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13053. Magoseph - 1/5/2005 3:45:59 PM Mac, that was very funny. You really have a gift for making one feel that they are right there on the scene with you. 13054. Magoseph - 1/5/2005 7:02:37 PM Check this, please:
Message # 7722 in thread 19 13055. judithathome - 1/5/2005 7:38:06 PM Oh wow...great minds think alike! I was coming here to post about that program. I can't wait! We are going to tape "West Wing" so we can see the entire 3 hours of the PBS show. 13056. The Summer Woman - 1/5/2005 7:49:49 PM Ms. no - The chemical your step-father's sister used was probably Florel, which is the chemical ethephon, which releases ethylene, that prevents the fetilized ovules from becoming fruit. And she is right - application is very tricky - especially the timing. Too low a concentration and it may actually increase the number of fruits on the tree. Too high, and it will damage the tree.
It sounds impractical to use for large trees, like mature Sweetgums.
Keeping the fruits raked up before they get "ripe", in both senses of the word, is definitely the best option. But again, trees that keep their fruits for months at a time makes the raking nearly a year-long process. 13057. The Summer Woman - 1/5/2005 8:00:56 PM Cheap trees, unwanted fruit.
More and more cities are planting Crab Apples as street trees - they are pretty to some when in flower, often beautiful in fruit and... they are incredibly cheap. What are they thinking? The fruits are hard when they first fall, and walking on them is like roller-skating. Terrific for the elderly. Worse, the fruits are a favorite food of rats! And while they may be cheap for a city to buy, they are not cheap to maintain. If not pruned annualy, the branches become an ugly, graceless tangle. They are also one of the most disease susceptible of ornamental trees (scabs and rusts) and are an alternate host for cedar-apple rust.
When I looked up Florel, I found out that the pesticide Sevin can be used to prevent fruit formation on crabapples. It's use, even as a pesticide is heavily discouraged here in WV as it is toxic to honeybees and caused a severe decline in the state's honeybee population - not good for the apple growers in the Eastern Panhandle. 13058. The Summer Woman - 1/5/2005 8:06:41 PM I was really confused when you said she had used a chemical that made the olive tree sterile. Except for plants that have naturally sterile flowers, the only way to accomplish this would be to cause an in-situ genetic mutation, such as is caused to create variegated-leaved variants of many plants. (A virus is usually the agent that causes the variagation. Trouble is, it's often not permanent - as many people who purchase these plants discover, as the plant reverts back to producing plain old green leaves. 13059. Magoseph - 1/5/2005 8:09:28 PM Oh wow...great minds think alike!
Robert MacNeil was on Imus this morning.
13060. Ms. No - 1/5/2005 9:06:06 PM Guess you'll just be raking. Bummer.
My parents have a gorgeous little Willow tree in their backyard that they started from a sprig in a flower arrangement. In six years it's gone from a sprig to a 12 foot tree. I think they only live about 15 years but it's lovely and if they grew it from a cutting I can't imagine that it's particularly fragile. It's got kind of curly/corkskrewy branches and no fruit. Seems like it would be a good ornamental for the city but I don't know anything about what it would cost to by a more mature tree than what they started with. 13061. Max Macks - 1/5/2005 9:10:52 PM wonkers , re, the ding by credit card companies.
Only recently did I sign up for OnLine Banking.
It is so great I am surprised I did not do it sooner.
You can pay your credit card thru Bank on Line.
I was paranoid at first about putting that stuff
on the Internet , but the bank assumes me they
have encrypted (??- is that the term) soft wear
making things safe.
As as been pointed out hundreds of times
every time you give a waiter or sales person
your credit card you could be taking a rist. 13062. arkymalarky - 1/6/2005 1:49:36 AM Willows grow very well here because they like a lot of moisture. I want to plant a weeping willow in the yard, which just means getting a cutting from a friend up the road, but I don't know where I want it yet and you have to watch out for where the roots grow.
We are absolutely saturated here, and it's been in the 70sF, but tomorrow it's supposed to only get in the 40s. I dread the temp shift, but I'll be glad to see the sun.
Max,
My parents and daughter have been trying to get us to go to online banking, but we're still on dial-up and I haven't wanted to mess with getting it arranged, but I really should. I'd save myself a lot of time and headache, from what they tell me. 13063. judithathome - 1/6/2005 1:55:58 AM Arky, it's below freezing here right now...it was almost 69° at midnight and at 4am, the temps started to dive and have been dropping all day. 13064. arkymalarky - 1/6/2005 2:13:59 AM That's just now happening here. I don't know the temps, but at lunch it was pretty warm and it's cold now. 13065. Max Macks - 1/6/2005 2:18:54 AM Mago re. your post 13059
( don't know how to do a shortcut to a post
here in the Mote as can be done in World crossing)
I haven't heard from or about Robt. McNeil much since
he left the McNeil Lehr News Hour.
I thought he was the best part of that news program
I don't care for Jim Lehr and I rarely watch TV news
since bush got made POTUS., but when I do I still watch
the News Hour as it is commercial free.
I have never heard that Imus but I have read that he
is a very nasty man.
So I can't picture McNeil and Imus together , they
seem like polar opposites. 13066. Absensia - 1/6/2005 2:52:42 AM It's been below freezing every night here and snow is expected by Friday. Brrrrrrrr. 13067. wonkers2 - 1/6/2005 2:58:59 AM Same here. We got 4 inches of snow last night and we're expecting more tonight! (Michigan) 13068. Absensia - 1/6/2005 3:09:45 AM It doesn't snow much here (Seattle) and with all the hills and the city's minimal snow budget things close down when half an inch of snow falls. Schools close and buses stop running. Then the ice starts to melt, temperatures drop and it ices over. Very bad news. 13069. wonkers2 - 1/6/2005 3:17:24 AM Abs, I didn't realize you live in Seattle. My wife and I were there over Thanksgiving visiting our son and his fiancee. We weren't there long, but I might have tried to contact you. My son lives near Green Lake. We enjoyed the Bob Dylan exhibit at the new Gehry-designed music museum. And we had some good food while we were in Seattle. 13070. Absensia - 1/6/2005 7:50:51 AM Wonks, that would have been great! I was at the Dylan concert and el kid lives near Green Lake too. Wow! 13071. Magoseph - 1/6/2005 1:59:05 PM I have never heard that Imus but I have read that he
is a very nasty man.
So I can't picture McNeil and Imus together , they
seem like polar opposites.
Max, the more appropriate description of him would be blunt, opinionated, and independent. Because he has ten million early-morning watchers, the network has almost no influence in respect to what he says or does. His independence is reinforced by that he has become extremely wealthy. Overall, he is a breath of fresh air at an early hour. It doesn't hurt that he gets any guests he wants, except of course the ones he has profoundly insulted. That's what I think, but then I'm a fan. 13072. Magoseph - 1/6/2005 2:03:16 PM About five inches or so, not enough to close the schools, the roads are already clear, everyone will make it to work or school and I'll probably even be able to walk around here.
Hello, everyone!
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