I might have made a mistake

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Blue Butterfly Pea Update

So a sooner update then I expected, because only one two of the 50 seeds grew.

I am not happy. I'm not surprised either.

Right now I am going to assume that I messed up. If I get any seeds from these plants (if they even live that long...) then I will be happy.

Again the internet is torn on what is good info. Basically if they are self pollinating or not. The majority seem to think that they are and I do not have the skill to do it by hand.

On the (oooh I just heard thunder!) good side is that I think the bunny that was hopping about took the hint and skidadeled. The squirrels, unfortunately, have not. I keep seeing little holes in my pots from their digging.

Oh well.

That tiny Little dot is from where I got poked by hogweed yesterday… I cannot express how much just the tiny little poke hurt. Hogweed has been ripped out of the yard and fortunately the soft part of my foot no longer hurts.

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Not the best but until I can figure out where to plant them in the ground, this will have to do.

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Blue Butterfly Pea

Blue Butterfly Pea.

This... is the newest darling of the internet.

Well, it's been slowly working it's way to that spot. It is extremely hard to find. Many sites that even have an image of the plant do not have the seeds for sale. They are sold out.

Assuming the few I was able to order turn out to be legit? If you guessed grow as many as possible then you are totally right. I have to look into NYS laws about selling seeds but maybe.

If they grow and are the correct seeds.

I would love a backyard seed business. Extra money to put into little things for my house is always good. Maybe some day.

Fishing Tip

Very nice and simple fishing tip my family learned on a trip down to Bennett Springs, MO a few years ago. Absolutly wonderful fly fishing and the trout fought very hard. They were also very hard to get off the flies. We lost a lot of time just unhooking them.

Then my dad got the suggestion to use barb-less hooks from a new fishing buddy he met down there.

Barb-less hooks are fantastic.

First I will say that it is a touch harder to land the fish simply because you can do a 'long distance release' as my dad put it.

The second is that the fish can just... spit the hook out at you. If this happens and you see death in the fly flying towords your face... The motion of swatting at it with your rod can sometimes mess with it's momentum enough that it wont hit you.

I, however, have hooked myself so many times that I am very happy they were barb-less.

Only once did I hook myself with a barbed hook. I was very, very lucky because it was a miss cast and it got seriously tangled up in the elastic band of my sports bra through my shirt. My dad pretty much teleported next to me. We still don't know how he moved that fast or how he heard me squeak 'dad' over the sounds of the waterfall. I was very happy that It didn't get caught in my back.

The trick if you already have a bunch of tied fly's is to take a pair of pliers and crunch down on the barb. It takes a few crunches but they work fine.

And best of all, if you are fishing with someone that doesn't want to touch the fish that they just reeled in? Usually just a few shakes and they will be loose. Much easier and it gets you back fishing faster.

Unless you don't show them how to set a hook. That will also stop them from reeling in any fish. Yes, my dad forgot to mention this tiny bit of information to me, my sister and my mom. Yeah... my sister and I might have given him The Look.

But still, it was a fun trip. Can't wait to get on the water by my house.