Interesting AND useful. Now I wonder how many lepidopterists were involved in racking up that 47 count. And using another link on that page showed there are a lot of moth books for Australia, and a 103-page book for just the butterflies of Tasmania! That implies there should at least be a pamphlet for "Cabbage Whites of Portland 972xx".

Well, Miele it ain't. We have now run 3 loads in it and each time there has been something that has to be rewashed. One time we had residual grease on plastics from a load that had a sautee pan in it with a bit of cooking residue (not rinsed - in the Miele we didn't have to.) This was not a pan that had bacon fried in it with lots of grease, just a regular sautee with some olive oil and butter, and not a lot of it. This morning we had dishes with steak juices baked onto them, rather than washed off. No overcrowding, plates just lined up nicely in their tines. Each has close to an inch between it. Steak juice is not exactly hard to wash off...(that said the Miele sometimes struggled with residual "char" from grilled food. But this was juice, not char.) I guess we now go back to the old way where everything has to be rinsed before it goes in. Blah. That said, glassware looks good. It does a nice job on that. At this point, I do not recommend these solely on cleaning, but my comparison is to Miele so keep that in mind. DH wants us to run pots and pans cycle all the time hoping that will do a better job, but I don't want my dishes to get damaged from the extreme conditions. The model we have is DWT25500SS. My other comments on it are that it is hard to load, as mentioned above by another poster. It does not hold as much as the Miele. In that, I could get in the whole day's dishes (with all 4 of us home) as well as pots and pans from dinner. This one I can get the dishes in, maybe one pot. This model has the cutlery tray and it is very small and does not hold the flatware straight. The little grooves are kind of shallow. The manual says the tray is small so you can put it directly into your silverware drawer, but then you'd need two of the trays to manage loading up again. It really does not hold much so I've started using it for small lids, the pizza cutter, etc that don't fit in the flatware basket. As for our pricing, they got a lot of them in for Black Friday or whatever event. So the price was reduced (list is $1049 or similar). We then got $50 knocked off for picking it up ourselves. They also let us drop off our Miele there for disposal. Funny that we spent about 1200 for our awesome Miele nearly 13 years ago and that felt like A LOT of money. We will stick with this now as long as it doesn't break. We are on a countdown to listing our house in the spring, so a $2K+ dishwasher to replace our Incognito is not in the cards. Next kitchen, we'll get a Miele again after we recover from moving LOL. And if it's of interest to anyone, we live in an area with soft water (snowmelt is the primary source) and we use Cascade Complete powder and Finish rinse aid. This has been our "combo" for years.

I couldn't find out what happened to it. It was looking--that's how I found the article this morning. I could look harder, though. I'll give it another try.

Well, today I bit the bullet, and got 'er done. Everyone recommended I add "oil dry" to the mix, so I went down to the local NAPA store and got the smallest bag they had....probably enough to last the rest of my life unless I spill the grease the next few times I fry fish. Since I had already made enough mix to fill the selected pot (thats a joke!)and it contained sand which some of you recommended against, but I couldn't get out, I just added a measure of the oil dry to the existing mix. Next step was removing the plant from its pot....Turning it over and tapping the pot on the bottom did NOT work! I struggled for over ten minutes before I convinced that plant to turn that pot loose, and when it did come out, it just kept on, and on, and on coming out. You've been to the circus and seen 10 clowns get out of a car the size of a large suitcase......Well, I'm convinced Adeniums taught them how to do that. There was more plant in that pot than I would have ever thought possible. None of the pots I had considered using was going to work, so the search began all over again. I finally found one thats a bit small, but will work for a while. Photo #4 shows what I got out of that pot. There was a large swolen root that had been just below the surface, and another much smaller root on the opposite side. I trimmed all the small roots off the smaller one, and left both of them on the plant, thinking they might add interest in later years (hows that for a new grower being optimistic). There was a small cluster of roots on the back side of this photo that was growing above the old soil line, and a little "button" of an old root stub that was starting to grow a new root, so I took both of these off flush with the Caudex. I removed a few of the more flimsy looking bunches of tiny roots, and thats about all. Photo #5 shows what I put in the new pot. The swolen root is on the left, and the one I am going to try to get to match it is on the right trimmed of all its small roots. Photo #6 is the final product. The plant is raised about 2 inches, and shows the large swolen root on the right, and the new smaller one on the left. You can see the spot near the center of the Caudex where I cut off a small patch of roots that were growing above the old soil line. I intend to leave the plant on the porch for two or three days to allow it to dry and heal the cuts I made, then will slowly reintroduce it to the sun until it is again in pretty much full sun, and being fed and watered on a regular basis...like every couple of days. I know I probably did as many things wrong as I did right, (I would consider 50-50 a real accomplishment) But I do believe things went pretty well, and now the challenge will be to grow this (to me) strange new plant. Thanks everyone for the help and encouragement. I have been lurking around here for some time, soaking up the knowlege you good folks have been putting out.....I guess today was exam day...Thanks. Bill