A few of those instagram pictures you don’t see

[happypalms]

Here’s a few pics that well end up the cutting room floor, the ones they don’t want you to see. Every grower has them and if you don’t you’re not a real grower. 
We try our best to grow the best, but Mother Nature has a way of saying try as you must even I have dead plants she says.  But it certainly looks a lot better once you get in and clean it up! Iam sure there are some real messed up grow shows out there until we get around to fixing them! Especially when it’s a hobby and you have a life to live and a job on top that with work taking up most of you life, but the bills have to be paid, but one gets tired of making someone else’s the money when working and all you want to do is work for yourself, one day I will retire! 

[Nico971]

Some loss I can’t even explain. Lost all my D baronii black petiole. Exact same conditions and potting mix as my Onihalensis, faneva, etc. 
 

[donpachino1983]

Wowowo  this sucks. Sorry

[Harry’s Palms]

Whoopsie! Sometimes it happens where certain areas don’t get the attention they need or Mother Nature has other plans . I haven’t kept potted seedlings in quite a while but now I have some and they require constant attention. When they are in the ground a while they are much more forgiving. I am still working at my shop 4-5 days a week , spending time with my wife and socializing . Dealing with health issues from my broken hip , etc.  

      Neglecting plants isn’t always from oversight or laziness , it’s called life . You do a great job and although it seems like a loss , your wins far outnumber the few poor plants I see in the photos. Maintaining the size of operation you have is quite the feat. You are human! Harry

[guillerman]

RIP 🙏 - can relate to this one, just lost a good number of small Chambeyronia hookeri because 1-2 days of crazy sun when it wasn´t supose to come. Can´t ever be too prepared...

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8 hours ago, Nico971 said:

Some loss I can’t even explain. Lost all my D baronii black petiole. Exact same conditions and potting mix as my Onihalensis, faneva, etc. 
 

Yep you get the ones that are just not going to make!

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7 hours ago, donpachino1983 said:

Wowowo  this sucks. Sorry

That’s growing for you the good with the bad.

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5 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Whoopsie! Sometimes it happens where certain areas don’t get the attention they need or Mother Nature has other plans . I haven’t kept potted seedlings in quite a while but now I have some and they require constant attention. When they are in the ground a while they are much more forgiving. I am still working at my shop 4-5 days a week , spending time with my wife and socializing . Dealing with health issues from my broken hip , etc.  

      Neglecting plants isn’t always from oversight or laziness , it’s called life . You do a great job and although it seems like a loss , your wins far outnumber the few poor plants I see in the photos. Maintaining the size of operation you have is quite the feat. You are human! Harry

Yes life gets in the way family, work day to day living, and as you say health issues. 
We all do our best yet sometimes it get a bit overwhelming, I look outside sometimes and think it’s a mess in the yard yet I have been at work and not at home running around who made that mess. 
There are only so many hours in a day and we are all entitled to having a rest as well, oh the joys of life. 
Seedlings do require a lot of time I guess like children until they are grown up. 
And to top it off I go and get another hernia a femoral one this time I kept telling the doctors!

Richard 

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5 hours ago, guillerman said:

RIP 🙏 - can relate to this one, just lost a good number of small Chambeyronia hookeri because 1-2 days of crazy sun when it wasn´t supose to come. Can´t ever be too prepared...

Oh yeah half the time you wonder if you’re a grower or plant destroying machine. Weather can have big impact on growing performance, one hot scorching day when you’re out and having to forget to water due to life issues it can get quite annoying!

[Harry’s Palms]

7 hours ago, happypalms said:

Yes life gets in the way family, work day to day living, and as you say health issues. 
We all do our best yet sometimes it get a bit overwhelming, I look outside sometimes and think it’s a mess in the yard yet I have been at work and not at home running around who made that mess. 
There are only so many hours in a day and we are all entitled to having a rest as well, oh the joys of life. 
Seedlings do require a lot of time I guess like children until they are grown up. 
And to top it off I go and get another hernia a femoral one this time I kept telling the doctors!

Richard 

Sorry to hear . That can be painful. I’ve never experienced it but have friends that have had surgery. Take care of that . Harry

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20 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Sorry to hear . That can be painful. I’ve never experienced it but have friends that have had surgery. Take care of that . Harry

Life goes on with or without us, I kept telling the doctors they wouldnt listen! 
Richard 

[JohnAndSancho]

I get it. Every time I go see a doctor or a therapist or pretty much anybody who wears a lab coat or scrubs they find something wrong with me. Now they found out my neck is messed up, the hearing test lady is the one that told me the arteries to my brain are narrowing, and a physical therapist just looks at my feet and sees a circulatory problem. Anyway yeah. Life gets in the way and things happen. 

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4 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

I get it. Every time I go see a doctor or a therapist or pretty much anybody who wears a lab coat or scrubs they find something wrong with me. Now they found out my neck is messed up, the hearing test lady is the one that told me the arteries to my brain are narrowing, and a physical therapist just looks at my feet and sees a circulatory problem. Anyway yeah. Life gets in the way and things happen. 

Yep the joys of life hey John, can’t wait to get older, looking forward to all doctors appointments and scans oh and the pills, what a joy life is.🤣

[JohnAndSancho]

5 hours ago, happypalms said:

Yep the joys of life hey John, can’t wait to get older, looking forward to all doctors appointments and scans oh and the pills, what a joy life is.🤣

Yeah man. I'm at the point where I've literally told them to either fix me, give me a diagnosis, or just take me out back and shoot me. I applied for SSDI (social security disability) in September and they're so backed up I "should" have an answer by July, and all the doctors can agree on is that I can't work and won't get better but they can't figure out what's wrong. The neuropathy is getting worse and they can't figure out why I keep having the vertigo attacks. They know it's real (they watched my eye movement) doing various exercises but they couldn't find a specific trigger, it just happens when it happens. Lying down, walking around, turning my head, sitting down, it happens but nothing specific seems to cause the attacks. It messes with my vision, I get really bad tinnitus and throbbing in my head and sometimes it lasts a few minutes and once it lasted 2 days and I never know when it's coming or how bad it's gonna be. I've blacked out a few times, and I'm the only one who drives or leaves the house. It's awesome lol. 

[gyuseppe]

Boys and girls, let's be positive! In the morning I can't even get out of bed, especially this morning, but I take courage and get up at 6 in the morning (I don't wake up my wife who is sleeping, she works three times as much as me, what's the point of waking her up?) at 6 I go to the kitchen, first I take the medicine 4 tablets plus 10 drops, then I have breakfast, then I go to the bathroom, I shave and brush my teeth, then around 6.45 I go to my brothers' shops, and I help them, my job is to select the chickens and turkeys, there are 3 workers, they are boys, we turn on the radio and we joke, in the meantime everything passes, this makes me understand that mine is above all a mental situation, one last thing being the brother of the owner, I could command the boys, and give orders to them, but I always behave in a kind way, I always say please and then after I say thank you, one of the boys has a bad back, I do the hard work instead his, and he loves me so much that when it's 10 in the morning, that I'm leaving, he tells me come on stay here and keep us company, unfortunately I have to go home and lie down in bed