Brix studies are highly controversial...especially those dealing with tomatoes. If you're going to compare supermarket ethylene ripened toms to plant ripened toms you're going to get skewed brix results...the plants simply do it better than forcing the ripening, and it does have to do with better micronutrient availability. That said, there's a lot of high brix/low acid testing brix advocates that want people to put a foolish amount of micronutrients in their soil rather than building a soil structure/quality that can better hold and exchange micronutrients. There's a big industry building around selling people extremely expensive bags of micronutrients the past decade which wash their way through the soil profile and/or are over-amended to make up for poor soil. Build your soil quality (holding/exchange capability), apply less, benefit more. They're micronutrients...you don't need a lot, you just need them to hang around. This post was edited by nc-crn on Fri, Dec 28, 12 at 16:21

O how can I forget, lol..was this supposed to add to the confusion or end it, cuz the page is blank for me, lmao. Edna, you're such a dear heart :) That's interesting, that's how all my ones marked CG seem to be. so maybe they are indeed Dr. Seuss'. o who knows. I'll prob wind up tagging them as NOID's. How did you find that page? I tried to find it through BGI, but can't find that same page..

I have to say that my Dr. Seuss is only now near blooming, and I wonder if it's just a matter of being a big feeder , since it was a good sized plant already when moved outdoors here in Michigan for the summer. It was "too" late last year as well, and dropped buds after bringing it indoors for the winter last year. After spending about five days indoors in gloomy light , it finally warmed today, and to my dismay , both my brugs were dropping many leaves and buds from the low light , so back outdoors they went. I guess from the sudden low light after being out in more sun all summer the sudden low light indoors was a shock Anyway, since I can't safely move them out til early June here, they'll have to start blooming much earlier for me to appreciate them. That late blooming here won't cut it with our short summers.

OA, Very clever table and poem. It takes a lot of word smithing to create poetry like Dr. Seuss. I truly appreciate your effort. When I was teaching, the seniors chose the faculty speaker for graduation and I was the chosen speaker for the class of 2005. I used Dr. Seuss as an example of someone who persevered (Mulberry St. was turned down by 27 different publishers before he found someone who gave him his start!) and I did the rest of the speech in his type of rhyme scheme. I received a number of compliments about it being not the "usual" boring graduation speech. Anyway, I am not trying to hijack your post, but just let you know I understand how much effort went into your table and poem. Great imagination on your part for the tablecloth, utensils, and all the rest. Theodore would have been proud! TFS, Candy