davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2023

[davidd]

I bought a hoya cutting on eBay.... 



What, the whole doll thing?  Or just the spending?

During my mom's last illness, my brother and his wife were supposedly checking things at her house while she was in the hospital, but they neglected to water the hoya plant that was older than I am, and that came from a cutting from a hoya plant my grandmother had.

When I got back there to work on the estate, the hoya plant was totally gone. I took a few cuttings of the least completely dried out stems and kept them in a glass of water for over a year, hoping that something would recover, but no luck.

I used to pick up mangrove seedlings on the beach in Hawaii. I would drop them in a pail of water outside the back steps of the house, and green shoots emerged fairly quickly. The weather was warmer in Hawaii. I've read that mangroves do not tolerate temps below 60˚F / 15˚F very well. The temperature in this part of Florida in the winter often drops below that.

The spending, mostly; although my overall enthusiasm for dolls and action figures is definitely heading in to an ebb cycle.

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5 December - A Doll A Day 2023:

Emerging Roots on a Red Mangrove Propagule (seed pod)