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Comments (10)Interesting problem, bananafan... I'm going to take a stab at this problem...the real question is how long the grass will survive (and sustain normal growth/reproduction) without new micronutrients being added to the system. List of plant essential nutrients (and their needed values in the average plant)+ sources in this system: C = 450,000 ppm from c02 in atmosphere H = 60,000 ppm from photosynthetic water splitting O = 450,000 ppm from photosynthetic water splitting P = 2,000 ppm Present in rock K = 10,000 ppm Present in rock N = 15,000 ppm From rainwater produced by an ionizing storm S = 1,000 ppm from air pollutants resulting from burning of fossil fuels Ca = 5,000 ppm common in dolomitic limestone Mg = 2000 ppm common in dolomitic limestone All of these are needed in very small amounts, and their absence may not become apparent until late in the plant's lifecycle: (Also, all are present in small degrees in rock) Fe = 100 ppm Mo = 0.1 ppm B = 20 ppm Cu = 6 ppm Mn = 50 ppm Zn = 20 ppm Cl = 100 ppm Grass is a monocotyledon and thus reenforces it's cellwalls with silica...which is also common in silicate rocks. I hope I'm on the right track...unless this is a trick question?...See MoreAny tricks for getting copper lily to thrive?
Comments (26)Yes, I was glad for the smaller size... amazing the options out there once you know what to search for. Similar cost to the paper or Ziploc sacks I'm currently using - and less than the small special order seed bags in retail quantities. We've used our old red or brown produce mesh sacks for bulbs, but now can have organza in a variety of sizes and almost any color of the rainbow - may rock at the next swap :-D Back on topic, I'm still wondering how copper lilies manage to produce enough energy to survive. The leaves seem to appear for very short periods once they start blooming at maturity - that's what makes it so tough to know how they're doing (or where they even are). The grass-like foliage that persisted over the 2.5+ years with the potted juvenile plants from germination to first bloom is now dying off, so seems to be starting this adult cycle of appearing and disappearing - more like a spider than a rain lily. A vendor I don't remember seeing when we bought ours back in 2012 says they take 5 years to get established and spread... so, may have a year to go before judging how the ones from 2012 are actually naturalizing in our clay....See MoreAny funny/interesting Halloween stories?
Comments (3)We have an eight foot Grim Reaper dressed completely in black, skull face with black hood, huge green hands, one holding whatever that thing is called that grim reapers hold, not an axe, under the clothes he is made of PVC pipe, so when the wind blows even just a little, it sways and this just makes him that much creepier. We put him out in our yard every year-me and my sister are both small enough to fit inside this thing and manipulate the arms and we have a ball with this every year. One of us will get inside and when the kids come up we shake the heck out of the Reaper from inside and say in a scary voice 'give me your candy kid' Some get scared, some think it is funny, and then the pre teen crowd just does their normal thing-look at it with a disgusted look and say 'whatever' The kids in the neighborhood have come to expect this every year-they bring friends over to see it. We have a blast with it. We laugh so hard while doing this year after year, you would think we would grow up but what fun would that be....See MoreAny funny things happen on Christmas Day where you were?
Comments (21)Your poor mom--she sounds like a hoot, though. Guess the only funny thing was my sister's adopted dd who kept asking to see my other niece's ring. This ring was among my mom's things when we were cleaning out her apt after she died on Thanksgiving. It was beautiful, and obviously a 'good' ring (diamond set in a beautiful filigree of white 18 gold), so we gave it to my one niece who was the closest to her. So anyway, the other niece kept saying stuff like, "Oh, I saw you wearing that at the funeral. It's so beautiful. I just love that ring. I always remember Mom Mom wearing it and loved seeing her in it" and so forth and so on. Here's the funny part--NO ONE in the family had EVER seen this ring before we found it among mom's stuff. Mom only wore yellow or preferably rose gold, never white gold. And the really funny part of this story? The ring is a size 4.75 (and fits my dainty niece perfectly) but my mom's ring finger was a size NINE--she couldn't have put this ring on with a shoe horn and a jack hammer--LOL! Well, fortunately, the niece wearing it, didn't take the bait, and kept it on her finger. She's the one who was truly the closest to my mom and deserved this beautiful antique ring. I actually had it checked out and cleaned before I gave it to her. It's an antique setting, the diamond is a specific cut that had to be done either the late 1800's or the very first few years of 1900. The setting, I was told, would have been made in the 1910's, definitely before 1920. Our best guess is it probably belonged to mom's mother--who, from all reports, was a tiny little thing. Anyway, that was about as funny as it got yesterday--unless you count the moment when I unwrapped a present that looked like a sculpture made of driftwood, and didn't realize that it was a birdhouse. Think I hurt my sister's feelings, but the opening for the birds to use was so well hidden, that it was hard to figure that out. Hope the birds can find how to get into it....See More- 7 years ago
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