French frogs

[LittleLakePhil]

I'll ook and see what I got...

 

[Akrnaf2]

Hey Dan, I was going to sprout an avocado pit (just for the girls to watch) but I forgot about it for a couple weeks and it is all dried out and hard. Will it still sprout? Or does it need to be fresh.

I've had a lot of luck with dried out seed, I have two plants right now that the seeds dried out for about 3 or 4 months before I planted them. The one in the black pot was from a dried seed. I planted 4, one didn't sprout, I killed one by overwatering but I still have the two. (As well as a few others.) Heres the other.

Don't plant them! They wont yield any good Avocado! When you use a plant that is germinated from an Avocado seed you will loose the parents features! The fertilization mix up the genetic features ! Buy a pure bread plant! They produced by vegetative reproduction that don't use gene mixing

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

Hey Dan, I was going to sprout an avocado pit (just for the girls to watch) but I forgot about it for a couple weeks and it is all dried out and hard. Will it still sprout? Or does it need to be fresh.

I've had a lot of luck with dried out seed, I have two plants right now that the seeds dried out for about 3 or 4 months before I planted them. The one in the black pot was from a dried seed. I planted 4, one didn't sprout, I killed one by overwatering but I still have the two. (As well as a few others.) Heres the other.

Don't plant them! They wont yield any good Avocado! When you use a plant that is germinated from an Avocado seed you will loose the parents features! The fertilization mix up the genetic features ! Buy a pure bread plant! They produced by vegetative reproduction that don't use gene mixing

We do not have the weather for avocado tree anyway. This was more for educational benefit then anything else. I still remember as a child when my mother would root an avocado. Those little things seem to stick with you.

 

[FridayYet]

We used to do that all the time when the girls were young. It is a lot of fun to see a tree sprout out of a big seed.

Amaryllis around Christmas time is fun, too - seeing a big red flower come up out of a bulb.

 

[FridayYet]

Well DHs last day at work was today, so he rejoins the unemployed for a while.

Now I can get some stuff done around here while he figures out what he wants to do next. I really need his truck, so I'm looking forward to Monday! LOL

 

[Debs Flock]

Well DHs last day at work was today, so he rejoins the unemployed for a while.

Now I can get some stuff done around here while he figures out what he wants to do next. I really need his truck, so I'm looking forward to Monday! LOL

Welcome to the land of the unemployed Friday's DH.

Best of luck to you both. I'm sure you'll help him decide.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Hey Dan, I was going to sprout an avocado pit (just for the girls to watch) but I forgot about it for a couple weeks and it is all dried out and hard. Will it still sprout? Or does it need to be fresh.

You should be able to get it to sprout -- I love doing this, and it IS a lot of fun for kids.

Happy Friday everybody!

Figured I'd give a hubby update for those who may still be interested. Follow-up with the surgeon went well, he's now cleared to go back to work on Monday. Just a couple issues to clear up now, but nothing to keep him from working. He has a rattle in his chest and some numbness in his legs, so the surgeon's office ordered a chest x-ray and some blood work, and got his primary care visit moved up to yesterday. So when we saw the primary care doc, it seems there is a pleural effusion and his potassium is low. So we hope some medicine changes will fix it all and not have to surgically remove the fluid, but its not bad enough to pull the work release. So continued prayers are appreciated!

Hatch update - locked down 10 eggs last night. 4 lav orps and 6 golden sebrights. 1 or 2 of the GS look weird, too much clear area in the bottom, but still movement, so I left them in, but doubting they will make it. Otherwise everything looks great!

Awesome update on your husband - hopefully things continue to improve and they are able to get things all squared away without surgery.

My OH sells cars... he says that sounds about right...

They've gotten super stupid about colors now...

Tell me about it -- I've recently started working at the BMV and the answers you get when you ask the simple question, "What color is this vehicle" are mind boggling and have nothing to do with the actual color the vehicle is ----- I'm just looking for "blue, red, green"

That sounds fun. Do they live far away?

Right now they're only about three hours from here. She moved up there for college two years ago and then when they got serious he moved up there too.......they've been supposed to come down the last two weekends but have had to scrap plans, so really hoping this weekend sticks.

Erm... trying to remember what OH said needed done... I think he said axle, struts and ???? Can't remember the last... ah, and needs new battery now... plus headlight switch...

Sounds like a bit of work to be done!

So finally found the daffy bird. She was in the storage shed again. I had checked it last night, just must have missed her. Last time I found her there I tried to shut it up so nothing could get in, she found a way

She's so pretty -- glad she is safe and sound.

What did you use for support? The toothpicks will not go in

You know those "handles" they sell for eating corn-on-the-cob? They work wonderfully for this -- they are way more stable than toothpicks.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

We do not have the weather for avocado tree anyway. This was more for educational benefit then anything else. I still remember as a child when my mother would root an avocado. Those little things seem to stick with you.

I was introduced to the idea of having an avocado tree growing up because we had a family friend (my next eldest sister and their daughter were best friends, we spent a lot of time at their place) had one in their house. They decorated it every Christmas, etc. Maybe you could go that route if you get your seed to sprout?

 

[BYC910]

Happy Friday everybody!

Figured I'd give a hubby update for those who may still be interested. Follow-up with the surgeon went well, he's now cleared to go back to work on Monday. Just a couple issues to clear up now, but nothing to keep him from working. He has a rattle in his chest and some numbness in his legs, so the surgeon's office ordered a chest x-ray and some blood work, and got his primary care visit moved up to yesterday. So when we saw the primary care doc, it seems there is a pleural effusion and his potassium is low. So we hope some medicine changes will fix it all and not have to surgically remove the fluid, but its not bad enough to pull the work release. So continued prayers are appreciated!

Hatch update - locked down 10 eggs last night. 4 lav orps and 6 golden sebrights. 1 or 2 of the GS look weird, too much clear area in the bottom, but still movement, so I left them in, but doubting they will make it. Otherwise everything looks great!

for DH

for you. Glad he's doing what the doctor orders .

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Howdy.... I didn't get a chance to look for that switch yet..... Heck I'm already freaking tired..... Might actually sleep tonight.....