hey harvestman .... that is personal experience in my z5 .... i will submit.. that i spoke authoritatively ... as if it is backed by science ... but once i comprehended that if you GET THEM DORMANT ... AND KEPT THEM DORMANT .... my success rate went from 50/50 to 95% .... the early experience was hybrid T roses ... where unprotected canes.. will thaw on the sun side.. and not on the dark side... and that happening repeatedly ... will kill the cane.. and if that goes all the way to the graft.. it is dead ... and why here.. in the great white north.. we bury the plant to about 6 inches in loose mulch.. and then put a styrophome cone over them ... no sun.. no wind.. and a thermal breaker for ambient air temp changes .... and the theory was reinforced when i moved 1700 potted plants of all kinds in january 2000 ... and put some in the pole barn ... which came out of dormancy early.. because the barn ended up a z7 .. and i had plants coming out of dormancy 2 to 3 months prior to last hard frost ... versus those allowed to freeze solid.. and stacked on their sides on the north side .. outside of the barn .. where they stayed frozen/dormant.. until near last frost ... as i said.. IMHOpinion .... its all about stressing the plant.. by going in and out of dormancy.. whether it is the roots.. the plants.. the bark.. the liquids inside.. i do not know ... and i doubt it is much of an issue ... south of z6 ... its just that zones 5 and 6 .. are so flexible ... anyway.. good luck ken

Jmith, Everyone loads varies from type of fabrics to water temperatures. My loads is all over the place where I can wash my king size flat/fitted and 4 king pillow case with a king size fleece cover in one load to two bathroom mats in one load. Weighing fabrics does nothing but causes extra unnecessary step in doing laundry. Once you do several large or extra large load, the machine will let you how much you can fill the machine without over loading. If anybody over load this machine will notice how long it take for the load to balance for the spin cycle! I'm a older WT Lux user......

This is that plant that folds its leaves when you touch it. Other common names are "tickle me plant", "prayer plant", "sleeping plant", etc. Mimosa family. I see some on sale at Amazon or Ebay but I have learned to not trust those seed sources, in particular the ones coming from Asia. Does anyone have any seeds/seedlings/larger plants that they would like to trade or sale? Thanks!

I had a grow light on it as well, but nothing quite as intense as Steve's ingenious setup. I think there's just so little sun in the winter in the PNW (high latitude plus only 4 full sunny days NOV-MAR this year) that my tree got used to a very low light level and was shocked when it was released back into the wild, with its high light / high wind / night temps dropping occasionally to 40 or so.