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08 Jan 14, Chris Williams (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

What is the best food to feed rosellas with

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01 Jul 13, Pamela Faye (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Rosellas love the sandy soil of the Sunshine Coast. Given a drink when it's hot and fed slow release fertilizer the bush will produce an abundance of fruit. After taking the advice of Annette McFarlane on ABC radio, the rosella pods were harvested every few days and froze in packets until enough fruit was collected for Nan to make delicious pots of jam. Sharing the bush with one or two small grasshoppers wasn't a problem as the flowers bloomed in abundance in full sunshine. The jam is a treat!

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05 Jun 13, GRAHAME (Australia - tropical climate)

ROSELLA BUSH HAS GRUB IN STEM AND PLANT FALLS OVER . WHITISH GRUB LIKE SMALL WITCHITE GRUB

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14 May 13, Jessica (Australia - tropical climate)

how do you get the green seed out of the calyx without cutting the calyx? I want to do some in syrup but can't seem to get the "flower" whole

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25 Apr 14, Jackie P (Australia - temperate climate)

To remove the seed leaving a full fruit you should take a thin slice from the base of the fruit and push the seed out with a chopstick from the thick end to the pointy end. The seed will gently part the petals and pop through. Easy as! I can seed a bowl of fruit in less than five minutes.

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31 Jan 14, Ian Watts (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

It's fussy work for you and very tedious but if you'd like to try this method. My wife, Janine and I were shown the following: Get the stem of a broken umbrella; push that up through the petals; the seed pod (calyx) will pop through.

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17 May 13, Denise (Australia - temperate climate)

When I was a child my father made a "Rosella de-leafer" by attaching an empty bullet casing to a handle - it worked well & I still have it. Maybe you could try an apple corer?

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17 Jan 14, (Australia - temperate climate)

My dad did the same for my mum out of a piece of metal gal tube or stainless tube (I think it was out of a bicycle pump??) He put a bit of tube over it so it wasn't sharp for a handle, works a treat. I still have the one that he made for me as well.

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06 May 13, joyce inglis (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

just wondering when to set Rosella plants at Rockhampton in queensland regards joyce

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31 Jan 14, Ian Watts (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

We found that around September was about the best time.

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