Justin
08-30-2010, 01:39 PM
I have been here for a couple of months and figured it was time for a formal introduction. My name is obviously Justin. I’m originally from Detroit. I now live roughly 45 minutes west on the border of Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor. One thing I’ve found strange about this place is that people here seem to like each other. I spend most of my time at a local sports message board. We pretty much all hate each other. Now that football season is upon us, it’s gotten worse. You either roll with Michigan or Michigan State. Over there it’s pick a team or GTFO. As you can tell from my avatar, I am a University of Michigan guy.
I used to visit this site every once in a while. I mostly lurked and read posts without actually signing up. Coincidentally I saw Martin post on another forum that he would have Ae Ae pups at some point. I can’t remember for sure but I think I found his listing on this site through an internet search and I recognized the username as the one I’d seen previously on the other forum. I figured what the heck, signed up and started posting.
My first banana was the stereotypical DC from a mail order company. I should start a “post here if your first banana was a DC water pup from Spring Hill/Henry Fields/Gurneys/insert mail order company here” thread. I know I’m not the only one. A funny thing happened to that plant. My wife was complaining about the gnats from all of my plants that were moved indoors for the winter. She made me put all of my gnat infested plants in the garage. Nothing I used would kill those damn gnats so they stayed in there all winter. The cold didn’t bother my dwarf navel orange at all but the DC eventually died back. Of course when it died back, my wife takes the pot out of the garage and puts it in the yard in sub freezing temperatures. By the time I realized what happened, it was too late. My next plant was an ice cream that I found at a local nursery. That was the first time I had ever seen those in this area. They had three or four 12” plants for about $14. I grabbed the tag, went home and researched the plants before I bought. I went back and the plants were gone. You have got to be freaking kidding me. Luckily they had two plants with roughly a 24” P stem for about $25. Of course I bought that one and still have that to this day. I went back the next week and the other one was gone. I was lucky I bought when I did.
I’m not trying to break a record here. This introduction went a lot longer than originally planned.
I used to visit this site every once in a while. I mostly lurked and read posts without actually signing up. Coincidentally I saw Martin post on another forum that he would have Ae Ae pups at some point. I can’t remember for sure but I think I found his listing on this site through an internet search and I recognized the username as the one I’d seen previously on the other forum. I figured what the heck, signed up and started posting.
My first banana was the stereotypical DC from a mail order company. I should start a “post here if your first banana was a DC water pup from Spring Hill/Henry Fields/Gurneys/insert mail order company here” thread. I know I’m not the only one. A funny thing happened to that plant. My wife was complaining about the gnats from all of my plants that were moved indoors for the winter. She made me put all of my gnat infested plants in the garage. Nothing I used would kill those damn gnats so they stayed in there all winter. The cold didn’t bother my dwarf navel orange at all but the DC eventually died back. Of course when it died back, my wife takes the pot out of the garage and puts it in the yard in sub freezing temperatures. By the time I realized what happened, it was too late. My next plant was an ice cream that I found at a local nursery. That was the first time I had ever seen those in this area. They had three or four 12” plants for about $14. I grabbed the tag, went home and researched the plants before I bought. I went back and the plants were gone. You have got to be freaking kidding me. Luckily they had two plants with roughly a 24” P stem for about $25. Of course I bought that one and still have that to this day. I went back the next week and the other one was gone. I was lucky I bought when I did.
I’m not trying to break a record here. This introduction went a lot longer than originally planned.