Recent content by 8Planets

It depends on your answer to this... What am I thinking now?

No primer - just merciless hounding...and pants peeing... TPBM wants to be a surrogate for me?

Reasonable and biased are not mutually exclusive, especially in this case. Would you wear spandex and sandals/w socks in public?

Amazing...simply amazing. I'm in!

Never had a salamander, but I suppose they're cool... Do you think there is a boy who can swim faster than a shark? (quote from The Office original English version)

Oatmeal cookies are okay, chocolate chip is better, but Cheetohs are the sh*t... TPBM would love to take a trip into outer space.

Indeed...even smaller looking through a telescope. TPBM prefers chocolate chip cookies over oreos?

For a nice ornamental I like to grow Fish; it has variegated leaves (white & green) and the pods have multi-color stripes while immature. Really nice to look at and they have a medium heat (5k-10k). Not sure exactly where you can get seeds, but they shouldn't be too hard to track down...

Well, errrr, yes and no...I prefer Big Wheels... TPBM thinks it's okay to drink a glass of wine in the morning to balance out the coffee?

No, clowns are ridiculous and creepy... TPBM thinks that stuffed peppers should always be stuffed with peppers.

Nice looking system - don't you just love Lowe's buckets! When you combine aeroponics with DWC, it's called an Ein-Gedi (named after the inventor of the first commercial system of this kind) system or referred to as aerohydroponics. The General Hydroponics Aeroflo is actually an Ein-Gedi.

I'm not really sure, and it depends on who you're talking to; most of my peppers aren't rare to those on this site, but when selling at the farmers market, people tend to know only the biggies (bells, jalapeno, habanero, etc). I'd say Beaver Dam is a pretty rare one outside the Midwest. Do...

Tell me about the farmland...I used to live/work in St. Louis and have made the drive to Indy, it pretty much looks the same way across IL and Midwest in general. Oceans of corn and soy...we are lucky that we live at the vineyard so we have something different to look at...

The sweet spot for water temp is generally in the range of 20C-30C (68F-86F), but I agree with frosty that your nutrient solution can go outside that range without much of a problem. I use beneficial bacteria, but it doesn't really seem to matter all that much. Another good suggestion for...

I'm smack dab in central IL - roughly equidistant from Chicago and St. Louis. Where we live we have a direct route to Indy from I-74, about 200 miles away.