If they went from 20hrs to whatever the daylight hours were when you put them out, you're guaranteed to get flowering and possibly reveg, so light depping those may be in order, too. Watch for signs of reveg.
Thank you so much sea!!! I'm getting so excited. I do have a question for you and @caregiverken, I put some of these plants in the ground two weeks before I flipped, around May 15 th and they look like they are ahead in flowering too, so my question is do you two think the flower started when I put them in the ground? I didn't notice flowers but they sure look ahead of the rest.
Wow, I thought getting bit was very rare. Do you get really sick? Or does the anti venom work really well?
I missed stepping on one by a few inches in eastern Washington. We were cutting through a
lumber mill with a huge patch of saw dust and did not see it in till after.
Well... it is fairly rare to be bitten, unless you're handling them. And I used to handle rattlers often, to relocate those that found their way into homes or onto areas of properties where others might be hurt. After working the aquatic ornamental trade I became familiarized with handling other species of snakes, of course all constrictors. Green Mojaves are truly GREEN, and I'd never seen a green rattler so when I was riding along on the quadrunner and came across this jade jewel in the desert, I HAD to stop and check it out. We were fine for about 20mins or so, then I relaxed, let its tail down and it insisted I let it go. Due to the species, no tissue loss, but I did completely lose all sense of smell for about 6mos or so, and still have a greatly diminished sense of smell to this day. 2001, a couple of days after the attacks, I'll never forget it.
In any event, my experience with snakes says that they wear their hearts on their sleeves for the most part. Which was part of what was so surprising with this snake because I figured if he was pissed I would have felt it in his tail, but I didn't, felt nothing, snake was completely relaxed. Til *I* relaxed!
Spent a week in ICU. Yes, once the venom went through my system it fucking hurts. I tied a tourniquet because I was so far from the cabin and had no idea how long it would be til I got to a hospital, so I assumed I'd be losing at least my finger, if not my hand or my arm. I said goodbye to each part as I tied it off. That prevented the venom from hitting my system, though, so when I got to ER they scolded me for tying the tourniquet (which very well may have saved my life), the venom hit and suddenly I was having THE WORST drug trip of my life and puking my guts out.
That's what the venom was like--an awful, awful AWFUL drug trip on something I've never taken before. The bite itself barely hurt, hurts less than being stuck with a sewing needle, hurts FAR less than being dinged by something like a rosy boa or a python, far less than being dinged by a snowflake moray eel (that one bled like a motherfucker, left a neat looking set of bite marks, too), less than a whole lot of things I've been nailed by. It's the venom. Took 12 doses of Cro-Fab and a qualified metric shit-ton of morphine.
I taught myself biofeedback while I was in ICU, too. :D Set off all my alarms daily.
