Yasaibatake's Blog

Let's Try Again, Shall We?
Oct 24, 2007 | 10:20 PM PST
Tags: Bachelor's button , peppers , seeds

Exactly!

So my Button seeds sprouted a second time...only one of those three came up. And the one stem hasn't changed at all. I'm kinda sad about it, but I think I might try and transplant the three seedlings tomorrow anyways and maybe I'll add in another pinch of seeds, just to get a halfway-decent pot going here. Silly little things.

In other news, the co-worker who brought in all those banana peppers brought in a ton more today! Banana peppers and bell peppers and some red peppers that she lost the tag for and couldn't remember what they were called. Kinda look like chiles of some sort, in my humble oh-so-intelligent opinion! I have a ton load more than I had last time, and I just barely finished those, so tomorrow I will probably freeze most of these new ones and save the seeds - ignoring the float test this time! I don't work tomorrow or Friday so I have pleanty of time.

Other than that...it's been a slow couple of days! The baby trees are all looking pretty good...the strawberries have lost a few leaves but are looking nice and strong...I kinda want to plant those pumpkin seeds *now* but I know I have to wait like a good little girl...maybe tomorrow while I'm transplanting those Buttons I'll plant a few pepper seeds straight from the pepper, what do you all think?

Triplets!
Oct 13, 2007 | 6:54 PM PST
Tags: baby pine trees , bachelor's button , triplets

Okay, so I just had to write, because today I managed to get both of my questions from yesterday answered!
1) I was right - they are white pines! They were going to be Christmas trees, but apparently they were very poor Christmas trees because the branches were too flexible and bent under even the lightest decorations. So they never came inside and have just grown up there.
2) Padre was more than happy for me to take the baby tree, as long as I gave it to him when it grew up. I started to protest when...

Upon taking a closer look in the general area, I found not one baby tree, but three! The other two are a little shorter and don't have nearly as many branches, but there they are nevertheless! So I uprooted all of them, being careful to leave a lot of dirt around them (I read somewhere on the internet today that white pines have some sort of symbiotic fungus that grows in their roots? Two years of being a biology major warned me that if this was true, I had better leave it there, so I took as big a chunk of dirt with the seedlings as I could without having to beg my dad to overturn the path or anything like that). Madre y Padre (7+ years of French, and one semester of college Spanish, and which language do I use more often? *sigh*) can have one of them - maybe even two, I'm feeling pretty nice today - but I get at least one! They're just so darn cute...little more than twigs at the moment (the tallest one is 4 inches tall) but that's exciting! I am loving the idea of growing these trees from such tiny babies! I just hope that I can keep the darlings in their pots until I graduate and can afford a house with a backyard to plant them in. Trees grow pretty slow, right? And if I can get big enough pots, they'll stay happy in there for some years, right? *crosses her fingers* I mean, I don't graduate for two and a half years...

Oh! And my Bachelor's Buttons are already beginning to sprout! I found two little green curly-ques poking up today...I was very surprised! I didn't except them to pop up for a week, at least. Plus I only planted five because it's a pretty tiny pot. Here's to hoping the other three come up soon! WHEEEEEEE!!!!

ETA: (at 1:09 am) It really is a day of triplets! I showed off my trees and the two Buttons to my boyfriend earlier this evening. He was getting ready to leave when my mom asked him to show her how to work Powerpoint on her laptop...I made one last check on my plants for the night and I had three little Button sprouts! Je suis excited! :) Yay for French too!