This is what can happen when your pet loves fish emulsion. One of our Golden Retrievers ate the soil around three or four of the various rare MGs that I've been fretting over..
He even licked the roots... he did not damage any of the roots, but left them all uncovered. I've been trying to nurse them back to health. This is how they look. Not good at all.
Scarlett Ohara STR-67
Here's my bad boy.. my buddy, my friend...
shoot i had to give up using it. i would open it and mix and my two outr door cats would follow me all over the yard. thery would lick the bottle and try everything to get at it. that and bone meal or anything like it,.
i use the old water from my fish tanks
LOL We have had the dog dig up the bulbs to get the bonemeal. Frank
Ficks, that isn't fish imulsion. lol Frank
right its fish poop and i think it works better
This message was edited Mar 23, 2007 8:42 AM
Now, the cat (Hobo Joe) will not even try to taste the stuff, it's so funny, he makes these faces like "What the heck" "I'm not eating that" "Where's my mouse"?
I'll tell you ... Harley, he's the best.. besides his sister.. she's just a little bit lazy..lol
Miss Dusty.. taking a break.
Hey Gourd, sorry to hear about your Scarlett Ohara STR-67 and hope it recovers.
Here's a picture of my buddy Butchie. He a typical Japanese breed Shibaken and they are known for their high IQ. He's never bothered any of our plants.
Butchie is beautiful.. he looks smart too. I don't think Scarlett is going to make it. I do have Scarlett STR-62 doing well. But, hated to lose STR-67 when it was so healthy. We'll see what happens.
our dogs eat lots of veggies, so it is my fault that they try to check things out. For snacks, they eat carrots, brocolli, especially tomatoes and strawberries off the vines. But, this fish emulsion got the best of Harley. He did that when no-one was looking, so obviously he Knew what he did.
Oh well.
Thanks, what's cool is he understands japanese and english commands.
Hey where did you get the STR-67 seeds from and were the leaves variegated for that plant?. This is one of the things that I'll be sorting out from the 4 commercial packs that I'll be growing.
I'm growing those strains out for Ron from seeds he sent me last year. I hated telling him what happened.
A.
edited to add: the leaves are all green on both strains.
This message was edited Mar 22, 2007 9:07 PM
Try making a cap of sorts for the pot out of chicken wire and let the mg's grow right through it. I'm going to try that with some new stuff I'm starting to keep the squirrels from digging it up.
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I ran into trouble at the cottage using bonemeal when relocating some peonies a few years ago. The roots were all dug up when I returned the following weekend -- skunks or coons, I figure -- so I re-set them but I guess there was enough bonemeal left that the smell was still there, and they were a mess again the following weekend. I switched to rock phosphate (superphosphate -- the plant doesn't know the difference) and covered them with hardware cloth over winter, just to be on the safe side, and removed it when they started sprouting the following spring. I don't use bonemeal up there anymore...
And at home, because of my dog, I only use fish emulsion on seedlings that are in the basement. She doesn't like going down there, and I can close the door if necessary. As someone wise once told me, we humans have to do the thinking for our animals.
I'm growing for the first time this year and have a question: For sweet peas and garden peas, I dig a 10" deep trench and put in torn strips of newspaper, wet it down, sprinkle with superphosphate, add another layer of newsprint, wet it, then add a layer of soil, then set in the seedlings. As the plants grow, the roots go down and 'discover' the superphosphate about when they start to bloom. The flower production is amazing, and loads of pods on my sugar snaps. Would this work for MGs?
SOH is one tough cookie. The plant looks stressed but I see the strong shoot at the top. It is very possible all the leaves will drop and then sprout back. In another month she could be climbing all over the place and you will not be able to tell anything bad happened.
Btw, did the plant make it?
This message was edited Apr 13, 2007 1:13 PM
No.. I probably should have stuck it into an incubator type dome.. like the one below.
But, I have it's sister, Scarlett Ohara STR-62 and it looks very healthy. So, I've got to keep the doors closed to that room.
He did damage to two others, and one of them actually really took off and is growing alot more.
I. setosa, it looked like it did not even have a root, but a stub only.. now it has lots of leaves, that was in a dome with lots of humidity and heat and really rooted well.
