Pride rideth before the fall.  Yes siree, I was sitting here fat, dumb, and happy, breaking my arm from patting myself on the back because I succeeded in rooting and cupping up over 200 cuttings.  Then, I had a family emergency and went out of town for 10 days.  My neighbor offered to take care of the plants, for which I was grateful.  I have to admit that I didn't go into too much detail about the care of the cuttings in my haste to leave.  I returned to find everything sitting in an inch of water and a haze of fungus gnats.  Only 10 cuttings survived.

Fortunately, my large plants survived.

I owe people a lot of cuttings and plants.  I will be sending individual emails, trying to make amends and asking if I can postpone until I can get replacements.

C.J.

CJ, if I can help to restore anything for you, let me know. I think I owe you one. I am leaving town for the second time - one week this time, two weeks last time. I left them with a guru last time, leaving them at home with my DW this time. Before leaving I noticed a squirrel pruned off all the leaves from my JH Adriatic cutting :/ so I am not sure what I will come home to.

Jason,

That is very generous of you, but I believe it is I who owe YOU.  I will email you privately later today.

C.J.

I am going away for two weeks and I have set up a watering system for my plants.. Drip irrigation on main plants and newly potted cuttings on overhead sprinkler. all set on daily timer. I have been running the system for flaws for three weeks and there has been some. Had two hoses blow apart and had to replace hose clamps. But I now feel safer going away after last week of no problems and The plants seem to enjoy being watered on a schedule in the morning when I am asleep.

I have been looking at hose timers too. I take off quite regularly and can't rely on anyone to take care of them properly so I'm going to do the same, set up an automatic timed system. Next trip is early Aug so I have a month to figue it out.
Sue