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[eub]

The soybeans have pods on them. I didn't see the flowers, and looking for them now where they should be along the development gradient I still don't see them. Are they these tiny tan bits hidden in the general pubescence? What the heck?

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You know how some packing tape gives a whiff of vinegar when you peel it off the roll? Googling suggests possibly the tape material is cellulose acetate, and maybe, dunno, it slowly hydrolyzes but the acetic acid is trapped between tape layers? (Does a closet full of rayon smell like vinegar too?)

http://aic.stanford.edu/jaic/articles/jaic23-02-003_1.html
In the 1950s cellulose acetate and its copolymers came into use as tape backings ...

http://www.clir.org/PUBS/reports/pub54/glossary.html
Vinegar syndrome: Characteristic of the decomposition of acetate based magnetic tape where acetic acid is a substantial by-product that gives the tape a vinegar-like odor. After the onset of the vinegar syndrome, acetate tape backings degrade at an accelerated rate - the hydrolysis of the acetate is catalyzed further by the presence of acetic acid by product.

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The ginger is shooting. One shoot has punched right out the side of the plastic pot, splitting it.

Comments

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

That's some aggressive ginger.

[eub.livejournal.com]

Well, and a pretty flimsy pot. I guess it's saying it wants repotting.

[indigodove.livejournal.com]

Thanks for a good laugh to start the morning with :-)

[eub.livejournal.com]

Welcome. :)

[garpu.livejournal.com]

That's...some ginger...how'd you plant it? Just stick a hunk of it in some water?

[eub.livejournal.com]

It started sending out shoots sitting on the kitchen counter, so I put it in a pot. It's been growing up and withering down periodically ever since.