We have a frost advisory for tomorrow morning so just to be on the safe side I cut all the calyxes off the three Roselles planted out in the yard. The total was 204, 81 of them off one plant!
These plants were tough this summer. They got a little 10-10-10 mixed into the planting holes before setting out the transplants back in May. They also got maybe one snack of Miracle Grow a month later but that's all the feeding they've gotten to date.
They were watered by me maybe once or twice while they were still on the young side but then thrived all summer through very high temps and very little rain. I purposely withheld supplemental water just to see how they'd do on their own and they never showed any wilt. I'm impressed!
Oh, and the deer thought they tasted just so-so as they nibbled a bit but didn't return to devour the plants like they do when they find something they really like!
