I got curious about these. I didn't come up with the plumeria orchid but I bet it's not an orchid. Orchid seeds are usually microscopic. You may want to attempt growing the plumeria pudica. It looks interesting. It is also called white frangipani. I linked to a picture for you or anyone who wants to trade with you. Sorry. My two plumerias are small cuttings that have never bloomed. No seeds from me, lol!! Good luck with your trade, Mimi Here is a link that might be useful: Plumeria pudica

The problem is nobody has to spend their money with you, attracting the favor of their custom might be impacted adversely. Ornamental plants is a frivolous expenditure. With taxes, insurance and other obligations seeming unavoidable shoppers aren't likely to appreciate encountering an attitude from nurseries. There are methods being used to identify those who bounce checks etc. When you open for business you have to deal with everybody who pops up and what they might be about, that's just the way it is. The alternative is you are mostly ignored and go out of business - a common experience. A big part of it is a lack of general interest in specialty or unfamiliar goods, for instance I drive by a small Greek "bistro" and a pizza joint next to each other as part of my regular travels. Saturday night the parking lot at the pizza place was bursting, next door there was not one car. Especially if you want to appeal to a niche market you have to shout you are there and may have to bend over backwards to serve those who do respond, rather than try to attach red flags to some of them.

These are hoods designed for top interface with a duct, and look like wall mount hoods. That is, they are not suspended by the ducting or duct covering extensions as island hoods would be. The duct parts may be separate ducts covered by fancy extension pieces, or what we see may actually be a fancy duct. It is hard to determine the details remotely. I don't own this type. Judging from the size, I would think a separate internal duct might be too small. Please keep in mind that showroom kitchens often neglect the engineering aspects of ventilation and throw up whatever looks good, sometimes totally inadequate for the cooking possible on the monster range displayed (for example, the hoods in the photos above are too small and the ducts are too small), and sometimes there is no visible ventilation at all (the classic "poser" kitchen for people who have their meals catered, or have a separate kitchen operated by staff). For various views of hoods and ducting, Wolf has a design guide that may be downloaded, and AJ Madison has a huge collection of images of hoods they sell. There is a finished kitchen website informally associated with the Garden Web's Kitchen Forum that will show and describe various choices people have made. Check out the Broan website, as well as those of more custom sources such as Abbaka, ModernAir, Independent, etc. Anticipate that anything related to ventilation will take a lot longer to resolve than you can possibly imagine. :) kas

Hi Steve. It really does sound like you are trying to discourage people from growing their own citrus when you say things like: "6b "WAY TO FAR NORTH TO BE GROWING CITRUS" Steve" or "The vast amount of people that grow up north quit after a year or 2 when their trees die." In fact, statements like: " "We" are the small handful of citrus tree growers doing well with few troubles." are completely unfounded. Though I respect your opinion that growing citrus was the hardest experience you've ever had, it certainly wasn't for me. Personally I think that shoot tip micropropagation is complex, but not hard. I think that cultivating mycelium for master cultures is time consuming, but not hard. Basically, I think that all of the things you are saying are hard, are in fact easy with a little knowledge, which is the purpose of offering this guide. I don't think that growing citrus is "expensive, time consuming, and difficult". As a matter of fact as hobbies go, I'd say it can be rather cheap! To be clear that it CAN be rather cheap. If you want to spend a million bucks building a theme-park sized greenhouse then go ahead, but you certainly don't need to. If you want to spend $40 a bag on bark chips for your 5-1-1 mix then you can, but you don't have to. If you want to spend a grand on a fertilizer injector for your irrigation system, again you can but you don't have to. I'm sorry that you feel that this hobby is expensive, but I feel that you can keep you hobby on the very cheap side if you want to. That is to say that I managed to keep everything on the cheap side when tropical plants were not a part of my business and were just a hobby. Just for the sake of clarity, when you say that things are difficult to grow outside of their 'temperature zone', are you considering that every houseplant that you come across is being grown out of it's 'zone'. If what you said were entirely true then I don't think that I could grow the orchids, bromeliads, tree ferns and other wacky things that I do. You could even go so far as to say, that because these species are not native, they don't have anywhere as close to as many naturally occurring pests and therefore are EASIER to grow! I would like to encourage positive discussion, so if anybody would like to start a discussion about this elsewhere, please do. I would however like to hear from people who have something positive to contribute to the production of a citrus care guide, here. Thanks for the imput so far everybody. :)