Well, I usually let them take the rain unless it's really pouring, and I always yell at people when my rain-catching jug out front gets moved from between the two rocks that otherwise hold it in place. And what REALLY makes me mad is that my grandmother to this day doesn't take my word for the truth when a CP issue arrises. I KNOW my outdoor plants need dormancy, but she is determined they don't and that I'm wrong and everybody on here is lying and her logic outweighs every CP expert's opinion. It's really none of her business, so I don't know why she cares.. another time, when my S. minor had scale, we went to Rockledge Gardens to see if they had anything I could use, which was her idea.. I intended to go to Lowe's and get Orthene, like you guys said. I told her what y'all said about Orthene, but she still insisted on going to the garden place and asking this random dude that worked there what we should use. He said Pyrethrin, because it was organic and good for sensitive plants. Sounded good to me, and I got it, but I still intended to go to Lowe's and get Orthene just in case. Then we got in an argument because I wanted to go to Lowe's and get the Orthene, and she kept saying the Pyrethrin would be fine because the dude said it was fine for them, and I kept asking her why the hell she trusts a random dude's opinion over MINE and over the opinion of EXPERTS on here. And that's exactly what she does.. she totally discounts ANYONE on the Internet, no matter how many times I say, "There are people on there who have grown these plants for YEARS and are total EXPERTS." But nooo, her thinking and the thinking of dipwads at garden centers who've never seen a CP should be trusted much more highly ¬_¬