I have a friend who sold stems of Johnson Grass at the Farmer's Market in her cut flowers. She ran out of blooms in her garden so she picked wild flowers and grasses. LOL. There is always someone willing to buy anything. You could probably get 50 cents a piece for those.

It's important to realize that it's the green part of the plant that makes energy through photosynthesis. Therefore, the green leaves and shoots are the most vigorous and the variegated ones grow more slowly. Often, when you try to root variegated stems, they won't root, or die shortly after they do. This happens especially if the shoot was completely white. The only thing I have ever read you can do about reversions (all green) is to keep cutting them off. That way they aren't competing with the variegates and, of course, don't become a distraction to the beauty of the plant. I love both Frosty Morn and Mediovariegata (the green and yellow form). I just wish they didn't lose their leaves and look so "nekkid" in the hot summertime. I cut them back and cut them back them back, but it doesn't help much. I always threaten to get rid of them this time of year, but they are soooo beautiful in the spring!

JB the S. rubro, and Mr. Prickles the Huernia Zebrina are my favorites and they know it! They're just so cute, and succulent! The Superthrive was for repotting the VFT's, and I've read of a lot of people who have foliar fed with Superthrive on Nepenthes, so I mixed 2 drops in my spray bottle and misted them. I figured I'd be good enough for the other plants because on the back of the package, though not the bottle, it says "...or try fine-spraying under-surface of leaves" JB is the only one to have dried out. I usually water well and infrequently, but it had been a while since the last watering, but not long enough to warrant a full watering and I was insitent on neeming then for some reason. I was worried it would dehydrate my jellybeans, so my solution was a light watering. My solution failed. The 4 inch estimate of the jellybean strand was a guess. I am sure it is the length of 1 1/2 Bic lighters, because I have 50 million strewn about my room and it was the first thing I grabbed that had a distinct length I could compare things to. As a side note, this picture was taken a few months ago, before the neeming, superthriving, and the dissapearance of light from my window, I might have to suck it up and put him outside. He hasn't been on the balcony since I caught a big fat black mean raven pulling his jellybeans off. Seriously, I walked outside and i saw a raven pulling his jellybeans off, for no reason! Oh and another side note, is he ever going to bloom!? I know the answer will be give him more light, as it always is, but what season do they typically bloom in? Mr. Prickles blooms all the time. Thanks, Bob Here is a link that might be useful:

Gee, I don't remember posting in the Organic Gardening or Organic Lawncare section of Gardenweb. But since you have to push your unwanted beliefs and criticisms on everyone: I do do research. I do know exactly what plants I am treating and exactly what problem I am treating. In this one case, since I haven't encountered it before, I don't know the difference between downy and powdery mildew. I'm not an expert on mildews. I do what is safe. Would I prefer to use a chemical, that has the POTENTIAL to be dangerous when used incorrectly, to save a plant instead of having it die? Yes. I absolutely would. Would I use it correctly? Yes. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how to read a label and to follow the directions. Would I prefer to use something that has been PROVEN to work, instead of wasting my valuable time and money on things that haven't been proven? I definably would use what has been proven to work instead of things that "might" or "maybe" or "probably" would work. And I certainly don't need you or other people telling me how to garden on my own private property and on my own plants. And it is private, I have many acres all to myself with no one else around. I've done more for this environment in my short life than many people have done over a long lifetime. Don't you dare preach to me about how to treat the environment when I've put actual blood, sweat and tears into it. I don't play in to this whole organic nonsense when what makes the organic list is constantly being changed around due to pressure the big growers place on the politicians due to what they can afford or not. The truth of the matter is that companies who say that they're organic are usually stretching the truth because they know that placing that one magic word on their label is going to have gullible people flocking to their product. And those gullible people are going to feel smug, self satisfied and proud of themselves because they spent the extra money to buy that product, even though they're driving to work in their big cars, they're cutting down trees to have lawns, they encourage organic farms that have compost running into natural water ways, (which is just as dangerous as synthetic fertilizers) and all the other selfish things that they conveniently forgot about, or is made okay by their purchasing organic products as a trade off. And they just love to shake their heads in disapproval at the people who can't afford to pay the extra money for that product with the organic label. It's disgusting that those people think that people who can't afford to buy special organic products don't care about the environment. My 6th grade science teacher who was constantly trying to get her students interested in the environment so they'll learn to care about it can't afford to buy a $5 bag of organic vegetables when the non-organic bags are just $3. Especially when she sacrificed her cost of living increase for the kids and especially when she's feeding a family of five. The wildlife rehabilitator that I've worked side by side with can't afford to shop at Roots and those other specialty organic shops. All her salary and any change goes straight to helping the animals. And many of those great organic products have been recalled or should be recalled because they're so dangerous. Just like, you guessed it, non-organic products. Get over yourself.