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Sometimes, surprise comes from nowhere. I was going through some stuff, then I found a few packs of old seeds. Only one had packaged date, January, 2004.

Last night, I went to bed after seven, two hours later, still awake. That cup of coffee kept me awake for hours. I finally went to bed again, around 3:30, at 4 or 5, I got up and took a shower, then went back and got up again at 7. Basically, I didn’t sleep much. I will never try to not wasting any coffee. Well, this morning I drank a small cup of tea, maybe 100cc with mint, again, didn’t want to waste. I hope I won’t be up all night.

The sugar snap and snow peas both have a few coming up, so is onion bottom, three green shoots. The celery bottom is growing even greener, more leaves. I hand-pollinated the Christmas cactus, if all goes well, fruits should be setting in a few months.

I pruned a bit of that purple dick and potted that new seedling, also saved a 1-2cm taproot of marsh pennywort, which was growing in the same container. I really hate that plant, it grows everywhere. I cleaned up most of roots, it will have its own smaller container.

51 radish, 5 sunflower, ~20 French marigold (Tagetes patula), and 50+ Hollyhock (Alcea). I sowed four radish seeds directly to the container of purple dick, the temperature is fine for the radish. The rest in seed tray along with kabocha squash.

Decade old seeds, if they do germinate, that’d be a record, even well stored, I doubt they would be viable. The radish seeds art not in sealed pack. The other three are in sealed plastic bags.

This probably is the most erotic post I will ever post on my blog. A couple of months ago, I noticed this plant is blooming crazy.

I couldn’t help to notice the shape of the flower buds, I wonder what they resemble of, some more closer look of them follows.

Once the flowering passes, there is a long string left, then it starts drying out.

Frankly, the flower itself is honestly boring, but its bud really is amusing. I don’t know the name of this plant, so I decided to call it “purple dick,” although only the top part — aka head, that is dick head — is purple, actually it’s more like violet color, but “purple” goes better with “dick” if I intend to go that way.

It is going mental, so I decided to trim out all the branches without flowers, and once all seeds are collected, I will be pulling all of them off. There is already a small seedling, it will continue to erect. I meant grow.

I already saved some seeds are dry. You can see a dry pod and one is opened, how seeds sit inside. So far from I can see, there could be one, two, or three seeds in one pod. I don’t know why the color of coating varies this much, almost from black to white.

You can see the pod forking out, in fact, it pops. Nature is intriguing, not only the bud gets erotic shape, the way it spreads the seeds is a burst. As I tried to open it, I found simply giving the pod a few squeezes around the head (I am not joking), I meant the top, then if you don’t embrace the bottom part, the pod pops open with great force just like seen in picture above. The seeds are thrown out about a meter away.

I haven’t see it happening in the nature, the weather was not so great, raining on and off, but enough to allow the pods to dry. If it continued to be sunny everyday, I think I would see every seed pod popped open, and seeds every where. But it’s not even gonna happen in the future, it’s winter.

Breakfast

Yep, this is breakfast. I don't eat like others.

Flower

Don't know how to call this thing, just amazed by its texture.



If this got more blurry, it could be a monster, huge mouth about to eat you.

Pebbles?

Whatever they are, you don't want to eat them.

Lunch

I know, this is more like a breakfast.

Dinner

No, it's not a snack or teatime stuff. Haven't you gotten to know my eating disorder problem?

Hi yourself!

Coffee

Oh, shoot! I forgot to drink a cup of coffee today. How could I forget something like that?

It's like tax and death, it should be inevitable.