OK, Jim. Anyone here with dial-up? does it take long to load?

I need to get more paintings done.... Painting is not easy, or lots of people would be artists, hey? I enjoy the dentist as much as I enjoy painting, sometimes. no joke. Owell!

Melissa

Melissa, is it your island that has the active volcano? I get so confused with all the folks I post to , anyway, I was reading about it in our local paper and read the there is an evacuation going on. Hope your safe (if it is you) and, hey, I'd go along with a new thread if ya want. I'm still in the process of finding my way around, and I guess that's what scares me. Don't want to lose you all.

Please leave us a link to find you.
We wll find you with a link.
Thanks
Charleen

I had a whole two pages of cubits I some how joined, now I have the hang of it, I'm down to 5 cubits, that seems reasonable for right now. However I've lost smileys and can't find it any one know what "cubit" contains the smile thread?

Starting a new thread from the original.
We came from here...http://cubits.org/Adeniums/thread/view/915/#top

Moving this thread to http://cubits.org/Adeniums/thr...

Melissa,I am really enjoying your pictures.Please keep them coming.

Hi, JT, glad to oblige. I do believe here is for flowers, but there's one for you--

These are Goatfish. They have whiskers, and grovel in the sand looking for little critters to eat. There's a Bar Jack hanging around waiting to see if a shrimp or crab or something is stirred up and tries to run away, hey, lunch for the Jack!

JT, how's your temperatures? What a winter!!

Melissa

J.T., I'm so glad you used Wilfreds name up top, I think it will make it easier for him to find us should he come on.

I just got home from Salem, our big shopping day. : ( Not so much fun, except I found an Adenium at Walmart. Only $10.00 and was pretty good sized. Almost bought it. Carried it in the basket the whole time I was shopping. Then reality set in. It was in one of those really shallow containers with small gravel with what looked like resin, and everything was glued solid to the trunk. No way could I have got that off the plant to repot it. I was really bummed. Has anyone ever seen them that way?

Jim, glad to see ya made it.

I bet JT knows every bit as much as Wilfred, but just doesn't enjoy typing so much.

And, no I don't live with that volcano. It's 350 miles to the sse, and sends ash this way sometimes, nasty stuff!Very acid and gritty. I am glad we get only a slight dusting occasionally, if the breeze come from that way.

OK, one more Under Water... A Sargeant Major fish. Swimming back and forth by her eggs, the purplish area below her. They will bite you if you come too close! Just a little peck, they're not set up to be ferocious.

Wow, Lynn, what a downer, and poor plant! I may have felt sorry enough for the thing, and only ten dollars, to take it home. Just to see what happened.

And, no I haven't seen anything like that.

JT? What do you think?

Melissa

How would I every get that stuff off of the trunk without damaging it? Do you know JT?

Would the plant heal if you went at it with an exacto knife? Did the plant look OK otherwise?

Melissa

The plant would probably heal if you cut the stuff off.They are tough plants.

I think mine got a bad dose of volcanic ash a few days ago, and with the Spray-N-Grow, they're really unhappy! Booo, Some looking like they're OK, though. Hmm.

Poor Wilfred seems overwhelmed with life right now. He posted on the other list about working long hours and caring for his family. It is so generous of him to share his time and seeds with us adenium newbies.

coconut, have you seen changes in the reefs with changes in global temperatures? I have been reading about changes in Austrailia. There was also an article about changes in migration patterns around the galopagos (?spelling) islands. I really miss being able to snorkel around the islands. It was so beautiful.

I have never seen adenium in Walmart, lots of sad african violets, but nothing very interesting. I keep checking anyway, you never know!

They had about 6 of them. The foliage was very handsome, they looked healthy. I might have to go back and get one.

valleylynn, I know just how you feel, they were in Walmart here like that last summer and they just had them marked as Bonsi, but they were so solidly glued I could not see how they were able to get water, if they have them like that this year I might just buy one and see how long it lasts.

Doris

Hi folks, will some one mention when they take a seedling out of the 3" pot and re pot it. Am I looking to see roots coming out the bottom, or signs that it's root bound? I have a few from my first attempt that have about 8 or 9 leafs, two inches tall, maybe about 9 months old, and as soon as the weather breaks (if it ever does ) I'd like to get them in a bigger pot. Also wondering how big the next pot should be. My understanding is, if the pot is too big there is a danger of over water or under watering and I don't want to lose them at this point.