neville, unfortunately the cucumber didn't agree with the treatment, would have tasted like pebbles anyway..
congratulations on your win, I think it's fair, yours had a lot more work in it!
arjen
With apologies to the late Professor C. D. Darlington the following misquotation springs to
mind ‘cactus taxonomy is the pursuit of the impossible by the incompetent’ - Fearn & Pearcy, Rebutia (1981)