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Radishrain by Radishrain @ in Life
List of breeds:
Brasil (Philodendron hederaceum var. oxycardium)
• Lemon Lime
UFM1 (Philodendron hederaceum var. oxycardium)
• Variegated Heartleaf Philo (AKA Variegatum, not to be confused with Philodendron domesticum 'Variegatum'; this Philodendron seems to be the one that most resembles a Golden Pothos)
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List of breeds of Blushing Philodendron:
• Pink Princess
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I'm very interested in the concept of growing houseplants from seed. There doesn't seem to be much information that is easy to find about it, however. So, I plan to put information I discovered in this thread.

I've read that these can be grown from seed:
Adromischus cristatus (Crinkle Leaf Plant or Key Lime Pie Plant)
Codariocalyx motorius (Dancing Tree)
Fatsia japonica (Japanese Aralia)
• Hedera helix (English ivy)
Hypoestes phyllostachys (Pink Polka Dot Plant)
Monstera deliciosa
Philodendron sellous (Philodendron Hope): I believe they meant Selloum (Thaumatophyllum bipinnatifidum), which isn't a Philodendron anymore.

I've personally saved and sprouted a seed of Chlorophytum comosum before. The seedling was small and slow-growing, but recognizably a spider plant. It didn't survive beyond the seedling stage. I'm guessing some extra phosphorus and potassium and/or humidity could have saved it.
Radishrain by Radishrain @ in Life
So, I just made some tuna fish sandwiches. They turned out pretty good, in a tangy, peppery sort of way. Here's what I did:

I mixed two cans of Winco tuna in water (drained) with some mayonnaise, a quartered and sliced tomato, several slices of pickled banana peppers (I don't think they're the spicy kind), yellow mustard, and corn chips. I mixed it all together in a bowl with a fork, and made four sandwiches with it. I just finished the first one (it remains to be seen how many I will eat; I plan to put the rest in the refrigerator for later).

Anyway, the taste was quite good. I knew I liked corn chips dipped in tuna-mayo preparations, but I hadn't thought about putting them in a tuna fish sandwich mix until now. Both the corn chips and the peppers add quite a bit of good flavor.

I do recommend this recipe, but it might be a little too tangy for some. I like tangy, though.

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Radishrain by Radishrain @ in Software
I've been trying out Android 10 with my new tablet. It's a Vastking Kingpad SA10. I liked it quite a bit as is, but I just got a new bluetooth keyboard to go with it, and now I've got all kinds of features; so, it's a lot like a laptop now in its functionality (there's hidden functionality that comes out when you hook up a bluetooth keyboard to it (like a lot of shortcuts).

The specific keyboard I got has a lot of cool buttons, too, like buttons for copying, cutting, pasting, selecting all (no menu button, though), controlling a music player, a home button (like the circle button on Android), changing the brightness and volume, etc. Ctrl+ arrow keys works as it does on my desktop.

Anyway, Android 10 has a lot of cool keyboard shortcuts, as does the Chrome web browser, with it, too. Firefox doesn't seem to have a bunch of cool shortcuts, yet.

The one problem with the keyboard is that most of the 10-pad keys don't work when num lock is off (and I was hoping to use the home and end buttons on it). There are additional home and end buttons if you press function with the arrow keys; this is a consolation. The bluetooth seems to work great!

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Radishrain by Radishrain @ in Life
https://www.exoticrainforest.com/Epipremnum%20aureum%20pc.html

The above website shows pictures of how Golden Pothos leaves look as they mature in the wild. Apparently, they can look a lot different than most of us are probably used to who don't live somewhere tropical. Anyway, take a look!

I wonder if giving them the pots is enough to get the leaves to change. Age alone doesn't seem to do it. Perhaps they need a different kind of light or humidity.
Radishrain by Radishrain @ in Life
Here is a list of golden pothos breeds:

• Glacier
• Hawaiian
• Jade Pothos
• Jessenia
• Manjula
• Marble Queen
• Neon Pothos
• Pearls and Jade

Sources:
https://leafyplace.com/types-of-pothos-plants/

I didn't add Golden Pothos as a breed, because it seems to refer to the whole species. I didn't add Cebu Blue, because another site lists it as a breed of another species in the same genus (Epipremnum pinnatum ‘Cebu Blue’).
Radishrain by Radishrain @ in Software
https://m.gutenberg.org/ebooks.opds/

The above is the URL that you need to use the Gutenberg.org catalog on FBReader.
Radishrain by Radishrain @ in Software
Okay, so for a long time now, I've had a problem on my Kindle Fire where my email account shows up twice on the email app. I finally discovered that this seems to have been caused by me clearing the app data on the email app without also clearing the app data on my calendar app (apparently, clearing one doesn't clear the other). So, to fix this problem, I just cleared the data of both. Now I just have a single instance of my email account on the email app, again.
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We can only compost so much stuff at a time, and some things we don't want to compost, due to pathogens or whatever. So, I got an idea: Why not just burn it, and use it as ash in the garden? Works great so far. We already use a wood stove to burn wood into ash for the garden. Our compost thing is pretty much full, and it's winter. So, I've been throwing banana peels, an apple, carrot scraps, moldy tomatoes, and even eggshells on the fire with our wood that warms the house. It works. They burn into ash. No more waste. It should make for a somewhat less alkaline ash, this year.

So, I got to thinking, why don't people burn manure and stuff like that into ash more often? It would probably be nice for the garden, and it wouldn't be so high in calcium as wood ash; there wouldn't be weed seeds, either, and it could be used similarly to water soluble fertilizer. (Ash mixes with water pretty decently, whether or not it's scientifically water soluble.)

I imagine one could incinerate human feces (thus disinfecting it). They have special incinerating toilets. I wonder how nice that ash would be for the garden. Of course, you'd want to limit your sodium chloride intake (since plants only need so much sodium chloride; about 90% of that is extreted via urine, says Google, quoting wiley.com), and only use medication-free excrement. Poop ash would be a great way to retain sustainable nutrients for the garden (and even add to the existing nutrient base, since we buy food, too). The nitrogen loss isn't a big concern (especially as soil bacteria can build it up). It's more the potassium/zinc/copper/iron/magnesium/phosphorus that I'm concerned about; those should remain in the ash.
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