the 28th & the 1st.

Hauʻoli lā Hānau e Parks Sensei!