It only takes minutes after application for soluble fertilizers to make their way into the plant's nutrient stream. Many nutrients need to be in the nutrient stream constantly for the plant to grow normally. Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium are considered mobile nutrients and are readily borrowed from one plant part to sustain other parts, particularly strong sinks like new growth o flowers/fruit. Calcium and boron are usually considered immobile nutrients, and need to be in the nutrient stream at all times for normal growth to occur. Sulfur, chloride, copper, zinc, manganese, iron and molybdenum are intermediate in mobility, and only under certain circumstances are intermediate elements mobile. The mobility of the intermediate mobile nutrients is usually linked to the breakdown of amino acids and proteins in older parts of the plant under low nitrogen conditions and their movement to younger parts of the plant via the phloem stream. Again though, unless nitrogen availability is good, these elements are mostly immobile. That it rains doesn't mean all the fertilizer you applied is washed from the soil. Elements attach themselves to colloidal surfaces and tend to remain there to some degree until they are exchanged. Cation exchange in soils occurs when root hairs utilize proton pumps to pump hydrogen ions (H+) into the soil. The hydrogen ions effectively displace the cations that are attached to negatively charged colloidal surfaces, making the cations available then for root uptake and incorporation into the nutrient stream. AL

The first time the tech came, he thought that the freezer was in refrigerator mode and he reset it (I was dubious because it wasn't as cold as a fridge either). The next day, the temp was still about 48 degrees so another service call was scheduled for two days later. The same tech came out and with the help of the installer (who happened to be there installing the fridge), it was determined that the door switch was defective. The switch was taped down and now the freezer is cold and making ice while we wait for the new switch to come in. Hopefully that's what it is. I'm a little worried that it's not the switch, but the door not closing properly and therefore not engaging the switch. We'll find out next week. Fingers crossed.

alisande, I'll have to admit, as the new information comes to light, it does raise some questions in my thinking. However, from what you describe so far, I suspect you are ok for the moment. Your original problem seems to have been air in the system as the others described. However, and only going by your description and no technical data, it did appear to take more time to bring the water to a temperature you were satisfied with. After you readjusted the thermostat it appeared to be more to your liking. My conclusion is, your cousin didn't run the water temperature as high as you do. Maybe he has kids he doesn't want to scald themselves, maybe it was to save energy, whatever his reasons. A 50 gallon tank is a pretty good sized tank for 1 person and I think if you kept the temp around 115-120 degrees, you wouldn't run out of hot water if everything is working fine. But again, there are good reasons to run the temp. higher. My advice at this point pretty much follows your line of thinking. If everything is to your satisfaction, there's nothing to fix. Let us know if anything new develops, the more information you can give up front, the better answers you will get. I think most of the folks here gave you enough info. that you know several areas to look or have someone to look at to do some trouble shooting before blowing the whistle. You'll eventually be the hot water expert in your area. As for Iris, there are 3 reasons for the tag. Making a living these days requires a job and as many hustles as one can handle. 1-I grow approx. 3 acres of rare types of Bearded Iris. Many get sold, many get processed for the perfume industry and many get processed as medicinal Oris Root. Motion photography and filming is another area of endeavor. Someone touched on another area in one of the forums so I figured they must have known me. Now of course there is no way for me to spend full time in all these areas and my profession also so others now actually work them. I just usually pi$$ them off from time to time when I come around and start playing with stuff since to me, these are hobbies.

Hi, Jasmina should go from that size to about 4 feet tall in one season. You will have a good size climber in the second year. When you plant be sure to amend the soil with a good amount of compost and put some additional slow release fertilizer in the soil you use to fill in the whole. Don't let more than 2 canes grow up until after the first year - clip off any new canes to encourage all of the growth into the 2 canes. I would also recommend that you mulch the rose and be sure that the moisture level is good all summer. next year let another one or two canes grown from the soil level. I have 3 year old Jasmina own root roses that are a very nice size. Jasmina blooms on new wood so you should see blooms this year. It does make a very nice own root climber - strong and eventually as good of size as a a budded rose. Also it should be quite cold hardy in your zone. Please let Edmund's know how you feel. I noticed that this year they did not always make clear what they were shipping -bare root or a potted young rose plant. This is a photo taken this spring of a 2 year old Jasmina (it will be 3 years old in about 2 months) on a 4.5' tall fence. I planted it from a pot smaller than you just received.