Thank you for all the compliments and help! As for soil, it does include some bark components, but is not a specific recipe or anything and does contain some regular soil. Now that I know of some good soil recipes from the forum, I was going to amend it with either the coco-husk or 5:1:1 recipes. Although, it does seem to be doing great in what it is in. Yeah, the only huge lemon I know of is Ponderosa also, so I assume it can or is a Ponderosa. But since every Ponderosa I have seen or grew always fruited when young, I often have wondered if it is not, and maybe some weird Italian native that I do not know of? Mgk65, Thank you! I have learned something new again from you! I really have to find some info about leaf node #s and counts. Hopefully there is a thread here explaining it here in more detail on the forum? So, are the # of leaf nodes to fruit numbers pretty much the the same within one variety? Or, does the # of nodes before fruiting vary greatly even within the same variety? Does the leaf node count apply to just fruiting, or does it apply to when it starts to blossom also? Does a tree have to have a certain amount of leaf nodes before it just blossoms also? Thanks again for all the help! I will be back soon! Christy

Yep we ate at a wonderful place called Chinatown restaurante. Great food and the place sits right on the canal in Venice. I had some of the best pasta and gnocchi I have ever had in my life! The gelato and panini's were out of this world too. We had pizza at this place called Trattoria Pizzeria A.Spinosi by the vatican. DELICIOUS! I had never really tasted pepperoni till I went there. I have a couple of pics from there but I have to download them still. Give me a few more days and I will update it. If you have a chance check out my other albumn with a few pics from the trip! Here is a link that might be useful: italy pics

Hi I have finally taken a photo, sorry it's dark (end of the day). I copy/paste my former comment. I had to delete it because I couldn't add the photo : Camellia, my variegated Blue Bird is not growing anymore, it seems dormant and looks exactly the same. We had an exceptionnal heat wave for 2 weeks with temps over +35°c and some plants didn't like it (the less rooted ones, the smallest ones and/or the more variegated ones). As Legolas and variegated Gollum keep growing (very slowly), I conclude that my variegated Blue Bird is not rooted enough to face the heat. It should grow again with the first rains of september or october.

I was right. The overdone blintz was the first to go. :) The rest of us didn't want it, but there's always one...