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Greetings all, After the recent killing freezes here, I have since pulled up all of those zinnias and bagged them in trash bags to be sent to the landfill. Previously I made compost piles with my zinnia discards, but I quit doing that several years ago because my compost piles didn't get "hot" enough to kill transmitted zinnia diseases. |
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I am relieved to hear that hot weather can wash out the colors of zinnias. That would explain the faded nature of my Zahara Starlight Rose zinnias. We had record breaking hot weather all summer. So, if I replant seeds collected from the plants I had, they may have better color than the parents. It will be fun to see what kind of offspring these plants produce. And I plan to plant hundreds of seeds. Wish me luck! Martha |
Hi Martha, "So, if I replant seeds collected from the plants I had, they may have better color than the parents. It will be fun to see what kind of offspring these plants produce." I think you find that the seeds you save from the Zaharas will come very true to type. All of the Zinnia marylandicas are very stable from seed which, depending on your viewpoint, is very good or kind of uninteresting. I prefer to grow Zinnia elegans (violacea) because they tend to vary quite a lot, and are full of surprises. ZM |
Sorry ZM But PetaWHAToids??? Please Explain Thanks |
ZM, Are there Zinnia elegans that stay under 12 inches? Martha |
Hi NC, "PetaWHAToids???" In the case of zinnias, petaloids are florets that have approximated the form and/or function of petals. Their presence is usually a sign of scabiosa flowered ancestry in a recombinant zinnia. I usually like zinnias that have petaloids, because they can have an unusual or exotic look. The literal meaning is probably something like "false petals". ZM |
Hi Martha, "Are there Zinnia elegans that stay under 12 inches?" The ultimate low-growing zinnia strain is the Thumbelina strain. Thumbelinas start blooming when only about 3 inches high and they reach an ultimate height of about 6 inches with a plant spread of about 8 to 10 inches. They come in a good color range. ZM |
ZM, Thanks for the link. Those are adorable, and they have the nice open centers that the butterflies like to land on for nectar. I'll definitely try those next summer. Martha |
Hi all, Most of the Whirligigs have an approximately equal amount of the two colors on each petal, but this one has the second color on just the petal tips, which gives it a "different" look. |
Sorry to be a Pest ZM But Please could You Show Me some Petaloids exaples? Thanks |
Hi NC, The petaloids in that one are the central floral parts with orange-rust tips. That bloom is a scabious recombinant. This next zinnia also has petaloids. Those petaloids also occur in the central part of the flower. This is essentially an echinacea flowered recombinant that presented petaloids instead of scabious-type petal-colored florets. That bloom is not one of my favorites, but it is an unusual zinnia that you couldn't get in a commercial seed packet. One of the rewards of breeding your own zinnias is that you can grow lots of unusual zinnias that aren't available in seed packets. |
Thank You ZM That Really Does Help ***SMILEY*** |
Thanks all for the input about zinnias and the equator. I will be posting photos , they already started to bloom. I forgot to mention , they are zinnias Lilliput , mixed colors. As of now , the 3 blooming all came with the same colors , reading here that the weather and other factors influence how zinnias bloom , i wonder if its just a coincidence. Alex |
I'm preparing a bed for flowers along the front of my yard. I've spread 4-6" of horse manure of various ages, and plan to cover that with a heavy layer of shredded leaves. The goal is for all this organic matter to suffocate the grass beneath, and improve the moisture retentiveness of the sandy soil as it breaks down and is incorporated into the top layer by the soil organisms. In the spring, I'm hoping to plant low-growing flowers which will attract butterflies and other beneficial insects and birds, but not obscure my neighbors' view as they pull out of their driveways. Do you think this will be too rich an environment for zinnias to bloom well, or do you see any other problems I'm not identifying? My plan is to pull aside the leaves in patches and direct sow at least some of the zinnia seeds I've saved from this season's Zahara Starlight Rose and another low pink variety. I'll also be planting alyssum, annual asters, dianthus, and anything else I can get seeds for. We've had some financial hardships this year, so I'm gardening on a shoe string. Fortunately, I'm a seed collecting addict, so I have saved just about every seed my zinnias produced. I'm counting on the advice here that the green seeds will germinate. I've left them on the plants until the flowers start to look pretty ratty and old. It amazes me how long the blooms on zinnias can last! Enough chatting. Here's a picture of one side of the driveway. There are beds on either side, but this is the bigger of the two. Martha |
Hi Martha, "Do you think this will be too rich an environment for zinnias to bloom well, or do you see any other problems I'm not identifying?" Zinnias enjoy rich soil, so that shouldn't be a problem. I notice several large trees in your picture. Excess shade could be a problem. Is your mailbox facing toward the South? That would probably be the best orientation, lightwise. With no trees directly in the street, your zinnias could "see the sun" better than if the sun were behind some of those trees. Zinnias need 6 hours or more of direct sun per day. ZM |
ZM, Yes, the mailbox faces south. That strip along the road is my only sunny spot in a two acre lot. You can see the beginning of my butterfly behind the new horse manure. I planted those plants last fall, hoping they would get some of that southern sunshine, since we are pretty far north. No such luck. They are too far back and underneath the overhanging branches. But, we did lose a large branch in a summer thunderstorm that lets in a bit more light. Anyway, the area closer to the road gets constant sunshine from sun up till sundown. So, the zinnias should be happy. I did read that overhead watering is not recommended for the Thumbelina Zinnias. I don't have much other options up by the road. If I stick to morning hand sprinkling, will that be OK? I guess I'll find out. Martha |
Hi Martha, " If I stick to morning hand sprinkling, will that be OK?" That will be OK. During the Spring and Summer I don't hesitate to foliar-feed my zinnias in the evening. However, zinnias become more disease prone in the Fall when the days shorten and temperatures drop. But it is an urban myth that water causes powdery mildew in zinnias. Notice that this article actually says "In the case of powdery mildew, you can actually inhibit infection with frequent sprays of water." ZM |
Hi all, This was another specimen with possible tubular parentage, that also had extra full scabious florets. Next year I will be growing a lot of seeds saved from zinnias with possible tubular parentage, which will offer the possibility of reappearance of the tubular petals in modified forms. But there is also the possibility of other traits that are influenced by the tubular genes. |
ZM, Those are gorgeous flowers. But, I don't see any pollen producing "parts". I always look for the fuzzy yellow parts in the center, but these don't have any that can be seen. Are you able to reach in somehow and find them for use in your crossing with other flowers? Martha |
Hi Martha, "But, I don't see any pollen producing "parts"." That is the "glory" of the scabiosa flowered genes. Their pollen producing parts usually take on the color scheme of the flower. In that last picture, everything that you can see is a pollen producing part. And, in the picture above it, those tangled toothy-looking parts in the center are the pollen producing parts. "Are you able to reach in somehow and find them for use in your crossing with other flowers?" I am. I use Kelly forceps or tweezers to get the pollen. There is some trial-and-error involved in that. An anther bundle is only "good" for one day, and most of the anther bundles have already pollinated the internal style/stigmas. Sometimes the fresh ones are in the parts that haven't "opened" yet. And the "ready" ones vary in appearance from one scabious specimen to another. Basically the "good" pollen is where you find it, and you do have to explore a scabious recombinant to find it. Sometimes you will see a bee sticking his tongue down into the florets for pollen, and that can give you a good clue as to where to find the "today's" pollen. Apparently the bees can "smell" or otherwise sense where the good pollen is. ZM |
Hi JG, If you look really closely at that picture, I think you can spot the head of the Nine Spotted Cucumber Beetle that had been snacking on those petals. That whets my appetite for full extreme up-roll and white-backed petals. I think that would be a novel new strain of zinnias. I'll be looking for comparable specimens next year. And I hope you get some too. I continue to be impressed by the novel zinnias in your gene pool. |
Hi JG, Responding to more "loose end" back on Part 18. Back on Thu, Jul 12, 12 at 21:23 you showed a picture of your first-of-the-season extreme rolls. On this laptop computer that I am using until I get my desktop computer working, the uprolled zinnia on the right looks bluish enough to be called a "blue zinnia" in a seed catalog. I realize that this monitor might be affecting that a little and that blue-sky lighting can make lavender zinnias look bluish. But some flowers might consider that to be "blue". In that same picture, the extreme roll on the left looks scrumptious with almost tendril-like petals. ZM |
Hi JG, I need to be vigilant for the appearance of any outside pests on the cuttings. |
- Posted by ladyrose65 6bNJ (My Page) on Sat, Oct 27, 12 at 1:13
Zenman, the flowers are lovely. I love reading your posts, you have a passion for zinnia's. Do you sell your creations? The tubular flowers are lovely. |
- Posted by jackier_gardener 5 (My Page) on Sat, Oct 27, 12 at 10:34
ZM, I checked in on Part 18 several times and thought maybe folks were slowing down with the zinnia season as I have, as I saw no link there. But I have returned here, and was glad to see everyone's entries. I like your rolled-up flower with the white underside that you showed on Tue, Oct 23, 12 at 1:07. After seeing that zinnias could produce the white-backed petals, I decided that that was one feature I wanted to try and hold on to! Your cuttings look great--nice and healthy! I have cut down most of my zinnia beds with our lawn tractor. I hope for some dry days before the ground freezes, and I will try and till up the gardens. Leaves will fall on them and I will then till everything back into the gardens in the spring. I think most of the water that we lost with the drought this past summer has been replaced, but the region in general is still suffering from the effects of the drought. I got my orange X-roll plant as an afterthought following several heavy frosts (although I have several hundred seeds from it--who knows what kind of plants they will turn into?) The leaves of the original plant were dead, but it looked to me like the stem was still alive, so I tried the below: The roots made a nice ball that I put in a sterile soil mix. I will put the whole thing in a transparent covering and see if any leaves will appear, just using the brightest light from the windows here. I'll see if I can keep this thing alive until next summer. JG |
Hi Alex, It is a "single" zinnia, because it has a single row of "guard" petals, and a center composed of scabious florets. The scabious florets are usually fully functional florets, with pollen for the bees and nectar for the butterflies. And they usually produce viable floret seeds. |
Hi Rose, But a lot of the tubular-petaled specimens have an awkward look, with very little petal color showing. They have a long way to go. But I am kind of optimistic about them. |
Hi JG, I'm glad you found your way over here. I have never done anything like you did with that frost-killed zinnia. I have noticed during Fall cleanup that the frost-killed "dead" zinnias that I am pulling up have some very "live" root systems. I did bring in one live zinnia as a transplant, but I haven't potted it yet. In past years, I have always accidentally brought in a variety of pests along with every zinnia plant or cutting that I brought in. This year I used Physan 20 for most of my cuttings, but I am also experimenting with Chlorine Dioxide as a disinfectant. A while back, we purchased a gallon of Oxine to treat the drinking water for our poultry, so I thought I would experiment with it for disinfecting zinnia explants and cuttings. According to the label, Oxine is two percent ClO2. So far, I think I like Oxine better than Chlorox, but I need to get more experience with it on my zinnias before forming an opinion. I don't know how well Chlorine Dioxide compares with Hydrogen Peroxide or Physan 20 as a disinfectant for zinnia cuttings or explants. I am still experimenting with dilution strength for the Chlorine Dioxide. It would be very exciting if your zinnia stem did put out a shoot. Keep us posted. ZM |
Hi all, This marbled-blended coloration is somewhat similar to some of the specimens that you can see in the Peppermint zinnias, but the effect here is actually somewhat different. The Peppermints frequently have a freckled look with a lot of little dots and spots and lines and stripes. They have a variety of patterns, but I quit growing them and crossing them because I wasn't attracted to that look. But this Whirligig marbled-blended look does look kind of interesting to me. I think I am going to select and intercross these marbled Whirligig specimens next year, aiming for a Marbled strain. |
- Posted by jackier_gardener 5 (My Page) on Mon, Oct 29, 12 at 13:15
Hi ZM and everyone! My flowers are gone now, but thought I would post some flowers that are a little unusual that I have had in my garden this and past years. Since I keep as many seeds as I can from one year to the next, I hope to still have some of these characteristics in future flowers. ZM, I like the marbled look, too, and like the amount I see in the flower you have just shown. It's really nice! I first saw a similar trait in my original July Bonnet flower as in many of its descendents, changed as they were from the original. That last one has more of the characteristics of a peppermint-type flower, but nonetheless, is a descendent of the orange July Bonnet plant. I also have had the tubular flowers here in the garden, but not nearly as full as yours! I had a red scabious hybrid with white-backed petals. The scabious hybrids also can show some two-tones in the florets(is rather common here). JG |
JG, Your scabious flowers are GORGEOUS! I also love the first yellow/orange/pink one. It really is fun to see what cool combinations arise from these flowers. Thanks for sharing. Martha |
- Posted by jackier_gardener 5 (My Page) on Wed, Oct 31, 12 at 9:48
Hi Martha, None of those scabious flowers came from a planned cross. They were all surprises coming from planting lots of kinds of zinnias in the garden, collecting the seeds, and then watching the next years' plants bloom! JG |
- Posted by ladyrose65 6bNJ (My Page) on Sat, Nov 3, 12 at 21:16
Will the tubular zinnia's attract hummer's? |
Hi JG, I noticed something on one of the petals, and did this "blow up". I didn't notice that little ant when I took the shot. That happens to me fairly often -- find an insect in a picture after the fact. More later. |
- Posted by jackier_gardener 5 (My Page) on Sun, Nov 4, 12 at 13:06
ZM, Your closeup of the tubular flower is great! I'm not sure if the photo could be recognized as that of a flower I think ladyrose has an interesting thought that possibly hummingbirds could be involved! JG |
JG, When there are swarms of pollen-carrying insects about, airborne pollination could occur over very short distances of less than an inch. And bees will frequently land on a flower that doesn't have any open pollen florets, then notice that there isn't any available pollen, and fly off to a nearby zinnia flower. But, in that brief landing, pollen grains could be dislodged from the balls of pollen that the bee is carrying. |
What is the difference, if any, between the petal seeds and the other seeds that are found more centrally. Is one type more likely to germinate reliably? Is one likely to mature earlier than the other? Is one just easier to harvest? Just curious whether there is a substantive difference. I've not planted anything but what I've bought from a retail seed company, so far. I guess I'll find out next summer. Thanks in advance for any information. Martha |
Hi Martha, The graph paper in that picture has one-inch squares, divided into tenths of an inch. That lets you make semi-quantitative estimates of the individual seed sizes. I have seen a great variety of different seed forms in my zinnias, some with really strange shapes, which adds to the interest in saving and growing your own zinnia seeds. |
- Posted by jackier_gardener 5 (My Page) on Fri, Nov 9, 12 at 11:09
Hi! I should, but haven't, separated my collections of floret (disc flower) and petal (ray flower) seeds. But I believe the same as ZM, and that is, the central floret seeds will tend to result from self-pollination, just because they are derived from the perfect disc flowers (that have both male and female parts). There are some breeders who believe that there is an incompatibility in zinnia flowers where flowers of the same plant cannot cross, but both ZM and I seemed to have noticed differently! The seeds from the "petal" or ray flowers with only female parts necessarily are pollinated by the pollen of the central florets of the same or other plants. I find that the central florets give rise to short, fat seeds while the petal flowers yield flat, larger seeds. Often my floret seeds are yellow in color! ZM, I don't know if you've seen this yellow color of seed in your garden. Below is a photo (not so detailed as ZM's) of some seeds I collected from one of my Extreme Roll zinnias, and now just separated out. The difference is even more noticeable when harvesting the seeds. I should do the same as you, ZM, and grow them out separately to see what sorts of difference I get. Every tiny seed coming from one hybrid zinnia can give rise to a different type of plant.....the variation you can potentially get could be pretty extreme! JG |
Hi JG, Only a few feet from that Whirligig there was another one with 3-armed stigmas. My original tubular petaled mutant had some 3-armed stigmas and some of its progeny also had them. I wonder if the three-armed stigmas will be associated with other unusual traits in my zinnias. I will be growing a lot of F2's from F1 crosses between tubulars and other breeders. Because of the extensive recombination of genetic factors that occurs in F2's, I look forward to some interesting things in those F2 zinnia beds next year. |
- Posted by ladyrose65 6bNJ (My Page) on Thu, Nov 15, 12 at 23:04
Ken what's for next summer in Zinnia's: Sombrero, for red I am going to try Dreamland Red, Sunshine Hybrid Mix, and maybe a pack of Zahara's Mix. What do you all have planned for next summer? |
Hi Rose, Some of those seeds had waved or ruffled edges, which kind of appealed to me. I packaged all the seeds in that picture separately. I may try growing a few of them indoors this Winter, because they look rather unusual. |
Hello ZM. The seeds were bought when i was in Brazil from this company http://www.isla.com.br . They claim to be one of the biggest seed companies in latin america. This is a Californian giant salmon grown near some collards , it also came in more of a single form. Maybe its the hot and dry weather , but the majority are singles. |
- Posted by ladyrose65 6bNJ (My Page) on Mon, Nov 26, 12 at 21:22
Hello Zenman and Neolax, That's a lot of dedication 1 flower type. But its going to be a beautiful sight. The picture is of Giant Red Zinnia's from Hazzards. I accidentally gave the pack to Bakemom (I don't know what I was thinking). I have a large pack of Sombrero, Zenman if you would like I can send you some, just e-mail me. Neolax, that is a pretty pink. |
Hi Alex, I think it would be interesting to develop zinnias with much wider petals, nearly as wide as they are long. They might look something like roses. |
Hi Rose, I don't remember whether I saved seeds from it, but it looks a little misshapen. I had better ones. Actually, I cull my Whirligigs quite a bit because they tend to produce a fairly high percentage of not-so-good zinnias. But some of the good ones make it worthwhile to grow Whirligigs. |
Hi Alex, |
Hi again Rose, I somehow forgot to respond to your question, "Will the tubular zinnia's attract hummer's?" It is too early to tell for sure. So far I haven't seen hummingbirds visiting tubular blooms, but I haven't had a lot of tubular blooms or spent a lot of time observing them. Next year I may have a larger number of tubular blooms and have more opportunity to observe hummingbirds around them. I have seen a lot of hummingbird activity on my "regular" zinnias, including on many of my F1 hybrids between the original tubular "mutant" and other breeder zinnias. But, to my surprise, none of those F1 hybrids had tubular petals, although it was highly probable that the male parent was tubular for many of them. The good news is that I got a fairly good yield of F2 seeds from them, and I will be planting several beds of those F2s next year. I don't know for sure, but I think that at least some of those F2's will exhibit a re-emergence of the tubular petals, possibly a few of them in an improved form. Next year I will feel more than the usual amount of suspense as the new zinnia buds open into flowers. ZM |
- Posted by ladyrose65 6bNJ (My Page) on Tue, Dec 4, 12 at 0:35
When you start your zinnias, do you start them inside a container with potting soil, or do you rake them in the ground. What I'm asking how do you get high percentage of germination from your seeds? I find I get better germination if I sow them in containers before I plant them. |
- Posted by ladyrose65 6bNJ (My Page) on Tue, Dec 4, 12 at 17:48
By the way, Zeman, I sent you an e-mail. I would like a link to how to hybridize Zinnias. This is series 19. I would like read a post on showing you how you can cross pollinate zinnias and coreopsis. |
Hi Rose, Then touch the tip to the stigmas of the female zinnia that you wish to pollinate. Reload the brush after touching a few stigmas. Instead of a paintbrush, you can use tweezers, twissors, or forceps to "pick" a pollen-producing floret. Then you can use the floret as a "loaded" brush to apply pollen to the stigmas of a female zinnia. Zinnias release their pollen in the morning, so you need to be there at about the right time to beat the bees and butterflies to the pollen. Zinnia pollen is good for only a few hours, so you can't store zinnia pollen for later use. I prefer the forceps or tweezers method outside and the artist brush for indoors cross pollinations, but either method can work either place. |
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- Posted by ladyrose65 6bNJ (My Page) on Wed, Dec 5, 12 at 16:55
I believe I got it. Thanks for the pictures, it helps! |
Hi all, Because both the scabious zinnias and the tubular petaled ones have such similar flower parts, I intend to pay particular attention to crosses that are hybrids between tubular petaled zinnias and zinnias that have some scabiosa flowered ancestors. Some of the scabious florets are like small tubular flowers with interesting structures. I would be happy if I could get some new zinnias with really big scabious florets. The tubular petaled zinnias might be one way that could happen. More later. I am really looking forward to growing a lot of home hybridized zinnias next Spring. I hope this drouth will be over by then. |
- Posted by davemichigan zone 6a (SE Michigan (My Page) on Thu, Dec 13, 12 at 17:05
Hi ZM, does the receiving flower need to be protected/netted before and after pollination? Otherwise how do we know that the flower has not been pollinated by bees, say a day before? |
- Posted by ladyrose65 6bNJ (My Page) on Thu, Dec 13, 12 at 22:24
I got a question? A lot of flowers and Veggies are hybrids, how is that seed companies can sell seeds that will give you the hybrid plant? I understand if you take what's been open pollinated on a hybrid you will get a parent or potluck? How are seed companies able to do what they do? |
Hi Dave, I will be working on an improved design this Winter. I also protect many of my breeder zinnias in zinnia cages, which protect them from wind damage, damage from dogs just "passing through", and give birds a less damaging place to perch than onto a zinnia flower whose stem isn't strong enough to support the bird. These zinnia cages are smaller versions of the tomato cages that I make from concrete re-mesh wire. They also make it easy to protect an entire zinnia plant with nylon screening, like in this picture. "Otherwise how do we know that the flower has not been pollinated by bees, say a day before?" |
Hi Rose, "...how is that seed companies can sell seeds that will give you the hybrid plant?" First of all, unfortunately a lot of seeds that are labeled as hybrid are actually open pollinated, although early in their development actual hybridization was done. However, if a seed is labeled as an "F1 hybrid" it is an actual hybrid. The F1 denotes a first generation hybrid. Some seed is labeled as F2 hybrid, and it is open pollinated from F1 hybrids. Seed companies have various ways to produce true F1 hybrid seeds. For example with corn, the two parent varieties are grown in alternate rows, the plants of the seed row are de-tasseled so that only pollen from the tassels of the plants in the other rows can get on the silks of the seed plants. The F1 seeds are harvested only from the ears on the de-tasseled rows. In the case of zinnias, there wasn't an economic way to create F1 seeds until John Mondry of W. Atlee Burpee Company discovered a petal-less (apetalous) male sterile mutant zinnia in 1948 which eventually led to introduction of the first commercial F1 hybrid zinnia, named "Trail Blazer". It used male sterility for seed production, in which the male sterile "femina" zinnias played a role analogous to the de-tasseled corn. The male pollen producing zinnias were carefully selected and re-selected to produce a uniform F1 hybrid. As amateur zinnia breeders we are free to cross any zinnia in our patch with any other zinnia. The commercial zinnia seed producers simply can't afford to pay people to manually cross-pollinate zinnias. "I understand if you take what's been open pollinated on a hybrid you will get a parent or potluck?" A self-pollinated F1 produces F2 recombinations of the traits of the two parents of the F1. Because there are many ways in which the genetic traits can be recombined, there are many possible new traits in the F2s. You can get even more varieties of recombinations by crossing one F1 zinnia with a different F1 zinnia. I cross hybrids with hybrids and then cross those hybrid-hybrids with other hybrid-hybrids to produce hybrid-hybrid-hybrids, and so on. Sure, you get a lot of culls that way, but you also get some remarkable interesting new zinnias as well. Incidentally, that same technique is used by rose breeders. You can see the results much quicker with zinnias. ZM |
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- Posted by ladyrose65 6bNJ (My Page) on Fri, Dec 14, 12 at 13:48
Thanks Zenman. |
- Posted by ladyrose65 6bNJ (My Page) on Mon, Dec 24, 12 at 19:02
Happy Holidays to everyone! |
Your zinnias are gorgeous! How I wish I had the sun for them! Alas, I get 2 hours at best and live zinnia-deprived. |
Hi Julianna, I put several brush piles through the shredder-chipper to fill many compost piles. The forest floor was littered with "deadfall" and rotting leaves, which were already partly decomposed. I had several different sized screens for the hammermill part of shredder-chipper, and the finest screen had one-quarter inch holes which would produce a very finely pulverized product with enormous surface area for rapid composting. |
Well having shade created by t eh building is a bit better in combination with this climate. Full sun if often better judged at part sun with the extreme heat... and then go from there :) I'm able to grow a lot of partial shade plants fairly well because of the brightness of the balcony. It's strange to go back to a balcony after years of gardening in the ground. :) |
- Posted by jackier_gardener 5 (My Page) on Thu, Jan 3, 13 at 13:29
To everyone-- Happy New Year! And I hope you had a wonderful Christmas! May 2013 be the best gardening year ever! ZM, I love your zinnia greetings for the season! It's officially now time to give the catalogs serious attention! ;-) JG |
Today I sprayed Quikpro to get rid of some of the yard so I would have space for roses, wildflowers, and zinnias :) |
- Posted by ladyrose65 6bNJ (My Page) on Wed, Jan 9, 13 at 19:06
Zenman, I found several lost pack of zinnias. (I put them in the freezer and forgot about them). The question I have is what is the difference btw the scabiosa, Candy Stripe, Peppermint, and Whirlygig zinnia's. I noticed they look a lot alike (except scabiosa's are puffy). |
Hi Rose, To me, some striped patterns look like some kind of zinnia chicken pox. I have seen striped patterns in Whirligigs that I liked (like the one pictured above on Sun, Oct 28, 12 at 11:30), and I will pursue that look. |
- Posted by ladyrose65 6bNJ (My Page) on Thu, Jan 10, 13 at 22:07
I like to original, like the Oakland series. The classic zinnia flower. But since I've become a seed hoarder, I got so many choices for zinnia's. I have to decide what to keep and what to trade off. Do you have any idea of how long the avg viability of a zinnia seed if you keep it in the frig? That will be a major deciding factor in what stays and what goes. I don't care for the Zahara singles, blooms are too small for me. I gave them away as goodies in my recent seed trades. Benary's Giants are too tall, the blooms are beautiful. However, they can grow up to 5 ft or more. Giant Red Zinnia's are a keeper because they are butterfly magnets. Purple Prince is a goodie. "Hot Crayons" are dazzling. I might try my hand at pollinating this summer. It looks tedious, but fun. |
Hi Rose, "I found several lost pack of zinnias. (I put them in the freezer and forgot about them)" "Do you have any idea of how long the avg viability of a zinnia seed if you keep it in the frig?" It might make a difference whether it was the freezer or the fridge. I store my zinnias seeds on a shelf in the basement, which I know is not the best way. I plan to get a small refrigerator for my zinnia seed storage in the future. There was a message thread a few years ago that you might be interested in, Containers for long term seed storage. In particular, notice zeedman's comment, "Remember that if seed is frozen, it must remain sealed in its container after removal from the freezer, until the seeds (and the container) reach room temperature. Failure to do this can cause condensation on the seeds, which will quickly destroy them." This Seed Longevity Table indicates that zinnia seeds are good for 5 to 6 years under "ideal" storage conditions. I have done that well with my room temperature storage of zinnia seeds, if 50% germination is "well" enough. ZM |
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- Posted by ladyrose65 6bNJ (My Page) on Fri, Jan 11, 13 at 14:56
Zenman, Thank You for the info and link. Most helpful. |
- Posted by vikingcraftsman 6/7LINY (My Page) on Wed, Jan 16, 13 at 18:39
Well you ruined me I just bought a bunch of whirligig seeds |
Hi Viking, Frequently I will notice some unintended insect or small spider in one of my photos, and this shows a magnified example of that. I don't know if that little guy was doing any harm, but the magnified view showed me something that I missed in the normal view -- namely that the petal ends of that specimen had vestigial "toothiness". You can see barely formed three teeth on the petal ends. I think that most, if not all, of my toothy strain got their toothiness from Whirligig ancestors. |
This thread is like the height of evil. I rationalized buying Crystal White and Profusion Apricot seeds because of it. Now I have my eyes on Magellan seeds once I realized they are my favorite form with a smaller size. Room for them? No. Light for them? Probably not. Evil. So evil. :P |
- Posted by vikingcraftsman 6/7LINY (My Page) on Wed, Jan 23, 13 at 16:55
I could not wait for my seeds to get here so I went to lowes and bought some zinnia seeds and have them growing under lights in the kitchen. The bug reminded me of a picture I took of one of my dahlias. I had a shirt made of the picture for my wife. In the picture every thing was perfect. But when the shirt arrived the picture was blown up and you know where this is going. Yes there was a big bug on the flower and the wife would not wear the shirt. |
Hi Viking, I just now noticed, they seem to have more than nine spots. Anyhow, at first they did just a little cosmetic damage, but I started seeing them hiding in my zinnia blooms more and more. As their numbers increased later in the season, their minor cosmetic damage became more extensive, and I started hand picking them. Not a very effective method of control, but it didn't involve applying insecticide. I am not an organic gardener, but I use some of their methods, including compost piles. And I try to minimize my use of insecticides and fungicides. This coming garden year, I have decided not to grow any cucumbers or melons that might "attract" the cucumber beetles. It remains to be seen if they continue to be a problem in my zinnias. |
Hi Julianna, |
Thanks for the advice! We will see how this goes. I am hoping that at least one decent plant survives and does well. i do have the advantage of good air circulation, which will hopefully keep the plants happy and mildew-free. Here's to hoping! |
Hi all, It has obvious Whirligig heritage, with near-white toothy petal tips. This next toothy specimen reversed the location of the white, by having it near the base of the petals. I hope to grow enough toothies this year to find some better, more extreme, examples of toothiness, and inter-cross them. I also need to expand their color range. |
- Posted by ladyrose65 6bNJ (My Page) on Mon, Feb 4, 13 at 23:13
Sounds Good Zenman! I got too many seeds as well, but I don't have the space to plant them all. I'm giving a lot of seeds as bonus seeds in my trades. Be patiently waiting for your pictures. |
All the marvelous photos of Zinnias are inspiring me to plant a few this summer. Thanks everyone. |
I like to post pictures of my zinnias. But this new "makeover" of GardenWeb kind of reminds me of that movie titled "Honey, I shrunk the kids!" It looks like GardenWeb seriously shrunk most of our pictures. And some of them didn't even maintain the same proportions of width to height. Oh well. At least we can still post pictures of a sort. I won't even link this one in. I will just upload it. It was one of my recombinants from scabiosa flowered x cactus flowered x Whirligig, and it has a hint of two-tone, extra long guard petals, and a conventional scabiosa flowered center. |
I'm going to experiment uploading another picture, this time using links, going for a larger picture (these pictures are still shrunk, apparently to make room for the ads on the right). This is a picture of one of my Whirligigs last year. What I like about that one is that the white color is confined mostly to the tips of the petals. I plan to plant a bunch more Whirligigs this year. ZM |
Do you find much variability in the white trait you described in Whirligig Zinnia? |
Hi Joseph, Yes, I find a lot of variability in the white trait in the Whirligig zinnias, and in zinnias in general. The color itself can range from a cool pure snow white to a warm white to an ivory to a pale cream. And it can continue in an apparent continuum into pale yellow, yellow, dark yellow, golden yellow, and through a range of yellow-oranges into oranges. And from there through red oranges, tangerine, and to the warm reds like scarlet. It seems like a continuum of color, although I know it must not be, because discrete genetic codes on the DNA are at work. And the white can be just barely brushed on the tips or it can occupy a large percentage of the petal, like in this specimen, where the white is more of an ivory. Zinnia petals have many forms and colorations, and it must be a very multi-genic situation. I notice you have done some good work with morning glories. Maybe some day genetic engineering techniques will get some of those beautiful blues from morning glories into zinnias. We could trade you a whole range of yellows. (grin) ZM |
I do like the coloration in Whirligig. It reminds me of a Pelargonium I grew years ago, 'Mr. Wren'. We would certainly do a trade of the genes for blue color for yellow. What a wild dream to see a blue Zinnia like the blue in this flower: |
Joseph, Those are great pictures. I have seen some of your morning glory pictures in other message threads, and they are marvelous. I particularly like it that you are growing some of your morning glories indoors during the Winter. That gives you the ability to accelerate your breeding activities by getting more generations per year. This is another Whirligig and it has even more of the petal having the tip color. In this case, the tip color is a light cream color. Considering just the different arrangements of color on the petals, several different "genes" seem to be involved, which gives a greater opportunity for recombinations in subsequent hybrid generations. ZM |
I should try crossing some varieties of MG, however, I never got into doing it. I may try it this summer. |
It should be rather easy to cross-pollinate morning glories. You might need to split the bloom to get more convenient access to the anthers. There are a lot of possibilities for different crosses to make. If I were breeding morning glories, I would be going after yellows. I think there is a yellow Ipomea species. But, for some reason, I have never seen any "really yellow" morning glories. The same thing used to be true for petunias, but now there are some semi-good yellow petunias. ZM |
Yellow and also black morning glory flowers existed in Edo Period Japan, hundreds of years ago. I was told by a Japanese gardening friend that the person who develops a morning glory of either these two colors would be considered a god by the many morning glory growers in Japan. They want those colors badly that died out. |
If you got yellow, black would be rather easy. Just cross the yellow with the darkest purple, and since the color mixing in a petal is subtractive, yellow and dark purple would be very nearly black. |
- Posted by MandyRose9 8 (My Page) on Fri, Mar 1, 13 at 16:50
I love seeing all your new kinds of zinnias! I've grown a few last year (lilliput, thumbelina, giant cactus flower, and peppermint stick). Now I'm tempted by those whirligig seeds! :) The bicolors are beautiful. |
hello everyone!!!!!! Zenman sent me here. Zinnias are my favorite flowers, and I'm interested in learning how to breed them. I love looking at your pictures. I'm going to attach a picture of some of my zinnias. they are just "basic" zinnias but I love them just the same!! Over the winter I've been collecting different flavors of zinnias through seed trading, including "peppermint" and "striped" and "Cactus" zinnias. I've never had these kinds of zinnias before. I even found a green zinnia, I can't wait to grow it!!! :) I hope to learn how to breed zinnias because I want to make new colors and share them with my daddy. I inherited his green thumb and his zinnias. He can't really garden as much anymore because he is disabled, but he gardens out of pots now. |
Hi MandyRose and Desirai, |
So the female 'parts' are the tiny little strands of hair looking things that I see in your demonstration pictures? |
Hi Desirai, There are very rare instances when the stigma will have three or more "arms" and I think there are a couple of examples of that shown in pictures earlier in this message thread. But almost all of the time they will be like the ones in this picture. Depending on the size of the flower, and its genetics, the size and length of the stigmas can vary considerably. Occasionally some of my breeder zinnias have very large very long stigmas, which makes it quite easy to pollinate them. Some of the scabiosa flowered zinnias can have stigmas that are partially concealed inside their florets. I think there is a picture of that earlier in this message thread, too. |
Hi all, I am no butterfly expert, but I think that they were one of the Fritillaries. I have no idea what their food plant was, but I don't think they laid eggs on my zinnias. I hope to see more of them, and lots of other butterflies on my zinnias again this year. |
I think Zinnia is a good landing pad flat flower for butterfly, and is an excellent nectar source for them. That is a nice butterfly shot, how close did she let you get so you could take the photo? |
Hi Joseph, I was standing right at the flower aiming nearly straight down, so I was maybe 2 feet from the butterfly. There were several dozen butterflies in the zinnia patch, and you could just stand near a flower and wait a minute or two for one to come to you. However, they would give you only a few seconds to get a picture, and even then, they tended to move about and the wind moved them some, too. I took quite a few "bad" shots of butterflies that day. I'll spend a little more time taking butterfly pictures this year. ZM |
That's awesome you could get up close and personal with them. I'll be growing Zinnia this summer thanks to your threads here in this forum. I picked up a couple of packs of seeds at the Philadelphia Flower Show this past weekend. One is advertised as bright pink and the other should be all white. I'm excited to see the flowers and butterfly visitors! |
That's an unusual source of zinnia seeds. Both packets are heirloom varieties. Polar Bear is a good white, and Luminosa is a good pink. Butterflies should like them. But I want more different flower forms in white, like toothy, tubular, and spider,. |
I had not heard of this seed vendor before. They appear to have been in business in New York state since early 2000's. I enjoyed their artistic packets but opted for the less expensive ones. You can easily find their web site if you search using your favorite web browser. You put the different white flower varieties of together and then let the pollinators do the crossings or do you have a more active role? I think the latter is the answer. I grew a pure white Impatiens balsamina recently and enjoyed it. I look forward to the white zinnia. |
- Posted by vikingcraftsman 6/7LINY (My Page) on Tue, Mar 19, 13 at 14:53
Hi Viking, You have gotten a really big head start on the rest of us. My tiny zinnia seedlings are just beginning to get their first set of true leaves. Your seedlings in the white pot are stretched up much too far. Zinnia seedlings need quite a bit of light when they first come up. Our safe no-frost date here is debatable, but I am planning to put some stuff out the first of April, or a little later, (hopefully I will not be the April fool) with the idea of giving it some frost protection if it needs it. Which it probably will. The first of May would be less risky, but I want to push for an earlier zinnia bloom this year. I am preparing to provide some frost protection to the early entrants into my garden. ZM |
- Posted by ladyrose65 6bNJ (My Page) on Thu, Mar 21, 13 at 20:47
Gerris2, I have a lot of giant Red Zinnia seeds, if your are interested I'll send you some? They are butterfly magnets, the flowers have large pollen anthers. |
Hi all, This thread is getting kind of long and possibly slow to load for some people, so we are continuing this over at "It can be fun to breed your own zinnias - Part 20". See you all over there. ZM |
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If there's one thing Preston IS good at...
...it's makin stuff up.
The real foundation question here is this: Has John Harbaugh lost control of this team? He clearly had lost control of Cameron. Cameron was fired due to insubordination. So...the next question is: Has Harbaugh lost the locker room? Do the players still draw inspiration from his rah rah messages? Are they willing to really fight in the trenches for him?
I think a case COULD be made that he has, in fact, lost the locker room. It'll be interesting to see what happens the rest of 2012, and what, if anything, Bisciotti decides to do in 2013.
So for all of those who want him fired, who are you going to replace him with?
Its hard to argue with the success of the Ravens under Harbaugh.
The Ravens are in the playoffs for the fifth straight year.
Having said that, IMO Harbaugh does not run the team.
Mike Preston's latest article says that Lewis, Reed, Suggs, Boldin and Pollard are strong influences in the locker room.
Young Raven players want the approval of the vets like HOF players like Reed, Suggs and Lewis.
Harbaugh's record is successful in spite of the talents of Coach Harbaugh.
After this season, going forward, you will see Harbaugh as just an average coach, if that.
Harbaugh should not get fired. The Ravens need to draft better and get better players on the O-line and D-line and we'll be fine. FIVE STRAIGHT PLAYOFF SEASONS!!
My point is Biscotti should stick to signing checks and watching the games from his suite. IMO he decided to fire Cam without thinking things through only due to a frustrational loss. Harbs has been in the playoffs every year and now appears on the hot seat because of the owner. THis has happened before with Billick IMO
If Biscotti fired Cam then he must know that Harbaugh doesn't control the team and has lost it. CEO's don't get involved in management decisions that a manger should be able to make otherwise. That's what the pay them for, or so I've been lead to believe. Ozzie should have been involved directly as well which also speaks volumes.
This franchise appears to be in protect mode from top to bottom.
I think Harbaugh has control...the players haven't been yapping about a lot of thinks and if they were Mikey would be there to blow them out of proportion....
what makes you think he's lost control? Cameron? Coordinators are hired and fired in the middle of the season...it's happened here before...had cameron been allowed to get away with his insubordination, then you might have something to back your case...clearing the firing with the owner makes sense as the owner is paying the coordinators, not Harbaugh....people act like this is a large corporation..it's not....10 coaches, 60 players and a doxen of so support staff...anyone who thinks Biscotti ought not to be involved is kidding themselves...every owner is involved in those decisions....
Want to fire Harbaugh because McKinnie is not playing? Seems like a solid decision based on McKinnie's inability to keep his weight down and do little more than go through the motions (let's face it..he is esentially working for free since his paycheck is going to pay his debts...he's in the "why bother mode').
Want to fire Harbaugh because the team is decimated by injuries? That would make sense, he's working them too hard during the week and they have nothing left on Sunday...you know better than that....I think he's done a pretty good job of holding things together considering what has happened on the defensive side of the ball...4 starters from opening day remain on the field....
What to fire Harbaugh because the O/L sucks? Oher seems to have taken a step back, Reid is getting his first meaningful playing time, Birk is out of gas, Yanda is hurt, Williams is almost a zero, Osemele is a rookie...they have no blocking tight end with Dickson out....
I know you want him fired, but after this year, where things could have gone south earlier, why? take a look around the league and find a coach who could have done better under the circumstances....there aren't any...the closest you might find is Tomlin...
they make the playoffs for the 5th year in a row and frankly, given the injuries and weaknesses, they shouldn't be there, but Harbaugh has them there...If this were a 14 win team playing way below it's potential...then there is an issue. He's not the GM, he doesn't run the draft and he certainly doesn't draw up contracts....
You make a lot of sense. One thing I tend to disagree with is you point that Harbaugh has no control in the draft. He has input and if his input has any bearing he should be held accountable along with Ozzie. They don't have a clue how to put together a roster of players that have real all-star potential. The draft seems like a litmus test for hard luck stories or we can't take a chance on the young slightly immature player. Smith being the only recent exception. Some others seemly they have a "look what we did for this poor young man", "Aren't we great as an organization", twist.
Give me a break. The production and skillset never appears to enter the equation.
Lastly, I'd assume that Harbaugh chose most if not all of his assistances. Rossburg, Cam, Pee's and his assistant coaches aren't panning out. If they revamp the entire assistant coaching staff (excluding the trainers). I believe the draft, F/O, and existing players would fair much better then what is currently allowed happen (year after year).
he has input, that isn't control....there's a big difference between opinion and the final decision phase..you get a say, but no more....
I think the choice of assistants is not strictly the responsibility of the coach...succession planning requires having a viable candidates to assume head coaching duties in the event of an emergency-- see New Orleans and Indianapolis..
no argument there should be some shake up on the staff....Pees is in a no win situation...can't really biatch too much about special teams....caldwell might keep his job...however, I think he won't....linebackers, dbs and OLine is where the changes are needed....
I won't argue Smith was a reach, but that's how calculated risks are executed...he's been injured more than he's been healthy...he's shown flashes of brilliance....
I think Ravens' fans have been spoiled by late round successes in the past and expect Ozzie to pull rabbits out of his hat every year...not realistic.....take a look around the league and see how many 3rd-7th round picks last more than 3 years...not very many...there is also a downside to that success...under the salary cap you can't keep everyone...
That's certainly the owners prerogative. It is HIS team. And he most certainly thought it through. Bisciott wanted to fire Cameron a year and a half ago and didn't at the insistence of Harbaugh. Finally, he had enough. No owner just signs checks and watches games without some sort of emotional involvement. They wouldn't be human if they did. Frankly, I don't know how Bisciotti lasted this long watching Cameron. Harbaugh's hanging onto his friend Cam will be his undoing. Harbaugh's days are numbered in Baltimore.
Well trading up to get a college productive prospect and not hoarding picks would be great start. Also,getting cherry picked(jumped over) in the draft seems to a consistent theme as well.
I agree that yoiu can't keep everyone and the front office should be mindful that a subprime aged player with a huge contract hurts for along time.
Funny thing is this happened in NY last year and a few years back. Team appeared in termoil but ended winning the Super Bowl. If they get the first playoff game at home and get their players back they will be really dangerous. IMO So lets let things play out before we have a lynch mob.
12 said YES? Wow.
Bill Cowher coached the Steelers 13 seasons before he won a Superbowl. In those 13 seasons he coached 17 playoffs games and had 3 losing seasons. I'm going to seriously question Biscotti if he gets rid of Harbaugh.
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May 18, 2013 | Men's Golf
The Crusader men's golf team posted a team score of 310 in Saturday's final round of the NCAA Columbus Regional at The Ohio State University Golf Club in Columbus, Ohio.
May 18, 2013 | Softball
The Valparaiso softball team earned its first NCAA Tournament victory in program history Saturday afternoon, defeating Central Michigan 7-4 in an elimination game in Ann Arbor, Mich. By virtue of the win, the Crusaders lived to play another elimination game, but Valpo fell in the final game of the day to #18/22 California 6-0, as Jolene Henderson tossed a no-hitter.
May 18, 2013 | Baseball
Wormington induces game-ending double play with bases loaded in the 9th; Crusaders hang on 3-2. Valpo will face UIC Thursday morning at 11:00 am ET/10:00 am CT in Niles, Ohio in the Horizon League Conference Tournament.
May 17, 2013 | Softball
In its opening game of the Ann Arbor Regional of the 2013 NCAA Tournament, Valparaiso held #7/8 Michigan to its second-fewest runs scored at home this season, but the Crusaders could muster just two hits as the Wolverines downed Valpo by a 5-0 final. The Crusaders will take on Central Michigan at 1:30 p.m. CT on Saturday afternoon.
May 17, 2013 | Men's Golf
Valparaiso's men's golf team posted a team score of 308 at in Friday's second round of the NCAA Columbus Regional at The Ohio State University Golf Club in Columbus, Ohio.
May 17, 2013 | Baseball
Chris DeBoo worked into the eighth inning as he earned his fourth win of the year; Bain, Bynum, Burns all had multi-hit games Friday against Youngstown State. Valpo goes for sweep Saturday at 1:00 pm on Senior Day.
May 17, 2013 | Men's Track & Field
Sophomore Jeremy Getz (Colorado Springs, Colo.) has qualified for the NCAA East Regional Championship in the javelin throw.
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The Valparaiso men's golf team posted a team score of 309 in Thursday's first round of the NCAA Columbus Regional at The Ohio State Golf Club in Columbus, Ohio.


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What can seem daunting about sheer is that, well, it's sheer. While these peekaboo fabrics look all airy and ethereal parading down a runway on a reed-thin 17-year old-model, knowing how to wear any of them in real life isn't exactly obvious. Thankfully, this season, designers have hit on ways that a woman can incorporate transparency into her style, and not one of them requires a bee-sting bust or an exhibitionist swagger.
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Beginner: Master the art of veiling, a recurring theme at the resort and spring collections. In a clever game of reveal and conceal, Francisco Costa at Calvin Klein layered an all-white midi-skirt and bandeau top under a long-sleeved sheer sheath. At Céline, Phoebe Philo took her signature leg-lengthening trousers and recast them in translucent white silk; she teamed them with matching shells and put them over a scarf-print tank top and Bermuda set, immediately sedating the print into a whisper of muted color. Stella McCartney had the same idea, veiling organza sweatshirts over a color burst of zesty tangerine; her filmy layer was the ideal anesthetizer.
"There are aspects of sheer in just about every spring collection, which reflect a lightening of mood following on from winter's bold prints and opulent textures," says Holli Rogers, fashion director at Net-a-Porter.com. Designers offered multiple interpretations — organza, chiffon, lattice, perforation. "It's all about striking a delicate balance between showing a flash of skin without revealing too much, and combining pretty detailing with interesting techniques."
Intermediate: Flash a bra, flash some skin — even an entire leg. But just one. Jonathan Saunders spliced sheer inserts into bias-cut silk dresses to tantalizing effects; with every stride, admirers caught a glimpse — albeit a fleeting one. "Sheer felt relevant for the feeling of the collection," Saunders told me. "It was an effective way of making something graphic look sexy," he said, adding, "but it was important that there was just enough 'peek' and not too much 'boo.' "
Preen and Victoria Beckham both showed sheer tops layered over black or white graphic bandeaus or triangle-shaped bras. (Beckham's were built-in.) If you're choosing your own bra for this look, it's important to go with something simple like the Lumière and Paradis d'Enfer collections by Eres, or the Vintage Lace Triangle bra by La Perla. Avoid padded and push-up styles at all costs.
Advanced: Experiment. Christopher Kane's spring/summer 2013 collection read like an ode to sheer. He explored every transparent possibility, from knitted plastics to barely-there silks, from latex crocheting to spongy see-through basket-weave suiting. (Even some of his zippers and those quirky nut-and-bolt fastenings were rendered in clear plastic.) "I always love working with sheer fabrics," Kane told me in his studio in East London. "We pleated sheer organza, gaffer-taped sheer, printed-onto sheer, layered plastic frills and turned jellylike rubber into row upon row of bows."
But here's the kicker: every sheer ensemble was contrasted with a hemline that crept down to the knee or longer, and those sheer blouses maintained models' modesty via sweeping bows across the bust. Yes, it was see-through — and there was latex! — but it was oddly demure, covered up, with just a hint of suggestion. "I'm really drawn to the veil-like quality of sheer, romantically concealing the body while giving just enough away," Kane added.
There's lightness, yes, that's easy enough to grasp — and then there's the heaviness. "Come again?" you ask. Herein lies another trick in making sheer look modern: playing light against heavy; fragile against bold. Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy added weight to his fluttery wisps with gold and silver plates. (At one point, they seemed to be the only thing anchoring those slithers of organza to models' bodies.) And at Pucci, Peter Dundas tempered his procession of multilayered transparencies with statement accessories; mighty cuffs adorned both wrists, while sturdy sandals — ivory wedges carved into dragons — kept things grounded. Believe it or not, sheer might not be so scary after all.


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Oct 10, 2012 5:52 PM
V70, Dumb question, Does the receiver housing serve a purpose?
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So does the casing serve a purpose other then to hold all the components together? reason I ask is my case for my equipment is tight on space, I like to dissasemble the reciever and slide the main board under one of the players and maybe place the front lcd flush mount on the case, etc..... but does the metal housing serve the purpose of helping with signal strength or keeping out interference? Thanks for any help guys
Sadly, your instincts are absolutely right, brichi !
(So it's far from being a "dumb question"...)
The housing is configured as a metal shield, for the precise purpose of ensuring that only RF coming from the antennae (hence primarily "pre-limited" to the band for which the antennae are tuned) reaches the sensitive input stages of the receiver.
It's my firm opinion that the above fact, along with the high volume of (relatively weak) broadband RF "junk" emitted by digital gear such as CD players, renders that particular relocation plan fraught with danger.
Accordingly, when space is tight, I tend to first consider a more "modular" approach that's based on cabling between individual separately housed components, (with only the "controller" needing to be directly in front of the operator) rather than all systems being "locked into" one all-containing "slab".
Corrrect Ron ... trust me, you do not wanna remove the "guts" from the case.
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"As in most cases, there's a level of plausibility to this scam," said Dana Badgerow, president and CEO of the BBB of Minnesota and North Dakota. "Scammers tell consumers they're calling because of an operating flaw or because they've noticed their computers are running slow. And many older computers do run slow. However, consumers need to know these cold calls are bogus. When you have a computer problem, you call the expert. It's not the other way around."
In many instances of this scam, people report the callers have foreign accents. They also sometimes identify themselves as being with Microsoft.
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The BBB offers these tips to avoid the Tech Support scam:
- Don't trust cold calls. Remember, computer firms don't call you about a problem – you call them. Also, never give out your personal information over the phone to someone you don't know. If a caller claims there's a problem with your computer, simply hang up.
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- Protect your computer – All computers should always have the most recent updates installed for spam filters, anti-virus and anti-spyware software and a secure firewall.
The mission of the Better Business Bureau is to be the leader in building marketplace trust by promoting, through self-regulation, the highest standards of business ethics and conduct, and to instill confidence in responsible businesses through programs of education and action that inform, assist and protect the general public. We are open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Contact the BBB at bbb.org or 651-699-1111, toll-free at 1-800-646-6222.
Carbon Bigfuut
6:04 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
There are emails going around, purported from Yahoo, that request your email account and password. Once you give them that information, they use your account to spam everybody in your contacts list and who knows who else.
Dan Hendrickson
9:47 am on Monday, March 4, 2013
That's correct, Carbon. There are a lot of phishing emails making the rounds. We hear about email accounts getting compromised every day. Thank you for writing!
7:11 am on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
NO legitimnate company will ever ask for your peronal info/password in a email.
PS-- be very wary of and cold calls you get too. They can use the phone to do the same thing. If you do get a call, find out the company they (supposedly) are get their phone number, and hang up. Call the number you know to be correct, (off the back of your card, on your bank slip, etc) to verify their call.
I can tell you right now, NEVER give out any passwords- EVER.


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Many books in the blogging genre don't cover all of the topics you need to be successful. Blogging for Income tells you everything you need to know from start to finish. This book assumes you have never blogged in your life, and are looking to hit the ground running!
Topics covered in this book include blog setup, to getting traffic, to making money. This is a truly all-in-one manual for making money while you blog.
This book will help:
Complete beginners to blogging.
Stay at home moms.
Blogging professionals looking for new techniques.
Anyone interested in supplementing their income.