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« Reply #180 on: January 28, 2011, 02:20:33 PM » |
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Ugh so sorry to hear about the surgery. My dad had hernia surgery twice, not fun, but old injuries as a street cop come back to bite you. I hope she gets better soon!
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farmer d
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« Reply #181 on: January 28, 2011, 03:00:59 PM » |
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Hernia, that's no fun...had an inguinal hernia surgery in 2005. Doctor says are you pain tolerant? I think I'm all manly so of course I say yeah. He says on a pain scale of 1 to 10 people often rate the pain during recovery as a 10. I think well that is them, I've had my share of pain before so...
Yep, it really rated a 10, maybe even 11. Good part is your body won't let you do anything you shouldn't because it just hurts too much. Cindy, give it a couple of weeks and you'll start to feel much better.
Hang in there! Now you're part of the bionic woman club.
Here is some hibiscus sunshine to cheer you up from today.
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« Reply #182 on: January 29, 2011, 08:15:43 AM » |
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Good Morning Cindy et al, Heal quickly, good lady. Maybe a few hibiscus photos might make you smile. Here are two blooms from today, a very intense Moonstruck and a lovely plant called Jolanda Gommer. I did a cross pollination on them, so lets see what happens. Moonstruck has been an outstanding seed setter for me. Louis |
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« Reply #183 on: January 29, 2011, 08:42:50 AM » |
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Thank you for all the kind wishes! I'm back among the living today, moving slowly, but much better. Yesterday definitely hit a 10 on the pain scale. I thought I was pretty tough too, but yesterday I got my behind kicked! So now I'm behaving, taking my pain meds, and staying quiet like a good little girl.
The hibiscus pics do make me smile!!!! Thank you!!!! :-)
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farmer d
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« Reply #184 on: January 29, 2011, 12:52:55 PM » |
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Louis - some excellent blooms. Keep them coming!
Here are a few blooms from this morning. Bon Temps again has some beautiful orangy blushes but now the eye is starting to pick up some pink again with the warm temps this month.
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« Reply #185 on: January 29, 2011, 01:23:56 PM » |
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My Dianthus plants are starting to bloom, in case you're not familiar with them here are a few pics. One looks like a mini double hibiscus but it is a super mini as it is the size of a quarter (the other a dime).
Here is a confused All That Jazz bloom showing the effects of winter. You can see the seed pod fully showing as well as only half the petals formed. Had to manually open as it was starting to grow mold.
Check out my Bonnie Lass, lost all leaves due to severe Spider Mites infestation but it is on the comeback now.
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« Reply #186 on: January 29, 2011, 05:03:47 PM » |
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That Moonstruck looks very nice, difficult to tell from the photo but is the bloom a little smaller than usual, if it is it would maybe explain why the colour looks so much richer.
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« Reply #187 on: January 30, 2011, 07:10:18 AM » |
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That Moonstruck looks very nice, difficult to tell from the photo but is the bloom a little smaller than usual, if it is it would maybe explain why the colour looks so much richer.
hello david, the moonstruck bloom is a little smaller than normal, i attribute it to the lower winter light. we have been having a lot of cloudy, snowy days lately. the intense color, i cant explain this. it all started at the beginning of winter, again might be lower light. the sun is getting higher in the southern quadrant and by mid February the sun will be as strong as it is in mid august. thanks, louis |
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« Reply #188 on: January 30, 2011, 10:33:26 AM » |
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Darren, its good to see you are getting outdoor blooms still. Your Dianthus flowers are quite beautiful, too. That was a problem for us in the earlier days with hibiscus. People would see the photos and think they were the smaller blooms of species like Dianthus. Nobody imagined such great colors AND 8 inch wide blooms until they saw them!
Lou, someday we will have a better understanding of the changes in hibiscus colors. Clearly there is a relationship between seasons and color. Since your greenhouse is kept very warm temperature does not seem to be an important factor. Light is an obvious influence but it may not be the only influence. We know little about the effect of the non-visible parts of the light spectrum, cosmic rays, sun spot activity, and so forth on on flower colors.
About the intensity of sun based on closeness to the winter solstice - being the date when nights are longest and days are shortest, that is in late December, right? So by late Feb we will be 2 months out from the solstice. If we look at 2 months before the solstice as being equivalent in terms of directness of sun that would take us to late-October. October is a great month for hibiscus blooms, so why not February? I think Feb will be a good month for those with greenhouses that are adequately heated, the main difference between Oct and Feb is that in Oct the hibiscus have been growing all summer and have all that stored up energy ready to put into blooms.
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« Reply #189 on: January 30, 2011, 01:04:41 PM » |
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 Here are some flowers that are blooming today , Today it's in the 60's outside very nice, my plants are enjoying the nice weather . |
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« Reply #190 on: January 30, 2011, 03:36:08 PM » |
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Great blooms mike, darren and louis! Geez im a bit jealous, as I haven't seen any blooms (or sun) in a while... I do have a very interesting primrose blooming in my windowsill garden that I wanted to share. If charlie could get a hibiscus with this color pattern it would be a grand slam! Is it ironic that Rain Drop seems to love the rainy weather here? Its budding up like crazy, its been frozen and hasn't had any sun in going on a month and half? Charlie you can expect lots of crosses with Rain Drop in the future, it blooms well indoors and seems to be really hardy! Another that keeps on making buds, despite the far from ideal weather is Snowy Sky. For some reason it never opens buds, just makes them and when they get close to opening they fall off. Very bizarre since there are no thrips inside... I think this problem will correct itself when it gets some size, its trying to bloom and its only 6 inches tall.  |
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« Reply #191 on: January 30, 2011, 04:28:17 PM » |
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hello mike,
love the two larger blooms, who are they?
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« Reply #192 on: January 30, 2011, 04:29:30 PM » |
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hello darren, great looking gaggle of blooms. this is what gets us through the doldrums louis |
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« Reply #193 on: January 30, 2011, 04:33:57 PM » |
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Hello charlie, i agree what you said about light and temps, however you have to also look at the geographical location during the winter. for example, i am at 41 deg north and -72 deg west, the higher latitudes will have weaker sunlight than the lower ones, i am in the higher. looking at your location, you are approx 35 deg north and -119 west, a choice spot, i may add louis |
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