Toni: Luke is just a 'mutt', as they say. The best guess is part border collie and part blue-tick hound. We adopted him about 3 years ago from the elderly neighbor lady. She'd been walking him and fell and was hurt. She asked us to just watch him for awhile, but my then 8 y.o. DD really fell for him, and we ended up keeping him (her adult kids advised her to give him up, and she obliged.) It has worked out nicely, as she still gets to visit him, and occasionally he'll wander over there (we live in the country) and she'll have him spend the night....lol...funny! He was probably at least 2-3 years old when we got him, so he'd be 5 or 6 now, but still has a lot of 'puppy' left in him. He weighs about 75 pounds, so not exactly a 'lap dog'! It has been made clear to Luke that he is NOT the alpha-dog...and we humans aren't the ones who clarified the point, if you know what I mean! Harley (the 11 y.o. small dog)tries hard to keep up with Luke..it keeps him 'spry'! Our dogs chew on grass outdoors, but they have never bothered any of the indoor plants in that way - Harley will occasionally bury a treat in a large potted plant (grr) but that's the only way they've ever really bothered my plants. The cats chewed the ends of the leaves of my Beaucarnea but never any other plants. Maybe the dogs just know better than to mess w/Mama's plants?! (I like to think so)(Ã) jasdip...I'm still thinking 'previous cold-damage', but just my opinion....keep us posted!

Hi lindalana! I haven't had much time today to think more about this than last night's post, but there's just a few things. My plants are recovering, but it is from copper sulfate damage, my fault for applying it too late in the morning. So, no mold to be seen but, complete loss of flowering and I've now removed about 20% of the leaves ... the fried ones. Now just adding little of vinegar to peroxide will help? This is the big question and someone else may know the answer from experience. Yes it will help, but how much it will help ... hmmm, not sure because we need to establish our goals first. * how exactly do we plan to use solution? * how much working solution will satisfy our need? * how many ppm of peracetic acid do we need to do that * how long does a mixture of H2O2 + Acetic acid take to produce the peracetic acid *what is the lowest pH our solution can be and not injure plants * what is the ppm of the 2.5 gallon preparation in a working solution, for comparison. I'm thinking 150 ppm to 300 ppm. Foliar like for my mold situation, or to treat seeds .... Where can we get these ppm application rates ... I had no luck with Google. Also, does distilled vinegar contain other chemicals besides acetic acid that are undesirable... My thinking right now is to pour equal volumes of Walmart stuff (WM) 3% peroxide and 5% vinegar and leave them in a dark place for a couple of weeks, then dilute them with de-chlorinated water so it ends up in one part WM vinegar, one part WM H2O2, and two parts water, and immediately apply as the peracetic acid will begin to revert. That might get us into the ball park application rate of 150 ppm peracetic acid, but we need to verify that. I think I saw peracetic acid test strips somewhere, but they were expensive. In order to experiment let's see if we can find a deal on them so we can get some results to interpret. Still, I want to add, it seems peroxide and vinegar from Walmart are less expensive, but actually the reverse is true. Per liter of working solution, we will pay more. If I am not mistaken the concentrated stuff is applied 1:100 (?) and if the shipped cost of 2.5 gallons is $225 for example, that's $90 per gallon. For 100 gallons final solution, that's $0.90 per gallon. If we do a quart of peroxide and a quart of vinegar, it will cost more than that and likely be enriched in vinegar and H2O2 at the expense of lower peracetic acid because of all the water in the Walmart concentrate we make. Now, if I wanted this stuff, observing flawless safety practice, I would find a local source of "food grade peroxide" which properly nabbed should be $25 a gallon to go and pick it up ... just where to find it...and, I would buy a liter of glacial acetic acid for about $20, much cheaper if I didn't order it online and had some locally. That would make my cost under $75 for the $225 approx commercial product. Alternately, we could concentrate the peroxide and acetic acid from WM to an intermediate strength and probably get much better results. But that is a very wasteful thing to do at home, a little dangerous, and unless we assay what we get, difficult to be sure of the home prepared WM stuff we concentrate. As it is, even if we can just mix the two WM as is, it is per gallon working solution much more expensive even than the commercial product, which itself is triple the concentrate cost made from food grade 35% peroxide and glacial. Lots of possibilities floating around here but we need to get back to the basics which could advance this. They are to determine the ppm peracetic acid we require and seeing if we can get cheap peracetic test strips somewhere. Also, can we get a better MSDS on the ready to use Oxidate and especially know the pH of that stuff as sold. The benefit of the commercial product is getting the correct application rate by mixing according to directions, and with a home brew, we need to know the ppm and reproducibly make it on demand. Until we get that we have no way of optimizing except by trial and error with the plants. If someone else has done that would save a lot of work! People who work in plant labs might know these ppms off the top of their heads. Thoughts? PC This post was edited by PupillaCharites on Thu, Sep 4, 14 at 12:30

Glass may not be hot but it can act like a magnifying lens when the sun is hitting it directly. Normally it is not an issue. You probably shouldn't see roots out the bottom unless you are bottom watering. If the bottom stays too wet then roots will rot in that zone. You might unpot it and look at the roots to see why they aren't growing to fill the pot. Here are some cane cuttings from last year. You can see the roots are extending to the bottom. I used cheap clear drinking cups (12 or 16 oz)

Happy Memorial Day holiday to everyone - hope you are able to enjoy your gardens this beautiful holiday!! noid peony & Loreley iris: White siberian look like birds flying amongst the perennial purple lupine: Pink Knockout Rose starting to bloom: Super dark noid purple TB iris, pink knockout, & baptisia in backgroud: 'Miss America' side blooms now opening: "Pink Luau" peony (planted 10/2017 - from Peonys Envy): noid peony: 'Pink Hawaiian Coral" - thank you, GW friend! (and you were right, it did indeed bloom its first year!) Coral Charm - bought 10/2017 from Paradise Gardens: