Mayu, thanks! Toni, D. surculosa is the spotted-leaf plant. D. sanderiana is the green/white striped one, leaning way back/out of its' pot on the table. Sorry it's such a mish-mash from the angle of that pic. Christine, thanks! "Now I'll be on the look out for someone that wants to give me a log" Hope I'm not the only one chucking, adolescently, at that. Karen, I'd forgotten about the wax until you said that. So retro! Tsuga, really? (Is my surprised face genuine? 'Cuz I really have no idea what you mean. Really. I swear.) Teen, yes. As Karen said, they chop up a plants' trunk into little pieces, about 3", seal the ends with wax. When you lay it on soil and water, it usually grows a Ti plant. I wouldn't recommend this as a preferred propagation method, but was widely used in the past as a novelty item. Sounds like one can still find one, but it should be pretty easy to find a nice-sized potted plant, which would be a much faster method of having a sizeable plant. The one in my pic came from WM for $10-$12 I think. A few of the tops have been shared in trade. In time the growth from those stumps will be tall again. Found this cool pic at the link Christine mentioned: Wow, this looks profitable! No longer a .50 or $1 novelty.

Why not post over on the Growing Tomatoes forum here Ed. The many knowledgeable tomato growers there may very well know the story on this variety or even have seeds to trade. Generally if a variety suddenly becomes unavailable the following year it is due to a massive crop failure of some kind with the grower - thus no seeds available until the parental stock can be re-seeded and crossed. Since most seed companies now get most of their seeds from a limited number of growers, crop failure and sudden loss of availability is more common than it used to be. Dave

Hmm, I bet these fora are not so interesting to all of you who have been gardening for a long time. We who have not been so fortunate (did not own our own yards, were too poor, or too busy with other things like school, drowning at our hated jobs, etc.) find some of the folks at Gardenweb to be shockingly informative. I do not care whether they punctuate well or not, or spell correctly. I used this source long before I joined, as a source of some of the best information available on the web for things from finishing fir flooring to what do with impossible red clay soil. I'd prefer to have some of the folks on this site as neighbors, so that I did not have to go online. But I do have to go online, and some people here are so thoughtful and helpful, it is truly astounding--no one gets anything for their contributions here. Except that perhaps others will learn from them. (I know that I want to spare others from my mistakes!) So Gardenweb might seem dead compared to an older incarnation of it, but some of us--the quiet, greener kids in the back rows--listen carefully to you guys. And we actually get some sense of who has experience, who to pay particular attention to. (I just saw something about using the most powerful tiller you can rent, and I made a mental note of it--I will follow that advice, but I did not post the question nor participate.) So, many thanks to you all. I do not come here to argue, only to learn how to take better care of my garden and better improve my house (both of which are fixers acquired rather late in life). There must be many, many of us, often quiet, "listening" to certain aspects of certain conversations in some of these posts. Again, many thanks to you all.

Link below is to the FAQ here on this issue. Cut back on watering and use a fan on the area solves the problem. Dave Here is a link that might be useful: Things growing on my soil FAQ