Has anyone used a clone machine?

The thing stunk and the thing itched. I was miserable sticking a coat hanger down it to get relief and there were stitches that had been under it before they switched to the other cast. I didn't mind the first cast but the second one sucked. And, driving a car and steering is virtually impossible with that thing stuck on your hand and wrist.

I don't do plants for a living but if I did, I can honestly say I would have been out " walking for the crop". I feel sort of guilty saying this but I really didn't push it. I steered my car using my right thumb and index finger and I never picked anything up that couldn't be lifted with that thumb or index finger or the forearm and the other hand. For the first 10 days or so, I didn't even sign my name on a check let alone breathe on that hand. I have been typing though and brushing my teeth using my thumb and index finger on that hand. Just having use of the thumb and index finger has been a relief. I've been weeding using the left hand only for a few weeks. All the plants I ordered that need to go in holes and have soil compacted around them are going to have to wait a few more weeks. Many have died because of this hand which has really upset me. My winter sown seedlings should have long been in the ground and I've lost many of those. They dry out so darn fast when they're in trays as opposed to being in the ground. I have a couple hundred carnivorous plants that should have been repotted and it didn't happen. Not much I could do. Bad timing for this to have happened around May 1st and my husband could only help me so much. Very bad timing.

Yes Sidney-mostly annuals and some tropicals-bananas, alocasias/colocasias etc. I will grow perennials if I have an order for it, but thats unusual and it's mostly Duke Univ that will ask for weird things. This year I had to grow some tomatoes and parsley for her!! She put in a vege garden so the nurses/dr.s at the hospital would take some!

I know full well Lauren that you would have been "walking for the crop" ...lol...I just love saying that!!
I am sorry that you lost so many plants-all that hard work starting them and then they die. I wish I could have flown up there and helped.

I had an order come in from Australia shortly after I nailed myself. CITES and Appendix II plants were included in that order. I was having heart failure. About half were potted up by my girlfriend and the other half are in the refrigerator in the garage waiting. Then, I got another Carnivorous Plant order in and she came back and potted those up too. Talk about being saved by a friend. The winter sown plants I can always winter sow again and some made it. It rained so hard back the first few weeks that there was no way I could get out there and keep draining the trays. Then raccoons got in them. Then chipmunks got in them and it was a basically a losing battle.

AAAHHH- that's disappointing to lose those but it's nice to have good friends to lend a hand when you need one! You have some good karma.

Actually, the loss on the imported plants has been minimal. Australia seasons are flip flopped from ours and the plants shipped were entering dormancy. I have no idea how all the plants in the refrigerator are going to fair but time will tell. Those will be the first CPs I plant up by myself in two weeks. Here's hoping they grow for Momma or I will not be too happy.

Lauren, they will grow for you! I am sure.
Sidney

We'll seeeeeeeeeeee. I'm crossing my fingers and toes!

Well we all know the saying, "If momma aint happy, aint nobody happy" or something like that.

lol I wish you would tell that to my boys!! They seem to think its the other way around-when they aren't happy....

Hers are older than mine. I haven't gotten to that phase yet. Not looking forward to it though.

Hmm well let me tell you, of my 3 girls, only one, the oldest 27- cares if I am happy; she has always been the sensitive one; the others could care less and I think the 19 year old is practicing some sort of voodo rituals to make me disappear completely- too bad she doen't know how tough an old bag I am!

They say daughters can be brutal. I don't have a daughter. All boys here.

I know that I was difficult for my parents for several years 13 to 16 and then off an on, mostly off until I married and left home. My middle kid thought I was wonderful until this year and now, well she has plently of pins in her room. I will hope that this too passes. Can't tell you how often my kids have made me reproach myself and appologize to my mother!

Fight fire with fire. Get yourself a few voodoo dolls and stick a few pins in them. Can't hurt and might be a tension breaker. If nothing else, you can laugh about it with your friends. I also apologized to my Mom and I was a pretty decent kid who didn't cause them a lot of trouble but I was still a kid. I'm glad my Mom and I became best friends when I started growing up.

yeah it helps- my mom and I have had our ups and downs but many, many more good times than bad and the way I look at it is that 99.9% of parents really do the very best they can w/ what they have and everybody makes mistakes, I should know, I have made more than my share!

Lauren, I figure this is as good of a place as any to say visit my garden here http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/613725/#top
Sidney