sorry I haven't had a chance to reply to everyone! I haven't forgotten this thread though :P I might have a temporary place for most of my bigger brugs, but the smaller ones still have to go simply because there are too many, and I'll still have a crap ton of cuttings. I'll refer back to this page when it comes time in a few weeks to cut. in the meantime, would anyone be interested in well rooted NOIDs? they're all two to three feet tall. I have one that was given to me as a double white, two pink ones, and one or two that I'm not sure of. shipping's going to be kind of ugly on them, but they're well rooted healthy plants with a good start already. I'll try to remember to check this page frequently :)

Mine look fine as well. I dump horse manure on the plot after I'm done in the fall and till it in. Sometimes right after I'm done and sometimes like this year, right before I want to get started again. The area I planted my snow peas in was virgin soil a year ago. So it had some manure added then. it needed more this year. It did OK last summer, but not great. Deluge of rain didn't help. I don't fertilize any more during the growing season with most things, especially row crops like this that I seed with a seeder. They always do fine for me. I started making a cocktail a couple years ago in a 500 gallon tank for transplants. I'll make about 200 to 300 gallons at a time because it's heavy to pull around. I'll add whatever size bottle of fish emulsion (quart, I think), chelated iron (micronutrients needed per soil test, 8 or 10 ounces), a bottle of liquid NOG (natural organic growth, organic growth enhancer), and a handful of 20 mule team borax (for the boron) dissolved in water before adding. It's very weak compared to package instructions, but I believe it really works. In 2012, I put in pepper transplants and watered with this for several weeks. Then it got hot and I gave up on lots of things. Couple months later, I noticed red things in the weeds. Turned out my peppers grew larger than any I'd ever had and they were loaded with chiles that had dried on the bush. So I harvested them and was very happy. That year, I also had an overabundance of sweetpotatoes like I've never seen. Monsters! I water in the slips by hand after planting and used this concoction along with manure in the ground beforehand. Had to water 5 or 6 times I guess before the rain took over. But I blame this cocktail and great hot weather. Last summer was a washout. Didn't use my cocktail, so I still have it in the tank ready to stir up and get going again in a few weeks.

Hey all! If you guys read what I replied to the comments, I placed all my succulents outside cause we had a really hot week then. We had a cold night forecast though of around 28 degrees and I was planning to take them back inside but had an emergency and wasn't able to come home. That following day I checked them out and almost all them them had mushy and soggy leaves. Some branches even started falling down I am so heartbroken. There are some that survived you can tell by the color. My question is this, (picture) some of them turned this color but isn't soft or soggy to the touch. Is this a sign that it's going to survive too? Can anyone share measures to somehow revive them? You will notice he leaves on the left (of this particular jade on the blue pot) are still very green. The ones on the middle are pale or kind of brownish and the branch on the right has bowed down. Will it help to cut branches that seem hopeless?

I'm excited to start some passion flower vines (passiflora edulis, "Fredericks") and finally bought seeds which are winter hardy enough to handle the frosts here and also grow the fruit I like most, with occasional die-back. I'm planning to trellis a fence with the vines, for fruit. I believe they are basically a perennial here, but the frost is right on the edge for them. At any rate, I can start them any time. I know they can take a while to germinate and grow before taking off. I'm in the California Bay Area, towards Wine Country. Popular out here but everyone I know buys from the nursery, which I didn't because they didn't have the cultivar I wanted. Should I start the seeds now and plant out in a few months near to our first frost, or should I wait until Spring? I can start in pots, but really only outside because my house has no light inside, if that matters! I generally try planting almost everything when small because of this, and also my yard is not very big.