I wouldn't fertilize at this time since the plant is stressed. I would wait until you sees signs of improvement or fertilize VERY lightly. What I would do is just as you thought with the wick. Good thinking by the way. Use a wick and let the wick pull the moisture out of your pot faster than it has been, helping it to dry out faster, by setting your pot in something so that the wick hangs. If you are growing in plastic, it is farely easy to judge when to water. If in a clay pot, I would use a wooden dowel of some sort and wait until it comes out farely dry after pushing it into the root zone to get you through to the repot. I find that my trees are at their peek right about the middle of May to June. If it were my tree, I would hold off until then when the tree shows remarkable signs of improvement and growth. Good luck and if you need anymore help, feel free to ask us. Mike

I don't think you insulted anyone. We daylily addicts love our addiction, and believe me you can fall into the trap really quick! I started out 10 years ago with just a few from Lowe's fall clearance rack. The next year I heard of a wonderful thing, people actually grow daylilies to sell and to show and they have "open house day". My DH and I drove over 90 miles to one of these gardens. Instead of just the old ones that I had found a Lowe's, here was huge reds, yellows that had black eyes and OH ME!!! a yellow that had a huge black eye and edge! I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life. I quickly checked the catalog list that I was given when we arrived and this wonderful daylily sold for $150 and this was 1999. I'd never seen nor heard of a plant that sold for that much money!!! After seeing all the beautiful reds, pinks, cranberry, yellow, near whites, and all the colors in the rainbow, I was HOOKED!! Addicted!!! IN JUST ONE DAY!! I knew then that I would one day have that daylily that was selling for $150. I don't remember the name, but I do now have many with the big black edge and eye. I didn't give nearly that much, maybe $25 but I did have to wait 5 or 6 years to get what I wanted. I'm guilty of having paid $170 for 2 fans of an unknown seedling. I'm gambling that it will be a winner. It could be a new into or it could be tossed on the compost pile. Following that, I've paid between $2 to $100 on over 100 varieties of daylilies. I'm pretty happy with what I have now. The "I gotta have it" stage of my addiction is over, mostly! I still see one or 2 a year that really cause my heart to race, but my money now goes on potting soil, compost, fertilizer and mulch. I hybridize daylilies, grow the seeds and pray for a beauty in maybe 2 or 3 years. I also have purchased 100's of seeds to get a jump on some of the really expensive daylilies. I've paid as much as $5 per seed. I've seen seed sell for over $20 for 1 seed on the Lily Auction. I forget just how much some did go for last year. So, yes, we can be very silly! But, we really do have fun doing it, after all the hard work is done! If you don't want to join us in this addiction, then don't visit this web site: I'm open to all opinions! I think that's what makes us all interesting. So don't be afraid to speak up. Have fun. Be Blessed and join in the fun, Mona Here is a link that might be useful: The Lily Auction

Considering that it's only my wife and I and we don't do that many washing loads, we're very satisfied so far that the LG will meet our needs and expectations (won't know how it holds up until later). With the different cycles available and the ability to modify them to a reasonable extent, we can always pretty much match water level to something that works well on any load we would wash. On the cycles that have a high default fill we will just add enough clothes to match. No more loads than we do, the water usage is not that important to us, and we prefer the choice of using a cycle (and/or the water plus selection) that will use enough water for great results, but use very little water when it's appropriate. On the water temps, we're perfectly satisfied as well. Machine cold (not tap cold which is about 62 deg right now) 80-82 deg is fine, well above detergent performance level. Warm around 102 deg tested after fill with clothes) is fine also, and having 120-124 deg hot water available on hot without using the heater (still haven't tested on sanitize or bright whites with heater available) seems unexpectedly good on an HE washer with a hot water heater setting of 135 deg. Don't know what the future holds, but everything considered, at this point we couldn't be more pleased with both washer and dryer (particularly after reading many HE experiences folks have had). It definitely pays to learn the 'ways of operation' of your particular machine. I'm not sure though, after observing a few wash cycles, our washer even knows what it's doing half the time... but it seems to work out well. Thanks... Quinn

Thanks for all the sympathy everyone - I know you all know how I feel :) Kateskouros: that's funny, but looking at it, it does seem as if ice skates would make those scratches - haha! There's little ice skating around here right now though since it's in the 80's and 90's, so I guess they'll have to come up with another excuse :) Kat: I know you realize exactly how I feel since you've heard all my rantings through email :) Maybe I'll have some GOOD news eventually! Remodelfla: yes, we've decided that it practically has to be a sanding issue. The scratches are hard to describe and actually look a bit different in person than in the photos. The kitchen photos do look as if the scratches were sunken in, therefore maybe didn't take the stain, but in person look a bit raised - I know that sounds crazy, and it's the weirdest thing I've ever seen!! I don't know much about woodworking and definitely not refinishing floors other than what I've read, but we're wondering if the reason it became so apparent once the poly was down is due to the waterbased Bona opening the grain of the wood - does that even sound possible?? I posted a question on the floor forum but have gotten no replies - it doesn't seem to be very active compared to this one! Anyway, I'm putting one more photo below of the scratch in the bedroom (which we KNOW was there before the sanding started) because it does look slightly more as if it's raised. Picture a scar - you know how once scar tissue forms, there's a raised area. That's kind of what it looks like in person! I have no idea why the one in the kitchen looks as if there's no stain at all because it does have some on it - but the more they tried to "fix" the worse it became. Desertsteph: we saw the floors after every process dried, so we first saw the stain and there were no scratches, then one coat of poly, and that's the odd thing I was referring to above - only after approx. the second coat of poly did the scratches emerge. So I saw the floors one morning when I was leaving for work, and then we didn't go up until later that evening when the poly dried. We IMMEDIATELY noticed that and contacted the floor company. The "coordinator/scheduler" said that he was out of town, but would send the guys over to look at it the next day. That's when everyone said they had no idea how it could have happened but it couldn't possibly be from their equipment. So...we began investigating and found everything I wrote above to Remodelfla. We haven't moved anything back in and weren't planning to for several days just to make sure we gave the floors plenty of time to "cure" or whatever. Unfortunately, everything is in storage which we are also paying for much longer now! Seaglass7: thanks for agreeing that it's unbelievable that the company would try to blame us for the scratches and that I'm not just being picky! I was honestly beginning to question whether we were just expecting way too much and if anyone else would think it looked fine (as the floor company tried to say!). We asked them if since they think it looks fine, if they are OK with us posting photos everywhere as a reference for them - see what they say about that - haha! Rubyfig: we do know that the refrigerator was pulled across the floor, but it was well BEFORE the floor company started. And we didn't worry about the fact that we could see scratches in the new unfinished wood because we thought they would be sanded out!!! And none of the appliances were moved after the floor company started - they simply stained around them. It would have been impossible to move the huge refrigerator and get it back in without completely messing up the floors after finished, so we just elected to stain around it. Not the best option, but oh well. Lukkiirish: Yep, that's the "profesisonals" we were lucky enough to choose. You'd never believe this company has been around for at least 5-10 years and isn't just some one-man operation with a hand sander or something - haha! They seemed fine until we had issues - that's when you find out what companies are TRULY like! I'm beginning to REALLY regret not going with prefinished :) Floor in bedroom - scratch corresponds to one that was there BEFORE sanding. It was a fairly deep scratch made by the bed which we just ignored knowing that we'd eventually refinish them - little did we know we'd have the scratch forever - haha: