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[Cynthia12]

Sleep tight!

 

[pennyJo1960]

thank you you also

 

[getaclue]

trumpeting, I HATE when my phone updates, and it's doing it more often lately. Apps that I've turned off, are restarted during the updates. Icons get changed, or their colors change. All sorts of things have to be reset, because they defer to default settings. It's a big PITA.

 

[pennyJo1960]

So is my computer now have not turned the phone on yet it just likes to open like 8 pages at once then do you want to close these do you want to be thrown in the garbage galaxy j7 perx really annoying then it rings or get text or email

 

[Arielle2]

Thanks Arielle for the excellent information. I have turned to the local extension office for help with our thornless blackberries. We had to wineries interested in our crop. One year we harvested over 50 pounds which was our best harvest. The next year we opened a berry to check it and found a tiny worm in it despite our spraying schedule. Turned out we had a fruit fly problem, a new variety that was just making an appearance in our area. And good luck getting rid of them. We worked and worked and finally gave up. In spite of spraying and picking the fruit just before ripe, we found fruit fly maggots in the berries. I was beat. Blackberries are a lot of work to start with, dealing with dead canes, pruning, weeding. To have to deal with a fruit fly that is almost indestructible is more work than I wanted to put in on the project. The last year that we had a crop, we ate the good berries and tossed the infested to the birds. The chooks loved them. Last winter the freeze took 80% of the the canes. The rest were mowed.

Sometimes ya just got to know when to throw in the towel.

As for Starke's we had one Asian pear tree loaded with fruit break off at the graft. I took pictures of it and emailed Starke's asking them if they could tell me what happened to the tree as it appeared to be a graft failure. After two weeks of no reply, I called them. The person I talked to said yes she had seen the pictures and it appeared that the tree had been damaged by a weed eater. That's when I started laughing and told her nope. Didn't even own a weed eater. She kept telling me it was weed eater damage. I kept telling her I didn't own one at the time of the tree's demise or for the two years since it had been planted. I think we went back and forth like that for a while until she finally offered me 50% off a replacement tree. I told her no thank you and hung up.

A year later I found out about Fire Blight and looking at the pictures we had taken finally decided that the tree's trunk had been damaged by blight leading to it breaking.

I haven't bought anything from them since.

I have learned the hard way that keeping anything healthy is to know about the diseases and how to feed and manage. Same as anything else.

Sorry about Stark-- I would have hung up too. Which is why Im buying more from Cummins instead. Fireblight is common here. Lots of options to work around that one. Meaning many varieties that are resistant, both in apple and in pears. As far as I know OH x F rootstock is best for pears and any of the Geneva rootstock wil help with apple fireblight. The PRI breeding program has put out a number of fireblight resistant apples. Fireblight is tough to beat, and very common around me.

Like I said, Stark interested in sales sales sales.... learning to care for the plants? nope

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good afternoon old folks quiet on the western front sun has come out rain has backed off our tv is messed up did not call dish again my hour or so call the other day was bad enough I would watch like a hour of news local then turn it to music our music channels have been misplaced?

 

[microchick]

I have learned the hard way that keeping anything healthy is to know about the diseases and how to feed and manage. Same as anything else.

Sorry about Stark-- I would have hung up too. Which is why Im buying more from Cummins instead. Fireblight is common here. Lots of options to work around that one. Meaning many varieties that are resistant, both in apple and in pears. As far as I know OH x F rootstock is best for pears and any of the Geneva rootstock wil help with apple fireblight. The PRI breeding program has put out a number of fireblight resistant apples. Fireblight is tough to beat, and very common around me.

Like I said, Stark interested in sales sales sales.... learning to care for the plants? nope

Thanks Arielle2. What also really ticked me off at Starke's is when we went to buy our trees, we told them we wanted trees that were disease resistant. They had been recommended to us by a friend who owned and ran an apple orchard so we thought we were dealing with a reputable nursery. Oh if I knew then what I know now.

Now I know that the heirloom types of apples, the red delicious, golden delicious, granny smith, etc are fire blight resistant. In the pear varieties, I think I read the Kiefers were resistant but that was about it around us.

Before we bought the new tries from the local Amish nursery we had them look the variety up in their stock catalog. Sure enough, it said Fire Blight Resistant.

It's a shame you can't trust people anymore.

Got discharged from PT today. I also had my first round of deep muscle acupuncture. It was interesting, and pain relieving. May have to talk to my doctor about doing it regularly because is sure killed some muscle spasms I was having in my shoulder this morning dead in their tracks.

 

[bruceha2000]

I “wasn’t connected to the internet.” Well, I’m driving! My internet is at
home.

Most likely it turn off the mobile data when it "upgraded". I guess so you can't accidentally use up all your data time. I have mine turned off unless I need it for something specific.

 

[microchick]

We got a minimal data plan for our phone as we aren't on the road that much any more and didn't see the need for it. Then we discovered that all of our service was being used up for updates. Were we happy? Nope. We tried turning every thing off that we could. Didn't help. We tried setting it up to update overnight using our anytime minutes on our internet. Drained that tank also. But for only 20 Dollars more they conveniently tacked more data onto our plan so now we can update useless crap that we never use to our heart's content...or rather our Samsung's hearts content.....what a racket.

God I hate phones.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I live with BF and the son 40 neither will take calls on the phone if they do not know who it is my phone is the main phone to us yes it has been unlimited for years through the same company anyway I get all their calls there phones are limited on data only text or voice is unlimited under the same company yes I hate my phone