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 87/ Detarium senegalense and Lycium ruthenicum

DEAD, much sadness. 

Sweet detar needs to be planted in the ground bc it produces a very deep woody taproot. It will coil in the pot and die. I tried bonsai method of trimming the taproot on seedlings and they still died. Sad. It is a beautiful tree. 

Black goji berry: climate here is too wet. It got washed out and died even though I mixed soil so it had a lot of perlite and sand. Also prone to aphids and gets wind-damaged.