Susan's Polyandry

I was an idiot and left my gas can (the one I use for my lawn mower gas) out in front of my house for a long time.  I came home one day to find it gone.  In its place was a scrawled note that read, "Hi, my name is Suzi.  I borrowed your gas can and I'll bring it right back."  That was about a month ago- and I haven't seen my gas can.

That actually has nothing to do with this post.  I'm just bitching about my own foolishness, and the weirdly justified stealing by some woman named Suzi.

I did, however, find a broom that I named Susan's Polyandry.  I don't know anyone who is polyandrous- it is just a random name.

I ended up climbing the tree a couple of years ago to take several scions for grafting.  Not a single graft took, which seems to be typical of my experience with this species.  This is a lodgepole pine-  Pinus contorta var latifolia.  I did, however, collect numerous cones from the broom, and I was able to start a number of seedlings.  Of course, the slugs ate half of the seedlings.  Probably the plant of a century was in with the ones that were eaten, knowing my luck.  Ah well.  I hope the slug enjoyed it.  It died shortly thereafter.

Roughly half of the resulting seedlings are showing dwarfism, so I am very interested in watching them mature.  It will be interesting to see if there is much diversity in terms of morphology- we shall see.