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as the mother of a son who has cousins he'll never know somewhere out there, my deepest applause for your commitment to your blood. wishing good energies your way :)

i think i even have those..... :lol:

i will surgically remove your eye at fifty paces with one chopstick whilst distracting you with the other. i also have a collection that i wear in my hair for self-defense.

OMFGeez ~*~ congratulations ~*~ (welcome, wee being!) what an exciting time!! seriously might consider coming to colorado to meet your little bundle.... hope y'all are keeping safe with the biblical flooding. if you have a p.o. box for me to send it to, i may seriously have to knit you...

one of my favourite movies of all time. the only poppy growing tip i've gained so far is: they don't transplant well. choose their "forever home" before you plant them.

not familiar with jimson weed, but angel's trumpet (a tree-type datura) sure are purrrdy. :)

if a bunch of heatbags start an obvious-even-to-non-growers grow down the block from you and you're the only one that's secretly ecstatic about it.....

looks like thrip damage. a neem oil spray will keep them away for a wee bit, but i've never had them outdoors so i'm not much help on how to get rid of them. sorry.

ideally you want to leave yourself a 'clean' radius of at least 1/2 inch around what's visibly affected.

there's a newish doc that addresses plant communications as well, it's a "nature of things" (david suzuki) episode called "smarty plants"..... such fascinating stuff. unfortunately this link is available to watch in canada only (sorry danny) but it's the only place i've found it in full so...

i just want to reiterate that botrytis isn't generally a post-harvest issue; depending on the conditions involved, it can spread VERY voraciously but it would have started while flowering. i asked about pulling/pinching because if you're susceptible to it, you want to make sure any 'wounds' you...

i use T5s for supplemental lighting with 1000w HIDs and i don't think you'll get the 'better penetration' you're looking for unless you go for a 400+ watt unit.... and even with that, i still think a 4 bulb T5 offers better coverage in square feet without the excessive heat headache. if you...

if you have your paperwork, the local disps will help you. if you don't, either wreck beach, grandview park, or the vancouver art gallery steps are your best bets for finding non-schwag. (or, as Shawns says, there are a few really good delivery services if you can find one.) if you're looking...

here's another question: when you have dead/dying leaves, do you pull them out or do you pinch them?

textbook budrot aka botrytis aka grey mold; would have started before you even harvested. tends to attack the top nuggets first (hence why you found it in one of your bigger nugs). it's a bitch because it tends to start from the stems and grows outwards. and it's not easy to find unless you're...

mango lily is loving the heat, i'll try to remember to get some pics when the sun comes around. yes, we're spoiled up here for summer temps - when just barely 90 degrees is considered a "record breaking heatwave" :lol:

there's not much to update...... like i said, i haven't really been doing a lot of gardening this year. i'm trying to coax a second flowering out of the delphs and roses right now and once the lilies are done that's pretty much all i have going on for flowering stuff..... waiting on some...

maybe it's just the horticultural grade/brands? the lady i get my lotion-making supplies carries it and hasn't said anything about discontinuing it. she charges me less than i used to pay for einstein oil too.

as far as i know they're the result of isolating a recessive trait in asiatics, many of the bulb catalogues have them now, they're generally marked as such, and i don't think there's any special tricks to growing them. this page from The Lily Nook catalogue has a few, "Easy Salsa" looks an awful...

*covers danny with kitty slobber*