u/Lawmed-25

Looking for universal donor variety cuttings

Hello everyone, I am looking for some universal donor variety (American Beauty, Bien Hoa Red, Sugar dragon) dragon fruit cuttings. I need to grow universal donor variety to collect pollens. I am hoping for good mature cuttings (so I might get flowers by next summer). I have a couple of NoId plan, red meat (1-1.25 lbs fruits), which I thought were self fertile, but I lost about 10 buds pollinated with its own pollen last month. Anyone in Tustin/Santa Ana area (92782) or the vicinities have any cuttings to share or exchange (for NOID red meat or some pastries goodies)? Thank you!

Is it possible to “over pollinate” and ruin the buds?
I have a NOID plant which I thought was self -fertile- last season I got 4 fruits without doing anything. This season I hand pollinated the bulk of the flowers with its own pollen. I smothered the stigma with a lot of pollen. I obtained enough voodoo child pollen to pollinate 4 flowers.
All the buds (10 flowers) pollinated with its own pollen turned yellow and aborted while all 4 pollinated with voodoo child pollen were successful and still growing today.
While it was possible that last year the fruit was pollinated by nature with pollen from another variety and my plant is actually self-sterile, but I want to rule out the possibility that I over-pollinated them and somehow suffocated the stigma.

My company’s 401(k) allows both in‑plan Roth conversions and in‑service withdrawals of after‑tax contributions. Contributing after‑tax money and using the automatic in‑plan Roth conversion is one way to execute the Mega Backdoor Roth, but I’m considering opening a Fidelity Roth IRA and manually converting the after‑tax funds into the Roth IRA instead, since it would give me more investment options. I spoke with a Fidelity representative who confirmed that this is allowed. I’d like to hear others’ experiences—how easy is the manual conversion process at Fidelity? Has anyone here done it?

II received a text supposedly from Verizon saying “we are upgrading your account from SMS to RCS. It has a total of 6 attachments showing various info. I clicked on the name trying to see the number where it came from, but it only shows the contact card with the name “Verizon updates”, no number. I didn’t click on any of the attachments.

It seems shady that Verizon would send text with attachments. I am tempted to report it as spam, but I don’t want to miss anything if it Is legit.

Anyway, anyone else received it and is it legit?
Verizon customer service, can you confirm?
Thanks

Update 06/12/26. I think this is legit. I went on the app, looking to chat to a support agent. I ended up chatting to a chatbot and later received a survey in the same message. I am still not going to open the attachments.
As a service provider, Verizon should know better than sending text messages with attachments nowadays in this scammer-infested environment.

What are some good fertilizer to use to promote fruit growth. I just saw a bud on my dragonfruit plant so trying to promote more fruit growth. I don’t know what variety it is. It is red flesh and seems to be self-fertile. I do tip the branches.

And if you are in Orange County, California, where do you get them? I am in Tustin, but can drive to Irvine, Santa Ana, Costa Mesa, Westminster, Garden Grove, or the nearby cities.

Thank you

Today, I received a notification from the Tesla app requesting me to schedule an appointment as my system requires service. Upon checking the app, I discovered that it was indeed not generating power. I proceeded to schedule an appointment, but it’s a week away.

This situation raises the question of whether there’s a way to make a claim if the system fails to generate the specified amount of power as outlined in the contract.

Thanks!

I own several CC ETFs, including both index-based funds like GPIQ, SPY, and JEPQ, as well as single-stock ETFs such as SLVO, NVDY, and MSFO. However, I’m reconsidering my income strategy. I compared the total returns (with DRIP on) of the ETFs with their underlying assets. None of the ETFs matched the total returns of their underlying assets. If the ETFs can’t match the total returns of their underlying assets with dividend reinvestment, it’s likely that they’ll underperform if dividends are taken as income. If income is a goal, why not invest directly in the underlying assets and sell shares as needed to generate income? Either selling shares or taking the dividends as income, the total assets still go down. In essence, spending dividends is equivalent to selling shares (or capital) in this context anyway. What is so bad about selling shares?

What are your thoughts?

What apps or websites do you use to compare equity performance? I am looking for something to compare the total return of equities with dividends reinvested.

I currently use dripcal.com, but I’d like to explore more options.

Thanks!