I have a question about the juicing "coconut pulp". Is this from coconuts that are brown and have no fiber around them? The fiber around coconuts is called coconut coir and worms love it as a bedding material. It is often called for to replace peat moss which some feel is not an ecological choice. Others feel coir is not an ecological choice due to transportation distance. But have you ever seen young coconut in the store? It is white and pointy. When opened they are filled with coconut water and a thin coating of coconut which is still soft inside like yogurt. The white material outside of the shell is a 1/2 inch layer of coconut coir and it will over time turn brown. If the shell is put into a worm bin, eventually the coir will fall off of the shell. It holds a lot of water and also air spaces. Worms love it. It is bedding. And you get to drink coconut water and eat young coconut or coconut 'yogurt'.

Sometimes it is more than just memory creating issues with downloading and buffering. Not too sure what you ADM 2.16 is but guessing it is the processor speed. Not too fast and with added memory and expense will still not be too fast. Any new memory bought for this computer cannot be migrated to a newer machine later on, yours is possibly DDR1 - maybe even SDRAM - and we now have DDR3 and the manufacturers make sure they are not interchangeable. When I have buffering issues I simply open a second tab, start the download on the fist but pause it. Then I continue surfing on the second tab or even open a second Youtube video and bounce back and forth between them. You may also be paying for a slower internet service or the bandwidth can be restricted.

She is the amazing daughter of an amazing Mom, Jodi. You must just glow when you think of her. I was terribly impressed with the video and think she is incredibly talented. She'll go far in this world. And we'll watch with you as she does! And of course Ben loved it- that wasn't an assignment- it was a GIFT!

Thanks dannie for your suggestion on how to proceed, and both of you for expressing your sane doubts. Whether to try water culture is off-topic to the question, but I will digress to address the doubts. If you look on youtube "orchids full water culture" you will find a number of people blooming orchids in full water and part water culture (with great success). I agree it is surprising but it is a fact. OME, Orchid Whisperer, Samantha's Orchids, Diloram Brown, Trac McNguyen, so neaty, Sharon Short, and other Youtube publishers show lots of blooming orchids in water and give instructions. OME, Orchid Whisperer, Samantha and others list the reasons they prefer water culture. On the other hand, MissOrchidGirl tried it and didn't like it for her conditions (I think Romania, on a balcony with extremes of hot and cold), although she reported it did work for her phals. She has strong objections to it as un-natural. She says it works with phals because they are "weeds" that will grow in any conditions and that it's a "gimmick." Facts beat speculation. :) The great majority of people who tried it found it worked well for them, I only found two that didn't like it. To go into more detail, I observed that MissOrchidGirl seemed to me to have left some media on the roots, which is a no-no. It looks like she also used full water culture on plants that need part water culture (some need one day a week dry, some five days a week dry). Her problems with it may be part due to her technique and part to her growing environment which is way different from mine, which is much more like OME's and Samatha's. Aside from the fact that it is proven to work well if done properly in the right environment with the right species, you can ask why it works. Don't orchids grow in trees, not swamps and lakes, as MissOrchidGirl strongly objects on Youtube? First of all, water culture is not simulating a swamp or a lake. It is more like a little stream or a water reservoir in a depression in a branch or a hole in a trunk. The places where orchids grow have lots of streams and the rain forest canopy has lots of tiny "pools" or water caches in the branches, kept full since it rains every day. I have read that there are many species of animal, for example, that are adapted to live only in these small pools of water high in the forest canopy, or that depend on them for procreation. (The very common tank bromeliads hold up to 2 gallons of water high in the canopy, but I don't see how orchids can send roots into them. Maybe it happens. The canopy is not well studied.) Orchids growing right by these pools, either in the forest canopy or on logs, rocks and boulders by small streams or pools, can send out water roots into them for a steady reliable source of water and nutrients (like your clever Twinkie). If we are going to speculate on the evolution of orchids, I speculate that this is why many species of orchids and other plants too, like African Violets, are able to grow specialized water roots that can live in water. This situation happens often enough and it is so beneficial it promoted this adaptation and kept it in the genes. If it didn't happen enough in the wild, then according to evolution the plants should not have the genetic ability to grow specialized water roots. I have seen one photo of a large phal in the wild growing over rocks by a small pond, with its roots trailing into the water, which proves this does in fact happen in nature. It looks to me like this orchid, supposedly in the wild, has bare roots sprawled over the rocks with some roots dipping into the pool, very much like full water culture: As far as the advantages of doing this in cultivation, here is a list I made based on reports of successes: 1) no media to make a home for critters 2) no need to re-pot on a regular basis, because there is no organic media to break down and acidify. Never repot. When the orchid gets too big, just pick it up and put it in a larger glass vase (or coffee cup or any container). Not only saves a lot of work and time but also saves damage to roots. Keeps roots out of acid media. 3) most of roots are in air, so they get plenty of air, better circulation than in media 4) roots are completely visible for beauty (with a glass vase) 5) roots are completely visible for health monitoring 6) no guess about when to water, you keep the water at a specific level and top it off or replace it when low or cloudy 7) fertilizing is easy, several ways but you can add a very small amount of the right stuff to the water (e.g. 1/4 tsp / gal MSU) all the time. Very simple. 8) increases local humidity around plant 9) plants gets constant supply of water on demand, as much as it can use and no more, instead of depending on the grower's schedule 10) roots are prettier, silver above the water, green in the water. Never brown or dark. 11) roots get light and contribute (a small amount) to photosynthesis 12) with a large enough reservoir, you can go away for weeks and the plant will be fine. 13) you don't have to experiment with or buy the various media and mixes- bark, perlite, moss, leca, etc. No media at all. Very simple, very cheap, very clean. 14) no need to buy special orchid pots. Any cup or glass works fine. 15) as far as natural goes, no orchids grow in pots in nature. :) Yet pots work better than mounting on wood for many people due to their growing environment and time schedule, even for MissOrchidGirl. (I also doubt orchids in the wild have their roots immersed in small bark chips mixed with perlite, or wrapped in sphagnum.) There are also advantages to growing in bark based media, I am not saying water culture is superior for all plants and for everyone, just that it is not a totally untried, crazy idea. It is both well proven in culture and has a theoretical biological justification.