On vacation last 4 days...  GRUESOME heat and humidity. Hottest ever on record.  Most of the plants are loving it.

Notocactus sp. are up.

Seeds collected Astrantia major, Eriophorum vaginatum, HUGE raspberry variety.

Also went to a bakery at Lom that had the most amazing focaccia bread. Yum.

Some very light germination in the strep seed containers (from ebay).

Need to transplant the Z. jujuba seedlings to larger containers, they're coiling up their taproots and getting close to the top of the plastic IKEA bag they're in, in their cell-pak cells.

Still waiting for them to power spray the altan so I can move my plants back ><

Replanted the Z. jujuba seedlings and dammit I think I've killed ALL OF THEM!! :(  Argh.  I broke the tap roots off 2 of them.. dropped one on its head, etc etc.  Seriously. Dammitall.  Back to the drawing board.  I've planted them off into nursery pots, watered them in and put a heavy plastic bag over the top of the pot with a rubber band around it.

We'll see.

The weather is truly insane.  It's over 90F and about 80% humidity.  I'm watering twice a day.

Set 25 raspberry seeds in paper towels to stratify.  Should be ready to come out 24.08.14