The most epic differential appearance... From Seed Pods on H.papilio, when I pollinated with presumable TET namely ("Donau" x "Ambiance"). The respective two seed pods had not only been rather high towers as compared to the common globular specimens, but the seeds foils were rather long and pointed. From these, I obtained "PapDonAmb" which behaves like a DIP in the ways that H.papilio does: When I pollinate with TET, then Seed in Ambundance will be produced, with a low percentage of VIABLE seeds. If you pollinate H.papilio with TET, and IF you receive SOME viable seeds from then YET the likelihood is IMHO high that you will obtain TET specimens. This is an important issue: TETs are generally very fertile, and can be as easily introduced in breeding programs with other TETs.

Talk about humidity, we've had it lately! For a week now, between Mobile and New Orleans, the weather is solid overcast, and temps are in the high 70s sometimes up to mid 80s during the day. I'm at my brother's house tonight, and it is already beginning to get foggy. My DH is up in Mass, and he is expecting a foot of snow tonight, has wood piled up beside the fireplace, and will sleep in front of it just in case the power goes out. So finally winter arrives in New England. I think perhaps the warmer temps have folks less inclined to hibernate for the winter. It is certainly the warmest winter I can remember. What do you think? My other favorite forum is on the house side, Smaller Homes, and it has a lot more activity than normal as well. And a lot of newer folks visiting and posting.

Another thing.....I really hit it hard with all kinds of grain crops last year.....freaked out the neighbors, but, oh well.......CGM, CSM, SBM ( well..that's another story I won't expound on) as well as compost tea, dry and liquid molasses....you name it. It was fun, inexpensive and turned my then interest into a full blown hobby now.....thanks, again, to all.

No good deed goes unpunished, I guess. I wasn't aware of this thread or godldust's 911 suggestion when I saw the supposed suicide note this a.m. I was hoping to see if the Sears interview from the resume post had any feedback when I was alarmed to read the post from this morning. Being concerned, I tracked the #s from the resume post and informed the daughter of Brenda who assured me both Paul and Brenda were fine. When I went back to the suicide post I read godldust's 911 plea and hoped to stop a panic. golddust was lovely. as one would expect, although I did not identify meyself as working for GW, just a poster. For my concern, I have received several call backs from the family, the last threatening me with the cops for aiding and abetting if I didn't provide them with more info. Since this is all on line, I told them how to read both of "Paul's" posts, but I resent being harassed for trying to stop what might have been a murder/suicide. Since the threat seemed real, I hope I did the right thing. But, and this is a big problem, since thiere are so many crazies out there in cyberspace, I'll hesitate to try to help again. Sorry I contributed to the confusion by falling for a hoax. You may remember I'm the one who researched the Mr.Willie painting and suggested that may have been a different type of hoax, so I'm not usually gullible. The one problem I still have with unravelling this is if Paul is in his 80s it's unlikely he'd have a resume on line. Nevertheless, I hope everyone remains healthy and that the original resume guy finds work soon.