Not all clays are the same,but you can indeed incorporate local clay from deposits in your area.....I do this when I see some good stuff out bouncing around here and there. Mostly old riverbeds in older valleys.
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only a few of those things really grow around here,we only get about 9 inches of rain a year,so i think i would need to find alternatives from the local area.this is a big farming area,they grow lots of cotton,onion,chilis and a few other things,plus some massive pecan groves.that was kinda of why i was thinking it would simplify matters to wait until i had a functional outdoor garden space to help generate useful quantities of compostable materials and be able to grow many of those things myself.the weather here permits near year round cropping with a simple cold frame set up. so to me it makes more sense to wait until i have the time and energy to devote doing things right rather than adopt these strategies piecemeal..
the boss gives me a ride when i need to get that stuff home or i just suck it up and haul it on my back,mostly i prefer to do i myself,i was the one who gave up having a car so its no one elses responsibility to haul me around.shoot,i hauled 10 gallons of RO water home every day for 4 months while the garden was getting going,i figure i moved a few tons of water on my bike over that time...
Applying real world botany as Coot mentioned there is evidence of epigenetic damage being passed on through clones. Of course, as noted the damage has to occur in the first place.
It is indeed interesting if/that rehabilitation can occur as a reverse process. I believe that I observed inherited damage in my clones of clones and I never did manage to rehabilitate and my seeds vanished = SOL. My mothers went through hell as I moved from one place to another, once storing them in a freezing attic under fluorescents for three months...damaged indeed.
There are a couple of interesting discussions in the Cannabis Botany and Advanced Science forum. I did post some links and citations over there
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=197586
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=218919
You only need a few...those were only samples.
Hey man...you can keep the bike....just hit the upgrade button.
This could be you.....fuck yeah..
..and here's your trailer for hauling peat and pumice....
This could be you.....fuck yeah..
..and here's your trailer for hauling peat and pumice....
im still trying to grasp the basics of all this and find the people here locally who can fill me in on what the local equivalents might be
i like this better...
http://www.bikeshophub.com/wp-content/uploads/bike-rider-with-bob-trailer.JPG
...but what of the observations we as cannabis growers who run cycle after cycle,cloning continually,for years make. No,we can't argue with evidence,but the BO cut for example,I have had cuts on the brink of death in locations where I wasn't attending them..loaded with mites and mold...certainly nothing healthy at all about them..and have taken cuts off those sickly BO (just in case)...and have had those cuts completely bounce back once in my care.
I'm using BO as an example because of it's age as a cut...and if Coot's anything like me he's certainly let things get relaxed over the years at one point or another when real life knocks maybe,....meaning that BO has possibly gone through some of these 'damages' to the genetic information in it's past as well as when in my possession...and if evidence says so,why does she still respond beautifully to positive environmental conditions???? I do not know....I'm just a dude who grows cannabis...other than that is those years of simple observation.
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I respect that attitude. It seems most of the car-less persons I have known are actually cheap moochers who always ride on others' time and money.
I dig the bike trailer too. I live in a small town where that is very common. A lot of folks take their young kids to soccer games in child hauler versions of those.
wow,i just got my first neg rep ever on the site for expressing an opinion here!
Just funnin' the Fish Stick. I know MANY urban people who depend on bikes for their transportation and it is certainly the environmentally responsible and healthy thing to do if you have a choice.
...yet I don't know anyone who lives in a fucking desert and grows herb who depends on his bike for that...gotta hand it to him for making that happen. Where there's a will...
...yet I don't know anyone who lives in a fucking desert and grows herb who depends on his bike for that...gotta hand it to him for making that happen. Where there's a will...
...welcome to the club. Ahh don't worry about it kid.
actually i read the abstract of a paper that in a nutshell said humans are far less efficient at converting caloric energy into mechanical energy than a modern car except over very short distances,i just enjoy riding a whole lot more since i suffer from crippling road rage when i drive....and this is an urban area,just not terribly civilized!
i will try and take solace in the remaining 19,500 points!
I repeat;
One might also note that the supposed known causes of epigenetic damage relate to oxydization, virus, light damage. Also note that damage occurring may not present as a visible trait. In the case of what I observed and hypothesized to be inherited damage, it was leaf and floral deformity presenting as a relatively constant unique trait.
This was also in plants carried for many years.
neat little read
http://www.springerlink.com/content/u77774w523u88183/fulltext.pdf
then there is this
http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2011/110729.html
OrganicLearner
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So there's nothing special about dolomite except for its cal/mag content?How come so many people worry about this amendment in their soil mix? Does any form of cal/mag do what they're after with the dolomite?
I know you guys don't use it but I just don't get it...
I know you guys don't use it but I just don't get it...
OrganicLearner
Dolomite Lime = Elemental Calcium + Magnesium Carbonate
Limestone = Calcium Carbonate + elemental Magnesium
Gypsum - Elemental Calcium + Sulfur
Oyster shell powder = Calcium Carbonate
Carbonates require Sulfuric acid + microbial action for the bonds to be broken releasing the elements (ions). Sulfuric acid is the result of chemical reaction with Sulfer and water and oxygen which is what happens in the soil, again with microbial actions.
The problem for new gardeners in this discussion is the how they're taught to measure the pH from the experts - i.e. by taking a reading of the run-off. That tells you absolutely nothing about the soil's pH numbers - nada. For that you want to take the actual potting soil, mix with RO water to make a slurry and then take your reading on the slurry. That is something approximating the soil's pH - not by taking a reading of the runoff.
In order to push the Dolomite Lime myth all kinds of interesting 'science' is presented like 'magnesium hungry strains' (vs. nitrogen hungry strains). This comes from a complete and total lack of understanding of how elements (ions) are absorbed and adsorbed by the plant's roots.
"The blind leading the blind"
CC
My first one included the taunt "faggot" which really crushed my spirit.
All over Fox Farms Ocean Forest - touching isn't it?
LMAO
it warms the cockles! im just surprised it took 26,000 post to finally get one.....actually this is the second now that i think back...
hey,at least they manned up and left a real neg rep rather than hiding behind the unhelpful post button.
by the by,thanks for the links MM! now if i could only find a use for the goatheads that grow in the yard!
When ever I go outside of the organic section and preach the gospel, the naysayers neg rep me to death.. Its hilarious!!
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