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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • the only lasting 9/11 memory i have is when the budweiser ad with the kneeling clydesdales came on during the super bowl and i said “those horses are praying to mecca” and my friend’s uncle got so mad that he had to go in the backyard

    That’s hilarious.

    Also god damn I’m old, 9/11 happened when I was in college.


  • Yields from this sort of grafting will almost always be lower than a tomato plant and a potato plant alone. A plant has a kinda “energy budget” for growth; It uses this much energy for vegetative growth, that much for roots, some more for fruit, etc. A tomato/potato graft is trying to “spend” large amounts of energy both growing large tomato fruits and growing tubers underground, so you end up with mediocre yields of both.

    Even the tiny fruits a potato grows represent a small energy loss. Which (IMO) is why so many popular potato breeds don’t produce true seed, you get just a little bit more potato that way.

    Interestingly sometimes in potato breeding the opposite of this graft is used, a potato top on tomato roots. That way the potato greenery is flush with nutrients and can set a much heavier crop of fruits, allowing breeders to collect more seeds from their potential cross.






  • The terrible thing about these isn’t the fake orange juice combined with rot gut vodka, it’s that (at least in my area) they want twelve freaking dollars for this shit. That’s three bucks a can!

    You could literally buy an entire jug of not-orange juice as well as a 750 ml bottle of vodka for less.



  • High altitude northern California. It’s snow and ice during the winter, high and dry desert during the summer and alternates during the spring and fall. This May it went from 80 degree weather to freezing at night in the space of two days and then back again in the same span. Also, my yard is subsoil fill, I’ve been gardening for years and my garden bed soil is only just getting to marginal.