ha, Thornapple, aka Jimson Weed - those of us familiar with Carlos Castaneda, back in the 60s and 70s may well have tales of various drug experiments. Having tried datura once, never again. 72 hours of twitchy, half-blind paranoid hallucinatory anxiety. I remember us all rushing to the pub, with terrible thirsts....and being unable to manage more than the tiniest sip. A couple of us were having parties in their heads, one of us was found some 13 miles away, eating a dandelion in a ditch, another was arrested but was having a made -up party in the police cell (passing imaginary joints and chatting with invisible mates). Once the weird twitches and neck jerks passed off, it was fairly eye-opening (I couldn't, in all honesty claim my consciousness was raised or anything) but it was a loooooong trip. Course, that was all back in the day - wouldn't dream of doing it now (I am so repressed, I would probably rush, nakedly into the street, shouting 'out, demons out' or summat like).

I decided to repot them all into a better mix and better groups last Friday, I didn't want to water them in to a mix that wasn't good to I did a more thorough root cleaning and a better foundation. The jades have their own home now. The semp will spend the winter all alone in a very frosty south window in the basement. I don't know what else to do with it and not sure if it can go outside in my zone over the winter or if I wld have enough time to harden off it off. If it should perish....I plan to redeem myself with a succulent rock garden in it memory. We bought a house last year with a south facing yard and have tons of landscaping rocks on 3 sides and an island of them in the back. We both really, really, don't like all these rocks, but where can we put them all?? Is it a blessing in disguise? After reading so much in the forum I feel like I know you all a little, everyone is so nice and helpful, so I will share another picture of what I have in store for my gardening future. I have so many ideas! My DH is a farmboy in the city so we will have some fun. Mr. B says hi! All the leaves dropped in a week, we had some drought then some snow. I got a fire pit and tree skirts as wedding present from DH. He did it while I was away for the weekend. How do you say, "Thank you, I love you so much and I hate tree skirts? You don't, everyone worked so hard and filled it full of flowers! I hope to use some of that labor for helping in the garden when we get one. Did I mention it faces south? All I will do all winter is research, plan, discuss. 2 year, 5 year, 10 year, etc. I hope to share my progression either here or somewhere on these forums, this IS where the experts are at!

The ones you saw may be going to grow on to become much larger. There are other, similar cultivars of the cryptomeria and the spruce. Try looking at more pictures of other varieties to see if anything clicks. In addition to the internet there is the 2-volume Conifers - The Illustrated Encyclopedia from Timber Press as well as a few other conifer picture books that will be on the shelves of college libraries where there is a horticulture program - and other collections strong in garden plant titles.

i would propagate some smaller pieces ... being very aggressive in cleaning them [a much easier job] .. and when those have rooted.. i would get rid of the old monster ... and to be clear ... when they say rinse it with water ... they mean a spray just short of ripping up the tissue ... not just a low pressure rinse .... i suspect they will root easily: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Cordyline+fruticosa&t=ffcm&ia=videos&iax=videos might be interesting to compare how similar the propagation is ... getting a new plant rooted... is changing your very old plant.. into a vibrant new babe ... plus the new media.. etc ... by the time you are done.. you will probably have duplicates to spread all over the family ... or friends .... and.. while i was rooting some cuttings.. i would leave the old plant alone .. until i succeeded with rooting new ones ... btw: besides the webbing.. have you seen any other damage consistent with mites??? .. its called stippling .... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=spider+mite+damage&t=ffcm&iax=images&ia=images ken https://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheet/integrated-pest-management-i-p-m-for-spider-mites/