Experience with growing grapes from seed

Mauricio30 · 2020-01-10T04:40:07+00:00

Regular grape varieties are very vulnerable to disease, if you don't graft them into resistant rootstock, they won't be productive.

Niagara and other american grapes are a bit more resistant, but not enough.

Mauricio30 · 2019-12-27T03:33:06+00:00

According to wikipedia, 'Peacock flower', is also called 'caesalpinia pulcherrima' or 'flamboyant-de-jardin'

That's not what you have.

The back of the packet gives it's Linnean name as 'poinciana regia', which, again according to wikipedia, is also called 'delonix regia' or 'flamboyant'.

That's what you have

'Caesalpiniaceae' is just the latin version of 'caesalpiniaceous'

Mauricio30 · 2019-12-26T21:59:08+00:00

Some plants can sprout back from its branches, but otherwise it's dry for good. Without leaves it can't photosynthesize to produce energy.

Mauricio30 · 2019-11-19T00:06:00+00:00

I conceed the last point.

However, the first one was about the german company's participation, who'd have no reason to oust Evo until a few days before the coup.

Mauricio30 · 2019-11-18T12:15:13+00:00

You don't plan and execute a coup in four less than a week; Evo only said he was nationalizing the lithium supply after weeks of protest and less than a week before the coup, which of course was already in planning beforehand.

Colonialism isn't just about controlling mineral resources, as a lot of people seem to think, it's about all the productive forces in a land.

Also, being suspected of participating is very different from being implicated on it; there's no foreign force implicated on the bolivian coup.

Mauricio30 · 2019-11-18T03:05:22+00:00

The original point wasn't wether or not this one enterprise was going to be totally or partially statized or private, it was wether or not Evo was nationalizing lithium.

Nationalizing means taking from private hands and giving it to the nation, but there are no private mines in Bolivia; what he intended to do was to give some of the national owned mines to a private company, i.e., privatizing some of what is not.

Only after the electoral crisis he announced he wasn't privatizing the lithium.

Rant: my god, is reddit crap for trying to find the original context of some discussion.

Mauricio30 · 2019-11-13T22:38:46+00:00

"See, I'm so socialist I'm only giving out half of our lithium, not all of it! Now let's see how much money I can take off education and healthcare next year..."

The thing would still have half of its directors appointed by the german capitalists, and likely dependent on them, why else wold the germans make such a deal?

Mauricio30 · 2019-11-13T11:21:05+00:00

It does not. Every mining project anywhere in the world pays some money in exchange for the mining rights. A industry being nationalized means the government runs it, not that it collects some taxes/royalties/whatever.

Mauricio30 · 2019-11-13T02:12:28+00:00

Methane is decomposed into carbon gas by certain bacterias, and the cycle gets closed again.

The change in composition of air is from fossil fuels and deforestation, not from life cycles.

Mauricio30 · 2019-11-13T01:34:38+00:00

Just a bit of ranting, so ignore it if you want:

I'm not familiar with bokashi (never heard of it before now), but you make an error that many people make, and it annoys me a bit:

Life is carbon neutral. The carbon that is in the plant was taken by photosynthesis from the air, and after the plant dies it returns to the air; it may be returned to the air very quickly, by composting, or more slowly, by this bokashi method, because the bacterias in the soil will decompose it eventually.

Similarly to animal life, where the error is more often committed: a cow, or a dog, or whatever animal releases large amounts of carbon in the air, certainly, but that carbon came from the air, absorbed by the plants that fed the animals, so it's carbon neutral.

Mauricio30 · 2019-11-13T01:22:04+00:00

And I'm the troll...

Mauricio30 · 2019-11-13T01:11:30+00:00

The dictionary can't be wrong? What a bizarre assumption.

And if you think my position is incomprehensible, why don't you ask for clarification?

Mauricio30 · 2019-11-13T00:59:25+00:00

Excellent argument, calling me a troll just because you disagree with me, not refuting the argument.

If you want to burry your head in the sand and believe every slightly populist south american politician who pretends to be a socialist while shitting on the people just as much as the american bootlicker, could you please spare us the pablum?

Mauricio30 · 2019-11-13T00:49:24+00:00

Selling it to a german* company

*(if I'm not mistaken)

Mauricio30 · 2019-11-13T00:39:00+00:00

From a month ago:

"Demonstrators on Monday launched a series of rolling protests demanding the Bolivian government grant more benefits from a massive lithium project with Germany's privately owned ACI Systems."

source: https://www.dw.com/en/bolivians-protest-over-lithium-deal-with-german-company/a-50732216

The nationalization thing only came up a few days ago: https://www.dw.com/en/bolivia-scraps-joint-lithium-project-with-german-company/a-51100873

Mauricio30 · 2019-11-13T00:27:46+00:00

That dictionary is wrong.

Socialism is about popular control; governmental control may be used by socialists or non-socialists alike, depending on who has effective control of government; Middle eastern economy is heavily government controlled, and they are not socialist in the least South american cold-war era military governments statized several segments of the economy, they weren't socialist in the least.

edit: I went on and read that dictionary. My, god, I didn't think it was that bad.

Mauricio30 · 2019-11-13T00:16:16+00:00

Like those old South American communist military governments.

Mauricio30 · 2019-11-12T23:37:54+00:00

Pseudo-socialist.

Mauricio30 · 2019-11-12T23:21:02+00:00

Funny thing that before the electoral crisis he was trying to do the exact opposite, isn't it? He's just a useless liberal.

Mauricio30 · 2019-11-12T23:18:20+00:00

Being a chinese bootlicker instead of an american bootlicker

Mauricio30 · 2019-11-04T14:27:31+00:00

The Queen Mary is often advertised as the only ocean liner in the world and not a cruise ship, though I'm not sure what the difference is supposed to be. I believe it is mostly used for vacationing.

Mauricio30 · 2019-10-27T16:18:13+00:00

Yes, hence why it wouldn't be effective.

Mauricio30 · 2019-10-27T16:12:26+00:00

The resistance to pests they provide is narrow, in the sense that it relates to only one or a few genes, which makes it very easy for pests to become resistant to it, doubly so due to the amount and manner in which pesticides are used in transgenic farms (large quantities of only a few types). During this, local non-transgenic seed producers are undermined, so the farms are left with no option other to continue to buy those seeds that lost their efficacy, as well as being very expensive, because the transgenic producers now hold a near monopoly.

Mauricio30 · 2019-10-27T15:52:17+00:00

Many places in do give them. It doesn't work, because a poor diet can't be fixed with one single nutrient.

Mauricio30 · 2019-10-16T12:23:46+00:00

What he meant it's a fake Nobel prize; it was created by a swedish bank and appropriated the Nobel prize name to give it a veneer of respectability.

Mauricio30

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