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Cake day: February 16th, 2024

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  • Huh.

    I remembered vaguely that maybe Jorge Cervantes talked about miracle gro. But I don’t remember what he said. It was almost two decades ago tho.

    Anyway, perlite is more expensive so even if miracles gro used to be good, they may have shrinkflated a little, replacing the more expensive parts with cheaper shit and lowering the quality.

    I aways add like at least a third of the mix of perlite. Usually half, sometimes even more in my active hydro systems. But even just for soil, I’d aim for at least 20-30% of the soil being perlite or other airy additive.

    It’s just when they’re establishing roots, even if the mix isn’t horrible and it’s nice and airy when it comes out, usually the first watering muddies and packs it. So if you don’t add as much aery additives, maybe keep it loose and add something like clay balls as a layer on top, then gently water when you do, and that should avoid the material packing too much.

    Idk it’s personal preference and depends on a lot on how you garden otherwise, just sharing thoughts.


  • They look decent enough, but if there was one thing I see that could be improved, perhaps, it’s that people very often don’t bother adding aeration to their soil. Like a third of perlite, even half depending on the plant. Just keeps the soil so much better draining so watering doesn’t compact it and the plant has an easier time making roots.

    I’ve just noticed it’s the most limiting factor usually, and soils nowadays are all pretty shit. Even the supposed “cactus soil” I got was muddy as hell, definitely not good for cacti, I barely used it to plant my cannabis. It’s for the mother plant, so it being a bit slow growing is fine.

    But I have noticed the quality and aeriness of the soil impacts the early phases of growth quite a lot. After there’s a proper root ball, less so.


  • the OG NCC-1701 Enterprise with your pals.

    If only had VR still. And pals…

    Seemed like great larping. I would’ve jizzed at the chance of something like that 25 years ago when I was doing just that essentially, but the GPU was just imagination. Now it’s like half real and I have zero friends (period) who would be willing to play something like that.


  • Yeah I think this is to counter someone selling theirs on purpose replacing it. Guess the number is just honestly an estimate of what could reasonably happen, but then it’s still 3 a year. But then again you couldn’t definitely have such bad luck to lose your wallet thrice a year.

    Anyways, I’d assume that if (well before the US went totally mad) there was an actually reasonable case of someone encountering the limit who clearly wasn’t a fraudster, it’d probably be amended.

    But that’s just my cursed optimism, probably doesn’t reflect reality.


  • Hydrogen peroxide in the final solution (feels kinda wrong writing those two words together though) should be able to get rid of any mold.

    H2O2, the extra oxygen reacts with anything organic in the solution, so it kills mold in the water and destroys bugs and bug eggs in soil.

    Very useful, but not something you’d want to mix into pure fertiliser, I think.

    Don’t know how available it is though, it’s sort of restricted, especially the stronger stuff. I used to buy 24% but now that store doesn’t sell any anymore. Pharmacies only sell like 1.5%.to 3%. And that’s sort of expensive then.

    It’s very easy to make bombs out of the stronger stuff… apparently.