Oh, your semps look really great! I think I got the hang of them now. I lost a few things to that rain last year. 28" in 23 days is just insane. I even brought a few of mine in last summer and put them in a south facing window. Took them back out for the winter. I bought several hundred mixed noids from ebay. Only about 50 survived. Those that survived have pupped and flourished. So, when I said cultivating that was my fancy way of saying the ones that I did not kill