There's 84 geraniums growing now - salmon and orange. By May they'll be very large enough to put in big pots for my hypochondriac sister-in-laws. That whole family is sickly and it's caused by their mentality. Their father was a doctor so their trade was illness - real or imagined - mostly imagined. The flowers will be like a pre-emptive get well for whatever maladies they suspect they might have at any given moment. I never saw orange. I'm not bothering with red. They're too common. Curious trend. I noticed my wife's sisters' husbands are potheads. I think there's some chemical you can use to make geraniums grow sturdier. "Growth regulator". I forget what it's called. The problem with starting plants this early is that they become a logistical burden while it's still cold out. Right now they're in peat pellets but ultimately they will be in pots full of dirt and there will be like 500 of them so it gets weird real fast trying to do that in my basement with a garden hose hooked up to the laundry sink and a bunch of lights hanging from the ceiling. In the winter, it'd be more pleasant if everyone but me didn't live here - low population density - living space - 'lebensraum'....like the Germans.
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