Jessica, if you're going to feed in winter, I suggest at least cutting the dossage way down. If you've any plant books, check out Fertilizing in Winter, especially in cold climates.. The only 2 plants I feed in winter are Hibsicus and African Violets. The hibs and AV's are in south and east/west windows. Plus get some artifical light at night..But I reduce the dossage quite a bit. I also apply Superthrive hormones once a month on all plants. Most of my citrus are in a gh so they get more sun than all my plants put together, but in Oct they get one last feeding until I see new growth. Toni

I think the idea of the light and heat were if they hadn't actually started rooting yet. I normally just use a one gallon black plastic pot like plants come in at home depot. The black seems to hold in the heat, which aids in the rooting process. Best size cutting? I've done em from 3 inches to 3 feet. Of course the ones 3 feet need to be braced up and in a larger pot. I think most cuttings such as are on e-bay are in the 14-20 inch range. I use the 50-50 soil mixture of perlite and cactus mix. I also use root tone with a fungicide in it to help in rooting. No water till you get some leaf growth of appox 5-6 inches. I wish you good luck, and hopefully I've assisted in some small way. John

I'm only going to respond to your non-router questions as I think you should have enough info in those other posts to make a choice. First, when your new computer is set up, plug in the new external drive to make sure it's recognized as part of that new system. It may have backup software already on it, so you could make a backup copy of your new system onto the external drive as your first step. Then, before you transfer any of the photo files, etc., to your new system, you could download and run Malwarebytes on the old computer as a precaution. Once you are sure your old system is clean, you can do your file transfer. Since you can't get your external hard drive recognized with your old computer, you'll have to do something else. If it were me, I'd get a flash drive of 4GB or larger (you can get an 8 GB drive on Amazon for less than $20). Then COPY as big a chunk as possible of those files onto the flash drive (DON'T cut and paste, as you want to leave a backup on your old computer at least until the whole transfer process is done correctly); then plug the flash drive into the new computer and copy the first batch of files to your new computer's hard drive. Then plug the flash drive back in to the old computer, delete all the files on the flash drive only, and reload it with a new chunk of files. Then load these on the new computer. Repeat until they are all loaded on to the new computer. Then, when you've transferred everything, you can copy all of them from the hard drive of the new computer to the external hard drive, which will then be your insurance policy. Second, if you have a 15 month subscription to McAfee, why complicate things? Keep it and run it. You can worry about replacing it with something else like Avast in 15 months. Just supplement it with Malwarebytes, but don't try to run another antivirus program like Avast at the same time. Also, having a router is a different issue from what ZoneAlarm software does for you. If you are running McAfee with its firewall, and occasionally running Malwarebytes, you should be fine. Also, because your knowledge of computers appears somewhat basic, ZoneAlarm may be a little sophisticated for you to make sure you are running it correctly. (I'm not trying to insult you, just trying to keep you adequately protected without making it unnecessarily complicated for you.

There's also a top of page arrow. It's in a grey box in the lower right corner which appears when you've scrolled the links Ann mentioned off the top of the page. If using the back button gives you weird artifacts (which it can do on some browsers), use the arrow and then click "Cooking". Or if your browser gives you an option to make bookmark buttons, you can make a single button that takes you to Cooking and just click that.