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Welcome to THP.  Mulching is great and addresses the soil challenged mentioned.  It takes years, but if you mulch with organic material and then till or turn at the end of the year, it improves the soil year after year.  You are on the right track.

Excellent and thank you.  In love with the idea of outdoor aquaponics and that translates well.  Do wonder, doesnt a heavy rain screw with your nutrient mixtures?

Plant out is killing me. So many damn peppers.

Plat out almost done. Damn it is killing me.

  Ye that is what I am learning.  I used some aged chicken poop on some test plants, mixed in with the soil, then planted.  No burn.  Doing fine.  Thing is, this means that all the times I read that chicken poop should never be used cause it burns plants, those folk were talking about fresh. ...

  Excellent!  And you feel great for it yes?

This sounds really familiar but too long ago to remember.  Last year, same sort of story.  Seemed like nice kid. I got a soft spot for kids with hobbies because the government essentially wont let a kid work these days.  I grew up with a dirt bike in the summer, snow mobile in the winter, and...

As far as super hots go, Carolina Reaper is notoriously slow.  What I dont see anyone mention about indoor growing is lighting.  Until you bring the sun indoors, the basic rule is more light means more growth.

Weird, what I got out the video was a taste for American beer and volley ball.

  The USDA rule is because if you surface apply, rain can splash it up onto the fruit.  If using fresh, I would also worry about burning.  Thing is, I've also thought that chicken poop would always burn so I guess I dont know shit.

Solid7 - Never seen a poop sprinkler.  Looks more like a poop cannon.  We used to use what we called a shit slinger / shit wagon on the hay fields. Its a trailer that is powered by your tractor's pto that literally slings shit left and right as you ride up and down the field. A shit cannon looks...

Sounds like maybe airation isnt really needed.  I always thought it was because back in the day, read you had to change the water often.  Figured it was for airation.  Now thinking maybe it is overkill.

Welcome to THP.  I am here to chew bubblegum.

Did she just say you can save money on your "organics" with their chemicals?  Hmmmm

For cloning, I use mortar trays from Lowes to hold the water.  I warm the water with an fish tank heater and aerate with a fish tank bubbler.  I use solo cups with holes in the bottom and sterile potting soil.  Works great.  Costs next to nothing.   Have seen commercial plug and play packages...

I remember Phototron II being advertised in playboy magazine when I was a kid.  At the time, DIY hydroponics were black magic so the results of the unit seemed like magic.  Today, not so much.  Folk have figured out how easy hydroponics can be.  With that, they have figured out that you can...

I goofed with a home made vertical grow back when I lived in a condominium.  It was potting soil, more like a really large Roman strawberry pot but from PVC.  The best part was that it was impossible to over water and near impossible to under water.  Too much water would run out the bottom.  The...

When all this hit I looked into what it would take to host images.  I wrote n upload program that put images into mysql so they could easily have privacy settings.  Then THP turned on uploads and I figured the project was useful but not for a stand alone service.  I figure other sites will turn...

I forget his name, but we have a member who had a business raising fish.  Think we swapped seeds or were in a train together.  Hope he is still here.  Wondering if anyone raises fish outdoors as part of their gardening efforts.  Maybe just  a Koi pond in their garden for appearance. Obviously...