PrettyTiny Film Company -- Alliecat's crew (Aug. 29, welcome Lily!)

[Alliecat]

How do you "collect pollen?" Brush it in to a little tray or something?

You can tell the gender of the flowers?

Or are you saying you stayed up until dawn, and then head to bed as the sun peeks over the peaks?

Yes.  Daisy is holding the paintbrush.

If you look under the flower beside Daisy, you can see a bulge.  That's the future pumpkin if the flower gets pollinated.
I am completely bummed that the first flower didn't take at all; this one did and I was pleased to see it, but now it's turning an unhealthy colour and doesn't look like it's going to grow.  So disappointed.  It's been so hot & dry.  I let the boxes go 3 days without watering instead of 2; that may have been enough.    I think I'm out of time.  One vine has no female flowers, and the other is so small, that it's a few more days to blooming size and even if it gets pollinated, there probably isn't enough time to grow a decent pumpkin.  I was looking forward to having one.
And slugs got the squash that looked like it was going to grow, before it got really started 
So disappointing, given the difficulty of gardening at all here these days.

Sadly, yes.  Because it's quiet at night, and I can relax a bit finally.  So I spend all night either looking fruitlessly at real estate, or random internetting to shut off my thoughts about the whole mess.  As the sun peeks over Isengard, I go down to the bunker & try to get a little sleep.  This is not a healthy way to live. 

I don't suppose there are any of those little Rainbow Highs who are boys are there?

No, but perhaps in time they'll make some.  There are only 4 or 5 girls yet.  Don't know if they sell well enough to lead to boy versions.


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Pic-a-week turned into a few pix, as usual.  I didn't get it together in time to catch sun on the glads, but here's Rosalind matching them nicely.