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Forum: Tiki Hut 02-25-2008, 10:56 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 2,514
Posted By marco
Re: (Not necessarily tropical) trivia question

List of the longest English words with one syllable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_longest_English_words_with_one_syllable)

This list is especially...
Forum: Tiki Hut 02-25-2008, 10:34 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 2,514
Posted By marco
Re: (Not necessarily tropical) trivia question

:drum:
' Squirrel ' is correct.....(sorry for the delay...away snowmobiling for the weekend !)

And you'll all curse me...but this was somewhat a trick question !!!

(You can debate this point all...
Forum: Tiki Hut 02-21-2008, 11:13 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 2,514
Posted By marco
Re: (Not necessarily tropical) trivia question

Go ahead !!
It's O.K. to be a 'hero' sometimes !!

:waving:
Forum: Tiki Hut 02-21-2008, 03:29 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 2,514
Posted By marco
Re: (Not necessarily tropical) trivia question

Cmon!

:eek:

61 'views' on this thread; and only one person making a guess ???

Want another clue...or will somebody get it ???


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Forum: Tiki Hut 02-19-2008, 02:54 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 2,514
Posted By marco
Re: (Not necessarily tropical) trivia question

Oops...
I should have clarified this.

The word cannot be a plural (ending in 's') or be an extention of a 'root' word, such as the past tense suffix '-ed '.

The root word of "scraunched" is...
Forum: Tiki Hut 02-15-2008, 09:29 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 2,514
Posted By marco
(Not necessarily tropical) trivia question

What is the longest word in the English language that only has one syllable, having eight letters in total ?

:confused:

( clue : think 'forest' )
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 01-24-2008, 10:20 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 2,769
Posted By marco
Re: Looking for specific information...

I can certainly see your point of view.

But I wouldn't turn your head away from it absolutely, from the possibility of it being more cost efficient in future large-scale farming.

As the technology...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 01-21-2008, 10:48 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 2,769
Posted By marco
Re: Looking for specific information...

Because I've been reading that it's the endomycorr spores that bananas and other tropicals respond to, I'm going to do some more side-by-side trails with the spores, but THIS time with the next group...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 01-20-2008, 01:31 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 2,769
Posted By marco
Re: Looking for specific information...

Look at the 2nd item, the "Micronized Mycorrizal Inoculant (BEIM)" on this page :
http://www.bio-organics.com/Mycorrhizae_Products.html

'Mirconized' means it is small enough to be dissolved and...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 01-20-2008, 02:37 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 2,769
Posted By marco
Re: Looking for specific information...

Yeah...I forgot that, too, when I was discussing this with inkcube...
The mycorr typically can't be trusted to be just 'cast' into a compost pile and stirred in, no matter how well "finished" you...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 01-18-2008, 01:27 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 2,769
Posted By marco
Re: Looking for specific information...

inkcube, I don't know what to tell you...
Maybe it's time to open that study you had up again.

I've worked with it now in my business here in Ohio for at least 3-4 years, doing my own little...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 01-18-2008, 01:17 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 2,769
Posted By marco
Re: Looking for specific information...

Cool ! Did you do any "side by side" unbias growing tests with it, to convince youself 1st, like I have?

But again, for the benefit of the banana-loving members of this site...this Grolife product...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 01-18-2008, 12:07 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 2,769
Posted By marco
Re: Looking for specific information...

There's no question in the landscape, nursery and turf industry whether they're beneficial now.

The question has become whether or not they're truly cost-efficient to be utilized on any large scale...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 01-17-2008, 06:22 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 2,769
Posted By marco
Looking for specific information...

This afternoon I was studying some applications for some potential exterior uses for naturally-occuring soil organisms called mycorrhiza, in my landscape and lawn business, particularly during...
Forum: Tiki Hut 01-04-2008, 11:55 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 2,206
Posted By marco
Re: Dandelion recipes ! ( NO Joke ! )

"Roundup" is the chemical glyphosate, which is a non-selective herbicide; thus it kills everything it touches.

Specialty lawn weed controls like 'weed & feed' and 'trimec' are selective herbicides....
Forum: Tiki Hut 01-03-2008, 01:19 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 2,206
Posted By marco
Re: Dandelion recipes ! ( NO Joke ! )

I'm blogging this ONE MORE TIME because it's REALLY IMPORTANT that everyone out there understands the importance of this issue:

1) Make sure you're picking dandelions or other edible greens from a...
Forum: Tiki Hut 01-02-2008, 09:39 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 2,206
Posted By marco
Re: Dandelion recipes ! ( NO Joke ! )

I made a mistake in my last post...but you probably caught it by now!

The "edible wild plants" are in Foxfire 2 & 3, NOT 2 & 4.

I wonder if any of the original Foxfire 'contacts' in Rabun Gap GA...
Forum: Tiki Hut 01-02-2008, 06:00 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 2,206
Posted By marco
Re: Dandelion recipes ! ( NO Joke ! )

QUOTE=CookieCows;25658]Very interesting! Don't you just love free food? I have all the Foxfire books. Haven't looked at them in at least 20 years![/QUOTE]

My father passed away a couple years ago,...
Forum: Tiki Hut 12-31-2007, 09:35 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 2,206
Posted By marco
Dandelion recipes ! ( NO Joke ! )

This is 'off topic', I know...

But I thought I'd let the secret out to folks who don't yet know about the ecstacy of eating dandelions!!
Time to get 'into the loop' with it now....and be ready for...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 12-20-2007, 11:15 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,776
Posted By marco
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 12-20-2007, 01:37 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,776
Posted By marco
Re: Now...looking for banana that is most 'arid' tolerant

I value your hands-on experience and opinion very highly.
And given that you're one of the original grand pooh-bahs :D of this site I feel especially honored that you'd throw in your two cents...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 12-19-2007, 09:51 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,776
Posted By marco
Re: Now...looking for banana that is most 'arid' tolerant

O.K...Not that anything's necessarily 'right' or 'wrong' either way; from what I can tell the differences between you and me are that :

1) You are supplementing your plant with artificial light;...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 12-19-2007, 12:47 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,776
Posted By marco
Re: Now...looking for banana that is most 'arid' tolerant

Yeah...I've been doing the same 'keeping them alive' bit in the winter now for almost a decade. ( And as I said before I feel like an idiot now that I know I could've overwintered basjoos very easily...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 12-19-2007, 12:10 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,776
Posted By marco
Re: Now...looking for banana that is most 'arid' tolerant

GROOVY! :2751:
You and I need to talk!
(And I think we should do it out here in the open so that others in our same situation can possibly benefit too)

Help me out here...I've been growing for a...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 12-18-2007, 04:27 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,776
Posted By marco
Re: Now...looking for banana that is most 'arid' tolerant

Are you saying the variegated varieties are more suitable for lower light just because the dark colors will absorb more more wavelengths of light than lighter and "greener" ones, or is there some...
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