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    I know that this is a warm winter but I was not expecting this in Feb!!

    Ron, did you get any sleep last night? 48 here in the 'Springs at 8 o'clock. Not just the cold but that dry wind is going to get to all those new buds just starting to emerge. I remember a March 28 freeze here in S Fla.
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    Croton Tour/Party/Spring Kickoff!! 2/25/12

    Hey Rick...I plan on being there. Chris
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    Canadian Peat ?

    I remember about 35 years ago Jerry Horne, he had a rare plant nursery, and was always using sphagnum moss and had a fungal infection from using it. He found that eating kelp, I don't know what strain, got rid of the infection. There were some kind of minerals in the kelp that suppressed the...
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    this winters weather

    Saw an explanation of the weather patterns of the last two years and the difference from this years. The past 2 years there was a high pressure area centered over Greenland that forced the jet stream to bring storms and cold weather through the US. This year the high is centered over the mid...
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    Pocomo Giving Away all His Crotons!!!

    Ron was in a hurry! Just look how he left the mango trees! Just one croton left in the yard. Ron said it was a dog.
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    Thankful for many things...including crotons!

    Looking good Ray.
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    Croton Naming Conventions

    This is going nowhere. I can see it now. What's the name of that. Unknown hybrid. How about that. Unknown hybrid. etc....
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    Croton Naming Conventions

    Yeah a beautiful plant and you have every right to name it. And being that every seedling whether it looks like another croton or not, it is still genetically different and should be given its own name, if it's worthy of a name and if not should probably just be tossed. In naming orchids every...
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    Thanks to Jeff and Andrea Searle for hosting the gathering!

    Had a really good time. Lots of nice people and good food. Had an interesting time at the sleepover. Lot of good discussion and a new dog gone. I guess. Have to do it again sometime. Thanks Searles'. Chris
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    Happy Birthday Jeff Searle

    Happy Birthday old man! And many more.
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    Splash?

    Peyton...It's funny, Doris and I were talking about it and Gold Nugget came up. So I think that's what it will be. Seems fitting. Chris
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    Series#2...Mr Ralph Davis

    Sure there are but a lot of them don't seem to have a name. Need to have some way of identifying them. Not just "that one" and "that one"...
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    Tangerine Twist

    Looks good Marie. Will you be at Fairchild this weekend?
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    Series#1...Mr. Henry Coppinger

    Jeff.. Mary Pickford was a hollywood actress in the '20s. All I know about that. Yeah Marie there is that big geen yellow and another very large leaf that I think you two already have. And I recently acquired a cutting of Helen Coppinger that is doing very well.
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    Series#1...Mr. Henry Coppinger

    Yes, in answer to your question. My cousin came up with just one other...Mary Pickford...a small yellow leaf. I'm sure there are more just from all the cultivars there were.
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    Series#1...Mr. Henry Coppinger

    Jeff... I would love to accommodate you but I can't think of any names. I'll ask my cousin if he has a list...Don't you have a couple of unnamed ones. Chris
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    'Tis the Season ...

    In my first post I missed Black Beauty. She's behind Delores on the left of the palm trunk.
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    change for the worse?

    Maybe I should start a new thread but I like Aurora for this one. Tentatively anyway. Chris
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    Splash?

    Thanks Keith. Try again I guess. How about Splish Splash. I have another name I thought about but I'll wait to see. Chris
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    change for the worse?

    This is it Ron. Unnamed but still my favorite. I think it will be fine.
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