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Comments (34)burnttree I only started last year, so I can only tell you what I did. First of all, I bought a proper lighted propagator (costing about 70 GBP), and a timer, and a heating mat. So a fairly expensive outlay, but provided constant conditions. I tried growing cactus from seed very many years ago on a window sill, but it wasn't very successful (an English climate). Second, I bought vermiculite (which absorbs water) & perlite (which doesn't so much), quite cheap and easily available online, and some Vitax cactus feed. I soaked the vermiculite & perlite separately in the dissolved feed for 24 hours. I filled pots with layers of wet perlite and vermiculite, drilled slight holes in the top vermiculite and deposited a seed is each hole (using a moistened toothpick), but didn't cover the holes. The seeds need to be exposed to light. I then sealed the containers to prevent disease. So they were germinating in a very damp sterile environment. Here's what happened (but I sowed the seeds far too close together, as I discovered later to my cost)...See MoreMeyer Lemon tree producing so many (too many?!) flowers!
Comments (22)What John said about you only need to pollinate if you want seeds is true enough to be a general rule. One exception is minneola tangelo. Those trees don't like to produce reliably without pollenation. Even with it they still sometimes don't want to produce reliably. It's such a commercial problem that universities have done studies trying to understand why it's an exception to the rule....See MoreSo many possums...so few possum recipes
Comments (16)Raven, I have seen possums with horrific wounds heal right up, and I have seen perfectly healthy looking ones drop dead over night. They are strange creatures. They grow their entire lives...which are very short....good, I suppose. ;) Then if they continue to grow...like if they are kept as pets, they almost always die from congestive heart failure. I have never kept one as a pet, although I have been tempted because some of them are incredibly sweet. I had one named Praline, and she was so sweet and cuddly. They are very primitive animals and they don't usually do well as pets. If you pet them, they think you are a predator....so they really don't enjoy it. There are groups on FB for people with pet possums and they love them to the point that almost defies description but those possums are handled every day so they are more tolerant of being a pet. The ones I raise don't get handled....partly because I don't have the time and I am not trying to make them pets...and they will bite the dickens out of me every chance they get. Now a totally wild possum, will almost never bite unless it has been stressed out or is injured. They show defensive behaviors, like opening their mouths and hissing but they won't bite. I can scoop them up like a house cat, just by putting my hand under their belly. I never pick them up by their tail...like most people...even rehabbers...do. The second possum I ever raised....before I got into it on such a large scale....was a tiny baby and she slept with me, in the sleeve of my nightgown. I am a very light sleeper, so I didn't roll over on her. They don't potty on you, because as a pouch animal, the pouch must be kept clean, and so the mother possum controls when they have to potty. She stayed with me for five months, but then she wanted to go, and I let her, although she came back for several months. Always tame and would ride on my shoulder while I went around looking for something to feed her. That was Shirley. Possums are incredibly clean animals....someone said, "Ugh! They eat dead cows!!" I said, "So do I."...See MoreSo many blooms, so little time!
Comments (11)It's not often that I find someone on this forum who has a flower that I have. Paper Butterfly is the plant that got me into daylilies big time. I had only one Paper Butterfly plant (imagine that!) and realized the only way to have more blooms was to have more plants. It's been all downhill since then. The only plant of which I have only one today is a bonus plant. I fellow I knew in a former life once said "Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess." I confess that seems to be how I do things....See Moredrsaj
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