Growing Tomatoes from seed

Lessons Learned about growing tomatoes (Roma) from seed

-Starter Pot; location; seeds (# per growing pot)

-Initial watering method; frequency

-Additional watering methods after 3″ growth

-Separating the Alpha plant from the others and transplanting

-Plastic things sticks; plant trainer

-Pot: Size; How many plants in one pot?

-Watering quantity and frequency – now it’s one pot

REFERENCE

How to Grow Tomatoes in Pots

https://www.thespruce.com/tips-for-growing-tomatoes-in-containers-848216

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Aging Roku Hardware impacting Roku app and Netflix updates

Components:
-Roku Hardware (before Digital TV, with the S-Video cables, etc) to back of TV
-Roku App (with interface on TV) talking to Roku Device with integration to Netflix
-Netflix (company actually providing access to movies and user-interface features)

Lessons Learned from past:
-I’ve seen in the past where problems can occur when you have aging hardware that becomes out of synch with higher level applications. I’ve also seen where a lack of a BIOS update compromises the connection between the OS and the underlying hardware.

Symptoms within user interface of Netflix:
-A new feature recently displayed with a red “N” on various movies/shows. This signifies that it’s a Netflix production. Basically, it’s marketing by Netflix to highlight their stuff.
-The user could not “add” a movie to MyList
-The user could not “remove” a movie from MyList

The version of Roku app is:
-3.x (XXXX)
-Note: The Roku app is getting its versioning based on the Roku hardware

The version of Roku, from Netflix Corporation perspective is now:
-Version 4.x

Q: Do you upgrade the hardware?
-The issue is the Roku site looked like it didn’t have a newer version of the hardware with the old-school S-Video cables to back of a pre-digital TV. Basically, if I wanted to completely resolve all the user-interface issues within NetFlix (adding/removing to MyList) I would need to upgrade to a digital TV and also get new Roku Hardware

Q: How do I stop-gap the problem without purchasing hardware?
Note: I noticed that within the web-browser on my laptop, I was able to log-in to NetFlix and manually remove the movie from MyList
-Download the NetFlix app onto iPhone. This renders a smaller screen on iPhone, with same layout as on TV, and allows to navigate thru and add/remove. Issue is the screen size
-Download the NetFlix app onto Android. I have a Samsung Tablet with (I think) a 10″ screen. This is an effective interface for navigating and adding/removing

Summary: Because Netflix effectively made my hardware obsolete, while preserving most user-interface features, I’ve needed to come up with a stop-gap (Android Tablet) to supplement the TV user-interface.

20210401 UPDATE: This is weird… Now everything works – can add and remove from list. This is typical – call into tech support with an issue and it magically resolves a couple days later.

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Wiki creation – again

Decided to create another wiki (wiki.paulgarth.name), and actually do something with it this time.

Here’s the FAQ from Mediawiki

Basic actions right now are to figure out how to add stuff into this and understand its templates, etc.

IONOS (1&1) made it really easy to create the Wiki. Looks like I also have a database capacity of 2GB.

My plan is to use this for thing like: General Aviation and other things where there are many things to review and master.

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