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I dread seeing what this winter brings! :eek:

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The first day of school SUCKED!

Yesterday was the first day, and it was so stressful that I ended up with a migraine when I got home. That's why I haven't posted in a day or two.

Today was a bit better....

My lunch at school is some milk and a small cookie..... There's nothing left by the time I get up there. And my classes are so far apart I am almost late to every single one! I was also told by the teachers that my binder wouldn't work. I have always had one binder for the whole day. And I just divided it. They said I had to have a separate binder for each class.... So we went and bought five more binders. And had to buy more school supplies, as my school just now told us what we needed. And I have no time to go to my locker, so I have to carry everything to every class.......




How is everyone doing?

Found mealy bugs on my indoor plants... so I just spent all day treating all of my plants.

My peaches are almost ripe though! :D I am going to plant it on my hill next year, it isn't liking being in a pot any more :ha: And then I am going to dig up my hostas and move them on my hill and plant my basjoo where they where.

:ha: I already have a lot of work to do when spring gets here.....

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Morning Gang!

Well, it has been H E L L down here keeping a close eye on all these fires. One is 4 miles from my daughter's home. There are 8 other fires going on and the really big one in Bastrop. Only one of those is 100% contained with the big one still raging with only 30 % containment. The Bastrop one has wiped out 1386 homes and has burned over 34,000 acres.

Hope everyone is doing well!

~JaNan

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Hi everyone. Jordan I'm so sorry to hear about your school day, hopefully it will get better. Janan I have been watching the fires on the news and I was worried about how close they were to you. I have an aunt that lives in Roundrock. My aunt in Palestine said that there was a small grass fire near the dogwood trails and that she can smell smoke. Every morning here I can smell the smoke. I'm wondering what is starting the fires? The bad news is that La Nina weather pattern is going to return which means more drought.

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Hi Cam! I am about 30 minutes from Bastrop - not that far, really. Yes, I have been watching the other fires too because we have lots of family and friends in East Texas. My daughter and Son in Law have been on standby for evacuation since Sunday and they will come here if they have to. I am just praying that the wind doesn't blow until they can get all these fires out.

Yes, I heard that about La Nina too (sucks). ~J

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I hope you and your family will be alright.

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Hi,
Hope the fire stays way away from you. There have been brief news announcements about the fires. I haven't been able to catch them on though.

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I just rescued that adenium from the grocery store :) I hope it flowers soon, I have been waiting patiently for a very long time to see one flower in person. And none of mine are very big yet :ha: so I bought this one.

Should I repot it into something bigger, or keep it root bound? I have heard that keeping them root bound makes the caudex get bigger.

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Wow Jordan, thats a beautiful plant. I wish I knew more about Desert Rose plants. I had one several years ago but I killed it lol.

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I am growing some from seed. And then I just got this one, I couldn't wait for mine to grow up :ha:

I just love adeniums :) They are very interesting plants.

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Its so much nicer to grow plants from seed. I love adeniums too. I wanted to post pictures of my little datura plant that I grew from seed. I think the flowers may open tonight.

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My datura got to about 2 inches tall.... but two days ago it just up and wilted to the ground. Maybe it was a bad seed or something? It was doing great then just up and died....

Maybe I will have to try another. I guess that's the good thing about growing stuff indoors. You can sprout stuff all year round.

Can't wait to see yours open :)

I enjoy growing stuff from seed more also. But I just didn't want to wait three or four years for my adeniums to get this big. So I rescued one from the store. :ha:

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I planted several datura seeds and only one came up. They seem liek difficult plants. This whole time I thought they were drought tolerant but everyday the plant wilts and drinks a lot of water. I'm planting some in a shadier location next year. Did you see Janan's variegated adenium? Its beautiful. So many people are growing adeniums and that seems to be the main plant I hear about. I'm going to take pictures of my plumeria seedlings once they get a little bigger. Only 2 sprouted and the rest rotted.

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Hi,
I never heard about adeniums a couple years ago. Now it seems everyone has them, like you said.

No I haven't seen Janan's Variegated adenium :eek: Time to go on a photo hunt! :ha:

Hope you have a nice day :)

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I've always heard of of desert rose but I didn't know they were called adenium lol. I hope you had a great weekend

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:waving: I thought my ears were burning! :ha: Good Morning gang! Thank you Cam, I think it is beautiful too! Those pictures are posted in the succulents and cacti thread Jordan. I have some others also but they are solid colored, one with pink flowers and the other with darker borderline red flowers. I like them a lot. They like being root bound and crowded in their pot. Yours looks like it still has plenty of room in it's pot so I would just leave it where it is. :)

I harvested some of my AeroGarden banana peppers yesterday. I will be posted some pictures in the hot and sweet pepper threads. Did any of yours make it to fruit Cam?

~JaNan

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Good afternoon everyone. I'm glad you are getting a harvest from your pepper. I have a few peppers that aren't ripe yet.

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Hi Cam! :03: Which ones are they? Did you ever get any from your Fish? Mine is just about done, I need to start another plant. I'll have some fresh seeds from the one fruit that is ripening. Do you need any more seeds, or did you save some back? Did you get your supplies from AeroGrow yet? ~J

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The ones that have peppers on them are both varieties of Cayenne pepper. All of my other peppers including the fish pepper have flowers on them. I also have a tomato on my Micro Tom. I haven't received any of the aero garden supplies yet, but I will keep my eyes open for them. I look forward to seeing a pepper on my Fish Pepper. I saw another variegated pepper from Parks seeds that produces gold peppers on a variegated plant

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Aren't those MicroTom tomatoes just the most precious things? You need to take some new shots of everything so we can see them. :lurk:

I love your datura by the way! Did it open the other night and did you get any shots of it? Is it the pure white moon flower or one of the purple varieties?

~J