You can also Google the common name and then click on 'images' to see a zillion pictures from all kinds of websites. When you look at the web address for the images, you can tell right away if it's an 'edu' site (usually contain good cultural information), a catalog (great for pictures as well as information), or something less than helpful.

Assuming you do have a very sharp draining soil as strongly suggested for the jade plant and as sharp for flap jacks some ideas would be a little different but both these plants have the same principles Jades do make good easy and sometimes fast recoveries as there almost indestructible. As suggested make sure the sifted soil is also very fast and sharp draining. Adding more time over a couple weeks to a month transition the jade from more indirect sun or partly shaded toward more time in direct sun and higher temps. During the initial weeks bring both plants inside if temps are to be lower 50's Weekly watering is one persons normal for there jades and would be a very good idea for you for the recovery time and perhaps this whole growing season but any jade as any Crassula can survive several weeks with out water. Let the plant recover soon you should be able to know when to flush the container with water by the leaves of the jade Generally if the foliage starts to look wrinkly then water if plump then hold back on watering. Like most a good goal is to not see any wrinkling at all on jades. I'm not at all certain why a wooden dowel is being suggested to figure out when to water or not water a succulent plant of any type. Of the succulents I have that grow in the sharp enough media for them to grow well in a wooden dowel wouldn't even make it into the container with out risking disturbing the roots or the media it's self. There are (in my opinion) much better tells for watering succulent plants than a wooden stick knocking things out and about a container that I'm trying to keep in.

Thanks Purple, Rhizo & StonesR (Linda), So Teen, Just in case you missed in at the very bottom of the Backmans's website (for which Purple kindly provided the link) it says: "@Bachman's 2008" That's a copyright mark which basically means one may not use this material w/out prior permission. The act of doing so is called copyright infringement. It is customary to credit other people's writing when quoted directly like that, just common courtesy & giving credit where credit is due. Also, TeenG, did it ever occur to you the quoted materials may not be (1) accurate or (b) true? Just 'cause someone says it, or writes it or it's on the Internet doesn't mean it's true, accurate or current. Pls. give this more thought. As an aside for the future TeenG, a relative of mine is a college professor & she warns students on the 1st day of class that plagiarism will not be tolerated & students caught doing so will be expelled from class. She has had students' parents call to dispute this w/ her (college age kids' parents, yikes) & she will not even discuss it, just passes it on to the Dean.

Yeah, mozilla is not used as much. I think they target IE because of it's wider usage. Diggery - One more thing to try is- * Click on "tools" in the upper right corner. * Click on the "Pop Up Blocker". * Click on "Pop Up Blocker Settings" * When the window opens, look all the way at the bottom and there will be a drop down menu for the "Blocking Level". * I think default is "medium". Change it to "High" and see if that helps. Of course if it is on "low", then use "medium" and that should help. If that doesn't work you need to remove the spyware application on your computer. There is software that can do it for you, or do a search on how to do it yourself from a university or computer geek forum. I understand your frustration with the pop up's. I can't stand them. With me, I get a negative relation with the product. So if I see it on the store shelf, I think " those are the _______'s that are so annoying to me when I'm trying to do something on the internet. Why would I use there _________?" (Fill in the blanks with your favorite choice of words)