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Comments (21)Sansevieria are supposed to be summer-dormant plants, i.e., they do most of their growing in fall, spring, and winter as an adaptation to the harsh summer conditions in their native habitat. Changes in day or night length are the normal triggers to go in or out of dormancy (and to flower, etc.) However, despite this scientific fact, I read a lot about people's Sans growing the most during the summer (or at least spring and fall). My hypothesis is that cool in-home temperatures slow down the chemical reactions and biological processes of heat-loving Sans so much that they are unable to grow during their normal, natural growing period when kept as potted house plants, and that's why so many people report the greatest growth during the warmer months of the year. A rhizome is just an underground stem. Pups are just leaves on an underground stem, or new "branch", so that's how you can treat them. With most Sans, the whole plant is underground except the leaves. You might be able to deal with the water-retentive media by watering with a high pressure squirt bottle. Some people here are going to hiss at me, but it's a "cheater's" method for keeping moisture-intolerant plants healthy in water-retentive soil. I've kept plants that way for years. Get a squirt bottle or squirt gun with a very strong single stream (those squirt ends for outdoor herbacides and pesticides are good - cleaned WELL of course). Place the tip on the soil, point it down toward the roots, and fire. Do it all around the plant so there are roughly evenly spaced wet streaks in the otherwise pretty dry soil. If the stream is good enough, it'll squirt several inches into the medium. This prevents the dreaded "perched water" near the bottom of the pot where rot usually starts. In media like peat, those wet streaks inside the pot disperse into damp columns. If you pay attention, you can alter your shots each watering so you do dampen almost all the soil over several weeks so it is never all wet at the same time, but every part gets damp at different times. It is an excellent method for the hopeless over-waterer who just can't resist the urge to give a plant a drink. You get to mess with your plant all the time without killing it. You can even squirt a little water up through the drain holes, or with plastic pots, you can stick holes in the side with a hot nail just for this purpose. It works. You CAN even over-water with this method, but you're less likely too. Don't tell on me, but I'm maintaining several plants this way right now....See MoreWeird 3-way switches
Comments (4)Yeah. They don't (have labeled positions), and they are (supposed to be) 3 way switches. Saying "on" and "off" in this case doesn't mean a particular switch position, it just means toggling it. Both sets of switches have specific positions that the one switch must be in for the other to work, but I didn't bother to write that down exactly. I CAN, if you think that will help - but I'm pretty sure its not germane. @Fred - I don't quite understand your schematics. I'm guessing the black lines represent the "hot" line - but what's the purple line? There are 2 traveler wires in addition to "hot" but I don't see where to attach those nor what wires coming out of the wall are supposed to go where. What I do know about 3 way switches is the live wire is supposed to go to one place on the switch - I THINK that used to be labeled "common"? And then the 2 traveler wires go elsewhere. Elsewhere being a nebulous term that merely means I know they're supposed to be wired into the switch somewhere other than where the live wire goes. I've read some stuff about how to determine which wire is which, but it requires turning the breaker back on so you have live wires and can test with a multimeter. Makes me nervous. I may have to do that anyway, given this is not a situation where you have a correctly wired switch and you're just replacing it. Thanks....See MoreHas The COVID Crisis Aged You?
Comments (43)I think I aged a little more when I looked on my phone this morning and saw that there were 100 active emergency calls handled by my city's EMTs and fire. There were three lift assist calls, one alarm, five facility transfers, one fire but the rest were listed as medical emergencies. It is a repeat of last March and April when surrounding towns were assisting in calls because there were too many for the local company to handle. Knowing that it will become much worse is very stressful. I understand that people wait until morning to see if they are feeling better before either going to an emergency room or calling and ambulance but if anyone on here does not feel well do not wait. Wasting time may be the difference if you live, die, or are severely impaired....See MoreQueen Elizabeth has been infected with the Covid
Comments (61)Bluebell, I am truly sorry for your loss. Certainly did not mean to be rude-actually just the opposite, but in the way I wrote my comment I can see why you thought that. I am sorry. I am very concerned and interested because, Woodrose is right, there are many concerns with the way Remdesivir is being used on patients right now. If it is not used in the beginning, it can do harm. More and more info is coming out about it. However, you did post medical information in that, he was vaccinated and died of Covid-on the internet. So, my asking that didn't seem any more intrusive than what you stated already, but I did not come across very well, you are right. I guess I was just doing a little personal research due to a situation my best friend had recently. My best friend's husband, 10 years her senior, was in ICU for Covid last month and made it home finally, and the doctors were wanting to give him Remdesivir and she told them no way, because he had already had Covid for about two weeks at that point. She probably saved his life-from the doctors who wanted to give him Remdesivir after waiting too long at that point to where it could do harm. edited...See MoreUser
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