"You do love to play semantics don't you Brandon? Pulling 1 or 2 words out of context to take issue with them really serves little purpose yet you do it repeatedly here." I don't have time to play anything with you Dave. The comments weren't meant to be in response to anything you said or to solicit a personal attack from you. Professionals use the right media for the right purpose. BX clearly has lots of uses and there are also clearly uses for which it is not the best (that's why there are different mixes out there). You just want something to argue about, and personally I don't have much more time for it. If you want to give your point of view, give it. Let others give their point of view. If the comments aren't addressed to you, try not to take them personally. Why don't we try to keep the discussion on a little more professional level? This post was edited by brandon7 on Wed, Apr 2, 14 at 23:10

Don't know why no one responded before this. I suspect you've already discovered some of your answers. If the problem was late blight, - won't go to eggplant - the green fruit on the affected plants will look fine but won't ripen because they are already infected; you just can't see it as yet. - tolerance varies; I wouldn't sacrifice the "good" plants until I saw a problem. - no treatment needed for the soil. - your cool season stuff is safe; they don't get the same disease.

enjoy the bloom, proceed as usual in September. one year of two blooms wont hurt it. that's what I like about hippeastrums- they'll throw you a random flower every so often. a lot of people on here just have a bloom or two all year and then a big bloom at some point. don't worry about it. if anything, you've been taking really good care of it if its throwing up an extra scape :)

There is more to jades than just typical green leaved plant you can see everywhere, Crassula ovata. Check out C. o. Hobbit, Gollum, Crosby's compact, Tricolor, Blue waves....and many more for different leaf shapes and coloring. If you type just crassula, you'll see many different looking plants. Most of them will reproduce easily from leaf cuttings (and stem cuttings too). If you like more rosette types, check out Echeverias. May will also reproduce from leafs, some will not but they will have offsets and also you can reproduce from stem cuttings. Leggy plants, if otherwise healthy, will likely respond well to be-heading. You could pot the cut off top section, and leave stem with roots potted - many will grow offsets along the stem. These could be removed once big enough (or left to grow as is - anyway you like it). Kalanchoes are very easily propagated from leaves (depending where you live, some could be a nuisance :) since they propagate so easily). There are many very nice kalanchoes there besides the 'florist kalanchoe' that are available in stores by hundreds, in many different flower colors. Keeping plants in original soil usually creates problems because most are grown in peat - ad it isn't easy to keep it 'just right' as moisture goes. But week or even few should not be a big problem, unless it is soaking wet from improper watering in the store. They all require very good drainage, so using gravely/gritty type of substrate is beneficial to plants in the long run. No plants like to be pot-bound (even if you read so very often...). Succulents, in their natural habitat, grow often in very tight spots/crevices and ppl assume they like to be squeezed, pot bound. But their roots, if can't grow wider, may grow quite deep in nature. In cultivation, pots approx. 1" bigger in diameter than the root ball are used most often (just a general suggestion). It is recommended to use smaller pots if the soil is more water retaining = takes longer to dry up. More soil there is, longer plant sits with 'wet feet' and that creates most problems with succulents. Typically, succulents do not need to be repotted often. But many will tolerate moving them around as you described...these are plants (unfortunately) that are often handled/used as an decorative piece, easily replaced, and often put in inappropriate containers (like terrariums, glass bowls...). So it may depend also on you and what you expect from the plants :) I know that aquarium water is used for watering plants. What I would worry about is giving plants unbalanced 'fertilizer'; too much of 1 ingredient, not enough of others may create more problems than no fertilizer at all. Many ppl do not fertilize succulents (they live in quite poor/lean substrates in their habitat), others do. But well balanced fertilizer is much better IMO. And over fertilizing, even if using balanced fertilizer, will eventually create some problems too (too much of a good thing is usually not good...:)