To torture or not to torture
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Please take a look at my tortured Jade cuttings! Next Step?
Comments (6)I think they're totally salvageable. The leaves are still green, and they've still got roots. Many moons ago, I also rooted jades in water and stuck them in MG water control soil. And in spite of doing it all wrong, they lived. Thrived, even. Who knows how. If you're new to this, you probably don't want to jump in to mixing the gritty mix so many of the gorgeous succulents you see here are growing in. I have 40+ plants, and as much as I'd like to start putting my plants in a good gravelly mix, I just use bagged soil. At the very least, go get a bag of cactus mix. If you can, buy the perlite, too, and mix it half and half. It makes a big difference. Put the cuttings in about an inch. They probably won't stand up on their own, I use the take-out chopsticks you get from the sushi joint, or a bamboo skewer, just stick it in the soil next to the cutting to help support it. Don't water for a few days, and then very lightly the first time. Depending on how fast the soil dries out where you are, water lightly about once a week (every 10 days in winter). Some people water deeply every two weeks ... I don't like the way they look when watered that way. Good luck!...See Moretorturing the uglies skylands
Comments (6)joy long before you ever came to GW .. i used to post pix.. every year.. of the worlds ugliest [god i hate title typos] ... ugliest skylands ... this thing has had a hard life... and simply not thrived ... though as the stuff surrounding it has grown.. it actually looks like it is achieving some vigor .... i bet it is getting that micro climate.. that is requisite with this plant... in my z5 .. [winter wind and winter sun is my guess] ken...See MoreChoosing a paint color is akin to torture
Comments (18)When going from a sample to a room, I have generally found that... A light color will generally look darker on the wall, or maybe more accurately, it becomes easier to see the color (or differentiate it from white) over a large area. My living room is a gray-blue and the little dot of paint they put on top of the can is indistinguishable from white. But on the wall, it's really quite blue. To my eye, dark colors generally look lighter on the wall than they do in a small sample. Grayed out out colors look more colorful on the wall than in the sample. Undertones that eluded me on a 2"x2" card become obvious on a 10'x10' wall. My tactic for choosing paint is to start with lots and lots of little 2x2 squares is colors that I think are in the ballpark taped to the wall. I look at them at different times of day, and every time I do I remove the ones I like the least. Then maybe I move what's left to a different wall and repeat the process. When I've winnowed it down, then it's time to actually apply samples to the wall. In my dining room, I got down to 4 or 5 browns that I thought would all be fine, and randomly picked one. In other rooms I had a clear favorite....See MoreRange hood selection torture
Comments (43)Lumine: The function of cooking ventilation is to capture and contain grease particles in the air along with water vapor and odor. The ducting and blower remove those components that do not get collected on the baffles or mesh filters or walls of the VAH blower unit. Smoke, odor, and smaller parts of the grease aerosol spectrum are usually blown into the atmosphere. It is the large particles that are collected. Different types and temperatures of cooking make the balance of these components different. No filter can collect everything, and in commercial settings is not usually expected to. In extreme cases, intense UV is used to breakdown the components of the exhausted effluent. Note that the hood system does not suck up effluent from the burners. It captures rising effluent (which can move at 3 ft/s if hot enough) and pulls it though the baffles or whatever. If the effluent, which expands as it rises, misses being captured, it distributes itself in the room or house and some will settle out on the walls and furniture. The part that remains in the air will slowly be removed by the hood's operation replacing house air. Hood system blowers can be in the hood, in series with the duct, or on the roof. Silencers only silence what is beyond them relative to the cook. So they work with in-line and roof blowers, not in-hood blowers. Exterior noise from roof fans is usually modest. I have to deliberately listen to hear my 1500 CFM roof unit from locations in the yard during a typical day. It might be more noticeable on a very quiet night with no traffic noise within a mile or so. However, I live in NH, not CA, and don't have neighbors' windows closer than perhaps 75 feet from the blower location on the roof. kas...See MorePagan
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