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OMG, my mother is a horticultural scientist and this is what she just said:
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itdincor
User ID: 434253
7/6/2008 3:24 PM | | Re: OMG, my mother is a horticultural scientist and this is what she just said: | Quote |
All I can do is tell folks how things are here, on Popof Island in Alaska.
No summer yet.
Oh, it's warmed up, to around 50 degrees F, but that's considerably below average for this time of year. Right now, almost noon and 48 degrees. Just no summer yet.
The alder bushes are green, but they are NOT fully leafed yet, which is true of just about everything else. Raspberries, Salmon berries, etc. the only thing growing well are the wild flowers and the garlics; all else is just not doing much.
Here it is 6 July, and NO SUMMER YET! The tulips should have bloomed a month ago, and only one has just blossomed. It's as if the 6 of July were early spring.
We are just not getting summer.
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mercury2
User ID: 463958
7/6/2008 3:25 PM
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My tomato plants are doing fine, and that's even with my inexperience, believing that I could use hyponex topsoil in containers to grow them, that shit is like mud, not sure what I was thinking or if I thought somehow it would cease to be muddy, but it's some of the most disgusting soil I've ever come across, yet the plants are still kicking ass.
Dunno. Quoting: Ignatius J. Reilly 452812
Glad you can tell the difference anyway. It's interesting you mentioned Hyponex. That was the worst brand of all by far when I was in the garden center business ten years ago. One of our plant suppliers said "Plant your plants in Hyponex and watch them die". How can they still be in business?
When growing in containers you need a light well drained soil with larger particles that let air into the soil, we used to mix peat moss with perlite and potting soil to get the right mix. They make some pretty good ready made container mixes like a "windowbox mix", some are even specifically for vegetables, a lot have composted ingredients that provide some initial fertilizer.
Glad to hear your plants are doing okay despite the Hyponex. Hope you have some good liquid fertilizer like a fish one, we used to sell "Neptune's Harvest" I think it was, that was a good brand, not too smelly.
You can make up for a lot by giving your plants "SUPERTHRIVE" it is vitamins and hormones that really help your plants and reduce stress, it's stuff they make themselves under ideal conditions but conditions are never ideal so if you give them just a little it makes their job so much easier, you can see their stress levels drop, it makes the hugest difference of anything, it's the best product available on the garden center market. Voice of experience here. You only use a 1/4 teaspoon per gallon of water and it's completely non-toxic. I sold it for years and everyone who bought some came back for more. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 462868
7/6/2008 3:29 PM | | Re: OMG, my mother is a horticultural scientist and this is what she just said: | Quote |
transgenic plants ?
Probably
They cannot grove, that's why they want to sell this shit.
Your Mom is right ! |
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The Alchemist
User ID: 463952
7/6/2008 4:14 PM | | Re: OMG, my mother is a horticultural scientist and this is what she just said: | Quote |
I'm in south Texas,
and this is what I have noticed this year:
ALL the winter crops failed. They simply refused to grow past the seedling stage, although they lived--just didn't grow to produce.
Sugar snaps went to 6 to 8 inches, by the time I should be picking they had no growth and no produce, they simply withered and died with out even setting seed.
Lettuce, several varieties, simply did not grow--then the heat came and they bolted and they are presently producing seed. I hope to collect that.
Lemon and Orange trees, only one produced normal amount of flowers, but the fruit simply didn't grow. The leaves(new growth) are growing twisted and deformed.
Only two very small oranges on one tree, they simply look deformed and not nearly the size that they usually are at this time. And no fruit on the other orange trees.
My mints, Mentha, did not die back this winter, but they are stunted. Still only 4/5 inches tall. When the sun finally shows itself(continuous cloud cover) the UV is so intense I have to protect even the full sun items. The leaves on my OAK TREE FRIED!
The sun is white now, most people don't even remember it used to be yellow. I have also noticed it is not in its usual position, all of my shade plants fried one afternoon. They were planted where the sun never shines(years ago!), and suddenly they started getting full sun. The suns new position tells me the planets orbit and tilt are off.
There are unfortunately some people who so disbelieve this that they attack me for questioning or pointing these things out. Did I water? Did I fertilize? etc...The sun is exactly where it should be, I just never noticed it this time of year! One fellow was so upset, saying "He was an astronomer and measures the sun every day its exactly where it should be" I must be lying, what instrument did I use to measure sun! He never mentioned it is the Earth which has not be measured as to the tilt and orbit. This is what is off. The fact that my plants fried in an established shade bed, in spring no less...I must be mistaken, a bad gardener! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 271953
7/6/2008 4:24 PM | | Re: OMG, my mother is a horticultural scientist and this is what she just said: | Quote |
bump |
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Astro Annie
User ID: 464013
7/6/2008 5:17 PM
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I wonder if latitude has anything to do with it? How the plant kingdom suffers too: ozone depletion, chem trails (what's in them? obscuring the view? protecting us from disintigrating ozone layer? numbing, dumbing us down?), rust, no nematodes, genetically modified food (a huge threat to nature), honey bees dying out, extreme weather. Something Is Amiss! For sure!
My vote is either on the depletion of the ozone layer or genetically modified foods. Someone posted this list a few days ago. Thank you! It is frightening to know how EVERYTHING in the grocery store is GM now. Even GM products at Whole Foods, for Pete's sakes.
But since the planets in the solar system are also showing signs of perturbation, it could be related to INCOMING!
Since I can't be a good example, I'll just have to serve as a horrible warning... |
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Astro Annie
User ID: 464013
7/6/2008 5:19 PM
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list of genetically modified foods at:
[link to www.truefoodnow.org]
Since I can't be a good example, I'll just have to serve as a horrible warning... |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 464024
7/6/2008 7:23 PM | | Re: OMG, my mother is a horticultural scientist and this is what she just said: | Quote |
First flag!!!!!!
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Jesus H Christ
User ID: 464065
7/6/2008 7:29 PM | | Re: OMG, my mother is a horticultural scientist and this is what she just said: | Quote |
Well in Columbus OH the vegatables and grass and weeds and everything are growing THREE times faster so her area is just an anomally.
I also checked with a local Bee keeper and he said that he has EXTRA Bees this year.
Anyone notice that honey has NOT tripled or doubled or anything?
Regional issues. |
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Angel_Eyes 
Still searching....
User ID: 340940
7/6/2008 7:43 PM
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She said she knew it was "something in the air"........ Quoting: Nuclear Genie
Yes....there is something going on.....it has been going on since the beginning of man. It is the ending of another cycle...to make way for the new. I believe we are living in the "end times" right now. But who knows how many days...years or 1000 years...will the end times be......It may not be in my lifetime...The end times could be for the next 100 or 1000 years. Either way...things....the earth...people and all life... are changing. We are definitely living in the last days....
As proud children of science and reason, we have made ourselves the orphans of wisdom..... |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 452850
7/6/2008 7:44 PM | | Re: OMG, my mother is a horticultural scientist and this is what she just said: | Quote |
one reason the doomsday seed vault was built .
The seeds that are stowed will be used , Long after we are gone and all is reclaimed and returned to it's natural state |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 414168
7/6/2008 8:01 PM | | Re: OMG, my mother is a horticultural scientist and this is what she just said: | Quote |
Tells me she needs to stop drinking the water she waters her plants with. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 461317
7/6/2008 8:09 PM | | Re: OMG, my mother is a horticultural scientist and this is what she just said: | Quote |
I'm in Maryland and the garden is in pretty good shape so far.
Last year I didn't have squat- tomatoes but no peppers,etc. We had a drought and even watering with a hose is no comparison to a good rain shower a couple of times a week.
I've heard that everywhere east of the Rockies, the soil needs lime because of acid rain. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 452653
7/6/2008 8:47 PM | | Re: OMG, my mother is a horticultural scientist and this is what she just said: | Quote |
Wow, a scientist and she can't get anything to grow? She thinks too much:
"I don't know what has happened. But for the last two years the plants, flowers and vegetable plants have changed, we cannot seem to grow anything. We cannot grow tomatoes, the leaves are turning up and plants that she plants every year for the last 50 years, suddenly within the last two years, she would plant it, love and care for it, and baby it, and in the morning she wakes up and it's dead." |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 464086
7/6/2008 9:13 PM | | Re: OMG, my mother is a horticultural scientist and this is what she just said: | Quote |
My tomato's are fine and am surrounded by wheat fields, ready for harvest but after all people are growing food crops to run cars on, so maybe thats why their growing good. |
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SC Granny
User ID: 464099
7/6/2008 9:23 PM | | Re: OMG, my mother is a horticultural scientist and this is what she just said: | Quote |
Nematodes!
Suggest to your Mom that she plant Marigolds in her garden. Lots and lots of Marigolds. Their roots put off a chemical that is poison to Nematodes. |
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SC Granny
User ID: 464099
7/6/2008 9:26 PM | | Re: OMG, my mother is a horticultural scientist and this is what she just said: | Quote |
"I've heard that everywhere east of the Rockies, the soil needs lime because of acid rain."
Prolly not true for the state of Texas. That soil IS limestone! |
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Agent Tray
User ID: 182625
7/6/2008 9:31 PM
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im in Canada. I have a vegetable garden with 14 tomato plants.... they are FINE.. even have tomatoes growing on my uncurled plants..
all the veggies are taking off.. and i only planted may long..
well.. cucs are a little shy..
but tomato, peas, herbs, beans, squash, potato, flax, mesculn, peppers, all on the up and up.. |
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Agent Tray
User ID: 182625
7/6/2008 9:31 PM
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im in Canada. I have a vegetable garden with 14 tomato plants.... they are FINE.. even have tomatoes growing on my uncurled plants..
all the veggies are taking off.. and i only planted may long..
well.. cucs are a little shy..
but tomato, peas, herbs, beans, squash, potato, flax, mesculn, peppers, all on the up and up.. |
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kb
User ID: 464110
7/6/2008 9:40 PM | | Re: OMG, my mother is a horticultural scientist and this is what she just said: | Quote |
if they are fixing seeds so they dont bear fruit yet grow so you have to buy food as you say they are doing its simple to use store buy food to make it reproduce.. i was a landscaper for 5 years when i was a kid and there is a way to do that.. i just dont fully remember how |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 463830
7/6/2008 10:26 PM | | Re: OMG, my mother is a horticultural scientist and this is what she just said: | Quote |
And she said "tomato leaves are curling up"...
I said, "are they whithering and turning brown, or just curling up?"
She said, "just curling up".
I asked her, if she had to take a guess, what would she say was the cause of this...
She said, "pollution, what they're putting in our skies, they want us to not be able to grow anything anymore. And my neighbors are perplexed because they cannot grow tomatoes anymore either". Quoting: Nuclear Genie
Ask her if massive amounts of aluminum and barium in the soil would cause her problems. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 380499
7/6/2008 10:30 PM | | Re: OMG, my mother is a horticultural scientist and this is what she just said: | Quote |
My tomato plants are doing really well and I'm in Canada. My daughter in law's garden is absolutely beautiful and she's in eastern Canada. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 453145
7/6/2008 10:35 PM | | Re: OMG, my mother is a horticultural scientist and this is what she just said: | Quote |
Are you denying the things my mother said, and worse, what she implied...
Are you denying that there are changes in the earth, and that our earth is in trouble? Quoting: Nuclear Genie
My garden is growing fine, and has for the last several years. Is your mother suffering from age-related dementia? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 453145
7/6/2008 10:36 PM | | Re: OMG, my mother is a horticultural scientist and this is what she just said: | Quote |
All I can do is tell folks how things are here, on Popof Island in Alaska.
No summer yet.
Oh, it's warmed up, to around 50 degrees F, but that's considerably below average for this time of year. Right now, almost noon and 48 degrees. Just no summer yet.
The alder bushes are green, but they are NOT fully leafed yet, which is true of just about everything else. Raspberries, Salmon berries, etc. the only thing growing well are the wild flowers and the garlics; all else is just not doing much.
Here it is 6 July, and NO SUMMER YET! The tulips should have bloomed a month ago, and only one has just blossomed. It's as if the 6 of July were early spring.
We are just not getting summer.
LOL |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 82347
7/6/2008 10:46 PM | | Re: OMG, my mother is a horticultural scientist and this is what she just said: | Quote |
monsato |
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