Yasaibatake's Blog

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!