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Picked a "smooth" pod from the wild mung pot today, and surprise, it isn't a mung at all! It's one of the super small rice beans I planted with them. So it looks like the smooth podded vines are rice beans, and the hairy podded ones are mungs. It also appears the rice beans are a LOT more...

I actually LIKE the taste of greenberry nightshade (Solanum opacum) berries, which are intensely tomato-y. The problem, as I have mentioned, is that greenberry plants look almost exactly like American Nightshade plants (S. americanum) which grow wild around here and the birds distribute...

GOING to grow next year, not have grown. Though if the taste is so unimpressive, I might not bother.

Fist two pods off the "wild mungs" harvested. Seed appears to be just flat green (so looks like domestic, which the planted stuff did not) but it hasn't dried down yet, so it may change (as I mentioned, since this is wilder material, I can't let it dry down on the plant, for fear of the pods...

Hence why I expect mass extinctions of endangered species that live within China's borders. When it comes to actually practicing environmental protection, China has a TERRIBLE track record. The can fine and arrest random private citizens for violating "rules" but when it's a state run plan, or...

For a crash course, I suggest going on YouTube and watching some of the the backlogs of China Truths, China Observer and China Uncensored. As for the sci-fi thing, you may not be all that off the mark. China already has a huge issue of random young people being kidnapped by the government and...

"Lull" is a massive understatement. The PRC's economy is on the verge of total collapse, and all evidence suggests there is now NO WAY to pull it back from a total crash. First there was the multi year total lockdown. Then, when that ended, the housing bubble burst, taking the banks more or less...

I should also mention that, while the Cow Pea plant keeps making flowers, none as yet seem to have "taken" and starred a pod. I also realized that those spare rice beans could become important soon. Given both US-China relations degradation, and the general economic depression and instability...

Yesterday I gave in and removed the cage from around the corn. I really don't LIKE leaving it open to the critters, but now that it's so broken, I suppose it's better than leaving it there while it crushes the stalks. Not that there will necessarily BE anything to protect. I did a feel around...

It's a similar pattern to Hashuli, but, if I recall from my sample, Hashuli has maroon spots, not black. When you re-plant it, you could also check if it has pink mottling on the seedling cotyledons (I recall my Hashuli did).

Correction, FIVE, I noticed two more beginning.

Notes 1. There are now three cucumbers developing, which is good as #2 (I count the one that got eaten as #1, so #2 is the first of the current ones) got caught in the support netting which is now stuck too far in to remove, so it might get into trouble later) 2. Took a trip to the Chinese...

Could be, but it was probably males I was thinking of when I mentioned the even smaller ones. Though all of those European Mantids I saw back in college could have been males, and this could be a male Chinese or American.

Seen on a privet outside a grocery on Friday Might be a different species that the normal one here, since it was a bit smaller than the standard Chinese Mantis (but still bigger than the American ones with the yellow and black dot on the inner leg), and seemed a little more delicate.

I know they are super invasive but I actually LIKE Paulownias in bloom. Like trees covered in foxgloves. I like Silk Trees too, at least, when they are blooming (they're not so great once all those blooms fall off and make huge rotting flower drifts, or come winter when the pods make that creepy...

FINALLY got a pic of the flowers on the cow pea with the second one (with the first, I forgot cow pea flowers open early in the morning and close again as the day progresses, so I waited too long to go out.

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That sounds more like a teratoma to me, a sort of internal tumor that can develop hair, teeth etc. They can result from the absorption of a parasitic twin. I think to be a true chimera, the alien cells have to become integrated into the general body of the organism.

Looks like the sprouts in the pot next to the basil plant are also basil. Though at this point, I don't know if they are the same kind from the original plant that came from seeds it dropped, or returns from the failed type of last year. I tried smelling them, but the main tulsi plant's scent is...

I think it can. It certainly can happen with cats (there's that famous one Venus on the internet with the split colored face and the heterochromia). The literal definition of a chimera is an organism which has more than one cell line with different genotypes. Literally some of their cells have...