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For a crash course, I suggest going on YouTube and watching some of the the backlogs of China Truths, China Observer and China Uncensored. As for the sci-fi thing, you may not be all that off the mark. China already has a huge issue of random young people being kidnapped by the government and...

"Lull" is a massive understatement. The PRC's economy is on the verge of total collapse, and all evidence suggests there is now NO WAY to pull it back from a total crash. First there was the multi year total lockdown. Then, when that ended, the housing bubble burst, taking the banks more or less...

I should also mention that, while the Cow Pea plant keeps making flowers, none as yet seem to have "taken" and starred a pod. I also realized that those spare rice beans could become important soon. Given both US-China relations degradation, and the general economic depression and instability...

Yesterday I gave in and removed the cage from around the corn. I really don't LIKE leaving it open to the critters, but now that it's so broken, I suppose it's better than leaving it there while it crushes the stalks. Not that there will necessarily BE anything to protect. I did a feel around...

It's a similar pattern to Hashuli, but, if I recall from my sample, Hashuli has maroon spots, not black. When you re-plant it, you could also check if it has pink mottling on the seedling cotyledons (I recall my Hashuli did).

Correction, FIVE, I noticed two more beginning.

Notes 1. There are now three cucumbers developing, which is good as #2 (I count the one that got eaten as #1, so #2 is the first of the current ones) got caught in the support netting which is now stuck too far in to remove, so it might get into trouble later) 2. Took a trip to the Chinese...

Could be, but it was probably males I was thinking of when I mentioned the even smaller ones. Though all of those European Mantids I saw back in college could have been males, and this could be a male Chinese or American.

Seen on a privet outside a grocery on Friday Might be a different species that the normal one here, since it was a bit smaller than the standard Chinese Mantis (but still bigger than the American ones with the yellow and black dot on the inner leg), and seemed a little more delicate.

I know they are super invasive but I actually LIKE Paulownias in bloom. Like trees covered in foxgloves. I like Silk Trees too, at least, when they are blooming (they're not so great once all those blooms fall off and make huge rotting flower drifts, or come winter when the pods make that creepy...

FINALLY got a pic of the flowers on the cow pea with the second one (with the first, I forgot cow pea flowers open early in the morning and close again as the day progresses, so I waited too long to go out.

When you HAVE to elope

That sounds more like a teratoma to me, a sort of internal tumor that can develop hair, teeth etc. They can result from the absorption of a parasitic twin. I think to be a true chimera, the alien cells have to become integrated into the general body of the organism.

Looks like the sprouts in the pot next to the basil plant are also basil. Though at this point, I don't know if they are the same kind from the original plant that came from seeds it dropped, or returns from the failed type of last year. I tried smelling them, but the main tulsi plant's scent is...

I think it can. It certainly can happen with cats (there's that famous one Venus on the internet with the split colored face and the heterochromia). The literal definition of a chimera is an organism which has more than one cell line with different genotypes. Literally some of their cells have...

Only one thing to report (and it's not in my garden). Last evening we ordered in Greek for dinner, so I took the opportunity to return to that wild pear tree and get some riper fruits (about nine or ten of them). While collecting I noticed something. Either there are two pear trees...

EXACTLY what I meant. You didn't mention that bit before. With that name, web searches can be done to see things like conditions of the plant ripening.

Liberia, not Libya. And the ones I sent were reddish or brownish, not tan.

I'd be a lot easier if we knew the scientific name of them, then we could do some web research. God, I wish I was still back at Cornell and had access to the files at the Ag Station at Geneva; I remember them once photocopying me some publication that listed the vetches by seed shape. But it's...

Same. In fact, I'm not 100% sure the seed was ripe when I collected it. The pods had browned up, but when the seed dried down, it went all browny blotchy (as opposed to the black speckled brown they were when planted) and I usually associate that color with seriously immature seed that is...