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Tigerlaff
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re: Ole Miss 39 @ Georgia 34 Final - ESPN
Posted by Tigerlaff on 1/1/26 at 8:45 pm to Dougiejurgens3
Man there just seems like there is something missing about this Ole Miss offense...
re: Louisiana Tropical Fruit Gardening - Experiences and Updates
Posted by Tigerlaff on 1/1/26 at 8:39 pm to LanierSpots
Orange BOP has a few things to help it bloom. The number one way is to restrict root growth by keeping it in a crowded pot. The stress forces blooms over and over.
In the ground, that stress is absent so you have to do the other things. Full sun, a low nitrogen bloom booster fertilizer, and let it get cold this winter. A good chill can really set them off. Easy here in 9a, but you might want to watch the forecast for the coolest nights and throw a bag of ice on the root zone. If it's comfortable in the ground it will just prioritize vegetative growth. Make it uncomfortable.
Mine bloomed great in an impossibly cramped 7g pot, but after a while that cramping causes deformed leaves. The new leaves were too ugly to look at so I uppotted to a 20gal this year and now have only a single flower spike. It fixed the leaves, but I'll have to wait a while for it to fill the pot and bloom well. I leave it out at any temp above freezing trying to stress it.
In the ground, that stress is absent so you have to do the other things. Full sun, a low nitrogen bloom booster fertilizer, and let it get cold this winter. A good chill can really set them off. Easy here in 9a, but you might want to watch the forecast for the coolest nights and throw a bag of ice on the root zone. If it's comfortable in the ground it will just prioritize vegetative growth. Make it uncomfortable.
Mine bloomed great in an impossibly cramped 7g pot, but after a while that cramping causes deformed leaves. The new leaves were too ugly to look at so I uppotted to a 20gal this year and now have only a single flower spike. It fixed the leaves, but I'll have to wait a while for it to fill the pot and bloom well. I leave it out at any temp above freezing trying to stress it.
Good job, Charlie. Job these Oxford cucks.
Lolololol they jiggered the play clock to get it in sync with the game clock. There was gonna be one second left and someone took mercy on Bama.
So I guess that west coast Dutch twink is still fielding soft teams, huh?
re: Louisiana Tropical Fruit Gardening - Experiences and Updates
Posted by Tigerlaff on 1/1/26 at 4:20 pm to LanierSpots
Yeah foliage pro is great because it's a complete fertilizer with all 17 nutrients. You can be certain it's not missing anything. Also the nitrogen in it is not derived from urea so you don't get the salt buildup.
Unfortunately no, foliage pro is and has been expensive for some time now. I buy 32oz bottles and don't use it as my only fert. Highly recommend osmocote plus granular and supplement with a foliage pro watering every month or so.
There are some exceptions, like palms, mangos, lychee, etc.
Unfortunately no, foliage pro is and has been expensive for some time now. I buy 32oz bottles and don't use it as my only fert. Highly recommend osmocote plus granular and supplement with a foliage pro watering every month or so.
There are some exceptions, like palms, mangos, lychee, etc.
re: Scott Van Pelt with visceral reaction.
Posted by Tigerlaff on 1/1/26 at 4:12 pm to Mission Impossible
I saw it happen live on the ABC broadcast and turned that shite off. Great way to ring in 2026.
re: Darwin’s Doubt: the mathematical problem of evolution and DNA
Posted by Tigerlaff on 12/30/25 at 11:51 pm to Darth_Vader
I've just never understood why there is such difficulty reconciling evolution with the existence of God. If God is what everyone says he is then there is no issue whatsoever with imagining the entire natural process being designed with all the "end" results known beforehand. It could very well be that we are just the first species intended to recognize God and that the next one that comes after us will understand him even more. Or it could be that we are the only species that ever will recognize him and what comes after us isn't capable of it. There could be other civilizations in other galaxies recognizing the same thing. Or we could be the only ones in the entire universe.
If you're the kind of adherent that has to fit your cosmology into the exact literal words of an ancient text written by humans living in a very different time, then OK. But if God is omniscient and omnipresent then there is no reason whatsoever to see the evolutionary process as anything other than a miracle of creation.
Things like the existence of matter over the lower energy state of void, the incongruence between the laws of Newtonian physics and quantum physics, and the DNA replication / evolutionary process did more to convince me of divine existence than any text or theological argument ever did.
If you're the kind of adherent that has to fit your cosmology into the exact literal words of an ancient text written by humans living in a very different time, then OK. But if God is omniscient and omnipresent then there is no reason whatsoever to see the evolutionary process as anything other than a miracle of creation.
Things like the existence of matter over the lower energy state of void, the incongruence between the laws of Newtonian physics and quantum physics, and the DNA replication / evolutionary process did more to convince me of divine existence than any text or theological argument ever did.
re: Louisiana Tropical Fruit Gardening - Experiences and Updates
Posted by Tigerlaff on 12/30/25 at 2:11 pm to LanierSpots
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.
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.
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3 hours of work today getting everything covered and moved inside. But I'll forget all about it this spring when I'm sipping a Mai Tai under a mango tree.
This is the first year I've started keeping records but if I freeze tonight and tomorrow, I will have seen 5 total nights of freezing weather. With approximately 60 days of winter to go, I'd say that's about right. And since they almost always happen in consecutive nights, you're really looking more at "freeze events" than the number of individual days since you only deploy the protection once per event. This is event #3 and I'd say my work ethic and patience are probably good for 7-8 events per season. Anymore than that and I'm probably gonna let some things fend for themselves.
Eta: 12/30 no freeze. That's a win.
3 hours of work today getting everything covered and moved inside. But I'll forget all about it this spring when I'm sipping a Mai Tai under a mango tree.
This is the first year I've started keeping records but if I freeze tonight and tomorrow, I will have seen 5 total nights of freezing weather. With approximately 60 days of winter to go, I'd say that's about right. And since they almost always happen in consecutive nights, you're really looking more at "freeze events" than the number of individual days since you only deploy the protection once per event. This is event #3 and I'd say my work ethic and patience are probably good for 7-8 events per season. Anymore than that and I'm probably gonna let some things fend for themselves.
Eta: 12/30 no freeze. That's a win.
Freeze warning tonight and tomorrow night for most of LA. Get your stuff squared away today.
Lol it's the Civil War and it's not even close. We still haven't healed.
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.
Hanks. Excellent quality for life.
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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.
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.
Yeah you don't need to go to the lengths we've described for in ground planting. Just a raised bed itself will probably provide enough drainage regardless of soil.
If you have irrigation, a sandy loam is perfect. If you don't have irrigation, I'd use native soil. Clay soils will hold moisture better if you're not planning to water. And filling a raised bed with peat would cost a fortune lol. Once you've put your soil in, remember to top it all with a 1 inch layer of compost and natural (non dyed) mulch on top of that.
I'm a big fan of raised beds for trees. Just make sure it's big enough for the root system. You don't plant a tree in a bed that's 3 feet in diameter.
If you have irrigation, a sandy loam is perfect. If you don't have irrigation, I'd use native soil. Clay soils will hold moisture better if you're not planning to water. And filling a raised bed with peat would cost a fortune lol. Once you've put your soil in, remember to top it all with a 1 inch layer of compost and natural (non dyed) mulch on top of that.
I'm a big fan of raised beds for trees. Just make sure it's big enough for the root system. You don't plant a tree in a bed that's 3 feet in diameter.
re: Louisiana Tropical Fruit Gardening - Experiences and Updates
Posted by Tigerlaff on 12/26/25 at 8:14 am to Turnblad85
Exactly. I hate myself for planting one 5 years ago. Huge tree in a primo yard spot making fruit I can't eat.
re: Louisiana Tropical Fruit Gardening - Experiences and Updates
Posted by Tigerlaff on 12/25/25 at 7:25 pm to LanierSpots
:lol: hell yeah brother glad you saw the light. Should have sold it. People love those things for some inexplicable reason. Although I can also understand not selling it just for the satisfaction of chopping it down.
Got my flamethrower palm on Etsy but the shop closed down. Make sure you get the variant you want. Regular, watermelon, or Hookeri.
Got my flamethrower palm on Etsy but the shop closed down. Make sure you get the variant you want. Regular, watermelon, or Hookeri.
Why are you gay?
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