Let’s take a moment to look at what’s going right. What’s made you laugh or smile recently? No matter how big or small it is, we want to hear about it!
Its my birthday and I played Waterfall Park with my family. Very fun game
Watching my dog frolic in absolute joy at the dog park. It was only his 3rd time going and I have been apprehensive since these places can always be a mixed bag with whatever dogs/owners are there at the time.
He did prove to me though that his recall training works pretty well and hopefully we’ve gained each others trust. He really loves socializing and playing with other dogs and seems to know how to adapt to the play style of whatever hound he’s engaged with. Going to try and make it a weekly thing
Pic just because he’s so cute:
After getting lost in the mail, my new plants arrived in the mail and they don’t look dead
I’ve got vanilla blooming right now. In a week, maybe two, it’s going to take me at least an hour to pollinate them all. It’s something that’s taken half a decade to get reliable blooms, and now it’s happening.
Impressive! Did not know it was such a project!
That’s wild, congrats! For someone completely ignorant of botany, what does that half decade entail?
About 5 years.
I kid. Mostly daily watering, which is did by hand until recently. Would take about an hour. Some very minor vine management every couple a weeks so they don’t get away from you.
Vanilla are very apically dominant. They do not branch (they do under some specific conditions), and they do not grow sideways. Their preference is to grow straight up and only up. They also need something to attach to with their tendrils, so they need a structure like a tree or similar support like vineyard wire.
They don’t require very much soil, but they aren’t an epiphyte like most orchids. They sink their tendrils roots into the soil and behave more like terrestrial plants after that. If you try and grow them like an epiphyte, they’d likely die or just not grow much. If things are going well, I’ll get 1 new leaf per week per vine.
Now I said they don’t like to grow sideways, however they also don’t flower if they are in the vertical orientation. The vines have to be inverted to flower (growing tip pointing down). It’s a firm of stress that indicates to the vine “hey you fell off the support you were on, time to reproduce in case you die”. So for vine management you are constantly looping the vines in about 1.5-2 meter loops over your support system letting them grow up and over, then bringing them back down near the ground. This does two things. First, they are more likely to root again closer to the ground. Second, it maximizes the inverted section of the vine, to create lots of opportunities for flowers.
I fertilize one every three months with chicken manure and citrus fertilizer… other than that it’s mostly keeping an eye out for disease and looking to make sure the vines haven’t lost attachment to the ground. If they do you have to reset the vine in the soil or start over
Really interesting answers like tbis, about topics on which I know nothing, are my absolute favourite part about social media.
Thank you for this! I had no idea it could be so complicated. Congrats on the blooms and enjoy the next half decade!
Was playing hide and go seek with my friend’s toddler, who is clearly new to the game as when she found me she said “okay, now I’ll hide here and you come find me!”
My sides! It would be hard to not smile at this.
Been seeing some funny memes around this week (even not related to this weekend).
Re-watching Season 3 of the Mandalorian because I forgot I had and it’s pretty good.
Edit: Apparently I didn’t finish the season, which is why I felt like I had never watched it. I’m so late to the Grogu in IG-12 party, I had no idea.
Our cat is getting older, and therefore getting more snuggly and less of a destructo-cat. Only took 10 years…
Sharing anime/manga recommendations with my nephew. Not because of series themselves (they’re good though), but because talking with him about something both of us enjoy showed me, how well the kid has grown, intellectually speaking: his takes about the plot and the theme, his insights on what motivates the characters, even the diversity of genres he’s trying out. Not the sort of stuff I’d expect from his age, you know?
(He recommended me Gachiakuta and Call of the Night. Based on the later I recommended him Dagashi Kashi, My Dress-Up Darling, and My Monster Secret.)
