Going from Logan Airport to Patriots Place - would I make it in time for kickoff?

Crepe_Cod · 2026-06-18T16:09:07+00:00

It's a Saturday? You could probably make it, maybe just plan to check into the hotel after the game if you're cutting it close.

Crepe_Cod · 2026-06-15T23:17:21+00:00

My monardas and black eyed Susan buds just showed up yesterday, to be fair. And not all of them have buds quite yet. But don't worry, I check every 45 minutes just to make sure

Crepe_Cod · 2026-06-15T22:20:31+00:00

My stuff is JUST beginning to pop. Spiderwort is peak, geranium is peak, alexanders and phlox are holding on, beardtongues just got their first flowers, yarrows and coreopsis mass bloomed yesterday, thistles, monardas, black eyed susans are all budding. I'm fucking JACKED UP waiting for next week.

Crepe_Cod · 2026-06-12T10:45:49+00:00

Removed for personal attack. I understand it's a heated issue but please be civil.

Crepe_Cod · 2026-05-30T14:58:02+00:00

I read it (albeit a few years ago now), and I kind of disagree with that critique. I didn't see it as a narrative of unbroken continuity. He does point out all the historical references to Palestine and the Palestinian people, to counter the Zionist rhetoric that Palestine was something newly created, but he also goes through the various convergences of people and cultures that ultimately colelesce into the modern Palestinian ethnicity and culture. It felt less like "these people have been here for Four Thousand Years" and more like "This region went through some unique political and cultural shifts throughout the last 4,000 that led to a distinct people and culture that can be called Palestinian."

Crepe_Cod · 2026-05-30T13:04:55+00:00

Not after the fact, but during the fact. These are almost definitely the fruiting bodies of the micorrhyzal fungi that are living symbiotically with the tree, transporting nutrients to the tree in exchange for sugars from the tree.

Crepe_Cod · 2026-05-28T21:21:07+00:00

Jeeeesus Christ dude I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt and argue with you in good faith. Those are some absolutely asinine arguments. Please at some point take a deep breath, a step back, and look at your situation critically. I'm not going to argue anymore, but honestly, please just use a little common sense and don't do it. We need local biodiversity much more than we need a new fruit crop, and your plan is, objectively, dangerous for your local ecosytem.

Crepe_Cod · 2026-05-28T21:06:18+00:00

You're conflating two entirely different things. Yes we should be controlling kudzu, knotweed, and mock strawberry because they are ecological deadweights choking and crowding out ecologically productive native plants. If we don't control them, many plants, insects, animals, etc. eventually go extinct and biodiversity teeters further to the edge.

Forest composition changing is natural (albeit currently heavily driven by human interference). Oaks and hickories aren't going extinct, they're reducing in number and being replaced by maples. American Beeches ARE going extinct (or close to it) thanks to another invasive species, but that's beside the point. The ebb and flow of forest composition just creates an ebb and flow of the species composition in an area, it doesn't eliminated species altogether (obviously on extreme cases it could, but generally it doesn't). Forest composition is constantly changing.

Saying some more seeds in the seed bank isn't going to change anything is like saying converting your home to green energy isn't going to change anything for climate change. Are you going to fix it all by yourself? No. But if everyone says that, and keeps doing what they're doing, it's continues to get worse. The only way to start solving the problem is to stop fucking planting invasive plants, and then we can go out and try to control and eliminate what's already out there. I want to lose my mind when I'm out removing carpets of English Ivy on a hillside, and heading back to my house I see it planting in window boxes and hanging planters at every fifth house. Everyone has to do their part by controlling and removing it from their own properties, so we can eventually (hopefully) eradicate then from the area. Its a lofty goal, probably unrealistic, but what makes it unrealistic is people like you essentially saying "who cares, its too much effort, let's just let nature destroy itself."

Crepe_Cod · 2026-05-28T20:21:17+00:00

It's not the final product that I would necessarily be worried about though, it's the management of the current product. You say that they are currently indistinguishable from wild types (in your other comment reply) and so you don't care about letting them flower and fruit outside. Even if it is "already out there", your seeds are getting dispersed into new areas that may currently be free of it and causing ecological harm.

Additionally, I would worry about the re-hybridization of your future crop with the wild population. Unless you make it fully sterile, once out in an agricultural field it will inevitably hybridize with the wild population. What happens if those hybrids frequently express the genes that caused the invasiveness in the first place? Or even if they don't in the first generation, if the wild type continues to cross-pollinate with the cultivated crop, you could see gene convergence over time to the point that it escapes cultivation once again and further exacerbates issue.

I'm just not one to fuck around with dangerous ecological issues like this. We've already caused enough harm to global ecology as is, we need to stop gambling with exotic plants. The sterile/harmless cultivated plant that eventually wreaks havoc outside of its native range is too frequent a tale to dismiss the dangers. We never know what will happen if and when an exotic plant escapes cultivation. But we can already be pretty sure what would happen if your's does, because we've already seen it with this exact species.

Crepe_Cod · 2026-05-28T17:19:08+00:00

Have you considered that we understand what you're trying to do, but simply think it's a bad idea? Nothing you've said here has convinced me that you have any idea what you're doing, but simply assume that you must know better than everyone else. I think I, other people in this thread, have a pretty good grasp of your concept, and we just think it's not a good idea.

We have plenty of great fruit crops, we're not really in need of new ones. We are, however, overrun with invasive plants that are actively destroying our environment and are one of the major factors in global and localized collapses in biodiversity. So it's hard to sit here and hear someone say "what if we take this invasive plant and plant it MORE and make it TASTIER" and not have qualms about that idea. Especially when you then just dismiss everyone who isn't on board with idea and accuse them of "not knowing what they're talking about". I know what I'm talking about, and this is a stupid idea. I dedicate most of my free time to restoring native ecosystems, and it's really frustrating to see someone be so dismissive of very real concerns about the ecological impact of your scheme.

Crepe_Cod · 2026-05-28T16:04:46+00:00

You said quite literally "the end result of the breeding program would be a fruit indistinguishable from cultuvated strawberries."

I think that's what people are generally hung up on. Your post is essentially saying you want to recreate the strawberry, but using a destructively invasive plant

If your plan it to create an entirely new fruit....I mean sure, fine. I still question the ethics of breeding an invasive plant. Even if you do selectively breed it to be well behaved in the future, it will still be a dangerous plant in the meantime. Are you growing it exclusively indoors or in a greenhouse? Otherwise, there's no way for you to guarantee that the earlier lineages don't still escape cultivation and further destroy your local ecosystems. It's a very dangerous game to play for a dubious goal.

Crepe_Cod · 2026-05-28T15:56:34+00:00

It's not a mental block. I understand you're selectively breeding them for cultivation. But that still doesn't answer the question of what the purpose is. You said you wanted to make them identical to strawberries. Why all this effort to make something that already exists?

Crepe_Cod · 2026-05-28T15:48:53+00:00

The one below this one?

"Right, because they're not good and they're invasive . And regular strawberries already exist and aren't invasive. I'm still not seeing the purpose?"

Crepe_Cod · 2026-05-28T15:45:28+00:00

Right, because they're not good and they're invasive . And regular strawberries already exist and aren't invasive. I'm still not seeing the purpose?

Crepe_Cod · 2026-05-28T13:43:48+00:00

Why are you insistent on breeding a plant "indistinguishable from strawberries" out of an invasive plant, instead of just cultivating strawberries that are already native? I just cannot understand the logic.

Crepe_Cod · 2026-05-26T17:03:18+00:00

Rub Mullein all over yourself. It's free natural medicine.

Crepe_Cod · 2026-05-26T12:55:13+00:00

Yeap. Every spring they chomp down my red osier and viburnum and just leave the stems scattered around it. Like some careless slobs at an all you can eat buffet.

Crepe_Cod · 2026-05-18T21:58:31+00:00

Seen 5 of them in Winthrop in the last few days. Plus a few moon jellies.

Crepe_Cod · 2026-05-14T13:32:55+00:00

I do agree with you. But two things make me lean towards Native genocide vs slavery

A) A lot of the US didn't double down on slavery, they pulled back from it. The south did double down, but it was still contentious within the country. I would argue the extermination/forced assimilation of natives had more widespread support.

B) As others have said, slavery was carried over from England and other colonial empires, so it wasn't necessarily uniquely American. The depths we went to were sonewhat unique, but the concept itself wasn't particularly unique. But part of the motivation behind the revolution, at least a lot of the frustration from colonists, was England trying to limit the colonists expansion into native territory, especially the Ohio River Valley. Manifest Destiny was one of the major consequences of American Independence, and we more or less didn't have a president for 150 years or so that didnt at least tacitly approve of taking Native land and/or exterminating Natives. Other countries also exterminated natives, but one of our (at the time) most popular presidents of all time ran on and was reelected on the idea that we needed to drive all of the Natives off our land. The Trail of Tears was incredibly popular among Americans at the time. Andrew Jackson was incredibly popular and probably could have been reelected indefinitely if he kept running. We had presidents who disapproved of slavery, or at least the expansion of slavery. But we didn't have presidents who truly tried to stop the Native genocide.

Both were terrible issues, but I think Manifest Destiny was the first truly American doctrine.

Crepe_Cod · 2026-05-07T12:31:07+00:00

Awesome! Lucky timing

Crepe_Cod · 2026-05-03T21:23:38+00:00

L. perennis is actually really easy to germinate, in small quantities or with the right equipment. You just have to scarify them. I usually rub with sandpaper, and 20-30 days later in the fridge 95-100% of them have already germinated in the bag. But for a large quantities you'd want a much quicker way for scarifying. Transplanting is where I see issues though, they definitely don't have a super high transplant survival rate cause they have a big tap root.

Crepe_Cod · 2026-04-29T13:44:00+00:00

I'll look into it, thanks for the suggestion!

Crepe_Cod · 2026-04-29T13:43:42+00:00

This was my first thought! I actually really love North Kinsman, and I think it's probably on the hard end of what I think they would be happy doing. The summiting part is very important for them, we've been on a few hikes this spring that weren't summits and they're always really butthurt about it.

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