The soap interferes with their ability to breathe or something? I forget why it works, but it works

Diluted dish soap is an excellent mild treatment for aphids, scale, and many other small insects.

Longer

I think the bad days are being taken care of by reality, so what you're saying what we need is more butlerian agitprop, and I'm down for this

an avocado branch with spent flowers on it

i did!! all the flowers are dropping now, as expected

Y'all are nuts. I'd eat a banana with the skin entirely brown before I'd eat one still hard and green. If the stem is stiff and hard to break, it's nasty

Close-up of an avocado flower in the male phase with an out of focus background of some other flowers, flower buds, and avocado leaves

Close-up of an avocado flower in the female stage, with most other flowers on the panicle not yet open

It is remarkable that your flowers are already finished entirely, while most of mine have not even started yet. Mexicola is on day 2 of flowering now:

Many of those look like they might be pollinated! If any of the flower stems start to thicken, visible fruitlets are likely next

I usually see quite a few at that stage, but they mostly drop in early summer during the first main fruit abscission, and most of the rest in a late summer abscission

taft avocados, painted by royal charles steadman, 1917

taft avocados, painted by royal charles steadman, 1917

blakeman avocados, painted by royal charles steadman, 1916

blakeman avocados, painted by royal charles steadman, 1916

Those are flowers on Mexicola. The other varieties in the greenhouse and outdoors have not begun to flower yet.

Close-up photo of an avocado flower in the pollen-receptive (female) stage, with a pink pistil, surrounded by a half-dozen yellow stamens. There are two unopened flower buds just below the open flower.

A slightly pulled back photo of the same flower as the other photo, showing the full panicle it is attached to, which includes about ten unopened flower buds and one pollen-releasing (male) flower that has begun to close for the final time.

Looks like hand pollination season has begun in the greenhouse!

The people in charge of other world governments absolutely have more power to stop this than the U.S. people do.

"What are other countries supposed to do?"

I don't know, man. Maybe stop letting the U.S. use your military bases to launch strikes on Iran to start? Expel some diplomats? Cut off trade with us? Idk.

Photo of a rectangular fridge magnet featuring a shirtless man from a romance novel's cover art embracing a large shrimp in front of a romantic moonlit scene. The artist who makes these uses physical collage techniques to make the original art for the magnets.

Would love to recreate my favorite fridge magnet, ngl

I wanna get an AI Hater label, how do I earn one

Yep that earned a follow lol

No thanks

Delete your account and go back to the nazi bar where you get praised for shit like this

@drymifolia.org flowers on two this year.

Close-up photo of avocado flower stalks extending before the flowers have opened

Beautiful! Have you tried cross-pollinating between them by hand? Your flowers are weeks ahead of the ones in my greenhouse.

Their uniforms are in Spanish. This is in Spain, not the U.S.

No it is not.

About twenty avocado seeds, each poking out of a narrow sleeve full of potting soil, and each with a number written on the seed and also printed on a small tag. The sleeves are arranged in a circular pattern in a large flower pot, and a few of the seeds show small shoots just barely beginning to emerge.

Fifteen avocado seeds, each poking out of a narrow sleeve full of potting soil, and each with a number written on the seed and also printed on a small tag. The sleeves are arranged in a circular pattern in a white bucket, which is on the ground next to some flagstones.

The project continues! Here are a few of next year's trees, just about ready to start growing after a winter spent in a dark, cold greenhouse

Attached to what?

Location tracking by a federally-funded app always on while folks are simultaneously doing ICE watches seems concerning

Unless it's paired with a hefty wealth tax or something, and I think we all know that's not the direction they are going with this

Why would you make such an unreasonable demand

I'm not even sure if I'm real so that's fair