Odd email

I received a strange email yesterday after putting up my flyer. Can anyone make heads or tails of it?

Good lord! It grew again!

So my sapling grew again! Now it has sprouted these strange seeds like I've never seen before on the sides of it's..trunk? It's about 2 inches thick at this point. Anyway, get your souvenir!

Ow.

I have an absolutely horrendous headache. Tossed and turned all night and had some pretty terrible dreams when I did get to sleep. But it's time to hit the grind now. I'll try to go check my sapling later, see if it's grown again.

Hasty Little Plant

I just got this blog running today, but I had planted the sapling a few days ago, on Saturday. Today I went out to take measurements and it's already grown a full inch! I haven't seen a sapling do this before. Fascinating! However, it's also moved about an inch to the left. Maybe the soil below shifted? Took some pictures, I'll keep documenting.

Ready to start!

My individual studies course for my botany major has me working with Dr. Basire. Given my interest in dendrology specifically (That's trees, for you not so plant inclined folks) he's having me care for a sapling and see if I can get it growing this semester. Once it's large enough I also have to identify it.  It's a tiny thing that he gave me, only grown a few inches out of it's pot. Going to move it to ground in a friend's backyard and see how it goes! Definitely excited to see it grow, I haven't been able to identify it yet, it's little more than a black stick, but there does appear to be a little spot of red. Maybe just a blemish? 

Anyway, I've decided to start this blog to keep an eye on it and keep my progress in the whole tree studying thing going. So if you're interested, check back!