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#1
David,

Thanks for taking a look at this.  I tried the multiple tap methods, but none of those highlighted anything.  Press & hold until word highlighted, then slide marked a section of text easier than the way I first described (the hints David provided led me to this method).  But it still jumps to the previous entry when released, unless it is the first entry of the month, in which case the text stays selected.  Marked text near the bottom of longer entries does not show this behavior.

This may be one of those unsolvable problems given the many types of devices that need to be supported.  I can work around this.  For anything serious I can use my PC, where selection works normally.
#2
Quote from: David Pilling on January 24, 2024, 04:39:58 AMPhones and so on are in a state of sin, they implement "over scroll", by design you can scroll beyond the contents, and its all a bit of a mess as regards standards.

I found another issue seemingly related to the over scroll to skip to the previous or next message feature, so it may not be fixable.  In my iPad I touch & hold on a word to highlight it, release it, drag one end to select the rest of the text I want to copy, and then let go.  A menu should pop up with 'copy' and other options.  But when I let go, it jumps to the previous message in the list.
#3
I think most genes control more than one characteristic, not all of which are known.  There is a risk of running afoul of the Law of Unintended Consequences.  If a modified plant successfully becomes entrenched in a natural ecosystem before a bad consequence is discovered, it may be difficult or impossible to prevent further spread.  Proceed with caution!
#4
I tried it just now, the spaces seem to have done the trick.  I can see and click on the last line, which is half visible.  All of the other work arounds you mentioned also do the trick.  Somehow I missed seeing the two at the top of the text portion.  Thank you!
#5
This is really helpful, especially the list of contents.  Thank you!
#6
The List Archive pages were recently updated.  Since then, the last entry (currently 'The Bulb Garden Newsletter') in the middle column can be scrolled up far enough to see it, but as soon as you let go of it, it scrolls down a bit till it is hidden & the link cannot be selected.  The last 2.5 lines are hidden.  This is on an iPad 2.

#7
I have read about these, it is an interesting concept.  Curious to hear what you think after it's completed and running awhile.
#8
Hi Martin,

Interesting, I had never heard about the thermal inertia of the earth before, but it makes sense.

If I lived where you do, I would probably not like winter either.  But living in Los Angeles, I don't like summer.  Give me the other 3 seasons any time.  I have not had a light frost here in over 30 years, and never a hard one.  I don't know if you ever see pictures of the Rose Bowl stadium on New Year's Day.  It's the site of a major American football college game, between the PAC-12 (Pacific coast) and Big 10 (the upper midwest and points east) college conference champions.  The joke here is we can have gloomy, rainy weather up through December 31st, and again starting January 2nd, but the first is always clear, sunny, and 70 degrees F (21 C).  This causes people in the midwest, with their many degrees of frost, to want to move out here.  Little do they know that on smoggy days in summer you cannot see those mountains, even though the air is mostly much better now than it was in 1960s - 1980s.
#9
General Discussion / Re: Trying a few root crops
December 03, 2023, 07:57:48 AM
I have heard that there is very little true wasabi in sushi bars in the US.  It is supposed to be horseradish dyed green.  Having tried both (I assume), what would you say?

How do you grow it?  A mini-documentary on public TV showed it being grown in a stream on a farm in Japan, while Wikipedia suggests it is riparian.
#10
Thanks to all for the additional details.  The link to the US small lots states, among other details:  
  • maximum of 50 seeds of 1 taxon (taxonomic category such as genus, species, cultivar, etc.) per packet; or a maximum weight not to exceed 10 grams of seed of 1 taxon per packet;
  • There are a maximum of 50 seed packets per shipment;
#11
Thanks, that's really helpful.  Is the phyto only needed if bulbs are ordered?

Is there a limit on packets of seeds for the US small lots permit?
#12
General Plants and Gardening / Silverhill Seeds postage
October 24, 2023, 01:53:15 PM
Several years ago I looked into ordering a book from Silverhill, but the postage to the US was prohibitive.  Has anyone in the US ordered seeds from them, to give me an idea of what to expect.  I would be ordering 10-20 packets.
#13
I found David's comments about the limits of history education in England very interesting.  Here in the US our national history is so much shorter, but we never got to World War II.  That was fairly recent history in the 1960s, when I was in grammar school.  The last thing I remember studying was the Teapot Dome scandal, in the early 1920s.  It was not until I was    12 or so that I learned (& was quite surprised) that WWII started not with Pearl Harbor, but almost two years earlier in Europe with the invasion of Poland.
#14
General Discussion / Re: Hand Pollination
September 26, 2023, 02:24:05 PM
I like Diane's method using tweezers, I want to give that a try.  It cuts out the middleman - I have never had good luck with swabs, and have not tried a brush.  My only successful pollination was the Urginea maritima, and I just used my thumb.

The stigma must be receptive.  When the flower first opens, the stigma looks like a tube that just ends.  At some point the tip splits slightly into 3 lobes and pollen will now stick to it.  I think the pollen must also be ready, but am not sure how to tell if it is or not, except when it will stick to the stigma.
#15
Current Photographs / Re: Sept. photos
September 22, 2023, 02:44:07 PM
Quote from: Carlos on September 21, 2023, 02:34:30 AM...This is known in the US as maritima, but it is not. It was used for tests to produce rat poison,but the project was not profitable and several thousand bulbs were given / retailed to a nursery. There's a paper telling the story...
Hi Carlos - I would be very interested to read that paper.  Do you know the title of the paper, or where is was published?