Did you ever notice how some of the best loser-dogs come from animal rescue and become total winner-dogs?
In August 2009, long after all the best garden center transplanting flowers had been overly over-picked, I spotted this sad, wilted, bedraggled Zinnia loser-plant still for sale. For sale. HA! It was marked down to 10 cents. How degrading. No one wanted it even for 10 cents.
It was a hopeless, pathetic Zinnia loser-plant.
It was also an orphan. Like me. All alone in a black plastic tray that once held 6 dozen mini boxes of its brothers and sisters and cousins, by now growing proudly elsewhere in the town's best flower boxes.
Two nickles later and a quick trip home to the watering can, and it was MINE. I know what you are thinking. You are thinking, hmmmm 10 cents, was that the best use of a dime?
Valid question.
Stay tuned.
Hold on.
I transplanted it.
Tore some of the deranged and tangled roots apart.
Oh my.
That must have hurt. What next?
September 2009. Whoaaa. It's still alive.
October 2009. It's perking up, going a nice orange.
Nov 2009, arghhh it's done. " Quick take my seeds"
Two seeds. Not 30 seeds. Two seeds. Sheeez. Loser.
May 2010. I plant the two seeds.
One comes up.
Nice. Zinnia plant, looking good.
October, "it's been a blast, take my seeds".
November I strip off 30 seeds from the one flower. THIRTY. Jackpot.
May 2011. I planted 30 Zinnia seeds in different places and up comes.... 30 Zinnia plants! Look at the picture attached. You can see several of the Zinnia plants with 6 flowers and 7 buds on the way.
OMG keep looking. Now they are giving more than one flower per plant!
Oct 2011. By then they will offer 30 plants X 50 flowers X 30 seeds per flower = 45,000 Zinnia seeds
Oct 2012. 45,000 flowers X 30 seeds = 1,350,000 seeds
Oct 2013. 1,350,000 flowers X 30 seeds = 40,500,000 flowers
Oct 2014. 40,500,000 flowers x 30 = 1.2 billion seeds
Oct 2015. 1.2 billion flowers X 30 seeds = 36 billion flowers.
In May 2016. I will rent 500 acres of dormant farmland and plant 36 X 30 billion = 1.080 trillion Zinnia seeds. 1,080,000,000,000
I will post a sign on the land.
"Welcome, please pick all the Zinnias you want. Then go home and plant the seeds, OK?"
Mars is the red planet. Earth will be the orange planet.
How's that for a 10 cent loser?
johann
In August 2009, long after all the best garden center transplanting flowers had been overly over-picked, I spotted this sad, wilted, bedraggled Zinnia loser-plant still for sale. For sale. HA! It was marked down to 10 cents. How degrading. No one wanted it even for 10 cents.
It was a hopeless, pathetic Zinnia loser-plant.
It was also an orphan. Like me. All alone in a black plastic tray that once held 6 dozen mini boxes of its brothers and sisters and cousins, by now growing proudly elsewhere in the town's best flower boxes.
Two nickles later and a quick trip home to the watering can, and it was MINE. I know what you are thinking. You are thinking, hmmmm 10 cents, was that the best use of a dime?
Valid question.
Stay tuned.
Hold on.
I transplanted it.
Tore some of the deranged and tangled roots apart.
Oh my.
That must have hurt. What next?
September 2009. Whoaaa. It's still alive.
October 2009. It's perking up, going a nice orange.
Nov 2009, arghhh it's done. " Quick take my seeds"
Two seeds. Not 30 seeds. Two seeds. Sheeez. Loser.
May 2010. I plant the two seeds.
One comes up.
Nice. Zinnia plant, looking good.
October, "it's been a blast, take my seeds".
November I strip off 30 seeds from the one flower. THIRTY. Jackpot.
May 2011. I planted 30 Zinnia seeds in different places and up comes.... 30 Zinnia plants! Look at the picture attached. You can see several of the Zinnia plants with 6 flowers and 7 buds on the way.
OMG keep looking. Now they are giving more than one flower per plant!
Oct 2011. By then they will offer 30 plants X 50 flowers X 30 seeds per flower = 45,000 Zinnia seeds
Oct 2012. 45,000 flowers X 30 seeds = 1,350,000 seeds
Oct 2013. 1,350,000 flowers X 30 seeds = 40,500,000 flowers
Oct 2014. 40,500,000 flowers x 30 = 1.2 billion seeds
Oct 2015. 1.2 billion flowers X 30 seeds = 36 billion flowers.
In May 2016. I will rent 500 acres of dormant farmland and plant 36 X 30 billion = 1.080 trillion Zinnia seeds. 1,080,000,000,000
I will post a sign on the land.
"Welcome, please pick all the Zinnias you want. Then go home and plant the seeds, OK?"
Mars is the red planet. Earth will be the orange planet.
How's that for a 10 cent loser?
johann
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