cogitatio
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Saturday, October 15, 2011
TAVS sponsored Judges course
Friday, October 14, 2011
ebay auctions
Belinda is doing an auction of some very nice looking plants right now, including a couple of her own hybrids.Thursday, October 13, 2011
Leaf propagation
I tried rooting a violet leaf in water, after it had been down in a leaf pot for a week it looked like it was under extreme stress in comparison with the other leaves that I had put down, so I took a risk and dug it up to find some rot creeping up the petiole quite merrily, eek. So I removed all of the rot, and placed the leaf in water, a method I had never used before and it rooted, and it only took 5 days, wow, after asking some other people what they do with these water rooted leaves, I decided to throw the leaf in question in soil, so that it could form actual soil and not water roots, hopefully it is good to go now, here is a pic of the rootlets forming just before I set it in soil, they were three times longer than 12 hours earlier, this leaf means business now...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sakerr/6241310340/sizes/m/in/photostream/
Also someone mentioned that you should remove the tips of the leaves so that they quit growing, and also because the injury releases hormones in the leaf for healing that aid in the callus formation. I took one of these leaf tips from frozen in time and wanted to see how much of a leaf you really need to root a plantlet.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sakerr/6241309130/sizes/m/in/photostream/
Since I already know that the mother leaf is rooted I decided to excavate this leaf tip to see if it was doing anything, because it certainly hasn't rotted or dried up and it has been in the soil since about the 25th of September, lo and behold it had roots, but it had also rotted up from the main vein in a semi-circle about half the size of my pinky finger nail, somehow the plant had combatted this rot and callused and rooted anyhow.
I wonder if many people out there have experienced this before with leaves starting to rot and yet rooting and providing plant lets anyways.
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
The Have List
Barring any unforeseen complications this is my list of varieties, some plantlets and some leaves,and some in the mail ha ha talk about counting chickens before they hatch. If you know of any peachy violets or violets with strong yellow, or orangy markings let me know.1Denver Doll
2Lyon's Bunny Hop
3Little Bo Peep
4Mini Minx
5Little Lizzy
6Tiny Wood Trail
7Baby Brian
8Jolly Orchard
9Lil Bit o'Irish
10Little Ruby
11Lollipop
12Lucky lass
13Mac's Willow the Wisp
14Morgan's Barossa
15Morgan's Enchantment
16Morgan's fool's Thin air
17Skagit Tiny Limelight
18Smitten Kitten
19Morgan's Pu-yi
20Morgan's Juniper
21Pacific Pearl
22Ramblin Lassie
23Chantaspring
24Blushing Trail
25smoldering pink
26Rob's Shadow Magic
27Ozio
28Decelle's Julie Belle
29Princess Jade
30Trinket Terrific
31Tongwensis, upsala clone
32Frosty Spring
33Rob's Antique Rose
34Monet
35Midnight Treasure
36Green Dragon
37Genetic Blush
38Anthoflores Little Axel
39Norton's Elaine
40Sumira
41Tipsy
42Neptune
43happy Harold
44Aca's Red Ember
45Rob's Zoot Suit
46Jersey girl Trail
47Little Chippery Trail
48Rob's Delicious
49Rob's June Bug
50Rob's Knickers
51Rob's Seduction
52Rob's Whiz bang
53Warm Sunshine
54Candlelight romance
55Ness' Cranberry swirl
56Smokey moon
57lakeshore Silver
58 S. Ionantha clone
59 Comfort Zone
60...
Friday, September 30, 2011
New Start
So I went to start a new blog and found this one.... oh yah, hopefully I do better this time.Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Isn't She Beatiful -- "Neat-o"
A church leaders conference unlike any other.I just spent the past two days in Grandville Michigan, the conference hosted by Mars Hill Bible Church was definetly something else. When you think of church conferences where does your head go? Lots of worship for sure, sessions on governance structure to bore your socks off, and hype that is quite litrally through the roof. Not so for Isn't She Beautiful, worship was the punctuation of this event rather than the focus, and the major sessions were focused on bible study, being the eucharist and the importance of the sabbath, the creative process with regard to hermeneutics, Salvation and all the different things the bible says about it. That made up the three main sessions taught by Rob Bell, he spoke for at least 8 hours over the two days and all I have to say is wow communicator, I love his simple style.
There were also two break out sessions with a few options: Approaching the Aids epidemic, a lot of info and new thoughts like have you ever thought about getting an HIV test so that you can connect and relate more to those who may have HIV, you could relate its confidentiality, you could actually say I have had it done, a step towards trust. The session with their student ministries gave more details on where they have been and come from with it, they have gotten beyond the children are the church of tomorrow to actually believing and having a ministry which has this ministry as an active and integral part of the church today. During the second session I attended the Elders workshop and really got an inside look at how they operate, the pain they have gone through over the past few years to have a healthy loving supporting elders team, and the processes they are looking at in ensuring that their community some 10 000 strong is all heading in the right direction. It really showed that their community isn't shiny and perfect and that they are not scared to be real about it.
The main thrust of the entire thing I think was to bring hope and to be a eucharist, a soul feeder to the pastors and leaders in attendance, something which really culminated in the final session where Rob talked about prayer shawls and the symbolism they carry. Which was followed by a worship and reflection time where you could take communion, be annointed, pray beneath prayer shawls... all being served by their community... their elders serving us, providing us with opportunities to serve each other.
I think that it was a great encouraging weekend which although it may not have had any profound lightining flash aha moments said old things in a new light, perhaps the correct light.
The greatest part was definetly the opportunity to spend time with some great guys, our conversations alone on the conference on church on whatever were great, Our group of nine consisted of my friend and pastor Dom, Of Joe Manafo, Nathan Colquhoun and Darryl Sylvestri of theStory a new church in Sarnia On., Phil Prendergast (Dom's Brother in law) and Marty Lewis (a.k.a. Mega-Mart) of New Hope in London On., Jared Siebert National Growth Director "Guru" (he seems pretty darn smart to me) for the Free Methodist Church Canada, and James, also of London On, he is currently in the process of starting a new church community in the downtown core of London, it sounds exciting!! Anyways I cant remember his last name (I did just meet him) so I hope that one of these guys will comment and give us more info on him.
Anyhow, a great time, lots and lots of stuff to inspire and reflect on.
Later Kerr

