Happy Birthday Xeramtheum!

Hope your day is special!

X, Hope you have a great one.

Jackie

Happy Birthday!!!

Hey Happy Birthday if i had knowed earler id have jumped out of a cake for ya Paul

Lol .. Paul, I'm having visions of you jumping out of a cake .. its scary!

Thanks to all for the B-day wishes. I never even acknowledged b-days until I moved to Summerville and my Great Aunt insisted.

X

SOOOOOOOO X how old are you ?/ MMMMMMM

Gosh Paul, I was just telling the neighbor next door how i remember as a little girl, watching the pterodactyls come to the pterodactyl feeder.

Ahem ... chronologically, im 56 .. mentally, well that is subject to change without notice, but for the most part probably 9.

X

Happy Birthday!!!!!

LOL

Happy Birthday, X!! - Arlan

Happy Birthday, X!! May all your seedy wishes come true this year! LOL

Joseph

Thanks to everyone!

X

Happy Belated Birthday - hope you had a good one

Keep on Growing and Glowing (!)...

Ron

X and Ron, I hope you two won't mind, but I can't leave this one alone. "Glowing", Ron? With X's incredible photos of emerging seedlings and all of us collectively hovering over Phick's possibly germinating 1949 seed, I can't help but recall an article on a disappeared science page in the Washington Post I read years ago. When a tomato seed was not too far removed from first germinating, it was cut in half and both the top shoot and root part were "soaked" in a solution in a petrie dish that contained some kind of phosphorescent bacteria. Well, somehow, at that point in germination, the bacteria became part of the tomato plant parts which each eventually became full-sized glowing tomato plants. You can see where I'm going with this -- Ron, you wouldn't happen to be able to muster the wherewithall to do something similar with moon flowers would you? X could make the most fantastic pics of them.

What you are referring to is tissue culture. The link explains it.

http://www.accessexcellence.org/LC/ST/st2bgplant.html

X

Very enlightening, X - thank you. I mainly wrote for the humor, but who knows? Wishing you merry times in your greenhouse in the year to come, too -

Karen

You are quite welcome .. with the advent of tissue culture, many rare plant enthusiasts, like orchid growers went banana's because the technique made it easy to steal plants.

X

Speaking of cons and orchids, do you remember that TV show called "Murphy's Law" a few years ago? If my memory is behaving, Judge Murphy had occasion to visit a con in his penitentiary cell who eventually became his baby-sitter I think (a sub-theme there about the saint within the striped suit). Anyhoo, as the guard opened the cell door, an incredible radiance flooded out from a tiny space stuffed with orchids being tended by the con. One of my all-time favorite gardening vignettes.

Happy Birthday X
Hope it was another great one!

Emma

This thread sounds like a novel I just bought "The Orchid Thief", about plant obssession in south Florida and the lengths one enthusiast goes to... I can't wait to read it!