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Pond Chat / Re: Koi Boi ponds....

« on: July 18, 2008, 07:28:06 PM »

Hi Kat,  all it takes is a little tractor work Re: What type of tank gets hottest?      I think I've posted instrucions in the past.   


 
       

         

« Reply #12 on: April 20, 2007, 12:28:26 AM »and the frame is easy.

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Pond Chat / Re: Koi Boi ponds....

« on: July 18, 2008, 07:13:40 PM »

Hi Kat,  all it takes is a little tractor work Re: What type of tank gets hottest?      I think I've posted instrucions in the past.   


« Reply #12 on: April 20, 2007, 12:28:26 AM »and the frame is easy. 

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: Gardening Quiz

« on: July 18, 2008, 07:06:09 PM »

Ok I'll give it a go.......#1....
                              #3....
                              #4....to every one that I've killed bruised or injured.
                              #6....
                              #7....
                              #8....
                              #11....
                              #12....Just tell me that somethin' don't grow in Oklahoma and I'll show them a thing or two and lots of other weird plants.
                              #13....
                              #14....
                              #17....doesn't everybody do it routinely?
                              #18....
                              #19....Hey, if ya don't get it now, it won't be there tomorrow!
                              #20....They've  even threatened not to sell to me cause they've seen my yard and say I don't have room for it!
                              #21....many of them since 1972 and quite large.
                              #23....even made many 300 mile round trips to gather just the right highly vigorous species.
                              #24....compost tea, leaf mold tea, and horse manure tea.
                              #25....
                              #26....
                              #27....
                              #29....
                              #30....
                              #31....
                              #32....
                              #34....Many times.  I donn't want merely average performance!??! or is it ?!!?

I'm not particularly excellent, nor do I have a green thumb.....I just suffer from a compulsion to maintain twenty dirty fingers!

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Pond Chat / Re: Koi Boi ponds....

« on: July 18, 2008, 06:09:26 PM »

Hi Annette.   I've had several blooms from both of the cruziana lilies and the Longwood Hybrid.

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Pond Chat / Re: Koi Boi ponds....

« on: July 18, 2008, 04:14:07 PM »

Yes, you're right Annette.  They're not quite as large this year because they are in smaller pots.

Thanks to both of you ladies!

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Pond Chat / Re: Koi Boi ponds....

« on: July 18, 2008, 03:53:49 PM »

And just a few more. 

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Pond Chat / Koi Boi ponds....

« on: July 18, 2008, 03:50:13 PM »

....or, rised beds for organic aquaculture.       Thanks for askin' Kat and Annette.

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Pond Chat / Re: I had babies, lots of them

« on: July 17, 2008, 11:49:05 AM »

Me too!!!

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: My plants need heat

« on: April 10, 2008, 02:35:58 PM »

Thanks Jerry, but it's not ambition, it's just mule headed stubborness or just plain crazy!

Double S...howdy neighbor

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: New bed gettin' started

« on: April 10, 2008, 02:23:20 PM »

We get new ones each year and transplant from three-wire baskets to four-wire baskets.  Nothing on the 8' fence comes back. 

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Terrestrial Gardening / Does anyone have Petasites?

« on: April 10, 2008, 01:02:30 AM »

I've got this one and another that has a large solid green leaf.   I'm new to this plant and delighted at how early it emerged this season.

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Terrestrial Gardening / A peek inside the greenhouse

« on: April 10, 2008, 12:56:15 AM »

I can hardly wait to start draggin' stuff out.

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Terrestrial Gardening / My plants need heat

« on: April 10, 2008, 12:52:56 AM »

I'm in a frost pocket and there seems to be no end to mid and low 30's in site.  

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Terrestrial Gardening / New bed gettin' started

« on: April 10, 2008, 12:43:22 AM »

Last summer I started killing the bermuda grass.     Now the tillin' is done and I need heat!

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Pond Chat / Re: What to Do With Excess Liner - WithOUT Cutting It?

« on: February 22, 2008, 05:03:43 PM »

Hi folks,
 
I hope these attachments will help clear up any questions about how to cap a landscape timber pond frame with a 2 X 12 board in a sturdy fashion.   I forgot to print
'Top View' on the diagram.  Good luck!

Paul   

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Pond Chat / Re: What to Do With Excess Liner - WithOUT Cutting It?

« on: February 21, 2008, 04:32:52 PM »

Hi Julles.

If you are saying that you cannot imagine any way of attaching a 2 X 12 board  atop a landscape timber wall in a sturdy fashion, have a look at this.  I have several visitors at a time sit on these with room to spare.  I’ve stacked as much as 400 pounds of concrete blocks and lily pots on a single 8 foot length.  No wiggling, bending, or creaking.   

Paul 

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: Anyone know this plant?

« on: February 20, 2008, 08:11:04 PM »

In that it has green stems, I would guess P. scandens variegata.  I think the red stemmed varieties that look similar are Peperomia obtusifolia 'USA' and Peperomia clusiifolia 'Jellie', but then there may be others, but yes, I would agree with it being a Peperomia.

Paul 

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Pond Chat / Re: What to Do With Excess Liner - WithOUT Cutting It?

« on: February 19, 2008, 11:00:03 PM »

I’ve only had water under my liner, displacing the water and fish in the pond twice because of heavy or long enduring rains.  Since then, even as expensive as 40 mil EPDM liner is, I always make sure I have enough to bury 12 to 18 inches deep, in a narrow trench around the edge of my coping stones to offer an apron or water barrier.  Now I can empty my pond if I desire (which I have many  times  to harvest the pond pudding with my trusty shopvac) without accumulating more than a quarter inch of ground water seepage underneath the liner in a 4 foot hole.  Even that quickly displaced as soon as the pond is refilled.  Yep, once in ‘93 and again in ‘94 but not since then, even with record setting rains.  Food for thought. Oh yes, puting it underground will help protect it from u-v breakdown. 

Paul 

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Chit Chat / Re: I hope you don't mind...

« on: February 15, 2008, 09:50:35 AM »

With three cervical hernias, one with the thecal sac against the spinal cord and one with the thecal sac into the spinal cord, and a good dose of gouty arthritis, I am in full agreement with and appreciative of Bullfrogs view of the therapeutic benefits of a good rum and soda for pain.  I favor a good dose of Captain Morgan’s Private Stock and Pepsi, but hey, that’s just me.  Sorry to hear of yer injury BF but obviously yer takin’ good care.   Though I,  more often than not, am too busy to spend time posting, I do keep an eye on the forum, and would like to welcome  all your friends.  I especially like to click on a persons name and scroll down to ’Show the last posts of this person’  in the Profile and  gain a broader view of the people here by scrolling through all their posts.  Some people have quite a few pages of posts to peruse through.  Anyway Gods Speed in yer recovery and thanks for introducing yer friends.


Paul 

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Koi Corner / Re: Koi medication question

« on: February 14, 2008, 12:10:28 AM »

I would humbly suggest that some time be spent in determining if the fish has an infestation (as with parasites) rather than assuming it is  an infection (as with bacteria).   In a great majority of cases  a parasitic infestation will be a primary condition which if left untreated too long will result in an infection which of course would be a secondary condition.   In other words treating for parasites at the first sign of flashing, leaping, or porpoising, will often avoid any physical signs developing on the fish.   The treatments for parasites that are considered macro organisms like Argulus or Lernia would differ from the treatment for micro organisms like protozoa or body fungus.   As to the SHOTGUN THEARAPY  you are proposing……I and possibly your fish would be dead against it!!!!    Good luck!

Paul

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Chit Chat / Re: Happy Lunar New Year!! Are you a RAT?!?!?

« on: February 13, 2008, 11:32:20 PM »

Er...Uh   three bodies of water at 500 gallons each, five with 800 gallons each, three with 1000 gallons each, three with 2000 gallons each, one with 8000 gallons and one with 11000 gallons, all of which have fliters that I clean regularly.  I spend a good deal of my retirement cleaning fish toilets and you think it would be a good idea  if this Rat would stay out of the sewer??!!??    I think I prefer to continue thinking of myself as a Leo with his Sun rising in the house of Leo, though just as laden with the snares of life, it has a better ring to it. 

Paul 

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Pond Chat / Re: Question about Bloody Dock Plant

« on: October 18, 2007, 09:31:42 AM »

Hi Bonnie,
I've never had a problem with Rumex being invasive but then I'm always gathering seeds even if I don't use all of them, plus if anything pops up around here, my wife will have it in a 3 or 4 inch pot as soon as it can be transplanted.  She doesn't let many volunteers escape her....ching-ching....ching-ching!  As a complement to what JoshS posted....I have found that some plants sold for use in the margin or bog aren't really aquatic plants.....they just tolerate water in the warm season and may not be as robust in growth habit as it would have been as a bedding plant.

Paul   

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Pond Chat / Re: The Parrot Feather Divide

« on: October 17, 2007, 06:54:21 PM »

I agree with Bonnie on this one.

Paul   

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Pond Chat / Re: Question about Bloody Dock Plant

« on: October 17, 2007, 06:44:10 PM »

Hi Kim
If you are referring to Bloody Sorrel or Rumex sanguineus ssp. sanguineus, then I personally would plant some as a bedding plant and save seed for future uses.  Thompson and Morgan sells packets of three hundred seeds this year (I think).  I have found that many of my aquatic plants do much better if I pot them up as I would a bedding plant for the greenhouse.  Bloody sorrel has been hardy here for us (zone 7a) the last seven years as a bedding plant.  This year a Lowes is the first time I've seen it sold as an aquatic plant.  Anyway I hope this is the plant you are referring to.

Paul   

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Terrestrial Gardening / Kay, remember this Papaya?

« on: October 08, 2007, 05:13:50 PM »

From seed last February! 

Paul   

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Terrestrial Gardening / Big doggone leaf

« on: October 08, 2007, 05:04:34 PM »

I finally got some size on My Alocasia ‘Portodora‘.   The Ipomoea batatas ‘Marguerite’ ain’t doin’ too bad either. I think I need to make some kind of castings of these leaves for a water feature.  Any suggestions?

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Koi Corner / Re: Leather Backed koi ?

« on: October 08, 2007, 04:34:51 PM »

Hi Annette,

I among many others consider armor scale koi to be B-U-K's (Butt Ugly Koi).  Other than that....nothing.  A B.U.K is a B.U.K, is a B.U.K.


Paul 

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Koi Corner / Re: Leather Backed koi ?

« on: October 08, 2007, 11:39:59 AM »

Germans use carp as a food source.  A carp without scales was considered expedient for cleaning, so the Germans developed a carp with minimal scales.  The Japanese crossed the German carp with their Wagoi wh :ich resulted in Doitsu Koi. There are three basic varieties of Doitsu Koi, Mirror, Leather, and Armor scale arrangements.  Mirror scale Koi have four rows of scales, two along the lateral line on each side and two on each side of the dorsal fin.  The leather Koi definition varies a bit, such as two full rows on each side of the dorsal fin, or two partial rows on each side of the dorsal, or no scales at all.   Then there is the undesirable armor scale with very large scales scattered in total disarray over the body of the fish.  The proper terms for the two desirable types are Kagami-goi (mirror carp) and Kawas-goi (leather carp).

It would be proper to say "mirror doitsu koi" or "mirror doitsu goi" and "leather doitsu koi" or "leather doitsu goi"  goi being another Japanese word for carp.  Hope this helps. 


Paul   

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Pond Chat / Re: Charlie's Pride

« on: July 31, 2007, 02:55:58 PM »

  Thanks Bonnie  I think he'd give my beard a good hard yank


Paul 

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Pond Chat / Charles Thomas Lotus

« on: July 31, 2007, 09:17:36 AM »

Well, they should be poppin' any minute tic, tic, tic, tic,......



Paul