Hi Everyone, I bought Kantola (spine gourd ) seeds from someone and tried most of the seeds (about 16 seeds) but none of those were germinated. My dad used to grow this plant and to my knowledge it grows from tubers and it is a perennial plant. If any one has the tuber or plants can I have it please. I don't mind to pay. I also can share seeds if anyone needs. I have green and red amaranth seeds, roselle seeds and jute plants seeds. Thank you everyone. My email address is devpahar74@gmail.com

I know this is a bit late, but people obvuously still have access to it & thought it was super important for everyone to know... When you find a hummingbird that seemingly appears dead - double check to MAKE SURE IT'S NOT JUST SLEEPING!!! There's plenty of sources out there that explain SLEEPING HUMMINGBIRDS that APPEAR DEAD but are actually in a PSEUDO-HIBERNATION STATE alled TURPOR! You may even find them UPSIDE DOWN, as their death grip o lm a tiny branch may have also slipped them into that position - BUT NOTE - THEY ARE NOT DEAD! While in the sleeping state of TURPOR, everything slows down so extremely slow in order to survive colder night temps, that it is often mistaken (I've found them that way myself)... and they are oblivious to ANYTHING, including human touch - since it may take them anywhete between 20 MINUTES TO AN HOUR TO WAKE UP OUT OF A TURPOR STATE.... EASILY MISTAKING THEM FOR BEING DEAD! As I have found them upside down & appearing dead, not to mention how INCREDIBLY LONG IT TAKES THEM TO WAKE UP - I had no idea of/ ever hears of TURPOR at the time! As such, all these years later - I am now wondering if I had actually buried a perfectly fine, living, slow breathing Hummer all those years ago... and the thought sickens me! I try thinking back to my having it in a box for some time before that & double checking several times - but the fact that it takes them anywhere from 20 minutes to AN HOUR TO WAKE UP... I just want people to KNOW TO REALLY WAIT & DOUBLE, TRIPLE, QUADRUPLE CHECK BEFORE BURYING OR DISPOSING OF WHAT THEY PERCEIVE TO BE A DEAD HUMMER - AS IT MAY ONLY REALLY BE SLEEPING!

I have a potted, indoor coconut too. I've had it in the same pot and same soil for 3 years now and it's still growing. Last year it got hit pretty bad during winter with extremely low levels of light (San Francisco) and cold temperatures - I had to leave for 10 days and my place got kinda cold. Upon returning, I found my coconut almost dead, all leaves brown and crispy, I thought it was dead or soon going to die. Well it didn't. I provided LOTS of heat and lots of light, not only natural, but supplemental. It came back and it's now doing great. I've now mixed in some new soil and sand and I mist it, although it is not necessary to do so every single day, believe me, it's not. As long as you keep the place warm and you give it tons of light and don't let the roots get wet and cold, it should be ok. The whole misting thing is overrated. It's good to do it twice a week to keep dust and mites away, that's it. So, warmth and light, and if it's too dry water it a little, just don't flood it - especially now in winter unless your place is 70+ degrees. Hope this helps dude. Good luck and let us know!

Pat, did you notice anything odd or odd-of-whack about your Kindle Edition of The Case of Jennie Brice? My friend first read it on her Kindle and was quite disgruntled with me for recommending it, saying that the mystery was never solved and it didn't make any sense! I was mystified because I didn't remember any such thing. I then read it on Project Gutenberg and right at the end there seemed to be some pages that had been omitted, leaving everything confusing and seemingly abruptly tied up. I dug out my old paperback copy and verified that someone had done a poor job of transferring the printed book to computer and both Project Gutenberg and the Kindle Edition had picked up the BAD JOB! I hope it was eventually corrected, because it's a shame enough to turn a reader off with a false impression of a very good book and author. I loved Norah Lofts as well. The ones I remember best, though, seem to have been just straight historical novels, not much mystery or suspense; e.g., Jassy, The Lute Player, and others. Carolyn, I know what you mean about P. Whitney and Victoria Holt getting formulaic. I eventually gave up on them, too; but in their early days, they were something! I especially liked Whitney's The Trembling Hills (the one set in San Francisco) and Window on the Square. I read Helen MacInnes and there was another similar female writer of thrillers...can't think of her name or the titles of any of her books. Did you like M. M. Kaye's Death in (insert exotic locale) books? Yep, they were enough to make me want to see Zanzibar and the Andaman Islands, giving me a real travel bug. When my niece was about fifteen, I turned her onto Mary Stewart by giving her The Moon-Spinners, Wildfire at Midnight, and The Ivy Tree. She thought the vociferous debates her mother, grandmother, other aunt and I had were 'better than a tennis match'. (It's an old family tradition to team up and argue about books; I listened in the same way to my female relatives when I was my niece's age.) My niece thought we were hyping Mary Stewart when we said that the new arrival of a Stewart book was enough to nearly cause a riot with readers wanting to grab immediately the one or two copies the library got. A reader was given a week to read it and there was no renewal (until the excitement faded about six months later), and the list of next-in-line readers would run for several pages. It was tantalizing and frustrating that SOME readers couldn't read faster. The only similar experience my niece had was with the Harry Potter books. Btw, my niece liked the Stewart books except for, she says, their blandness! Uh-oh, I feel a gothic suspense/romance mood coming on. My niece also asked me one time: "Why is it called Gothic romance when there's hardly any romance in it?"