If I didn't pay the membership to HMF every year I'd feel terribly guilty because I also use it constantly. It's a small price to pay for what you get. Thank you for the info, vmr423. It will be interesting to view other rose sites. Ingrid

Sometimes it is a very hard decision on what to do to a sick beloved bulb. I have learned to put aside my feelings and then decide on the situation. When I have bulbs like this, I first check the center... the HEART of the bulb. If it has a rot that has damaged the center, then it is time to cut it up and try to just produce bulblets out of the mother bulb. Or treat the center rot and let the mother bulbs produce bulblets on it's own. This is what I did to my beloved Papilio I. I just let her be and she has produced at least 15 bulblets. Papilio I is gone now but I have a potful of bulblets in it's memory. If the center is ok, then I would clean it up really good and plant it. If the basal plate is thick, I REJUVINATE the bulb. Slice off the basal plate leaving like just 1/2 inch of it. This would take away the old roots but give the bulb a better chance to produce MORE and NEW roots. Thick basal plates get too tough that it hinders root growth. Places where old roots emerged usually won't produce new roots anymore. New roots will emerge from other points in the basal plate. Rejuvinating bulbs is done by commercial growers to older bulbs when they are already slackening in their performance. I then paint all of the cuts/wounds with Captan paste, let dry for 2-3 days and plant like you will with a newly purchased bulb. The decision is yours "daddy". Whatever action you take on your "baby" always remember this...It has lived a good life with a purpose. To teach you and give you knowledge. Learn from it... Good luck!

Our GE microwave transformer/magnatron caught fire and filled our home with thick black noxious smoke. It was only about 2 years old! It was scary, were were lucky the breaker turned it off because it wouldn't turn off!!! If this happened to you call Contact Consumer Product Safety division, Consumer product Safety commission, in our area the phone number is 631 724-0154, also call Underwriters Labratories, and document it on "bringgoodthingstolife.org Make sure it says .org not .com. Because ge just sent us from department to department an "didn't notifiy the proper department" after a few days they will finely realize you are not going away if you keep calling, then they will send you to their Electric insurance, then you will get a call from their attorney asking you questions, beware tell him to you have to consult an attorney before you say anything. Then Samsung who actually made the microwave, their insurance Chubb will contact you, thats when it goes from bad to worse. Our fire was on Dec 24th, 2010, Chubb accepted restoration January 5th, 2011. I found out I should have just gone through my homeowners because GE just bounces you around and around and around. I should have called an attorney and Consumer Product Safety right away. Any one looking to buy a microwave should google GE Microwave class action, GE micowave law suit, GE micowave follow it by either defect, malfunction, transforer fire, magnatron fire.

malwarebytes is not an antivurus program it is an anti malware program and will find much much more than your antivirus will, there is a free version but you can also purchase it for a minmal fee which gives you lifetime protection and will enable it to do auto updates and scheduled scans. I would definitely get and use malwarebytes it is one of the top products we use on the support forums to clean the hardest infections. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware Please download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware to your desktop. * Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program. * At the end, be sure a checkmark is placed next to Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, then click Finish. * If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version. * Once the program has loaded, select Perform full scan, then click Scan. * When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results. * Be sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected.  The log is automatically saved by MBAM and can be viewed by clicking the Logs tab in MBAM. The log can also be found here: C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Malwarebytes\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\Logs\log-date.txt  Copy and Paste the entire report in your next reply. Extra Note: If MBAM encounters a file that is difficult to remove, you will be presented with 1 of 2 prompts, click OK to either and let MBAM proceed with the disinfection process, if asked to restart the computer, please do so immediately. There are free antivirus programs that are available that are just as good as or in some cases better than ones you pay big bucks for, the same companies that give those free also do sell a more full featured version so they are available for sale, I prefer to support companies that will go above and beyond and provide a free version for those who can not afford to pay for a product, they certainly do not have to do that but it is an extremely helpful thing to do, the more people we can keep from getting infected the better off we all are. I personally use AVAST and find it an excellent product. People often try to push the big name products especially when they are making a profit from selling them, installing them and maintaining them. The decision should be a good informed and researched one made by the pc user.