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Spice Of Life
Oct 8, 2007 | 8:14 AM PST
Tags: son , sensitive , lemon

So I've been tossing the idea around in my head of starting a blog, and finally decided to give it a try. I'm not sure that I have all that much to write about, and I definitely don't think that I have that much to write about that other people will want to read, but I'm going to try it anyway.

First entry: My son! What better place to start than there? (I won't be posting his name or picture just because there are so many crazies in the world, but that's a subject for another day.) Anyway, I consider myself a decent gardener. I can grow things pretty well, handle the occasional pests and diseases organically, etc. But I'm convinced that my son's thumb is even greener than mine.

A week ago, I'm at a restaurant with my son, having some iced tea with a wedge of lemon. My 5 year old son looks at my iced tea and the lemon wedge, sees some seeds in the lemon, and pipes up with, "Hey Dad, we could plant these!" Wanting to encourage his curiosity and interest, I say, "We sure could," and promptly remove the seeds, wrap them in a napkin and take them home. I popped them into some moist coconut coir and they've already sprouted and are showing their first set of true leaves! I have to repot them into some real potting soil this week.  Now I have tried this several times with lemon seeds and they have never sprouted for me, I mean EVER.  But I'll be darned if I can figure out any difference between these seeds and the ones I've tried before.

He must be a plant "sensitive" or something, because, now that I think about, a month ago something else happened that surprised me. He looked at my half dozen little date palm seedlings, that to me mind you all looked the same, pointed at one of them and says, "Awww...that ones dead." I said, "You think so? It looks alright to me." The leaves looked fine, 7 inches long, green and firm. But to humor him, I gave it a little tug and up it came, dead as a doornail, shriveled rotten brown root and all. It was weird. Kind of like, "I see dead plants." (A reference to The Sixth Sense in case you didn't catch it. :smile: )  I'm not going to say that he's psychic or anything, because I think that's a load of cr@p, right down there with astrology, but maybe kids can see more different light wavelengths than adults and this plant looked different to him or something.  Who knows?

Okay, that's enough for now, I think. Comments are welcome. Hopefully I won't put anything in my blog that will get it silently deleted (Ron).    (hee hee, couldn't resist.)