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Post by lloyd on May 22, 2013 22:21:21 GMT -5
My microbogs are looking pretty good, lots of flowers and new sarr pitchers coming up.
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Post by H2O on May 22, 2013 23:45:37 GMT -5
Things slowed down a little here with some cooler temps but the flavas, oreos and purps are all in flower here. Lots of oreo pitchers open already with the odd flava are rubra open. Ill try to get some pictures this week.
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Post by hal on May 25, 2013 21:44:50 GMT -5
After putting out my pots early, I completely cut back almost everything a few weeks ago. Any pitchers or phyllodia that had survived in the garage over the winter were wiped out by the cold. I have quite a few flower buds and new pitchers are just starting on all the plants. But they seem to be a couple of weeks behind previous years.
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Post by lloyd on Jul 8, 2013 18:24:00 GMT -5
Super rain today. We were out in it for maybe 10 minutes and our shoes were waterlogged-with an umbrella. I've collected gallons of rain water and all my containers are full. Plus the 3 microbogs are overflowing. So many of the pitchers are flopped over from the downpour. Still coming down!
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Post by dvg on Jul 11, 2013 17:46:19 GMT -5
Super rain today. We were out in it for maybe 10 minutes and our shoes were waterlogged-with an umbrella. I've collected gallons of rain water and all my containers are full. Plus the 3 microbogs are overflowing. So many of the pitchers are flopped over from the downpour. Still coming down! I saw the news covering that storm that went through Toronto. Tremendous amount of water to fall in such a short period of time. Last month Southern Alberta was hit with heavy downpours and subsequent flooding. Here, it's been dry over the past few weeks - we'll gladly take some of your rain. dvg
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Post by 31drew31 on Jul 11, 2013 21:48:28 GMT -5
Yes that was a ton of rain for Toronto and area and in such a short time.
At the end of June we were working from home for the week due to the floods and still the rivers and ditches are pretty full.
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Post by lloyd on Jul 28, 2013 23:33:33 GMT -5
Crazy disaster: squirrels found a nesting site under my deck-ripped up all my non-CP experimental plants to stuff their nest. My wife cleaned out the nest and they rebuilt it with sarr's!!!!!!! Almost cried. Despair but it wasn't as bad as it could have been, my wife alerted me in time. I closed up the nest and put a lattice up with netting. Hopefully it will work. Drat them. I would happily disintegrate them if I could.
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Post by shoggoths on Jul 29, 2013 8:13:19 GMT -5
Sorry to hear that Lloyd.
So far, my net seems to keep the beasts at bay.
Every year, I catch squirrels around my house in a cage and bring them 40 km away from my home but every next year they come back at the exact same place $%?$%? I'm beggining to think they lay dormant eggs in their nest.
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Post by lloyd on Jul 29, 2013 12:44:32 GMT -5
I've heard they taste like chicken.........
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Post by 31drew31 on Jul 29, 2013 13:17:23 GMT -5
Sorry to hear they're getting to your Sarrs now Lloyd. I've heard they taste like chicken......... My Dad used to live in NWT and when I went up to visit a few years back we shot squirell and ate the legs. Not a whole lot of meat there but kind of like chicken. Im also not much of a meat fan so I didn't enjoy it too much.
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Post by dvg on Jul 31, 2013 17:06:31 GMT -5
Those Eastern Gray Squirrels sound like they can be real pests.
Hopefully your plants all have time to make a complete recovery over the next couple of months of the growing season Lloyd.
dvg
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Post by lloyd on Jul 31, 2013 18:58:16 GMT -5
Amazingly they don't look too bad despite the loss of a lot of nice pitchers. I had a pest company seal the nest so I think the squirrels should be Ok for the moment. My other plants, experimental parasite hosts, were decimated.
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