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I saw it happen live on the ABC broadcast and turned that shite off. Great way to ring in 2026.

Nice! A few tips on flamethrower because I killed the first one:

They are slowwww. Don't panic if it's just sitting there doing nothing. It's the slowest plant ever and that's always consistent. That's what makes it such a great container specimen.

The red leaves usually don't appear until it's got some size on it. Don't expect them from tiny palms.

Palm gain fertilizer is amazing for this tree if you follow the instructions. Keeps the leaves gorgeous.

Finally and most importantly, this palm needs shade. This is doubly true for young palms. I exposed my last one to direct morning sun in May for only a couple of hours each day. Burned up and never recovered. It can be challenging to find the right light level. Mine actually do best indoors where the temps are consistently warm and near (but not directly under) strong grow lights. It's that bright but oblique light that seems to keep it pushing the best. If this is going inside your pool cage I'd just be careful about direct overhead sun until it hardens off. Even the screen may not be enough for a young one. Great palm for a mostly shady corner, under a patio ceiling, etc. I am seriously considering just growing mine indoors this summer because it's doing so well there.

Post pics when you get it. My all time favorite palm.

Because I am a zone pushing idiot I'm about to try growing Cyrtostachys renda (lipstick palm) in a pot here. Basically I found the least cold hardy palm on earth that also requires daily watering because what the hell. Glutton for punishment I guess. Would have been easier to grow a coconut.

Freeze warning tonight and tomorrow night for most of LA. Get your stuff squared away today.

It's the middle of winter but my Kari starfruit is loaded in the pop up greenhouse. Highly recommend carambola for its insane productivity. I have already harvested plenty of ripe fruit starting in October.

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This is just resource-intensive cruelty so a subset of people can delight in schadenfreude. That’s it. The government is spending more money to make already condemned people suffer more because it feels good to some voters.

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This is where you libs get it wrong every time. You think that the purpose of a justice system is to 1) rehabilitate the offender, 2) segregate the offender for public safety, and 3) deter future offenders.

But the primary and most important aspect of every justice system since before there was such a thing as codified law is to punish the offender.

Yes, it makes voters feel good, so that we don't tear the entire system down and and hold neighborhood tribunals to lynch the accused like we did for most of human history.

Citizens are righteously outraged when they see the worst offenders breathing the air they stole from their innocent victims. If someone murdered my child and the state refused to kill them, then I'd do it myself. And I would gladly defend this post in front of a jury and would happily serve any sentence imposed.

Again, when we are talking about serious crime, the primary and most important part of any justice system is and has always been to punish the offender.

Exactly. I hate myself for planting one 5 years ago. Huge tree in a primo yard spot making fruit I can't eat.

Why are you gay?

Would remove satsuma fruit. Too many freezes likely left. Should do it's main flowering in spring.

Dwarf Hawaiian is one of the earliest flowering mangos. Even a touch of cold sends them into bloom. Let it set fruit, then cut about 80% of the whole panicle off when they are pea sized. Then remove the remaining pea sized fruit on the 20% leftover panicle, but do not remove the remaining panicle. If you do, it will just waste energy flowering again. When these grafted trees are young you need to trick them into thinking they've set fruit, but all their energy will actually go to vegetative growth.

Actually, not confused! Lemons and limes are year-round bloomers in their proper climates where there is almost constant warm weather without freezes. My key lime is flowering now in my greenhouse. A week or 2 of warm weather like this often causes flowering in the dead of winter.

Now if you see an orange or satsuma blooming strongly in the winter, something is getting truly weird and you need to send me the budwood immediately so I can file the patent before LSU Ag gets their hands on it. :lol:

When Brian Kelly was hired he was the all time winningest coach in Notre Dame history. Although his ultimate quality proved to be mediocre, you cannot fault the hire or the expectations. It's not akin to Florida thinking Napier was elite, etc. And ultimately we fired his arse less than halfway through his contract because it wasn't good enough. And it wasn't terrible; it just wasn't excellent.

So can you really clown LSU for swinging for the fences, missing, owning it, and then dusting themselves off to swing big again instead of pussying out and hiring the next unproven G5 guy?

I don't know man, it just looks like a program that will seek excellence until it finds it to me.