That is so nice of you, to try to help me solve this problem. I believe damping off may have played a role on my first batch of seedlings...due to the fact that I kept it too hot, too wet, and cover on to boot. This second batch does have me puzzled...and I think (i don't know) that lack of fertilizer is the problem as well as lack of water. Since this thread started I began a twice weekly foliar-feeding program (weak solution) so far I have misted 3 times....and everything I have sprayed is turning a darker green, putting out true leaves, and getting bigger. The tiny seedlings are the only ones I lost yesterday...and pretty sure it was because the media was too dry. As per tons of advice I figured my media needed to be more porous than the last batch...so by golly I made it porous. Seeds sprouted just fine, but now I've made it too hard to keep up with watering. I need to meet at the happy medium. I am going shopping (maybe tomarrow) for some ProMix BX. I think you guys are right and that may be a great point in the right direction...for PH reasons too. I have also been faithful at adding 1 tsp of vinegar to each gallon of water, which bring the ph to 6.7. I can definately tell that I'm not leaving water spots on leaves nearly as bad. It may have gotten up past 80*F in my greenhouse yesterday, but not much more. I didn't take the plants out because the forcast called for scattered showers, and that usually means a downpour. Lately I've been able to to move them all outside for at least part of the day, so genuine sunshine (not filtered) might be helping with the growth spurt too. To tell the truth, I am quite happy with the week and a half improvements made, with all your help. And other than yesterday's disaster, I believe my greenhouse is going to start seeing more green. :) I'll try to take some pictures...if I can figure out to post them.

heavy spring flowering.. leads to heavy fall fruiting ... the shear weight pulling them down ... other years.. you will get a late frost freeze.. and might have neither ... its probably also a function of it finally getting fully 'established' .... now that its roots are fully established.. it can get on with sexual reproduction ... aka flowering/seeding ... i have 8 or so crabs .... including profussion ... and as far as i am concerned.. none of them are the vase shape you crave .... you better get used to it doing ITS own thing.. rather than your hoped for form ... unless you decide to topiary it into something else ... see link for representative shape ... ken https://www.google.com/search?q=Profusion+Crabapple&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAmoVChMIlqWru9zUyAIVRI-ACh3rewOw&biw=889&bih=745&dpr=0.9

(and are switched!) I love switched outlets, but I wouldn't want them ALL to be switched. We have amazing recharging batteries these days, and lamps can't be such a huge power draw. Why do we even HAVE outlets anymore? You're right that lamps aren't a huge power draw; my husband, who is an engineer in the energy industry, says that only things that produce heat are real energy-hogs. Your TV, radio, lamp can run all day for pennies. However, I disagree with your conclusion. Batteries are great, but they're more trouble than things that're plugged into the wall. They do run out of juice (at the least convenient times) and they do have a lifespan (for example, my laptop will no longer run at all unless it's plugged into the wall -- the battery cannot hold a charge anymore, and a new battery costs $140). but once a room is furnished they are mostly ignored visually, anyway. Good point. Outlets at foot-level are easier to ignore than outlets at eye level. In reality, I suppose both spots have their uses. You probably haven't touched -- in years -- the outlet into which your bedside lamps are plugged, but you touch your kitchen outlets and the outlet where you recharge your phone daily.

I think Lowe's has a 1 year guarantee. Maybe that would work on these roses. I was in our local Lowe's the other day, was looking at the roses. Just pathetic! Most were wilted, dried up, crying out for water. A guy who looked like a manager pranced up to me, all smiley faced and asked if I was finding everything all right - I said yes, but would you please get someone to water your poor roses? I am a rose person and it really bothers me to see those poor plants dying from lack of water. His happy face burst like a balloon and he gave me a blank stare. He pointed at a lady employee and said oh, that is her department. She apologized and said she has been really busy. I thought - doing what? Watching the roses die? Most of the ones on display were in death throes from lack of water. I strolled through the garden area later and she was watering - not the roses but ferns, etc. that looked just fine. Then they put the half dead plants on 50% or more off.....when they could have just cared for them and sold them at full price. Go figure! I haven't noticed roots like what you all described but will check. They are bad about mislabeling plants. I bought on another trip there a rose that had probably just arrived, looked great, beautiful buds. It is labeled Carefree Beauty but it most certainly is not. It looks like a pale pink double Knockout. Have seen the candy pink, pink blush, more like a single, but not one like this. And....the other day it produced a bloom that is half red/half blush pink. I have heard of KO's that occasionally do this. So who knows what it is? Its pretty - healthy and is going in my pink bed - and I WILL check the roots! Judith