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The rate of animal aging is strongly influenced by diet. The more calories consumed, the faster it ages. Well-fed animals not only age faster, they have higher mortality from cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. And the reverse is true, the fewer calories eaten (provided malnutrition is avoided) the slower an animal ages, the lower the death rate from cancer, and the lower the rate of heart disease and diabetes. This dietary regimen of under nutrition without malnutrition is called caloric restriction. The positive relationship between caloric restriction, health and longevity has been found from mammals to insects to worms.
CR has been viewed as less effective in older animals and as acting incrementally to slow or prevent age-related changes in gene expression. However, we found that mice who begin CR in late middle-age reap its benefits almost immediately. Similar results have also been reported in fruit flies. In our studies, when CR was begun late in life, lifespan was still extended by about six months and CR produced a delay in deaths due to cancer, perhaps by decreasing the rate of tumor growth. Mice put on this diet late in life developed the same patterns of liver gene expression as those who began CR in their youth. Also, when the mice were taken off CR, they returned to their previous patterns of gene expression rapidly. Because liver cancer is the most common cause of death in these mice, the results suggest a cause and effect relationship between dietary calories, the rate of aging, and liver gene expression patterns. No previous study has tied these together so closely in a mammal. The results go against prevailing theories that say slow, incremental changes in gene expression and metabolism are the major cause of aging. They also indicate that many of the important effects of caloric restriction on health begin very rapidly after the onset of the diet. The key genomic effects of CR appear to be rapid, readily reversible, and do not seem to result from the long-term accrual of irreversible molecular damage. Drug therapies that induce the same patterns of gene activity seem likely to produce the same age-retarding effects.
We also have performed other genome-wide gene-expression studies in mice with disrupted growth hormone-insulin-like growth factor-1 signaling (DF) that were either CR or given free access to food. Others have shown that either DF or CR alone can extend lifespan, and that together they act additively to extend the lifespan of mice even more. We found that CR and DF additively affected the expression of a group of genes. Individually and together, DF and CR independently affected the expression of other groups of genes. These results indicate that DF and CR affect overlapping sets of genes, and additively affect a subset of genes associated with enhanced longevity. They produced changes in gene expression consistent with increased insulin, glucagon and catecholamine sensitivity, gluconeogenesis, protein turnover, lipid beta-oxidation, apoptosis, and xenobiotic and oxidant metabolism; and decreased cell proliferation, lipid and cholesterol synthesis, and chaperone expression. These results provide a focused group of new genes which are important in regulating the lifespan of mammals, and which may be "drugable targets" for anti-aging therapeutics.
Finally, we investigated the effects of CR in mouse heart. Eight weeks of CR reproduced many of the long-term effects of CR on gene expression and physiology. CR rapidly decreased natriuretic peptide B and collagen I and III expression. CR reduced perivascular collagen accumulation and cardiomyocyte size in the left ventricle. These results suggest that hearts of LT-CR mice are physiologically younger than those of control mice. Switching CR mice to control feeding rapidly returned 91% of the CR responsive genes to control expression levels. Thus, CR rapidly and reversibly induced genomic changes associated with reduced cardiovascular pathology.


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Since tomorrow is the first day of September (the day Fall officially begins for me) I am posting a delicious recipe. If you like pumpkin lattes you really need to try this recipe. Being a coffee connoisseur, I really think this is good. The only thing that I would do different is if you have a sieve to pour the milk/pumpkin mixture through as you add to the coffee go ahead and use it. If you don't have one, don't worry, it still tastes just as good. Here you go!
You will need:
1/2 cup of ground coffee (try to use "good" coffee...it just taste better).
1 1/2 cups of water
3 Cups of whole milk
3/4 cup of canned pumpkin
1/3 cup of packed brown sugar
Scant teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice
Whipped cream and additonal cinnamon for garnish.
Brew the coffee and water in your drip coffee maker. Meanwhile in a large pan combine the milk, pumpkin, brown sugar and spice. Cook and stir over medium heat until steaming. Divide the coffee among five mugs; add pumpkin mixture. Garnish with whipped cream and additional cinnamon.
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Pumpkin Spice Latte
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Tokyo Ghoul Live-Action Gets A New Visual
Ken Kaneki's back! As the official website of Tokyo Ghoul reveals a new visual for the upcoming film.
Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way – except their craving for human flesh. Shy Ken Kaneki is thrilled to go on a date with the beautiful Rize. But it turns out that she's only interested in his body – eating it, that is. When a morally questionable rescue transforms him into the first half-human half-Ghoul hybrid, Ken is drawn into the dark and violent world of Ghouls, which exists alongside our own.
Earlier this month they've uploaded a teaser.
Which features the main cast:
Masataka Kubota – As Kaneki
Fumika Shimizu – As Tōka
Yuu Aoi – As Rize
Nobuyuki Suzuki – As Amon
Yo Oizumi – As Mado
Kentarō Hagiwara will direct the film and will be showing for theaters in Japan this July 29
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Tag Archives: design
(1127) Aging in it
Three items to help us gather some thoughts around the growth in the number of elderly persons occurring now in North America. How will the built environment affect the cognition and emotional life of seniors?
The isolation of aging in an auto-oriented place
No place to grow old. How Canadian suburbs can become age-friendly
irrp.org (26-page .pdf)
What helps Minnesota seniors age in place?
U researcher has some clues. It's the little things
like benches and safe crosswalks
Who will buy Baby Boomers' homes?
Want to stop your brain from getting old?
Live in a walkable neighbourhood
image: Tasha Lutek via Flickr/CC
(1117) Suburban needs & innovation
We like optimism, yes we do. Infrastructure gets us going pretty good as well. To wit: an item that counsels us to look out to the sprawl for innovative approaches to badly needed infrastructure.
Why suburban tensions and inequality will drive infrastructure innovation
image: Garrett via Flickr/CC
(1105) The unconsulted end users of public housing & modernism
Michael Ford's treatment of modernism is pretty cool: towers in a park through a hip hop lens. Brainy and fresh, a TEDx talk really worth your time.
The Future of 'Hip-Hop Architecture'. Michael Ford explains how he's building a movement to reclaim urban design from the failures of the 1970s
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(975) 1980s social housing [Excerpt from Subdivided]
image: Plan Voisin, 1925 via Wikimedia/CC
(1085) Prepared Housewives
Walk Score is an online software tool that assesses the basic characteristics of any address in Canada or the United States given to it. Your neighbourhood is rated by an algorithm between 0 and 100 for ease of access to a list of general amenities, such common sense things as schools, cinemas, bus stops. Its intentions are generally progressive and supportive of the idea that a walkable community is simply nicer to live in and easier on the environment and therefore more desirable. Walk Score is often used by people looking for a new neighbourhood and it can be quite fairly said to be a barometer of the quality of life in a given place. A strong Walk Score, would reflect the humane values of urbanist Jane Jacobs. A low Walk Score might be reflected in a less salubrious environment.
So, it was a little disorienting to come across a Texas mom's utilization of Walk Score today. All those people nearby in your dense, cross-connected community? Well, if things got tough they might just kill you and eat your brain, right? If there was a pandemic, a civil war, an infrastructure and economic crash all at the same time you want to be ready, right? You need maximum info on where to be when things get even dumber than they already are.
Jamie, who seems super nice and obviously really loves her kids, blogged about the way she applies Walk Score to her preparations for the coming apocalypse. Walk Score provides her with intel on her kind of community. The index tells Jamie where she doesn't want to be.
This is almost a mirror opposite use of Walk Score for assessing resilience. Flying deeper into the century, each to their own anxiety, we suppose…
Walk score. One test preppers want their home to FAIL!
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(771) A privileged doom: suburban preppers
(39) Suburban survivalists
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(1075) In the bones
One of the big ideas around here is that poverty and social difficulty are built right into the very structure of sprawl.
The hidden inequality of America's street design. New data shows that pedestrians in the U.S. are more likely to die if they're poor, a person of color, uninsured, or old
The injustice of subsidizing jobs people can only reach by driving
streetsblog USA
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(1070) A good thing in Milwaukee
After having read the recent non-fiction bestseller Evicted we feared no good news about housing could ever come out of Milwaukee barring a full scale miracle. Then we read a little about a sensible undertaking in that US city that seeks to answer to the problem of the 'missing middle'. Nice.
Transforming a 'barracks' into a neighborhood. Connecting housing by using a neighborhood pattern improves the lives of moderate income residents
CNU Public Square
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(1068) Subdivided. City Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity [Book review]
Subdivided. City Building In An Age of Hyper-Diversity
Jay Pitter & John Lorinc, editors
2016. Coach House Books, Toronto
279 pages. $20.95 CAN
This collection of essays was much tougher reading than we expected. After nearly six years blogging about social difficulty in the suburbs we don't expect to be unnerved by our topic. Subdivided unnerved us.
The good old days of multiculturalism, in which eastern and southern Europeans (and maybe a few other groups), found Toronto adjusting to, and eventually welcoming, them are long gone. In its place, we now see an ever bigger and richer Toronto home to newcomers in a living arrangement of hyper-diversity. This infinitely more complex Toronto is by turns depressing, ugly, unjust and unequal despite recurrent commentary about its peacefulness, high socio-cultural potential and general awesomeness.
Subdivided delivers unto us many a less-than-comfortable truth. There's too many people here in isolated lives centred on a combination of shit jobs and lacklustre housing. Reading Subdivided made us feel like Toronto's diversity is the stuff of an Adam Curtis documentary, another nightmarish expression of the global economic machine and its operating system, neoliberalism.
Toughness of presentation is what makes this collection of essays so amazing, …so real. It's hard to think of any other such wellspring of direct, sustained observation of what it is really like to live here. A chapter on Brampton, for example, brings forth a wave of nausea faster than a jar of expired mayonnaise. 'Browntown' is next door to suburban-poverty.com's backyard, we can attest to the truth of what is said about Brampton. Same for another entry on Mississauga, which is literally our backyard. You'd almost wonder why Canada bothers attracting new residents to its Sprawlvilles. Except perhaps as a cynical ploy to increase domestic markets and the tax base and to fulfill some corporate/ideological role in the global economy.
What to do? Good transit, a strong social safety net, higher wages, police reform, and affordable housing would help us toward a healthy, cross-connected society according to the essays in Subdivided. None of these things will be achieved quickly or cheaply, though.
We better get busy before something really awful comes of the present lame and indifferent regime of city building in greater Toronto. Stress is not good for the indivdual or the community. Stress and reaction brought us Rob Ford, the scale model mock up of Donald Trump. Who knows what the stresses of race and class we are leaving in place will inflict on us? We aren't Milwaukee yet but how much longer will we sleepwalk into this?
We suggest future editions of Subdivided include a stamped, pre-addressed thank you note readers can mail to the one percent.
Buy Subdivided for your unnerved community affairs shelf.
(1020) Taking hits
Accidents involving walkers and bicycle riders struck by motor vehicles are a troubling, costly aspect of sprawl. They appear to be built right into the whole matter of community life structured around automobiles and the infrastructure provided for them. This bodily damage really has to be stopped.
More than 1000 cyclists and pedestrians hit on Toronto streets since June 1. New statistics show vulnerable road users struck at rate of one every two and a half hours
The morbid and mortal toll of sprawl. The 'elephant in the living room' of rising and preventable US traffic deaths is government funded roads in drive-only places
image: davidd via Flickr/CC
(1007) Bantustanada 2040
Counterfactual propositions are most times best avoided. We all are hungry for glimpses of the future, sure. That part is okay. There's just too much risk of distraction in many a creative "what if" scenario, too much room for wild swings of positive or negative projection. Let's make an exception today for this dystopic reflection on an imagined socioeconomic existence for Vancouver, BC. Yikes! This can't be a future anybody wants a part of.
How Vancouver's housing segregation became policy: a 2040 look back. Decades from now, researchers reflect with shock, pity on what led to creation of regional, economically unequal 'bantustans'
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Myra has left the Superstar building
Wed 22 Apr 2015, 08:00
The Tanzanian damzel has gone home, leaving the competition to be East Africa's biggest superstar.
Sassy star rookie Myra Hamoud of Tanzania is the latest casualty in the ongoing music reality TV show Maisha Superstar.
Myra, who was coached by Tanzania's popular artist Shaa exited the stage on Monday night after tailing the remaining five contestants in the weekly contest. She polled a paltry 67 points, the lowest of the night, leading to a final accumulative average tally of 79 points after six episodes.
Monday night's performances also saw Phy and Damian Soul performing below par scooping 74 and 73 points respectively. Fila-h emerged tops during the 11th episode which was adjudicated by a team of seven judges including permanent judges Edward Kwach and Nazizi. The week's guest judges comprising entertainment and music industries' heavyweights were Tina Korrosso, Nancy Kacungira, Mike Strano, Stevens Muendo and Wangeci.
Myra, who was backed on stage by her mentor Shaa, performed a Bongo cover song Baadaye, originally done by fellow Tanzanian artist Ommy Dimpoz drawing a thunderous applause from a section of the fans and judges. Her on-stage striking appearance and mellow voice were however not enough to grant her a ticket to the next round of the show.
Shaa, who has been very supportive and equally defensive of her star rookie offered to sign Myra to her label while appreciating that the elimination was a blessing in disguise to the young Finance and Business graduate who studied in the United Kingdom. Myra's exit drew tears from fellow contestants with Phy having a hard time controlling the tears freely flowing down her face.
In other performances of the night, fast rising Tanzanian rookie Damian Soul entertained the studio audience and judges with a well performed cover version of Kenyan reggae artist Wyre's song Ni Chuki earning him 73 points from the judges and the studio audience. Fila-h, who had the highest points of the night, presented an own composition titled Shiro, which he dedicated to his girlfriend who was in attendance. The song was accompanied by a blend of traditional instruments. Eric was especially delighted by this perfomance and we caught it on camera.
Spirit Soul of Uganda performed a mash up of Toni Braxton's Unbreak My Heart and Get Lucky by Daft Punk earning her the second highest points of the night while Kenya's Phy presented a cover reggae song Hole in My Heart originally done by Dele who attentively sat with the audience as she listened to her song being done by an upcoming artist.
Maisha Superstar now enters the final two weeks where one more contestant will be eliminated, leaving only three to battle it out for the Ksh 1.2 million cash prize and a recording deal with a major recording label on May 4.
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April 8, 2011, 9:38 a.m.
March 25, 2011
New developments which will provide an affordable, reliable, and stable treatment for malaria that will save millions of lives, especially those of women and children in Africa have been adopted by Canada.
The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for Science and Technology, along with Mr. Brad Trost, Member of Parliament for Saskatoon–Humboldt, announced the breakthrough today and highlighted the Government's research "Our government is committed to improving the health of women and children in developing countries," said Minister Goodyear. "This new development in the production of a malaria treatment represents a major development in the fight against the disease. It will strengthen Canada's position as a world leader in health research and provide a reliable and affordable solution."
Today's announcement is a result of The Artemisinin Project, a public-private partnership led by OneWorld Health in collaboration with sanofi-aventis, Amyris, the University of California at Berkeley, and the National Research Council of Canada. Artemisinin is a natural compound found in a traditional Chinese medicinal plant grown mainly in Africa and Asia to treat malaria. The Government of Canada's investment of approximately $869,000 in this research has led to technology that can produce a stable and affordable supply of artemisinin for the developing world on a not-for-profit basis.
"Collaboration on the development of this new technology promises to have a major impact on supply of malaria treatment across the developing world, which will be an important contribution towards the global effort to combat malaria," said Dr. Richard Chin, Chief Executive Officer of OneWorld Health.
Read more: Results in Fight to Save Women and Children With Malaria Announced by Government of Canada http://www.medindia.net/news/Results-in-Fight-to-Save-Women-and-Children-With-Malaria-Announced-by-Government-of-Canada-82490-1.htm#ixzz1HeBcJfSh


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Friday, 25 May 2012
Something Fishy is going on in football..@FIFA, UEFA and Co, its becoming glaringly clear. Watch it!!
Owk, Chelsea Win on Penalties and all of a sudden FIFA wants to scrap penalties. I have always suspected some sort of foul-play with FIFA and UEFA. First and foremost, I am so sure that both "footballing bodies" were quite disappointed that neither Barcelona nor Real Madrid made it to the final of club football's most elite competition (Of course, I don't need to emphasize how much this cost them, most especially in monetary terms). Okay, that means they had to settle for Bayern, and when 'The God of football" saw that these Chelsea guys have worked their ass off to get to yet another final in 4 years, in his infinite mercies, He granted Drogba & Co the opportunity to drink from the HOLY GRAIL OF European Football. All of a sudden, Franz Beckenbauer does not like football games being decided on Penalty shoot-outs. Lo and Behold, Sepp Blatter too. If Bayern had won, we would probably be reading another story captioned
"Shoot-outs, the beauty of football"
, #Dassorai. I won't say anything yet till the FIFA Gala. Lemme see who wins World Player this time around. Something fishy is going on. I hope others can be wise enough to see it now. Read more on this madness
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Feb 13, 2015 5:33 PM CST
|Hi everyone I would be grateful of some advice please.
Here is a photo of my relatives jade plant A, I offered to re-pot it as it did not look that well and had not been touched in years.
I re-potted in cacti / succulent media supplied from the store to which I added some washed horticultural sand to make it a little more gritty. As the one I took out was like this which also had chalk in the bottom. Plant A is not doing very well at all my relative potted it up with some other media mix, so I am not sure how things will turn out as it's looking worse that it ever was. I was wondering what could be causing it and what would be the best way to propagate it in it's current form, so as to have a better chance of saving it. Should I get some rooting powder or gel to aid with it striking and what would be the method you would use?
Now for my jade plants.
I have use the same media on other variegated with a couple of issue B seems to be ok, C lost a lot of leaves I was wondering if it was to do with temperature, as it could have got close to 11 or 10 degree C. But the other jade plants seem to have been OK so I am just wondering if that was the cause to plant C. I have since moved plant C into another room that's at 16 degree C now and it seems to have stabilized. Plant C is a Portulacaria Afra. I have tried the leaf pull trick but it did not work no strikes, though no rooting hormone was used.
Will the plant regrow leaves from when it was lost at the node? How much sun should one of these plants have, direct or shady?
I look forward to hearing some advice.
Regards Noddy
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Feb 13, 2015 6:09 PM CST
|Hello Noddy! Welcome to ATP I do not see plants A B or C?
Looking at the variegated Jade, it seems it is looking for more light. The media you have used is not bad. I just usually use the regular cacti soil and add some pumice or more perlite to really make it more fast draining. Jades can tolerate cold temps even up to 32F (0C) as long as kept dry and gets enough light. I grow mine outdoors year round since our winters are milder, no snow, just the erratic rains which is again missing in action here in our area.
In its current form, if you want you can cut just a few inches below each set of leaves, let it dry/callus a bit, then you can stick them again in another similar container with mix of cacti soil-pumice or perlite. It should be fine. In this case, put it in part sun to it can grow new roots. Give it time, it is active growing season now, it likes the cool temps. Some would dip it into some rooting hormone before they stick it in soil again, but I personally do not do that, it will grow the roots eventually. Or you can just leave it alone, maybe in your location it just wants to get a bit warmer, before it resumes growing again, or a little repositioning to a brighter area may help the plant a bit more. South, east or west facing windows will be okay.
Since I do not see plant A B or C, I cannot comment on it.. but typically jades and Portulacaria Afra behave the same when they grow new leaves..sometimes from the center of a rosette of leaves or at any point on each stem node.
Here are some photos:
This is my variegated jade, you can see new leaf growth may form at any available node:
Or at the center of an existing rosette:
This is my Portulacaria Afra..behaves the same:
new leaves at any node
or right at center of existing cluster:
UK Southeast
Feb 14, 2015 3:00 AM CST
|Hi Tarev
Thank you for your response, the first plant I posted up was plant a my relatives plant that not doing so well. This plant get's a lot of light as it's South West facing. Which is why I found it rather odd.
Here is plant B
As you can see from the 2nd photo it would appear that the plant is now producing new leaves from the the nodes.
However a leave pull did not work in this instance. Again this was near a South West facing window within inches and still the leaves dropped so I thought it could be temperature though it was watered, so may be the soil was not dry enough, for the temperature so now it's in a warmer room under an aquatic light, till we break into spring.
Plant C
This was next to the B and another not A as that in another house. The leaves went crinkly then dropped off I lost a lot of leaves. So I moved it to the the same place as B under the aquatic light which is a warmer room and I've had not so many leaves drop off. I was wondering if there was a different, since I had an old green money tree, which was in the porch for many years, that took very low temperatures.
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Feb 14, 2015 7:34 AM CST
|Crassula ovata, the Jade plant, and Portulacaria afra (aka African portulaca, dwarf jade) are different in some ways though....Portulacaria can survive hot hot hot once densely leaved and established (older leaves go into CAM synthesis for energy, which is common in hot desert plants) but the younger leaves on younger plants aren't as efficient. Portulacaria is tougher than the Crassula. Crassula cuttings also don't really produce or keep leaves until a good root system has been established.
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UK Southeast
Feb 14, 2015 8:22 AM CST
|Thanks Karmatree
Well from what I am experiencing it would appear to be the other way around as the Crassula Ovata has not lost any leave, couple little wrinkles, but did not loose as many leaves a the Portulacaria.
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Feb 14, 2015 11:18 AM CST
|Thanks Karmatree
Well from what I am experiencing it would appear to be the other way around as the Crassula Ovata has not lost any leave, couple little wrinkles, but did not loose as many leaves a the Portulacaria.
Feb 14, 2015 12:51 PM CST
wisewords said:Hi Tarev
I am looking at the soil, and it seems that soil is too tightly packed. You would need to loosen that up a bit. Although these plants are drought tolerant, it needs the soil media to be not too tightly packed. I would pull that plant, examine the roots and see if it is still okay. At times leaves will tell you that they are dropping either they got too dry or too wet. You may be watering it, but nothing gets absorbed at root level. That is why I add either pumice or perlite, not sand on my containers. Sand has the tendency to harden and pack. My usual way of checking condition of the plant is, if temps are okay, sunlight is okay and plant still suffers, then something is wrong at the root level or in the timing of watering. Remove all those dried up leaves, clean it up..those will just invite more fungal rotting there.
I do not know where you are located, so plants adjust to their existing environment. These plants are really toughies outdoors in mild, no snow cool conditions, taking both direct sun and cooler temps, but the media has to be fast draining, without being too tightly packed.
Feb 14, 2015 2:21 PM CST
|That sounds right about the soil...
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Feb 14, 2015 5:01 PM CST
The soil was loose I have broken it up even more, but you think I should take it all out and add perlite. What ratio am I looking at.
Plant B is sort of doing OK but plant C is the one that has had the most problems and yet the other normal money tree is sort of doing OK too.
The large plant we had at out old house had a rather hard media, as it was about 3ft round. Or is it only till the roots have take hold.
Do you require any more photo's as and if I un-pot it.
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Feb 14, 2015 5:13 PM CST
|It would be nice to see how the roots look like. As for ratio, I just eyeball it really, as gritty coarse I can do it, since my plants are outdoors. Typically you would want to repot depending on the size of the root ball, so it is not getting too long to get dry as well. I prefer using shallow containers with drainage holes.
Sometimes too at this time of the year, the plant is starting to transition from winter to spring, depending on your location, so it will continue to drop lower leaves, and keep just enough. Then new leaves will begin to sprout. But till then, better make the media as porously well draining.
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Feb 15, 2015 8:09 AM CST
|Well here we go
Here is the amended media, I added perlite & some heavy sand, the mixed was as shown which I used for both.
Plant B as below
Plant B root structure both sides.
Plant C as below
Plant C root structure both sides.
I hope this gives a better idea. Any further advice welcome.
Can one get a leaf pull to start if dipped in hormone gel?
Feb 15, 2015 10:43 AM CST
|Thanks for the photo update wiseswords. I do wish you did not add heavy sand there. Perlite will be enough to open the soil. Anyways you have added it already. Just observe later on if the soil packs up again too much, sand has the tendency to do that in the media.
Looking at all the photos, the plants look okay, typically they have really a small rootball, that is why next to the proper use of media, the container size follows, find the smallest container you can use. They take awhile to grow their roots. I see the plants have good stems, nothing seems rotting, and leaves still green where it should be, so it is okay as I see it.
Thanks for updating your location, now I understand why you have it indoors. Just continue repot and keep it near a south facing window, water till it comes out of the drainage holes, and set aside. Then leave it alone to recover from all the root disturbance.
Yes, you can get a leaf, twist it off so you get the petiole. I would just lightly dab the space where it come from with cinnamon. For the leaf you removed, rest it on top of new media, in part shade and eventually the leaf will either form new roots first or new leaves. The old leaf will continue to provide energy to the new growth and will eventually dry out. Just water lightly, not too often, it just needs very mild dampness.
Here's a sample of my jade leaf cutting that I have rooted in Jan 2013:
started indoors
By late Feb 2013, I have brought it outdoors, and this was photo on April 2013, new little leaves forming at the petiole end:
It is now 2 years old, this photo last 07Jan2015, has been staying outdoors here since 2013, old leaf is gone now, and it is now a little plant with its own stem and set of leaves.
Hope that helps! Good luck!
UK Southeast
Feb 15, 2015 11:15 AM CST
|Hi tarev
Thanks for the info.
The media that I had before was lightly sandy, which seemed to be more peat based, I can make a fresh mix with perlite & just the sand from the original mix.
Yes I saw your comment after, as for the pot it's in a 3" pot for convenience at the moment. As I have lots in a small space and I have a nice little container that sit's snugly around it.
If you think this is best then I'll re-pot again now before it settles in.
I never had any luck with the leaf pull, so rip leaf so it get some of the hormones from the cinnamon, then dip with gel to aid growth and success rate of a strike or not. As all the previous attempts without just dried out and died.
Looking forward to your advice.
Feb 15, 2015 7:52 PM CST
|Cinnamon is a natural fungicide, so it helps heal the open scar left on the stem or branch where you will remove the leaf. Choose a healthy looking leaf, then do a gentle twist and pull on the leaf, so it's easier to get the petiole intact. Don't add sand anymore, just make a new mix maybe do it 50-50 your cactus soil and perlite. That should keep the media open. Since the cutting has no roots yet, put plant in part shade, so it can redirect energy to forming the roots.
Just lay that leaf you pulled on top of the new media you got. Cut end will naturally dry out and in time it will make new roots or new leaves first. I would not want to water it now. Just allow cutting to recover. Once you see a new growth, water a little, around the plant but not too near the new plant, just to keep the soil moist..and then leave it alone again to continue growing. Just be patient in waiting.
The other jades with roots will be able to adapt faster, since there are roots already. Just have to keep that media airy and dry, you can water it thoroughly once at root zone level to keep the soil moist, and leave it alone. Next watering can be in another month, since it is indoors.The south west position is okay.
If temps begin to improve in your area, you can gradually bring them out, in a protected area where it will not get too rained on, but still get good light. Temperature range of 10C to 15C is okay, as long as they are kept dry and with bright light.
UK Southeast
Feb 16, 2015 11:03 AM CST
|Hi Tarev
This is the cacti media as it came.
Here it is 50/50 with perlite which I take it this is what you recommend.
If you think this is OK then I'll re-pot and start a couple of leaf pulls.
Many thanks
Feb 16, 2015 11:20 AM CST
|Yup! Looks quite good with the perlite in! Good luck hope your plants recover nicely.
UK Southeast
Feb 16, 2015 11:45 AM CST
|Cool tarev
I'll keep you posted...
Thanks once again
UK Southeast
Feb 24, 2015 9:41 AM CST
|Hi all well I went to my relatives to see how her plant was getting on, this is what I found:
The tips appear to be alive.
How the was after my relative re potted after me, as she said it was dropping the leaves.
Here is a photo after I rinsed the root as I was not sure which media she had used, I think normal house compost.
I have since re-potted the plant in the 50/50 media mixture perlite & cacti media as it came.
If I cut some of the branches 1-2" back to try and get it to grow again, would you wait for it to callus over then plant as is, or can I use a rooting hormone gel to help get it started...
Since the plant looks in a very poor way as you can see.
Your advise welcome as always.
Feb 24, 2015 12:08 PM CST
|The plant is alive, that much I can see with the growing tip. I would just put it in similar mix you did before, and put in part shade.
One thing with this succulent, it is obviously undergoing some stress, so you have to give it time again to adjust and acclimate. Since there are no leaves left, it will try to grow new ones. The plant will concentrate in growing new roots then the leaves.
At this point, I will not trim that plant, it has been to a lot of stress already, besides the branches looks okay. Just plant it back in a new mix. There are existing roots, so it should grow new ones slowly. I only use rooting hormones when there is no root visible. But this one has some roots already. Crassulas grow such a small and very shallow root ball, so plant in a small container for now in a new mix, water lightly and leave it alone in a part shade area.
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UK Southeast
Feb 25, 2015 3:56 AM CST
|OK Tarev
Will do, many thanks
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Raise your hand if you've ever spent the entire two weeks prior to your birthday telling people you were going to be a year older than you actually are.
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But "here" sure seems like Seattle lately.
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Hubby and I are going on a date Saturday night. That's not big news . . . just matched the title of the post
The "bigger" news is that my Dude is going "out with the guys" for the first time tonight. He and 3 buddies are going to a movie (an icky scary one!) on their own. They've gone to movies before, but on Saturday afternoon or something.
This time, they originally wanted to go to the 10:30 p.m. showing of the horror movie, but I put the cabosh on that for my Dude.
No way my 13 yerar old is going to a 10:30 p.m. showing of opening night of a horror film on Friday the 13th with all the crazies! 10:30 isn't the issue, but 10:30 on Friday after school has started and on Friday the 13th and to a horror film is just asking for trouble – plenty of time between school getting out and that movie starting for kiddos to make bad choices and then show up at the movie.
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He says there aren't any girls meeting them, but he can't control it if they happen to show up 😉
I told him he's going to regret seeing this movie today and that he won't sleep for days.
He disagrees.
We shall see.
I think I should spray paint Tonks black and put her on his bed for when he comes home 😉
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One of those valid things is receipts.
I keep every receipt.
I have an envelope in my desk for each year, and each envelope has receipts from that year in it (what a concept, huh?!). I could tell you what I bought for groceries on March 4, 2013! Anyone want to know?
Anyhoo . . . if I keep every receipt, why is it that the ONE receipt I need for a warranty claim is nowhere to be found?
Seriously annoyed about that.
I bought Dude a new baseball bat in July. It wasn't ridiculously expensive, but it wasn't cheap, either!
All he's used it for is the one game he played in before he hurt his leg and the practices since August 1st. He hasn't done anything weird with it. He hasn't used it in weather below 60 degrees F. He uses his old bat when he hits on the hitting practice thingy in our driveway.
Yesterday at his hitting lesson, his coach was holding Dude's bat and spinning the barrel around in his hands.
Then he paused.
Spun some more.
Had Dude feel the barrel of the bat.
Some small.
Some HUGE!
In one spot, the bat has two dents across from each other, rendering it almost flat-like.
The good thing, is the bat is under warranty for 400 days from the purchase date, which we are well within . . . but only with the ORIGINAL receipt . . . which I can't find. I even checked my email receipts because I've chosen to try to save the planet one paper receipt at a time and request electronic receipts whenever possible. This one is nowhere to be found.
So I called Dick's customer service and they were super helpful! They emailed me a new receipt based on my name and rewards card number.
It doesn't look exactly like the other email receipts, but it is from them and has all the information on it.
Then I went online to fill out the warranty claim. I find it very interesting that in the drop-down menu where you choose the "issue" DENTS comes up automatically. Hmmmmmmm…
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A couple Saturdays ago, Princess had another horse show. Talk about a learning experience!
My little Princess had started to act like just that on her horse . . . a Princess. A 60 pound Princess who forget her 900 pound horse is ACTUALLY in charge unless she rides him like he's not in charge.
We've been riding a lot this summer with lessons and leases, which has been awesome! She's gotten so much practice and is doing much better with everything horse-related.
But all this riding also made her a bit complacent . . . and quite frankly, entitled.
She knows EVERYTHING about horses and tack and riding and jumping . . . just ask her
The week before the show, we finally punched holes in her leathers to make her stirrups the right length without having to wrap them around the stirrups. When went to her lesson, Miss Amara said we needed to lower them . . . we agreed, and I did. Princess threw a FIT! We lowered them even more, but not as much as they should have been – call it a compromise. They were still too short, but Princess insisted that was how they were comfortable and she liked them that way.
Whatever – not a fight I was willing to fight.
So we practiced for the week, all the while Princess refusing to believe that she was leaning too far forward during the jumps and not sitting back far enough (or at all!) to stop her horse. Let's just say I was getting more than frustrated. Amara had the same experience at the lesson before the show. She got through a little bit, but not enough.
Anyhoo – the day of the show came and Princess and Prince looked awesome as always
Here they are on a practice jump before the show started . . . lookin' good!
In addition to the two cross-rails divisions, Princess entered the flat Walk/Trot class.
They were beautiful and awesome and did everything perfect. Great posture, correct diagonals, great horse control. Her best ride in a show by far.
And they didn't even place in the top 6 out of 8. We were all (especially her trainer!) a bit miffed, but it's one judge judging . . . that's the nature of horse shows. The only thing it could've been, really, was her short stirrups messing up the line from her heels to he shoulders. Princess wouldn't even listen, though. She insisted they were the right length and wouldn't change them. I did sneak in a small change in length when she wasn't on Prince . . . baby steps.
Anyhoo . . . she had her first jumping class and it was INTERESTING! Prince did great on the first couple jumps, then cantered between the two line jumps, which we all expected. The only thing was, Princess panicked a little bit and didn't sit back to slow him down . . . she just kept leaning over his neck and he went faster and faster and jumped higher and higher. He went around a corner so fast once that his number flew off his bridle! They made it around, doing all the jumps without anyone falling off. Whew! Princess was quite nervous about it . . . she couldn't stop talking.
Then we had a little chat with her about needing to sit back when he starts to canter so he slows down. Of course, she would have none of Amara's advice, insisting it wasn't her fault.
I snuck in another lowering of the stirrups – more baby steps.
Then it was time for her second adventure through the course. This time she started out with more horse control and was doing great, until she didn't sit back between jumps and Prince just took off at a very fast canter. He was making the jumps and even though we knew she wasn't in total control, it looked much more in control than the first jump.
Then just as Prince started over the last jump, he changed his mind and refused. Princess lost a stirrup and almost flew off, but she grabbed Prince's mane and hung on for dear life before pulling herself back on and finishing the course.
The good thing . . . she didn't fall off. Falling off hurts and also is a disqualification.
The bad thing . . . she didn't fall off. Falling off hurts and is a great natural teacher.
She rode him back out of the arena and did all she could to not cry . . . she only shed 2 tears after she was off of Prince.
Hubby got a great photo of her out of control jumps . . .
I showed it to Princess and she said "Whoa! That is SO not right! No WONDER he went so fast and I almost fell off!"
Um, ya THINK?! She's way over his neck, her feet are straight back, her heels are not down at all, and she's way high above her horse (damn short stirrups!).
At least she recognized the flaws when she SAW what we were talking about.
Miss Amara and I had a long talk about it . . . I've always said Princess needs to jump BETTER, not higher. Amara agreed that everything had gotten so busy over the summer and a bit overwhelming and that all the girls needed to go back to basics so they're ready for anything. I also told Amara that Princess' participation in the shows MUST be dependant on her working toward a riding goal each month and meeting those goals. It's not a right to show, you must earn it.
Princess and I had a loooooonnnggg talk about her attitude and horses and who's in charge and who is the professional and who is the student and who is going to listen to who and say Yes Ma'am and do what they're told without adding commentary. That, along with the threat of not participating in the next show and not getting to lease, were enough.
A few lessons without stirrups, without reins, and bareback will do wonders for a girl's riding flaws as well as teach her that you CAN stop a cantering horse without reins by just relaxing your shoulders and sitting back in your saddle.
The past lessons have been awesome! Amara also agreed that Prince jumps so much better when he canters, and if Princess wants to continue to ride him, that she needs to be able to control him and understand how to ride SAFELY like that.
So what have they been working on besides basics? Cantering over jumps, under control, in the pasture. They're both doing beautifully
Click here to see a video of her cantering over a jump
Here's to hoping the next couple of weeks are very productive in the arena and we can end the show season on a good note!


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