I am thrilled for you and the family. Are the pets all ok? I cross my fingers that not ALL was lost from your GH. Also that your pool is ok! It sure was horrible to read. Let alone imagine that you lived it!

Welcome HOME :-)

Lucy

It was definitely an inconvenience but compared to the damage that some people sustained around here we got off easy. We were watching the news last night and they were showing a house with a tree that had crashed throught the top floor and it was owned by a guy that had worked for DH about 20 years ago!

Yeah Karyn, the electricity is on again and soon you will be/are at home! Hoping the damage isn't too great. That poor guy that had a tree crashed through his house, I hope he has good insurance and that repairs will be done quickly.

Hey Karyn,
So gald the power is back on. Was just telling my DH about all the bad luck you were having.
Sometimes we need to start fresh with things. Hope this year will be the best yet!
Don't think about the lost of your plants (I know it will be hard) Think about it as a new beginning of a wonderful year!
Dorothy
{{gwi:443637}}

That is great news to have power again! Those orchids just might surprise you with a little tlc!

Karyn, ((hugs)) I am so sorry all this crap has happened to you lately. I read your other post before this one..Surely does suck..but hey, it can only get better right!?! If you need anything I may have come spring, just give a holler! You know I'd be more than happy to share with you...whatever makes it thru the winter that is..I think I lost Chantilly Lace, and a few other brugs and things as well. Things really got ignored around here with me being sick, and Chantilly Lace shriveled up on me. I was very upset to see that. I am hoping she comes back from the roots, keep your fingers crossed for me! I am for you & your plants. I also had a major aphid explosion..where the frig do they come from??????
Anywho..maybe Bruce will give you a plant shopping spree now!
Glad everyone is back in a warm house, and safe! thank god you didn't have damage like that other fellow. We had the wicked winds here too..trees sure were making some scary noises..no damage tho.

Karyn
I am so glad you get to go home, with your power back on
thats great news
Elizabeth

It's nice to be back home. It wasn't nice emptying the refrigerators but I think everything in the freezers was ok. I make food for the sugar gliders that I freeze in cubes. When I opened one of the freezers I could see that they had never defrosted so I don't think that anything else had either and if one freezer was ok I assume the others are as well.

I had another ripe pod on Rahabana. This was the biggest pod I've ever had, not that I get that many. lol It had 113 ripe seeds. I usually get between 20-50 mature seeds in a pod. I'll have extras of this one. I don't know what the pollen parent was but it was either Day Dreams, Madeline, Creamsickle or Vulcanicola. What is an average number of seeds per pod anyway? I know some pods are naturally much smaller. My Butterfly pods are teardrop shaped and much smaller then most of my others that are submarine shaped.

The GH was not good. I think I lost all my orchids and quite a few of my succulents and cacti, not sure about the other stuff. Succulents look really weird when they defrost. lol

Karyn, I'm sorry. Yeah the succulents do look weird when they defrost..I have had that mishap before, lol.
Do you think it's possible the orchids may come back? I wouldn't give up on them just yet.

Oh, I want to cry just hearing you talk about the plants. Glad you are at home though and the power is back on. The good and wonderful new year will begin today for you and all the bad luck will be left behind. Hey, I have good news. The one plant I had been trying so long to root for you with the fern like foliage and red tube shaped flowers? It has roots! I am happy to tell you there will be something new to share with you.

So glad you got to go home!!! yay!
Hope the damage is minimal and things will come back.
Best wishes,

Karen

Karyn, Did I read this correct that your Vulcanicola has bloomed? Photos if this is correct and was this the one
that you got from CA?

I wish! If it had maybe I'd put it on Ebay. LOL The pollen was sent to me from someone that got it from Germany, I believe. Thankfully my vulc and culebra have been kept inside and were not victims of the freezes in the GH but I think my Sangs were.

Thank you so much for your quick reply! Again it's my understanding that no one has seen any of these bloom so we don't know if what we were give is the true thing?
One of the key things I learned from MS Vicki was, one waits until it blooms before going public with something like this especially if this isn't your hybrid.

Karyn, I'm so sorry for your mishap! Yikes! Hoping the damage is minimal! Try to look on the bright side, more room for new & different plants! :)

Theresa

Karyn again I am so happy that you are back home. 113 seeds? WOW!!!!!!! That is AMAZING! LIke I would say if I usually have more then I expected ; I can supply all of Texas with it ha ha ha Congratulations. See, there is always a happy note somewhere in all that sadness!

Lucy