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The popular question leaf or flower?

Konjac

The two pics are about a week's difference in growth, once it decided to grow it took off.

Zone 7a, currently outside.

The other bulb sitting there is a zz, it's just hanging out while it grows a bit more, and that thing its wearing like a sassy crown... it's a cat face orb Weaver spider.

Work took me north yesterday, thankfully stayed south of the river.

The ferry was still running though.

Konjac finally started growing. It's leaf absorbed in November, left a little nub behind, and it's been a tiny nub since(last Pic was the tiny nub that existed since November, it was taken in march)

About 6 weeks ago i got tired of it sitting on a pot of soil in the house, bunged it outside onto the porch and said do your thing.

Mostly ignored it. Once in awhile sprinkled a tiny bit of water around it.

And now it's doing its thing and finally growing

Mom sent me this asking what it is. I have no idea, i only planned hostas in her yard this year, and maintained her hen and chick bed.

location eastern WA

Any idea?

Couldnt settle on a flair so picked this one to rave on an Actually decent landlord.

I know summer is moving time, and there have been some posts looking, so figured i would share. I benefit nothing from this post except maybe a new neighbor.

It's a 4 plex, 2 up 2 down. It's one of the upstairs that's available.

On 27th in the Lincoln heights area(pretty much behind the shopping center).

I honestly can't remember the base rent, I pay extra pet rent(he normally allows 2 small pets but was willing to work with me and 3 feline toddlers) and my rent is under $1400.

We have a pretty small backyard that one of the neighbors and I try to keep up(we tilled and reseeded, have been getting rid of the pokey things to step on, have a small container garden). We wanted a place her grandkids could play, and we could relax.

Has a garage.

Landlord is hands off involved. He does a lot of the repairs and maintenence, along with landscaping himself so is present often, but is very unobtrusive. He responds and takes care of things quickly.

They are non-smoking, but there is a deck out back. Mines covered in plants currently.

New appliances if I remember right(I toured both upstairs), wsg included, washer/ dryer, garage, fireplace, and quiet but nice neighbors. New carpet and paint.

It's really not a bad area, though the senior complex across the street has some wild parties on the weekend, and people do tend to drive down 27th like idiots at times.

I've been here 9 months and plan on staying awhile. One of my neighbors has been here years, and the other about a year.

I'm on the hunt for this set of wizard of Oz nutcracker.

I have found similar, the biggest difference is the nose.

The set I'm looking for has ​an actual nose, not just painted on.

I think this is a Kurt Adler, but haven't discovered that for sure.

At first I thought it was just a shadow trick on the back end, but after watching it for about 5 minutes, watching it move and moving out of shadow, turning a bit - it's not a shadow.

Any thoughts on what would have caused this?

I know deer wander, and can go quite far, this area where spotted is a very rural community, everyone has decent amount of acreage, and none allow hunting on their land. This community tries to keep the "homeland" a more protected area.

This is one of my favorite plants

Thank you.

I knocked it over in my rush to get to work and you picked it up, so thank you

I plan on experimenting.

I want to dry&powder(and make chocolate), and i want to freeze dry some.

Normal dehydrating - should they be left intact, cut up before drying, or broken up after drying?

Freeze drying *THIS IS AN EXPERIMENT BASED ON A PREVIOUS COMMENT THREAD* - Would you dose based on pre dried weight when freeze dried(because a gram would be a lot more mushroom)? Now that I've typed that out pre drying makes sense and absolutely stupid to ask 😅.

Any suggestions for the freeze drying outside the norm(the norm being prefreeze- not necessary, my choice), throw them on the tray and stick them in and let it do it's thing. I may have to cut some to a smaller size, the freeze drying makes them huge.

I left two bags alone for 4 days. This is one of them

I'm going out of town Saturday and won't be back until Tuesday.

I can't bring these with me unfortunately.

What should I be expecting when I get back? (I've had FAE issues, think it's fixed now)

The other bag has been an issue from the start, due to my carelessness. It got dropped just right for the block to fall apart on the top half. It's been way slower and only had 1 as of yesterday. To be honest, as fuzzy as it was at one point I wasn't sure it wasn't contaminated, but decided to watch and wait.