There could be a few things happening here. New shoots don't develop roots until they are about half way developed. So if last years p bulbs look weak and shriveled they have less energy to put to the new growth. Normally the new p bulb will swell and break the sheath open, yours looks stunted so the sheath never opened which then traps water which leads to rot. If last years growth looks healthy my guess would be to cold and/or damp. If last years growth looks weak my guess is not enough light and /or potting issue. I would peel open those sheaths to let them dry out. That new groth will likely break off or is already rotten and will fall off anyway. You should see what would have been the p buld curled up in side.

heck I would just quit using photobucket and start using one of the many many other free sites that are better than photobucket and have no limits. If you have pics already on then then use your daughters pc to move them from photobucket to the other hosting site. ok just noticed in all of this you have not told us what browser you are using to try to access you photobucket account, if you do not have firefox go get firefox and try it using that browser and see if you can do it that way. Let us know what browser you are using, the photobucket site may have somehow got put in your restricted list on the browser, we have to know which one to tell you how to look. Get firefox. super easy to do just download it and follow the install wizard, when it ask if you want to import your settings and bookmarks from IE say yes to all of that, you do not have to make it the default browser, the first time you open firefox it will take you to the firefox home page to let you know it downloaded properly, after that it will open to what ever was your home page on IE. Just a thought do you have all of your flash updated? I mentioned to you in the other thread you have on here about using the secunia tool to make sure you have everything else on your pc up to date since you said you had not updated java in years, if you have not updated flash and other stuff you can have problems and it makes you wide open to infections, go run that scan and make sure you have everything up to date!! and I would definitely run a malwarebytes free scan too, I gave you that info on the other thread also. Leaving a pc with out it's updates is very dangerous. Here is a link that might be useful: firefox

Thanks! I'm kind of ambivalent about starting a thread on this.* But that's not why I posted them, I'm having tech issues. I sent these pics to my prospective builder, as jpegs in-line in an email, and they appear to him as large black blocks. When he clicks on them, nothing happens. But I can see them in my "sent" email, and when I click on them, they open in a new, larger window. And of course, all of you seem to see the pics just fine. So I don't know what's going on. I can't seem to receive any emails from him either, even though I receive other emails. I suspect my earthlink and his yahoo are having some sort of security issues with each other, but I'm still researching. * ETA: I'm not sure I'm up for a full-blown design feedback thread right now, although I surely appreciate the kind words very much. It takes a lot of energy, and at the moment all heck has suddenly broken out here at scone central. Can I say maybe later on that? And I've already promised to start another thread, although I can't remember what it was supposed to be about! Brain not work. Oooh, hang on, I just had a coherent thought for once! I'm going to send these jpegs to my DH at work, and see if he has the same problem the builder is having. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ETA: I just got an email from DH saying he thinks he's fixed it. Here's what he says, in case anyone runs into this issue: Your email problem should now be fixed. There was a configuration problem on your account – there was a forward to “loop”. My old yahoo accounts seem to have gone away so I can’t test by sending from one of those. I have also upgraded the amount of storage you get on the server so that there won’t be any problem even sending/receiving really big files. scone here. Hopefully that gets the job done. It's odd, though, because Houzz didn't have any problem with the size of these files. I have no idea what "forward to loop" means.

I'm starting to wonder if this is houzz's attempt to coerce us into using their 'houzz photo' feature, which apparently will make all of your uploaded photos appear under your profile.