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Comments (25)Dave! Dave! I can't believe how great they look now. I am so pleased with the results of your had work and your trust in us here. I am thrilled at how beautiful they are. WOWOW! Thanks for stopping by. You were certainly thought of. I have been meaning to ask you to come back. So good to see you again:-) Hey Josh! Alexa..Thanks so much for stopping by and your kind words. Josh, it is cool here agin. We only broke 80 in the past month! Where is our summer? Considering it was in the 90's in the middle of winter, I am beginning to think our winter will be in the middle of summer. I must say though that this must be your favorite weather. Very cool by night and mild by day. perfect for my coloring jades and flowering citrus. I would say, southern Cailf. weather in winter. Jaybird and Buylady!! Thank you so much. Buylady, let's talk soon. I want to make sure you are alright, You will be in my prayers:-))) Mike...See MoreVariegated Pink Lemon update (pics)
Comments (30)Hello! Been off burning underbrush on a friend's acreage, and I'm heading back out today.... but I wanted to respond before leaving! ;-) Redecorating, the amount of Foliage Pro you use per dose will depend on how often you fertilize, how well the plant is growing, and time of the year (which is closely tied to how well the plant is growing). If your plants are in one of Al's mixes, you can utilize a couple different fertilizer strategies. If you fertilize with every watering like Laura, you can use a 1/4 teaspoon per gallon. This keeps the tree supplied with nutrients, without overloading the mix with fertilizer residue (salts). Or you can fertilize with a full strength dose every week (1 teaspoon per gallon). During the Summer, I fertilize once a week. Now, because of the slow-release fertilizer that was in the nursery soil, I fertilized this variegated Lemon much, much more lightly than my other citrus. Now that it's in a mix that has no nutrients (other than a small charge of Osmocote), I will fertilize more heavily starting in early Spring. Last year, my Moro Blood Orange was showing some yellowing leaves on the interior. Although it is natural for older and shaded interior leaves to yellow and drop, I suspected that I simply wasn't fertilizing enough to keep up with the tree's growth. So I fertilized with over a TABLESPOON of Foliage Pro per gallon. That turned the tree around. Citrus are heavy feeders, we need to keep in mind, and there will be some tailoring required to arrive at the proper seasonal fertilizer regimen. Josh...See MoreCentral CA update (lots of pics from the yard) 4/11
Comments (33)NZ, no dishes of water (West Nile virus) but I do occasionally wash down the plants or the cement floor under the arbor. Plus there are grape and passion fruit vines above it and grass in front of it, not to mention lots of plants. I do have plans for drip lines and probably micro misters for early morning or evening (no direct sun). Yes LL, they are from Juan's pulasan tree, I try to pretend I dont care about them, so they wont die. It would be a complete miracle if I can get them to fruit and even more outrageous if they taste as good as Juan's. Some of the PR seedlings are growing pretty well, plants in the photos are in 5gal pots. Even the mangosteen are growing moderately well, the slowest growers.........herrania umbricata and kwai muk. Charleslou, all of the lychees except the Mauritus are in pots....See MoreDid Enoch poison Aunt Addie w/arsenic? Latest update w/pics
Comments (18)To answer the question - it never even dawned on me to think about what arsenic did to teeth, but that dream was SO startling and I'm not 100% sure it was a "dream" - per se. I was in that almost-but-not-quite asleep place when I was startled by Addie rushing up to me and as she got VERY close, she bared her teeth and she said - urgently - LOOK AT MY TEETH and I did and that was the end of the dream. However, it sure woke me up! I do feel strongly connected to Addie and I am not sure I can even articulate why. For decades, I've carried ONE old photo around with me from house to house (and marriage to marriage...) and it's the picture of Anna Hoyt Whitmore - Addie's older sister. One day I walked downstairs and into my dining room (where this picture hangs) and I feel like I heard someone say, "You're on the right track. Don't give up. Keep going forward with this." I really do feel almost a calling to see where this leads. If I had the money, I'd have her exhumed, but it's not just the cost of exhumation, but also the legal fees. An exhumation would have to be court ordered at this point, and that's where the serious dough will come in. Down deep in my bones, I know that Addie will rest in peace when the truth is revealed. And that furniture of my father's - oh boy - that's another story but now we're learning that there's a better than 50% chance it came from Enoch's HOUSE!!!! Can you believe it? We always heard from Father that it was an exhibition piece and I wasn't even sure what that meant. We also knew it was made in the mid-1890s. We also knew that it came into my Father's life when he was 13 or 14 (about 1933 or 1934). Two weeks ago, I was talking with the owner of The Fargo Mansion (B&B) and he said that Enoch Fargo would tell anyone who'd listen that all his furnishings were "exhibition pieces" from the 1893 World's Fair (in Chicago). That perked up my ears. And then the B&B owner said, "In the 1930s, Mattie Hoyt Fargo (Wife #3) decided to sell the house (Enoch died in 1921) and she invited the Hoyt family into the house to take whatever they wanted out of the house. We understand that Mattie's sister and cousins pretty well cleaned the place out." Well, my father's grandmother was Anna Hoyt (cousin of Mattie Hoyt) and that was like the missing puzzle piece! So now I *suspect* that my father's furniture might have come from the Fargo mansion. Rose...See More
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