Crape Myrtle in Phoenix

I planted a 15 gallon crape Myrtle in October along with two Chinese Pistache. The Pistache are doing fine, but the Crape Myrtle keeps turning brown and dying back. I was watering it once per week but that’s apparently not enough so I switched to two weekly but it’s still not doing well. It bloomed a few weeks ago but everything is dying again, including the flowers. Leaves are turning brown at the tips and moves inward. Any experience with this tree? It’s in direct sunlight pretty much all day.

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u/eblack4012 — 1 day ago

Had a bad “trip” when I took Ashwagandha

I bought it from Bulk Supplements on Amazon. I took it a few times a few months ago and it made my face feel “hot” and I stopped taking it.

I read some good things about it recently so I added some to my nighttime smoothie. I probably added too much (about 1 and 1/2 teaspoons).

Within an hour, I stared getting a really dry mouth. I smoke cannabis a lot so I’m somewhat used to it, but this felt a lot worse and it affected my throat and mouth and I felt like water wasn’t helping make it better. I urinated once and then had this urge to go again 30 seconds after I finished. That feeling wouldn’t go away no matter how many times I peed. It was starting to scare me.

I usually cough up phlegm regularly due to the cannabis and it’s always “wet” and productive. I coughed a few times and it felt like none of the phlegm was getting pulled up and it felt really hacky and dry and I started worrying I was going to choke on it.

After a few hours, I started having small hallucinations. I would see someone out of the corner of my eye and then look over and it was just a shadow. I was in my house alone at the time and these hallucinations kept happening. I was seeing purple “spills” in the floors and furniture.

The effect lasted at least 18 hours if not more. My mouth started feeling normal first and I stopped seeing things and the urge to pee constantly has gone.

I have taken Lexapro for a long time and I wonder if the Ashwanagandha had some kind of compound effect with the ssri and spiked my serotonin or something. I’m not touching this stuff again.

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u/eblack4012 — 10 days ago

I put some time restrictions on my daughter’s Apple Family account and he got upset and left the family group somehow. I got a notification when she did it. I thought I had enabled app and time restrictions so I am not sure how she was able to do it since that should prevent her from leaving.

The strange this is, when I try to add her back from Settings > Family > add button, the window opens and then disappears immediately. The button is NOT greyed out. I am the Organizer of the account. Any ideas what happened?

Edit: there is only one other family member besides me on the account.

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u/eblack4012 — 2 months ago