Did you read the article before posting this? It doesn’t concern inheritance tax and they are managing the farm, hoping to become full tenants - i.e. don’t and won’t own the farm.

Sadly I’m running out of time, and thank you again for your detailed reply, but a couple of points: the Clarkson example could be better handled through taxation on his earnings during his lifetime, your prices are primarily relevant to land rather than complete farms - typically in Devon/Cornwall you’d be looking at 15-30k per acre when farmhouse etc. is included, and finally the money made running a farm often ends up reinvested or used in the subsequent running of the farm, so stripping £40k out of it in your example would significantly affect the running of the farm the next year and so on. Ok, got to rush…

Thank you for the detail - I understand it’s not necessarily due in one go, but “even” 40k per year is still not loose change that the vast majority of farmers will have lying around, and my point about having to liquidate assets still stands, whether a smaller amount of assets per year or deferred. The wealth of most farms is tied up in the land and property, and the items required to run the farm in the first place. A further point would be that if it is to be considered a small, easily repayable sum, then given the small number of farmers likely to be affected each year in the first place, why bother? It’s not a significant source of government revenue and risks driving some farms out of business, for what?

I was born and brought up in an extremely rural area of the westcountry, and I’m well aware of the “farmer hard times” saying as farmers drive past in e.g. brand new landrovers, but this inheritance tax change has not been thought through. Assuming a farm is liable to inheritance tax, where does the money come from without liquidating assets? Sell part of the farm? So then you have a small piece of land with agricultural use restrictions, no infrastructure, probably too small to form a separate farm. Repeat for a few generations and all the farms are then the same size, with efficiency of scale problems - not to mention where do the new farmers come from? Sell farm machinery - great, you’ve no business. Sell your stock - you’ve no business.

Much better to tax people when they are alive, on their earnings, and expand it to all earnings from any source, lumped together and charged at the relevant rate of income tax.

Physalis or inca berry?

Aye, true. Still rationing then as well, hard times for children.

They really look much older.

It actually gets easier as the week goes on, as the number of US-centric questions goes down…

Enid Blyton must be spinning in her grave.

Thank you also for the very detailed reply - from those options I think 1) and 2) are unlikely in my case - it’s a pre-fertilised compost designed for cannabis and should still have enough nutrients (plus during various stages of panicking I added N-Rich fertiliser (Fish mix) and no change occurred). This leaves 3, which has been the suggestion of others as well - although from your explanation I’ll be careful about reusing compost and will use new compost and add further fertiliser if required.

Thank you - yes, I’ve really struggled here - despite the pot feeling light and the top layer being dry, it turned out the lower levels were soaking. I’ve been (annoyingly, according to my wife :-) ) very careful to move the plants out of shade though, so hopefully that part isn’t a problem.

Great, thank you! Just have to hope I can rescue them before the “auto” part kicks in - it would be a shame to have to start again.

Thanks - more compost has now been ordered :-)

Deep rooters! I’ve just done some repotting before reading your reply, actually downsized slightly and added a lot of drainage as the roots were basically nonexistent and I’m trying to force myself to not overwater now. When the colour returns and the repotting stress has passed I’ll follow your advice and go directly to the “final” pot size.

Thank you again :-) I have been watering when the pot is light, and the top cm or so is dry, not letting it sit in water but watering enough that the water runs through. I’ve spare compost and perlite, so I’ll try quickly repotting, in case the soil’s now too compressed/waterlogged, then follow your suggestion re the watering frequency and try and forget about the plant a little!

Nochmals vielen Dank! Thank you again - I’ve got compost left and some extra perlite so I’ll mix some more in and repot now.

Thank you for the detailed reply - I’ve previously had no problems with “normal” plants but it really does sound like I’m killing these with love. Very, very jealous of your beast!

Thank you! I’ve hopefully added a picture. I suspect that you’re right - every time I mention the plants my wife rolls her eyes….

I’m leaving the flower pot until it feels light, then watering well, and the water drains freely. The top layer of soil currently feels “sticky” after being watered a day ago - I also check that the top 1-2 cm is dry before watering. I’ll resist any further fertilisation unless the photo makes people think there’s a nutrient problem.

Danke, obwohl ich Engländer bin und mein Deutsch noch nicht sehr gut ist, werde ich mich trotzdem anmelden!

I’ve hopefully added a photo as a reply to my original post. That plant was planted out on the 2.7, seedling appeared on the 5.7, it’s a Purplematic Auto.