The kernels of corn ARE the next generation. Say your're growing varities A & B. If they are right next to each other, on plant A, some kernels will be A x A, because it pollinated itself, and some will be A x B, because they were pollinated by B's pollen. B will have a mix of B x B and B x A kernels. Now, it may be hard to tell these apart, or it may be easy. Depends on what visual traits each parent has. Or other traits. You will generally be alright as long as you keep within the same class -- it's ok to plant two su corns togther, two se corns, of two Sh2 corn. It's when you mix between the two that you could potentially get undesirable outcomes, such as very tough, starchy kernels.

Thanks for the info. about your estimates. We understand that buying wood flooring online is not for everyone even though if using common sense and in-depth researches, it can save quite some for similar quality products found locally. By the way, you have done a great job noticing the confusing facts in wood flooring business. Now let's talk about you 2 flooring quotes: Acacia Walnut is from Asia and has a 2300 janka rating. It has similar grain patterns to American walnut which is 1010 in Janka rating. It is one of the few hot colored and inexpensive wood floorings on market now. We stock the solid moldings for the floor. But for vents, treads and risers, we would prefer to use unfinished American walnut and then stain match the Acacia color. So if you decide to go with the first quote, you may consider to have your installer do the same for your 30 stairs. The cost for unfinished walnut should be quite some more than Oak, but still affordable. $60 installation per step is fair to us. The second quote with Walnut is still fair to me. $7.41/sqft RW walnut is a reasonable price with a 3mm wear layer. $4.33 to install RW flooring is not too much either in this business. It is also about right to install a prefinished Walnut tread and white riser at $190. So to conclude, a lot of it has to do with sourcing and the type of business you are dealing with.

My Exif viewer tells me all...I just wish it would tell me the lottery numbers. http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/index.html Syd- f/(x) = Aperture 1/(x) = Shutter speed ExpComp = Exposure Compensation --"The camera's metering system will sometimes determine the wrong exposure value needed to correctly expose the image. This can be corrected by the "EV Compensation" feature found in prosumer and professional cameras. Typically the EV compensation ranges from -2.0 EV to +2.0 EV with adjustments in steps of 0.5 or 0.3 EV. Some digital SLRs have wider EV compensation ranges, e.g. from -5.0 EV to +5.0 EV. It is important to understand that increasing the EV compensation by 1 is equivalent to reducing EV by 1 and will therefore double the amount of light. For instance if the camera's automatic mode determined you should be using an aperture of f/8 and a shutterspeed of 1/125s at ISO 100 (13 EV) and the resulting image appears underexposed (e.g. by looking at the histogram), applying a +1.0 EV exposure compensation will cause the camera to use a shutterspeed of 1/60s or an aperture of f/5.6 to allow for more light (12 EV). Of course, as you become more familiar with your camera's metering system, you can already apply an EV compensation before the shooting. For instance if your camera tends to clip highlights and you are shooting a scene with bright clouds, you may want to set the EV compensation to -0.3 or -0.7 EV." (http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Glossary/Exposure/Exposure_Compensation_01.htm) Good Day! Joe

granite girl, if you read the business terms (which you see every time you post) you will see that your link is in violation of those terms and considered spam. Your thoughts may have great value, and it's nice to see another professional share their experiences but no in the form of SPAM and not at the cost of violating GW's rules. Other posters have lost access to GW for the same thing. Now back to the real topic...No, I wouldn't do the same counter top in two different finishes. As Palimp says (a professional as well so she might even know something heh heh) it's most likely going to look like an accident or just really bad design. I certainly understand what you're trying to accomplish, but if you're going to use different surface types, I'd do a totally different color as well so it looks like a good design plan, verses a bad one.