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Why don't people run Vero in parallel? Bought two of the earliest 18s and had no problem running both off a single Mean Well LPF-60D. Not even the same color chips - 3500k &3000k. Driver delivers ~830mA each at full intensity, close to 85% of nominal output. There will be a bit of variation...

Nah, our taxes pay for scientists who actually study this, they aren't making it up. Here's a useful image from NIWA showing current soil saturation We're currently in a dry summer. You're right though that locally you'd find that Waikato was probably drier in 2014 - but as a whole we're...

Where I am it was the driest Dec-Jan since records began. lol climate change, what a fucking idiot.

Is that can made of galvanised steel - you ever worry about introducing weird zinc oxides or something into the mix? I know zinc coated roofing iron is commonly used for rainwater collection without issue. Just wondering how it handles the crazy enzymes and acids that are present in healthy...

Good luck in the drought guys, it's fucking dry out there. Reckon this is the new normal - climate's only going to get worse from here on out. Move to the West Coast, lol

I know I expected my compost to harbour heaps of critters that'd attack the plant, and found it amazing when it didn't. Makes total sense - any insect found in mature compost isnt the type of animal that is going to be interested in living plants.

I don't plant anything outside in winter -too rainy and cold (8*C) and my place doesn't get all that much direct sun in winter. My mulch - I've got grasses and clover weeds growing in all my ornamentals in pots - this is what I've harvested and used as "traditional mulch" for my outdoor...

I get a lot of wind where I am, but the light mulch of clover and grasses I've put on on my outdoor containers stays put. Surprised the hell out of me, lol. The mulch next to the soil almost immediately starts rotting down so becomes limp and quite sticky - it sort of glues the loser mulch on...

Why so much kelp and alfalfa? Is this currently aerated? regarding time: I normally brew AACT for 48 hrs, so it probably wont make any difference. Brewing length doesn't make the brew get "stronger" or "weaker", but the microbe population changes. After 48 hours you will see degredation in the...

:) I now have a bucket of roughly chopped comfrey-dandelion getting funky. Planning on diluting this gunk to the colour of light amber tea before applying to soil - sound about right?

I reckon you'll be sweet: sounds like a mild irritant, not a poison that's gonna destroy your ecosystem. http://www.happysimpleliving.com/2008/02/04/can-you-compost-a-poinsettia/ You will be happy to hear that poinsettias are not poisonous, so yours can be safely added to the compost heap. Some...

What's your recipe here? I have comfrey just large enough to start donating some leaves and am keen to get some of the silica into my garden.

I'd be tempted to look at your dolomite lime and switch in gypsum instead. Dolomite is calcium and magnesium. You already have quite a large amount of mag sources in your mix (guano, kelp etc), and this causes problems when your soil wants to access the calcium in dolomite lime - it has to put...

"half-cup per cubic foot" - ClackamasCoot

You don't need to track ph or ppm, let alone adjust. Hopefully you didn't kill too many little guys. You're fine to apply at full dosage: you're not applying nutrients, you're applying fresh soil life. Unless you have a microscope the best tool you have to evaluate your compost tea is your...

bongsmilie good times bongsmilie definitely experiment I've found them great for rehabilitating suffering plants - instant improvement. You don't so much water with it, as inoculate the dirt to transform it into soil. :leaf:

Heh, just pointing out that the first few hours of bubble with fresh manure in it'll spread micro drops of whatever biology is in the manure. Compost tea needs compost, water, molasses. Every other ingredient is suspect - some of them will slow microbe growth MicrobeMan's site is the...

Ain't no way I'd ad a fresh fecal ingredient to a tea I was brewing - a sure fire to expose yourself to fecal coliform. The eventual brew might not harbour anything bad, but the 6-12 hours of splashy raw shit at the start of each brew sounds awful. Once composted no problem. Raw? I wanna grow...

I own vermiculite and the bag is unopened cause I have no idea how to use this stuff. It has become an unfashionable thing to use on these boards, but the info below and your experience makes me think about reconsidering using some... ------...