Rec.ponds.moderated is now just about 5 months old. Google reports
that we are steadily having in the vicinity of 90 posters. The posts
per month are slowly rising. We have had our challenges and tensions,
but we have made it through them. A warm and civil community is
developing. Phyllis and I are glad.

Our thanks to those who worked so hard to establish the group and to
those who have joined in the discussions.

May your ponds thrive.

Jim

"Phyllis and Jim" wrote in message
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Rec.ponds.moderated is now just about 5 months old. Google reports
that we are steadily having in the vicinity of 90 posters. The posts
per month are slowly rising. We have had our challenges and tensions,
but we have made it through them. A warm and civil community is
developing. Phyllis and I are glad.

Our thanks to those who worked so hard to establish the group and to
those who have joined in the discussions.

May your ponds thrive.

Jim

It certainly is a far cry from that "other" newsgroup. Thanks, guys and
gals. Keep up the great posts.

George

"Phyllis and Jim" wrote in message
oups.com...
Rec.ponds.moderated is now just about 5 months old. Google reports
that we are steadily having in the vicinity of 90 posters. The posts
per month are slowly rising. We have had our challenges and tensions,
but we have made it through them. A warm and civil community is
developing. Phyllis and I are glad.

Our thanks to those who worked so hard to establish the group and to
those who have joined in the discussions.

May your ponds thrive.
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I'm sure we'll continue to grow as time passes.

I'm enjoying my ponds from the window as I sit here with a walking-air-boot
on my foot. What a hell of a time to break an ankle.
--
RM....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
rec.ponder since late 1996.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
Zone 6. Middle TN USA
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Sorry to hear about the ankle. That would be a pain....

Jim

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:01:51 CST, "Reel McKoi"
wrote:

What a hell of a time to break an ankle.

Sorry to hear about your misfortune.

Regards,

Hal

"Hal" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:01:51 CST, "Reel McKoi"
wrote:

What a hell of a time to break an ankle.

Sorry to hear about your misfortune.

Regards,

Hal
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Thanks guys. These things never happen in the winter. Broke my knee a few
years ago and lost an entire summer. For a gardener and ponder that's truly
the pits.

My ponds are doing fine with lots of blooms on the water lilies but the
stubborn Lotus still refuses to bloom. Lots of nice leaves but never a
flower in all these years. With the drought we have to top off all the
ponds and tanks weekly. We're still waiting for the pump we ordered from
Foster & Smith.
--
RM....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
rec.ponder since late 1996.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
Zone 6. Middle TN USA
~~~~ }((((* ~~~ }{{{{(ö

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:03:15 CST, "Reel McKoi"
wrote:

My ponds are doing fine with lots of blooms on the water lilies but the
stubborn Lotus still refuses to bloom. Lots of nice leaves but never a
flower in all these years.

Try my recipe! I use 20 gallon half barrel size pots and fill about
6 to 8 inches with dirt and add 4 Aquatic Spikes. Fill with water,
lay a tuber on the dirt at least 4 inches away from the spikes and
place a rock/weight on top. My unknown variety had 9 blooms this
season and the Mrs Perry D Slocum had three.

I saw one of the plants a friend put in her pond the other day and it
has it's first bloom due to open in a week or so. The dirt and time
released fertilizer seem to make a big difference.

I'm done until I turn the pots over next February. I think it was a
good season.

Regards,

Hal

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:35:13 CST, Hal wrote:

Try my recipe! I use 20 gallon half barrel size pots and fill about
6 to 8 inches with dirt and add 4 Aquatic Spikes. Fill with water,
lay a tuber on the dirt at least 4 inches away from the spikes and
place a rock/weight on top. My unknown variety had 9 blooms this
season and the Mrs Perry D Slocum had three.

I'm done until I turn the pots over next February. I think it was a
good season. Hal

Similar here, only pots I'm using, I believe, are half that size, about
18-20" across, as this is a smaller lotus. I have 2 same variety, and I
divide 1 pot every year, alternating. This year the divided plant had 8-9
buds/blooms on it at one time, more have come up since, the undivided one
has the best & biggest foliage, but only a few buds/blooms so far, and I
have fed it. Both have taller foliage then in years past, I think it is all
the heat waves we've been having this year, they like it hot
apparently. ~ jan
------------
Zone 7a, SE Washington State
Ponds: www.jjspond.us

"Hal" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:03:15 CST, "Reel McKoi"
wrote:

My ponds are doing fine with lots of blooms on the water lilies but the
stubborn Lotus still refuses to bloom. Lots of nice leaves but never a
flower in all these years.

Try my recipe! I use 20 gallon half barrel size pots and fill about
6 to 8 inches with dirt and add 4 Aquatic Spikes. Fill with water,
lay a tuber on the dirt at least 4 inches away from the spikes and
place a rock/weight on top. My unknown variety had 9 blooms this
season and the Mrs Perry D Slocum had three.

OK, mine are in a 100 gallon kiddy pool with about 8" of soil and maybe 2"
of water over that. I add Jobe's Rose fertalizer sticks and get plenty of
huge leaves year after year.... not never a flower. It's a huge plant now
and not in one of the ponds. Aquatic Sticks? What is their NPK?

I saw one of the plants a friend put in her pond the other day and it
has it's first bloom due to open in a week or so. The dirt and time
released fertilizer seem to make a big difference.

I'm done until I turn the pots over next February. I think it was a
good season.

No way I can turn over this 100g pool full of wet soil. I'm really afraid
to try and remove the plant because I can't see where the growing tips or
banana shaped growing ends are. Also, how many growing ends or tips would
such a large old plant have? Is there a safe way to do this under the
circumstances?
--
RM....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
rec.ponder since late 1996.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
Zone 6. Middle TN USA
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