You Grow Girl™

It really was a mystery. I pulled up my tomato plants to hang them in my new back yard so I could eat that fabulous-looking brandywine and somewhere between my old place and my new place, the tomato went AWOL. I even retraced my steps looking for the darn thing. Thankfully it wasn't the only tomato on the plant. I ate a less attractive fruit a few days ago, it was still yum-ola. Cutting off the plants and hanging them definitely worked - I have had green fruit turn ripe from both plants.

My housemate SuperC went away for a week and I had to restrain myself from watering her houseplants. I have a horrible tendency to overwater. This is why I like my rubber plant. Its leaves droop when it needs water and then I water my other plant (yes, I have two houseplants total) at the same time. It takes supreme efforts of self-control not to water that plant more often, I tell ya.

My summer research went well. I actually did manage to find a way to tell one goatgrass parent from the other in the lab. Now I am doing clean-up work. I am trying to get the actual DNA sequence of the chloroplast region that is different between the two species. I don't personally have to sequence it - I send it to another lab. But the process is finicky - it's tough to prepare things so they will work in the other lab and it takes them a few days to get the results back to me. So it's a work-one-day-wait-three kind of scenario. In the meantime, I am entering the data I collected this past spring into the computer and trying to remember what it is that I think I am doing in my own research.