I've been waiting a long time.

We also have a lot of very expensive food along with food insecurity because most things are shipped here.

Ellen's orchid culture has been improving. As for Gray-C, she must have been born this way.

Not too late. I'll still be 73 for the rest of the next year. Aloha

Thank you, Gray-C enjoyed the feed back too.

Yard work! You mean slash the jungle back! Gardening is an X sport here. Weed whacker in one hand, machete in the other, flamer hooked to the butt.

@@GreenGardenGuy1 daily :)

We had a fine morning. Aloha

Thanks for the feed back. So far I have only picked one Papaya with it.

only knew one spot where they grew but they were abundant.

No, why do you ask? On occasion i will go into a sneezing fit in the morning. Probably clearing the volcanic dust out of my nose from sleeping. The air is filled with salt, sulfur and mold here. Could be any of them.

Nope

@@GreenGardenGuy1 I have lived in Belize for about 18 years, I have a terrible problem with morning junk (for 18 years) . It is almost everyday. When I go back to TN in the states I goes away. I thought you might have some insight. Thanks for the reply.

@@leadershiphelpdesk510 The usual guess would be plant pollen or spores that you are not used to.

Perhaps we are the only one Leo but I sort of think life is everywhere. Here on earth it gets on your skin, destroys your complexion and grows up the side of a wall. I figure it gets around. Even if the Grays didn't drop off Gray-C.

@@GreenGardenGuy1 Good point Bill. Have your ever heard of the concept of panspermia? It's a fascinating topic and I can't help but wonder if life originated in Mars when it had oceans and it got blasted off into earth.

@@leonardoalfonso7080 Looking at the nature of life I would say panspermia is a logical deduction.

We do have some kitten yoga places around here and I definitely concur that cats help achieve a more relaxed state of mind. Our kitties just want to be near, we just had dinner and they are splayed out in various locations just basking in the our presence. If I go get in the rocking chair I will quickly have the twins in my lap. A cats purr is a healing frequency(literally) and it’s soothing as well. It works for the cats when they want to calm or heal themselves and it works on humans that can take the time to imbibe. 🤙 🐈 🏝️ ❤️

@@Yohann67 Meditating in the Hilo Rain before dawn is one of the best times for me to engage this practice. The rain sound becomes all there is. Gray-C might remain motionless for half an hour as she peers into the night. If my mind starts turning one look at her stills it.

the coffee wasn't bad either. Aloha

My condolences, they are a real pain.

Yup, that's what they call it. Paradise is mostly a state of mind but Hawaii comes pretty close!

The Coqui are strange frogs, they never go to water. The live, breed and hatch from the eggs on dry land. The fish would need wings.

@@GreenGardenGuy1 Coqui frogs are so strange. I suspects they must some sort of connection with the grey aliens.

@@leonardoalfonso7080 Yes, the grays dropped them off here just to torment me. Perhaps my gray cat is a listening device?

@@GreenGardenGuy1 Yet another synchronicity because you have been visited by Grays in the past and now you have a cat that is called Gray-C. I wouldn't put it past them if they messed with us.

@@leonardoalfonso7080 To get real, life is stranger than we can imagine. I have seen the craft they travel in but as far as I know I have never seen the occupants. I have a bit of missing time but it seems to be missing.

Looks like I'm going into the water plant business.

Just a farmer. they are generally smarter than nuclear scientists. They feed the world rather than destroy it.

TV is still cracked and still fasting.

Outside of watching football I gave up on tv years ago. Can’t stand the commercials. Outside of an extreme event or emergency, no tv, no news. If it’s one of those events or emergencies I limit my viewing time drastically compared to before. In the last 4 years I’ve had no reason to watch the news until the assassination attempt on Trump. After two days I was done.

@@molassescricket6663 I have used TV as a media for news for years. Local news is important when living in mid ocean. Never know when a Tsunami or Hurricane is heading this way. I never made the transition from Baseball to football as our national sport. I found football to be brutal by comparison.

@@GreenGardenGuy1 Football is modern day gladiators in my opinion, Bill. I don’t watch the news because it’s a form of self abuse in my opinion. I think that it’s bad for the psyche. I check the weather daily, that’s it.

@@molassescricket6663 I have more than one reason i watch the news. Weather is high on that list but habit and curiosity are included. Hawaiian local news has historically been pleasurable and informative. We are isolated, a lot of stuff only happens here. I like to know when something dangerous to the environment in my area is proposed. I tend to participate in citizen hearings and the news is the main method of finding out when, where and what. In the end, I am a well indoctrinated American who actually believes in our experiment. As I was taught in Civics class, citizen participation in our government system is is a privilege and a duty. The news is one of the few ways we have to determine what our opinions happen to be. That said, I haven't watch any news since i broke the TV the day Trump got ventilated. To the point, I kind of like it.

I've grown hundreds of these trees from seed. If it is winter and you do not have a greenhouse try a flower pot on the window sill. Cold will delay or damage germination.

@@GreenGardenGuy1 thanks appreciate.

@@chessman483 You're welcome.

Yes, at the time it was the only way I could get my hands on a tree. I did see a few grafted trees over the years but they are rare.

Most that I have grown were self fertile but the guys down under tell me theirs are not. I grow Suebell and it is generally considered self pollinating but will produce more if paired with another type. I had a single seedling tree in Fremont, CA and if it had more fruit it would have been a problem. As it was the tree produced more than I could deal with.

Remove seed from fresh ripe fruit, plant without drying. Some pulp on seeds are fine, the fermentation stimulates germination. I leave the seed half un covered. I let the root make it's way down on it's own. Aloha

I once saw some grafted Pulasan for sale at Plant it Hawaii open house. They had about 6 of them. Those were the only 6 grafted Pulasan I have ever seen. Time has little effect on me. You can never pick what you do not plant. If you die before it fruits, you will not care because the dead do not eat. I never have figured out this issue with trees, time and people. As a guy who sold trees all his life I've heard the story about time repeatedly. It is as if people know how long they will live. At 73 I still plant trees every week.

Historically I did most of my own logging. I heated the house with wood in Northern Wisconsin for 15 years. I still own the saws and do the small stuff but I tend to higher out a lot these days. I did orchard pruning in CA. I have no idea how people can afford that. The tree makes $250 worth of fruit each year and I charge $450 to prune it.

We both say Aloha.

Now you see why I hate them. The sound comes right through the walls. They should not be out in the day!

Gray-C needs her own KZbin channel! Gray-C, the Coqui Hunter. 🐈

No, I never got around to planting this crop. I have one tree left in the nursery. If you are on Island i would sell it.

@GreenGardenGuy1 if only I was I'd sure to go crazy buying all sorts of exotic fruit trees

@@geriannroth449 Lots of people do that. It seems to be a sort of hobby. I plant what I eat. I often plant what is easy to sell and grow. Past that, if it isn't a good cash generator or doesn't look good on my plate, I avoid it. Over planting and over producing is equal to the local rat population. Unharvested fruit just draws vermin so I avoid collecting. Aloha

It is past tense. The new owners are not into the pork chops. Too bad, they were the best on Island.

Not a bad idea. Since I usually know who I would vote for a decade in advance, the TV offers no assistance.

Habit

Chickens come home to roost. As you sow sow shall you reap. Donald spent years setting the stage to get his ear pierced. I probably would have used a tattoo parlor myself.

Cool

Everything happens for a reason or not!

The shirt is a Tommy Bahama from Nordstrom. The list price in embarrassingly high but Ellen's get employee pricing there. Yes, I love my silk Aloha shirts, so smooth. The diet is the bomb. If you had covid or suffer from depression please try it.

Very good picker and the best cat ever! Aloha

I might have to increase my supplements if i don't stop PPPPPPing.

A major improvement over a pop bottle or a broom.

No dragons in Hawaii thank goodness. My take is that would be a baby I'o. The Hawaiian Hawk. We have a pair here but they must have changed nesting sights since last year. The parents must be gone too long hunting.

Any media works for prophecy. Tea leaves, tarot, palm reading or the stars. It isn't the media, it's the reader.

Now I'm really confused.

Oh Hugh! I once had a friend that did a perfect Ed Sullivan impression in reverse.

@@GreenGardenGuy1 as you should be

@@hughdanaher2758 Condition normal.

Nature has it's way.

Pumpkin Jasmine, wow, what a smell. Really beats death and flowers!

@@GreenGardenGuy1 lol

@@TheDiversifiedFarmer Not sure what i think.

@@GreenGardenGuy1 just finished a mango that a friend brought up from Manatee County,Florida. Land owner told him the tree was over 135 years old. Incredibly flavorful, has some fiber, but I needed to floss anyway. Not a good flavor for a chip.

@@TheDiversifiedFarmer People make salsa from Mango and papaya. It is okay but best on fish or chicken, not on chips. If it actually tasted like a mango things may have been different. The flavor had no source in nature.

Thanks

I don't think I ever tried that. I use words for mnemonic devices. My best memory is for patterns. In plants, in music and on peoples faces.

Since I play music by ear, my ears are also sensitive. I can usually blind fold test the musicians I follow with 2 to 5 notes.

Sometimes I think the desire to eat fruit cakes might be genetically linked.

@@GreenGardenGuy1 I get it from my father who was part English, Polish, French, & German. Go figure.🤷‍♂️

@@molassescricket6663 Sometimes I feel bless that more than half of my genetic line is extinct today. Other than myself a tiny percentage of the planet.

If you use 36" you will probably need to drive support stakes to hold up the fruit. It turns over when it gets heavy and the bottom will sun burn. We plant pineapples on 12" spacing in three triangulated rows. The spacing is like the 5 on a dice. Every dimension is 12" in triangles. This creates enough leaf density to support the fruits as they ripen and stakes are not required. In Thailand they plant patches so dense I have no idea how they pick with out bleeding.

Not really evolution, just researched different data. Fecal transplant is a real thing but it appears, for most of us, the biome is still there but reduced and over whelmed. By diet, it can be restored. I feared it was destroyed but that isn't true. It was a dull science lady on TED Talks doing a show on bubble mice and gut biome that got me started. Later I found people promoting diets to recover a biome. They were right on. Aloha

@@GreenGardenGuy1 What supplements for the biome are you using?

@@rosstodd03 I found it on Amazon, it was the first one on the page that had both pre & probiotic in one dose. The name is Bio Schwartz. This was used in conjunction with high fiber, high polyphenol and largely plant based diet. It works.

@@GreenGardenGuy1 Thanks!

@@rosstodd03 Aloha

All is stars, all hail the stars. Not just sun. All heavy elements were created in the explosion of Super Nova. We are made of star dust as are the plants.