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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-08-06 04:12 PM
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I'm growing some jalepenos:





And I am having some success:





The ground cover is thriving:





I have a microscope - here's 10X:






60X:






And, finally, 200X:




:hi:





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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-08-06 04:31 PM
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1. damn, remind me to get ready for a close-up
zoom zoom zoom...:hi:
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-08-06 04:56 PM
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2. How is your fall afternoon?
:hi:

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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-08-06 05:03 PM
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3. it has been a grey day here but mild...
Edited on Sun Oct-08-06 05:04 PM by wildhorses
a little misty rain early this morning...

I have been in my yard trimming back and pruning so that next spring will be bee-yoo-tee-ful:loveya:


I am a technotard or I would be boasting pics too...


on edit are/or, after a couple of glasses of vino does it REALLY matter in the scheme of things:shrug:
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-08-06 06:37 PM
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4. Don't fotget, this is the day for recreation.
Sounds like you've got a good start.

:hug:

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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-08-06 06:49 PM
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5. What is the ground cover called?
It looks like oxalis (shamrocks)? It's really pretty.
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-08-06 06:54 PM
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7. That's what I've been told, and Wikipedia seems to confirm it.
Edited on Sun Oct-08-06 06:55 PM by Ptah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalis


Oxalis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oxalis, Wood Sorrel
Oxalis pes-caprae: Bermuda-buttercup
Oxalis pes-caprae: Bermuda-buttercup
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Oxalidales
Family: Oxalidaceae
Genus: Oxalis
Binomial name
See text
Species

See text.

Oxalis is the largest genus in the wood sorrel family Oxalidaceae. Of the
approximately 900 known species in the Oxalidaceae, 800 belong to Oxalis.
Many of the species are known as Wood Sorrel or Woodsorrel. The genus occurs
throughout most of the world, except for the polar areas; species diversity
is particularly rich in tropical Brazil and Mexico and in South Africa.

These plants are annual or perennial. The leaves are divided into three to
ten or more round, heart-shaped or lanceolate leaflets, arranged in a whorl
with all the leaflets of roughly equal size. The majority of species have
three leaflets; in these species, the leaves are superficially similar to
those of some clovers, though clovers differ in having the leaflets not in a whorl,
and of unequal size with two smaller side leaflets and one larger central leaflet.
Some species exhibit rapid changes in leaf angle in response to temporarily high
light intensity. The flowers have five petals, usually fused at the base, and ten stamens;
the petal colour varies from white to pink, red or yellow. The fruit is a small
capsule containing several seeds. The roots are often tuberous, and several species
also reproduce vegetatively by production of bulbils, which detach to produce new plants.


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Kajsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-08-06 06:51 PM
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6. Those are some good looking jalapenos

and great shots of your garden.

Thanks.

;-)
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-08-06 06:56 PM
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8. And they're hot as well.
:hi:
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-08-06 07:32 PM
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9. Cool pics, ptah!!
:hi: Love the magnified pics!
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-08-06 07:34 PM
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10. Thanks,LynzM.
:hi:

I have too many toys. :blush:

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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-08-06 09:29 PM
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11. Two hour kicking
:kick:
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