Propagation: Plant Propagation part XXXVII based on my own experience, 1 by Pughbear7

Pughbear7 wrote:
good morning campers:

Ruby: I can apreciate your distaste of nasty posts. trust me we don't do that here and we do not tolerate it. anything that gets nasty and out of hand will be delt with very swiftly. I know jb jeanette and sharon all take little jabs at each other and its all fun. Had someone told me it was not I would stop it.

jeanette: be carefull doing a top dress of triple 20. I would try like a 1/2 a teaspon maybe less to start. It does depend on the makeup of the fertilizer. how big is the pot? how much is amonia nitrate and how much is urea? amonia nitrate releases imeadiately where the urea has to be broken down by water and time. If it were me I would do something like osmocote or dynamite on the potted plants. on the ground is onething but a potted plant you can fry quickly. it has less soil to disperse the fertilizer into and a compact root zone.
If you do over do the top dress you can pull off the excess fertilizer and drench the rootball several times to flush it out of the soil.

JB the tomatoes look great.

Corey:
you need to amend the clay with something to bust up the clay. we use a product put out by back to nature its cotton seed hulls. it does wonders for the soil structure. if you are composting I would till some in to the garden every year befoe long you will have a nice garden soil. we do raised beds so we can work out our soil issues in advance. the problem I have is my BIL compacted the mushroom compost/topsoil mix so its tough to grow in untill i get it roto tilled. he thinks he know everything and when I told him not to compact it he just did it more. Jerk....
I am glad he is out of the house. best thing he ever did was to allow his girls to finish high school here. Last one has one year left then onto cullinary arts school at an associates degree college. its a part of the 4 year Oklahoma state university. they have 4 satalite schools for trades.
We are experiencing a cold spell now its only 90 degrees for the high. i don't care who or where you are anything over 90 is hot. I know I could not take the washington weather and kim loves it up there. she has trouble with the heat and humidity so I am guessing we are stuck in and along interstate 40 for the most part.

I am turning my grow room into a shipping and stained glass studio. I just have to raise the $$$ for a new diamond ring - saw. it uses a round blade that spins. the blades are incrusted with diamonds to cut glass. I really loved the one I had but i thought I would not be back into it and a new model had just come out so i thought I would sell it and then buy a new one when I started back up again.

well time to get moving outside One more week of shipping and then its on hold till mid to late auguat and then untill late october. I wont be doing the seed cart this winter as I had more trouble with it than its worth. I am loaning it to my dad so he can do veggie starts.

ok I have rattled on long enough JB and Jeanette go to your corners and wait for the bell...lol
The pic is of a dl cross i started from seed. I am thinking about posting it on market place or tinker's garden.

Dave