Re: Re: I am now growing Stevia

[Guest guest]

If you muddle the leaves of the Stevia, do you get more sweetness if you are

going to add it to something?  Maybe put in a tea strainer to keep the leaf out

of the fluid?

Carolyn Wilkerson

 

To: sproutpeople

Sent: Friday, June 8, 2012 12:12 PM

Subject: Re: I am now growing Stevia

 

They will taste sweet right now, so you could taste one and see how sweet it is

or use it in a cup of tea. You could clip leaves and branches off like you did

with your basil plant last year. When you are the producer you have to see what

works best for you and manage your production to best fit in with your needs. I

bet you could not imagine the horticultural education you would end up with when

you joined this group.

Lee

> Ernest.

>

> Let me see if I got this right. I don't harvest anything now (from the Stevia

plant). I wait until I see blossoms, then I pull the leaves off by pruning

(blossoms too?). Then I do the dehydrating and powder.

>

> Did I get this right? What would happen if I plucked some leaves right now? I

just got these plants yesterday.

>

> I'm going to go on the internet now and read up on Stevia, etc.

>

> I just hope my neighbors don't think I'm growing any weed!!!

>

> lol

> Melody

[Guest guest]

Mel,

Give it a couple of weeks to acclimate after you have taken it from the pot and

planted it into it's new home.

ew

Re: I am now growing Stevia

Lee. Since the plant is tall now, can I cut some of it off? I have no knowledge

of these things because the only plant I am growing aside from Stevia is my leaf

lettuce and that never gets tall.

I'm wondering if I can cut the top off and also take some leaves off too?

thanks much

Melody

[Guest guest]

I saw it as well..... first time I ever saw a double rainbow.....I was pointing

it out to people on the street.....no one cared.....jaded Brooklynites......I

gotta move!!!!!!!

Re: I am now growing Stevia

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> Lee. Since the plant is tall now, can I cut some of it off? I have no

knowledge of these things because the only plant I am growing aside from Stevia

is my leaf lettuce and that never gets tall.

>

> I'm wondering if I can cut the top off and also take some leaves off too?

>

> thanks much

>

> Melody

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I have never seen a double rainbow.  I feel lucky to see a single rainbow. 

You werover near Port Charlotte?

They have been talking a lot about hurricanes here.  It has been 7 years I

think since Wilma.  They know they won't hold off forever.  But before that it

was about 20 years  since one had come through here.  really got

Homestead area and was a terrible hurricane. Wherever  a hurricane comes in it

is a terrible hurricane though.  I hope the double rainbow is lucky for you.

Carolyn Wilkerson

 

To: sproutpeople

Sent: Friday, June 8, 2012 10:30 PM

Subject: Re: I am now growing Stevia

 

Double rainbows make me want to run and hide! We saw the most spectacular one in

2004 in Florida, making the most picture perfect sight just behind my house-the

sky looked very ominous but the rainbow was amazing! The next afternoon,

Hurricane Charley blew through and wiped my entire county off the map, our house

included! I tend to view them as a sign of bad things to come now, which is a

shame since they are so beautiful! It was also Friday the 13th when it

hit...made a believer out of me, lol

> >

> > Mel,

> > Give it a couple of weeks to acclimate after you have taken it from the pot

and planted it into it's new home.

> > ew

> >

> > Re: I am now growing Stevia

> >

> > Lee. Since the plant is tall now, can I cut some of it off? I have no

knowledge of these things because the only plant I am growing aside from Stevia

is my leaf lettuce and that never gets tall.

> >

> > I'm wondering if I can cut the top off and also take some leaves off too?

> >

> > thanks much

> >

> > Melody

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

I went to Port Charlotte a year or two after Charley went through.  There was

still rebuilding going on and there were a lot of things that were missing.  It

was more of a fishing community than a tourist area.  There weren't a lot of

things to see. 

Carolyn Wilkerson

 

To: sproutpeople

Sent: Saturday, June 9, 2012 1:28 AM

Subject: Re: I am now growing Stevia

 

Yes, I was in Port Charlotte-even all these years later, still much of the

county isn't back to the way it was. I don't EVER want to go through that

again...which is why I am now full time in the mountains, lol!

> > >

> > > Mel,

> > > Give it a couple of weeks to acclimate after you have taken it from the

pot and planted it into it's new home.

> > > ew

> > >

> > > Re: I am now growing Stevia

> > >

> > > Lee. Since the plant is tall now, can I cut some of it off? I have no

knowledge of these things because the only plant I am growing aside from Stevia

is my leaf lettuce and that never gets tall.

> > >

> > > I'm wondering if I can cut the top off and also take some leaves off too?

> > >

> > > thanks much

> > >

> > > Melody

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

[Guest guest]

regarding the leaves l dry them as they get large and then add them to my home

made tea in the tin that way l dont have to add suger if you take off the top it

lets the shoots on the leaf axis grow better

To: sproutpeople

Sent: Saturday, 9 June 2012, 2:44

Subject: Re: Re: I am now growing Stevia

Mel,

Give it a couple of weeks to acclimate after you have taken it from the pot and

planted it into it's new home.

ew

Re: I am now growing Stevia

Lee. Since the plant is tall now, can I cut some of it off? I have no knowledge

of these things because the only plant I am growing aside from Stevia is my leaf

lettuce and that never gets tall.

I'm wondering if I can cut the top off and also take some leaves off too?

thanks much

Melody

[Guest guest]

Someone I knew fro AR (a distant distant cousin of my husband's) was in Japan

when the tsunami came.  she was uS and was able to get out with her son and

came back.  Her husband had to stay there longer.  They were all really

worried about the exposure to radiation leak.  I think it was worse that we

were even told and that was bad. 

Carolyn Wilkerson

 

To: sproutpeople

Sent: Saturday, June 9, 2012 10:04 AM

Subject: Re: I am now growing Stevia

 

I had been a cop in Charlotte county Florida for most of my adult life, and we

often had " hurricane warnings " , or times when we got minor damage from the

outter bands of them, but NOTHING could have prepared us for what happened when

the county took a direct hit! We were all huddled in the closet, with mattresses

pulled over us, while the house quite literally expolded around us. I was having

chest pains during it, truly thinking it was going to suck my mother or daughter

out the roof of the house! When it was over, and we looked out, you could see

nothing but rubble as far as the eye could see. Although there is no waterway

even close to my house, a huge boat was sticking out from the roof of the house

across the street-it had been carried over two miles by the wind. A church

steeple was sticking out from another house, and the church it came from was 4

miles away! Needless to say, we had no power, no gas, no food, no water, etc for

over a month-and no

way to get out to get any since the roads and stores were all destroyed too!

Here are some images of the after effects:

http://www.google.com/search?q=hurricane%20charley%20port%20charlotte & oe=UTF-8 & h\

l=en & client=safari & um=1 & ie=UTF-8 & tbm=isch & source=og & sa=N & tab=wi & ei=xVfTT4COKcTr6\

gHKrsmtAw & biw=768 & bih=900 & sei=x1fTT5y-KuWl6gG-ytmiAw

> >

> > Yes, I was in Port Charlotte-even all these years later, still much of the

county isn't back to the way it was. I don't EVER want to go through that

again...which is why I am now full time in the mountains, lol!

> >

> >

>

[Guest guest]

I am impressed with your own tea but you sure will have to translate that lst

sentence for me as I sure didn't get it.  Thanks.

Carolyn Wilkerson

 

To: " sproutpeople " <sproutpeople >

Sent: Saturday, June 9, 2012 8:36 AM

Subject: Re: Re: I am now growing Stevia

 

regarding the leaves l dry them as they get large and then add them to my home

made tea in the tin that way l dont have to add suger if you take off the top it

lets the shoots on the leaf axis grow better

To: sproutpeople

Sent: Saturday, 9 June 2012, 2:44

Subject: Re: Re: I am now growing Stevia

Mel,

Give it a couple of weeks to acclimate after you have taken it from the pot and

planted it into it's new home.

ew

Re: I am now growing Stevia

Lee. Since the plant is tall now, can I cut some of it off? I have no knowledge

of these things because the only plant I am growing aside from Stevia is my leaf

lettuce and that never gets tall.

I'm wondering if I can cut the top off and also take some leaves off too?

thanks much

Melody