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Summer camp for biogeeks
Jun. 8th, 2009 05:01 pmI found a treasure today: An empty gopher tortoise shell. (Well, mostly empty. There was a vertebra inside! Cool!) This pretty much trumps every turtle shell I ever found as a kid, being over a foot in length. GIANT TURTLE SHELL FTW.
...Unfortunately it belonged to a threatened species, which means I'd need a permit to take it home. ;_; I brought it in anyway and gave it to the Education Department; hopefully they can make good use of it.
In other news, I killed the Ziziphus! :(
Technically it was not my fault. But C____ left me in charge of the Ziziphus celata seedlings growing in the greenhouse to be used for a restoration planting, with the instructions that they had aphids and whiteflies, and I should spray all the plants every day with the soapy water mixture he left me, and that I couldn't possibly overspray or hurt them in any way.
Two days after he left, the Ziziphus all started to brown, and their leaves have all fallen off. Turns out he did not tell me that every time they've sprayed the plants with soap before, this has happened. Perhaps he forgot to mention that very important point? We looked up the soap-mixture proportions, and the mixture he made is a ridiculously high concentration, so -- really, really not my fault the plants got soapburnt. But this still means when he gets back from his vacation, we're going to have to tell him that his Ziziphus are naked. In the past when this has happened, they've regrown their leaves, but you have to figure at some point the plants are just going to say, "Oh, for fuck's sake," and decide not to resprout. *crosses fingers* Come back to us, Ziziphus! We love yoooou~.
I got a lot done today! This morning I set up the rest of my torpedograss plots. In the afternoon, I finished a monstrous data entry project. So despite the dead endangered plants and the dead threatened tortoise, I am personally alive and happy.
...And at the end of the day, that's a good thing to be able to say.
...Unfortunately it belonged to a threatened species, which means I'd need a permit to take it home. ;_; I brought it in anyway and gave it to the Education Department; hopefully they can make good use of it.
In other news, I killed the Ziziphus! :(
Technically it was not my fault. But C____ left me in charge of the Ziziphus celata seedlings growing in the greenhouse to be used for a restoration planting, with the instructions that they had aphids and whiteflies, and I should spray all the plants every day with the soapy water mixture he left me, and that I couldn't possibly overspray or hurt them in any way.
Two days after he left, the Ziziphus all started to brown, and their leaves have all fallen off. Turns out he did not tell me that every time they've sprayed the plants with soap before, this has happened. Perhaps he forgot to mention that very important point? We looked up the soap-mixture proportions, and the mixture he made is a ridiculously high concentration, so -- really, really not my fault the plants got soapburnt. But this still means when he gets back from his vacation, we're going to have to tell him that his Ziziphus are naked. In the past when this has happened, they've regrown their leaves, but you have to figure at some point the plants are just going to say, "Oh, for fuck's sake," and decide not to resprout. *crosses fingers* Come back to us, Ziziphus! We love yoooou~.
I got a lot done today! This morning I set up the rest of my torpedograss plots. In the afternoon, I finished a monstrous data entry project. So despite the dead endangered plants and the dead threatened tortoise, I am personally alive and happy.
...And at the end of the day, that's a good thing to be able to say.
