Plant Propagation ,The Basics Continued Sept 2015

Hi Jen , the goldenrod , the Chicory as older plants rebloom ,My maximillion sunflower is fall blooming , The anemone is not very large , another pretty fall flower
Mums and asters are and have always been popular The spearmint blooms through early fall . Feverfew reblooms a little ,
a few

Wonder if you seeded some Marigolds, Coneflowers, daisies, and a few things like that say in July, if they would bloom into November? Has anyone tried it? What about geraniums and some of the petunias. I am saying start some of the summer flowering and plant them later. Do you think, even tho the days are warm, if the nights are cool, they will die? Might be worth trying.

June 18 is about as late as an annual can be planted here , You might stretch that a week or so in a season like this one ending ,
Some zinnia become real close to a perennial , they try to form a runner nod but always and barely fall short ,, if only ..

If only, lol Ju, that sounds like a challenge for Zinnia growers. What a breakthrough that would be.

BTW, I knew if I called your little Chameleon guy a frog, it would actually be a toad. Just showing my need to learn. Thanks for the teach.

Mipii Robin there are so many , so very many , frogs toads spiders , flies , wasps , bees , butterflies , ants , beetles , might as well add birds too !

Did these yesterday , in a whlle here if the weather is decent a couple golden rods , and a couple purple Echinacea , will go here in these containers ,

oh well ,, Go with what I have for now , three goldenrods and Two purple Echinacea to start

Looks like a perfect fit, that's ingenuity!

Getting really windy here makes the 60 degrees and cloudy really cold this time of year
This is a couple of coneflowers and a couple goldenrods , I left the center pot open , Maybe an annual tithonia next year , option , option , I might edge the entire with asters .
This aster is the size of the planter box ,

Options are what makes the project fun. It's pretty chilly here too, I don't even want to play in the garden...oh well, time to do some inside work anyway.

Mipii Robin Speaking of indoor cleaning , it is seed cleaning time again ,
A couple Rose of Sharon
purple coneflowers
Tithonia
Penstemon Huskers red
A couple kinds of milkweed
orangeglo Wtermelon .
Marigolds ,
Zinnia
cucumber
yarrow ,
catnip
oregano .
???

I keep forgetting the uploads . seed bags

Oh that reminds me, I've got to check a few plants for seeds. Very nice haul Ju, I won't be cleaning seeds until I get some of my other projects done. I still have some planting to do.

OK, you guys, I have a question/problem for you. My hairdresser had a tomato plant this summer that had the most big tomatoes on it than anyone who saw it could believe. They all remarked on that. She could not remember what it was, she got it at some place she just bought the plant. OK, so she planted it in a box approximately 6 feet square, with just regular garden soil in it, and about 6 bell pepper plants. When she went to clean them out for the winter, she pulled it up and the roots were about the size of a nickle around. All of them, and the longest one reached the other side of the box about 6 feet away.

Question: Did the peppers have anything to do with the amount of peppers it had on it? The size of the roots? What about this plant happened to do that plus have that many large tomatoes on it? Do you think the peppers had anything to do with it?

OH, BTW, she brought me one of the last tomatoes on it and I am going to save the seeds for next year and hope it is not a GMO.

I am going to post this in the tomato forum too and see if anyone can answer it.

Hi Jen , My answer : I would not have the slightest idea ,
One of those soil type things that happen anyplace ,

Thanks JU, think yours is the best answer yet. LOL

wow, I have missed you all. We ended up going to Buffalo, Ny to see Joe's mom and his siblings. It was hot up there that first and second week of September, and then went back to work, working on surveys, I was still sick the first two days we were there, it was an okay time, just feel sorry for Joe is mom is in her house alone in a walker, and his youngest sister was told she had stage 3 cancer, and then she got a second opinion before she did the surgery and stuff. We are waiting to see what it is, since it IS NOT CANCER.
Told her to sue her first doctor for worrying her and the whole family for three weeks.

Poor Joe.

Anyway, been re-potting and taking cuttings, and transplanting in the couple hours I can in tween work and dark.
went to see Joanna in KC and then to the fall midwest RU, here we are..we ate at a cool BBQ place in Independence , Mo. It was so good.
Ju, you sure have been working hard. If anyone ever wants to find me just call me at work.
you will have to click on the picture to see us.
Me, AuntB,( Bonnie) HappGarden,( Joyce) Pepper,(Amanda) Will. ( shortleaf)

Gosh Debra, wondered where you were, and you probably told us you were going, just forgot I guess.

Too bad about Joe's sister, except it is good she didn't have it after all. But too bad that first dr. worried everyone needlessly.

The picture is good, looks like you all had a good time. Now it's time to get back in the old grind huh?

But it is good to have the 2 weeks off. Away from everything like work etc. Who took care of Gemma? >smile

Jen, my neighbor took care of the gardens and my daughter , Rose took care of the turtles and fish. :D A little but of a drive for her, but she knows how many times I drove an extra way to help her.

Debra it sure sounds like you have been having a nice time !!! After not feeling well and then some sightseeing and some friends at a plant get together ,
Yes it is a shame people all can't be well ,

1 Agastache
2 A purple petunia finishing the season in bloom
3 Artemisia
4 Fennel
5 Red Leaf Hibiscus , Dwarfed on me ,, I seem to be potting in these containment bottomless pots., the plants I already have , Should look okay , Not what I planned to start with , lol

About that Red Leaf Hibiscus I know that little plants grown in to High of Acid soil , will be red or do that also sometimes (dwarf or grow wrong )
My red leaf Yarrow got 4 inches tall then it was eaten by a grasshopper , season before last
Sometimes my rambling , I get an entirely new plant , Sometimes bringing out the red leaves and infusing it to set in the plant with RNA and DNA causes the dwarfing effect or they wilt and die .. Everytime I get past the Wilt and die part of the process , I am pretty satisfied ,

The pic I will get the sides even , and leave an open row of pots for annuals next season

It appears you are making individual pots for each plant. Not a bad idea JU. You sure come up with unique things. But, putting the odds and ends of siding to good use. Smart idea. Sure beats going out and spending a lot of money for pots. And they are costing more every year. And, I should say, making them cheaper.

A few years back my daughter and I found some fairly thick 8 inch plastic pots with saucers fastened on even for 88 cents. We each bought a dozen of them. Now, we are kicking ourselves for not buying more. They are 3 times better pots than you can get now for 3 times the price and better colors too. We are both still using them and even Bob knows what I mean when I ask him to bring me an 88 cent pot from the basement. LOL,

You know when have the time and energy , Planting in the ground , a shovel , (a good one) and a good pair of scissors is all you have to have to garden
However the older you (we) get , the more organized , with some show , is all the better taking less energy and the time you care to look after the garden ,
yes 3 $'s for a pot that might last two seasons is a little old , However sealing them makes it much better ,
I am just looking around doing what I do , I like to play and learn (educate) some , Sometimes as you have seen I fail , Other times I find out something really nice ,

The very best organic , that can be really inexpensive is the Algae Fiber , you grow , that with a grey cement , sets like silica Epoxy , and ages as silica limestone , if you have the place to do that it is nice ,,

The siding has been there 25 yrs or so , just laying there , so put to a use , and might not turn out to be so bad , we will see next spring or so , how that goes ,

Never said you were a slouch JU. So tell me what this Algae Fiber is. At first I thought you were talking about some stuff the paper mill here made a few years back called Fiber Lay. It was of course made from pulp. Smelled really gross. They were experimenting with it to see if it would make trees grow faster. To replace themselves sooner. A new buzz word, can't think of it right now.

Jen Type in your browser ,"" Fibers made from algae"" , or any of these , The last is nearest , the what from me

products made from algae

how is biofuel made from algae

oil made from algae

food products made algae

muscle fibers made

optical fibers made

synthetic fibers made From Algae

love the container garden with the triangles, love it a lot!

my sunflower arches are slowly dying off, and soon they will be cut down and the seeds eaten by birds and the pods of the mgs tapped into bags. already got a cutting from the gal down the street of her dark red hardy hibiscus, i am collecting those, so here is hoping. Also, got a cutting ofa crape myrtle, hers is red with dark leaves, she says she cuts it back every fall and it comes back full tall and blooms next spring and summer.
basement garden is full of cuttings in pots and plants, still have a lot more to do, Joe put together a clothes hanging pole for my hanging plants I got it at Walmart it is really tall and works great.
I have rooted all kinds of stuff in the water bubbler and now I am rooting some passion vines a brugmansia and some cestrum. Gamera and Goji are acting like they want to hibernate, so have to add more subtrata for them to burrow into. the third pic is the top of the plumeria I had to cut back to get it upstairs to go outside, it is doing very well. 4th is the sunflower arch,

JU, I had forgotten your forte was chemistry. Bet you were a Chemical Engineer weren't you? Is there such a thing? If so, that is you. I can see what THEY are going to make out of that stuff, but what does it mean to the way you are using it? As you can see, I do not know a thing about chemistry.

And after watching that football game tonight I am wondering if I, WE, can see what is wrong with that team, why can't the coaches and owners see it? I suppose they figure they are paying Russell Wilson so much that he should be the entire front line. He is the only one that was playing and that includes the defense. Terrible game. I honestly thought they were going to lose when I went into the game thinking they should really whip Detroit. Even the fans were asleep. Not helping the team at all until the last 2 minutes.

Looks like it's going to be a long season. jen

Debra I appreciate the compliment ,I always look at you garden photo's with delight . You always have such pretty plants , and something positive going on !!!
Those triangles were a thought about getting as much as twice as many plants in their own space in the same amount of space where only half as many could be used with square pots or containers ,
Even though the fennel will bloom weedy if it has good color and red leaf hibiscus lives , it should make for a long season of blooms and color from the foliage
The first flower above makes a wonderful color display .

Jen , I have no college degree , early and young though , I did take pre course in Physics .
Astrology physics , And my non-degree in archeology .
Everything from orbital gravity studies through spectrographic cellular electrology study is and was included in those first physics and Quantum studies ,
Quantitative literacy grade of c+ 1968 , I was in the very first class of students ever to take the test ..now required , not then ,,,
anyway , I play with breaking down tannins in Rna and DNA Tomake the red leaf plants , Been a while since I have been successful at it .. Seee Funnnn lol

Whatever works JU. I don't understand a thing you are saying right there. And your answer to Debra is pretty good. Triangles are Feng Schei sic or whatever aren't they? You know what I am saying.

Debra, so glad you got better and got some time away. It must be great to meet other DGers in person. I'll have to look into Michigan's plant swap.

Also glad to have you back!

So JU, can you explain to me, in a couple of sentences, no long lessons, what you mean by breaking down the tannins in RNA and DNA?

Are those tannins the same ones that made me real sick when I ate mushrooms and drank wine with them? jen

Think of it this way , without thinking

Coffee or Tea .. Dissolved in a Dna Rna , booster pill ,
The remainder is my secret , For now and sort of ,
A few of the plant experimenters that read though around have the rest anyway , several combinations as secrets , supposedly anyway ,

The best if you can do , is a RNA Eletrocarbon that goes with the tannins or .

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Oh, oh...I'll take the long lesson! Please include all pertinent secrets...

Never-mind, I already know the answer is bad for my team.

Yeah right Mipii. He'll sure do that. And I'll hold my breath. >grin

Good grief gals , All I do is use emaciated coffee grounds .. With a DNA RNA Vitamin
I soak the seed to start with , If they germinate while soaking they pick up the Tannic acid with the DNA cell reproduction code to grow ,
After I water them a little from time to time with the same water , A few turn red from the Acid , others will rarely hold the cell code and grow red anyway ,
There now , a very unrefined explanation , sometimes it does work , this is thumb play though , so do not expect much ,

Like said though ,, it dwarfs and kills bunches of starts , it compares to making yourself into a gray gargoyle through cell mutation ,, you dig

LOL Ju...I dig!

Mipii Robin) Waiting for Jen to show up saying she goofed , and accident happened , then shows us a pic of the Gray Gargoyle she made . lol
these third person conversations we bounce off of you are ???

Well I just soaked myself in emaciated coffee grounds...with a DNA RNA Vitamin and I don't think I look any different. I still look like Robin.

EEEEEKKKK!!!!!!!!!! LOL.!!!

lmao you guys.. :D