(morning writing)

[elainegrey]

Exciting: Apparently pomegranates can be grafted onto crepe myrtles. I have two crepe myrtles i have been planning on eradicating, as i think in ten years they'll be considered invasive. I ordered six Salavatski scion cuttings from someone in Virginia and will try a few grafting techniques.

I hope the weather change doesn't damage these while shipping.

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Celebrate: i picked up a good looking Kanza pecan tree on Thursday, and i got it in the ground after work last night.

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Learning about running AI on my laptop (queries stay local, eventually could apply to private documents). Rather excited about a private option.  Because it was local, i asked an instance of deep seek to help extract the email addresses people entered in the Zoom chat so we could all stay in touch with one another. Highly entertained that it refused to help me, and suggested we create a form to collect addresses. It slow running on my laptop and i was most of the way done doing it by hand when i got the final refusal.

Also spent a good chunk of the weekend and at work yesterday afternoon getting coding environments set up to use something other than conda, a python environment tool that is now verboten at work.

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Comments

[amaebi]

Wow, that is exciting! I eagerly await more news of pomegranates and your pecan!

[elainegrey]

Fingers crossed for both!

[ofearthandstars]

I'm interested to hear about how the pomegranates turn out; I have not historically had much luck with grafting.

I have an azalea in the yard that has already started putting out buds, I'm afraid they'll be destroyed tomorrow. This same poor plant gets confused every February now. *sigh*

[elainegrey]

The azalea i have i think had flowers in ... i think December? All the poor confused plants and critters I'm hoping "swollen" for blueberry buds is more swollen than buds beginning to swell.

I did find a marbled salamander while planting my pecan tree and sure hope it's OK in the deeper mulch where i relocated it before my dig.

We have a lovely layer of snow here.

No idea whether i will have luck but it seems an easy way to try.

[ofearthandstars]

♥ I hope the salamander made it through okay as well. I wish I had your dedication/motivation to improving our own space. At this point I'm just trying to keep it managed.