I got one call today! Gail, the AV Pip Squeek link doesn't work. :o(
August 2009 Bingo Calls
RainGazer
Aug 06, 2009
Nothing for me today,Darn I need to work on that hat!
Sure you don't want me to post 'the original'?
I almost selected that bigger picture of Pip Squeak......she had three posted.........thanks for helping, Nichole!!
It is kinda cute, for a mini . . . ^_^
Nichole........I posted this 'freebie' from a vendor with his order today but you have to see her. She is called 'Baby White' and her blooms just glisten......she is in almost a pot the size of a big thimble.
RainGazer
Aug 06, 2009
I can see the glitter in the flowers. That one is really gorgeous, Gail!
Which vendor?
avpat told me about him. I love him..........hope she doesn't care that I am posting all of this, but she loves to help everyone so I don't think she will mind.
He is a wonderful guy named fred whose store name is: The Greendragon Trading Post
and his user ID has the word greenmule in it.........search for his store..........
Let me show you how tiny the plants are so you know exactly what you are getting. The trailers have two plants in them as so do some of the semi minis.....I will need to divide them........be right back.......
They are 'buy it now' for 3.10 and worth every cent of it and more............just think what a leaf cost and his packaging takes you forever to undo because each little plant is perfect upon arrival.
Pip squeek is adorable, but not on my list, BUT Iced Canadian sunset was! Its pretty too.
How pretty are those!! I will not get mine until next week, I think he ships on Monday and/or Tuesday's. Love that white one!!
I would love to find an AV that is BRIGHT really BRIGHT, mine are either very dark or very light, now I want BRIGHT. I don't care if its mini semi standard or whatever, just think a BRIGHT one in my window would make the others look good!
Nice violets Gail.You sure did capsure just how lovely that AV is!
Go for it Nichole,I need my luck to change this game.LOL.
Well, if DH's I.T. guy had free time today, he was going to copy the hard drive onto DH portable hard drive . . . so you still have a few hours at the least to come with another one!
^_^
Changed my mind.LOL.I'm going hatless this game,maybe that will change my luck ^_^
RainGazer
Aug 06, 2009
Laura, you need AV 'Mac's Carnival Clown'!! That was probably my favorite AV that I ever grew and got to see bloom. I really loved that plant. LOL http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/164646/
Jan, you're just beautiful! Seeing your picture makes me realize just how much I missed seeing you this year! LOL
Edited because I realized that I called Laura "Lynn" by accident. I don't know what I was thinking... Sorry about that, Laura!
This message was edited Aug 8, 2009 9:19 AM
OK< Jan!!! This is not 'fair'............you are so young!!! And...........cute as a button, too!!! So glad you posted. I love to have someone's face to put with a name. (although I saw your hat last year)
I just potted up babies of Summer Carnival and I gasp when I saw the picture of her for the first time. She is not bright, but beautiful
I also divided Summer Carnival today. I got eight babies out of it. Planted as you instructed. Fingers are crossed. SC in person is an awesome sight to see!!
I'm a little late, but I got another 1. We drove all day yesterday and will do so a good part of today. Traveling to Michigan, for my husband's first reunion in 43 years with the guys he was with in Vietnam.
About The Greendragon Trading Post, all I can say is that Fred is the most reliable vendor I have ever found. His plants are not huge, but they are strong and healthy. Often they arrive in bud or even in bloom. They will never arrive damaged. You have to see the way he packs each plant. I'm sure Gail will vouch for that. Gail, how long did it take you to unwrap all those plants?
Have a great day everyone!
Pat
I got so frustrated unpacking them (just perfecto packing) I had to take breaks..........but I also learned a lot about packing small plants...........will try some today when boxes go out.
Have fun with your hubby and his buddies from the past.
Oh, all soooo pretty!! Love them all!!!!! So many pretties and so few windows!!LOL
Laura H
UH OH..........that means gro light stands (smiling).................and then you can cram a lot on one gro light stand............
ok, I have 2 grow lights set up downstairs and one in a lamp upstairs on a couch table, nothing downstairs under the lights yet, I always want the blooms up here, but need to get the leaves I have stuck down there, how many hours should I put it on? It has 4 T5 grow lights, help me please! LOLOL You are enabling again, so now you got to hold my hand!!! LOLOL
OH no, someone will have to come along that knows what T5 light gro lights are................laughing at you..........this is fun!!!
I don't know what I have............the lights.......but I leave them on 11 hours a day.........but I know for sure they are not the T5...........
I get mine from Indoor Gardening Supplies (IGS)
Gail, I think your lights are T12's. If the bulbs are fat, they're T12, if they're skinny, they're T8. I'll let you know for sure when I stop by next week.
Today's Bingo Calls:
24 AV: Rob's Melon Wedges
37 Chirita: Betty
Darn,nothing today! Rats ^_^
Good Nichole, you really are coming......I didn't believe you.
Jannich........so sorry you don't have one today........I do!!!
Av: Rob's Melon Wedges......let's see
Rob's Melon Wedges (9803) 09/14/2007 (R. Robinson) Semidouble rose-pink star/white edge. Variegated dark green, yellow and beige, pointed, glossy/red back. Semiminiature
no picture....will find it on Rob's
http://www.robsviolet.com/miniature%20african%20violets.htm
She is a really nice semi mini!!
B I N G O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! J/K I didn't have either one...lol
Bummer, Janet (LOL) I was getting ready to send the information on Betty when I went back to read you BINGO and lost my post.
Chirita Betty has a whole page of her fine foliage and bloom. Changed my mind about the page when I found this one.
http://www.gesneriads.ca/chirit95.htm
LOL Janet,I been waiting for you to Bingo any day now!
I just ran down and looked, its T5, yes yes I'm sure now!! I even wrote it down before I ran back up here to post!! I found them online here:
http://www.sunleaves.com/catalog.asp?cat=1
Are they the wrong ones?
I have one today, melon wedges, woo hoo still in the game!!!
maybe some can tell you, but I heard that T5 are the latest and best lights, but I don't know anything except that you can run your lights for much shorter periods of time.
Someone who knows, will you help us learn???????????
WOW! I had no idea?!!! I had read that they run a lot cooler and I have a huge fear of a short or something causing a fire. thats why I got them in the first place!! I used them to start seed and my baby plants for outside on a timer downstairs.
Now I'm really excited about using it!! Laura H
Isn't it unique that my greatest fears in life are heights and fire (since I was in a bad car wreck and had to get out of my car in flames to save my own life).............but I have no fear of having 8 sets of gro light stands on all night long in my office and all day long in the other rooms.
Now you are giving me concern about fire..............I had never even thought about it until now.........
i have t8 lights & they are much cooler & 35 watts, they also have a metal tip,they work wonderful, have not seen these t5 until now.
bonnie
oooo, Betty is very pretty! I love those silver leaves!
Oh Gail!!! I'm so so sorry!!! This fire stuff has been beat into me, my brother-in-law was a volunteer fireman for many many years in Colo., its so dry there and he has haunted me, between that and way back before the seatbelt law. I was wearing my seatbelt before we actually had to. My husband is one of those "safety first" type, he is a plant manager for a chemical plant in St. Louis. Soooo, I really do not have much choice!! If you have them set up correctly I'm sure your are fine. Just don't plug a ton into one of those old extension cords!!
I'm just now able to cook something all day in a crockpot with out being home!! When I was single I did it all of the time with no problem. Took years for Kevin to not be nervous about it! LOLOL Thought I was going to give him a heart attack!
Heights use to never bother me, but the older I get, I can tell I get that squimish feeling. I guess I'm realizing now that I'm really not invinceable!!
Again I am truly sorry for scarring you. Laura H
Gail, I think if you plug your lights into those surge protectors, you are pretty safe--they shut off the lights if there is a power surge or overload. Gotta read the package to make sure that;s what you are getting--not all provide the same functions. And I've always been afraid of heights! Which is bad cos I'm short! lol!
I have surge protectors on all my lights.............and I also have a safety thing with all my new electrical wiring three years ago when I remodeled.............the switch just goes off with any problems...........(in the box)
When you are deathly afraid of something, you heal slowly and then can be turned back in a second. With 2nd and 3 rd degree burns in the hospital.................it takes a while to get over the fear of hurting that badly ever again.......or anyone else for that matter..........
I understand....Sorry
Life is life (smiling) so no one apologize.................