A suggestion...

So here's an idea-

If you can't get your light close enough to your plant, why not put your plant closer to the light?

As in, put it on a book or something...

Also, I went up to my familys lake (its very small, and no, I'm not rich... Far from it, actually) a couple of weeks ago when I was hit with an idea- the lake is surrounded by trees, which dump their leaves into the water, which eventually settle to the bottom and form a very fluffy mud. So I went swimming and filled a water bottle with some of the mud and lake water.
I mixed the mud into my soil, and watered my plants with the lake water, and it did wonders for them.

I'm thinking of selling the stuff...

You're thinking of selling compost?

No, I was just trying to be funny... or something...

i want 600 gallons... by tuesday

Lefytovich said:

No, I was just trying to be funny... or something...

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Oh cmon I was just joking!

Any idea what type of trees are around there, and which leafs or other crap might be settling to the bottom? If I have the some of the same trees around here I might cut some back and throw the leaves in my compost heap. Is it a stagnant lake?

reefcouple said:

i want 600 gallons... by tuesday

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Ok, that's funny.

Well, as far as I can tell, its mostly ringed by oak trees, as well as blackberry bushes and wild cherry trees. There are a couple of christmas trees that were sunk into the lake too (for the fish) but they're at least 12 years old....

And the lake is fed by a fresh mountain stream (sounds like a water bottle ad haha), so the only "crap" is fish crap and the possible occasional runoff from a 40-year-old moonshiners operation.

But you know, if you have white oak trees (the ones with the rounded leaves) you should take a bucket of water and fill it 3/4 of the way with water and then put a bunch of crushed up dried leaves in the water, and let the leaves "steep" in the water, until it looks like tea.

oak leaves are high in tanic acid. i don't know how your plants would like them. have you ever noticed how if you don't rake them up they kill everything under them??

Yeah, if you allow it to be diluted by water, the tannin does wonders for plants (any plants)