SchmidtGenetics

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SchmidtGenetics OP , (edited )

I’ve got some spare totes around the house and I’ll get some more from HD to collect the rain water the next few days. I’ll just let the barrel overflow fill them up. It’ll be ghetto, but at that point those things are $12 for 100l or it’s over $150 for any other option of 200l.

Here’s hoping it’s enough! I think I can add some more straw here soon though, that should help keep it moister.

But 3-5 more weeks is rough, most people aren’t gonna follow them that long, so the more rain I can keep, the better I’ll feel when I need a tiny bit.

SchmidtGenetics OP ,

Makes perfect sense, what about individual branch support? Just use some stakes if it starts getting too saggy? Is any of my apple ms better to do one way or the other?

I’ve got two, maybe I’ll do one each way and see how it goes!

SchmidtGenetics OP ,

Thanks growmie!

Yep totally will, figured maybe you may have known off hand, cheers!

SchmidtGenetics OP ,

Ah I didn’t mean pruning, I meant removing some potential apples, I’ve read lots of different opinions, from removing all the flowers the first year to promote growth even.

These I got about 6 apples last year when I didn’t do anything, but that was year two, didn’t get any the year I planted it. I’ve already seen a couple dozen potential apples on this one tree alone already. Excited!

SchmidtGenetics ,

Setup your phone to record overnight if it’s consistent enough?

SchmidtGenetics ,

It didn’t look like the article touched on it, but the original creator is dead, this is his kids work. So the article headline is extremely misleading, entirely different creators, it wasn’t reworked in a sense, as much as remade by their kid with their own vision.

SchmidtGenetics OP ,

Which is hilarious since I posted and noticed I forgot to mention them, so like where to I add them logically. The end it is!

SchmidtGenetics OP , (edited )

Just some mulch on top.

I’m probably a little extra nervous about straw/hay, I did work for a plant that compressed and shipped hay across seas. They were very adamant about the proper care around the hah as the bails love to spontaneously combust.

We were there rebuilding a burnt down storage barn.

I know loose it’s not an issue, but damn hay, you crazy with microbial action.

SchmidtGenetics ,

Places with social net for people with disabilities don’t just want people coming in and being a burden on the system.

In theory, as a citizen you’ve paid your due in taxes until you became a burden.

SchmidtGenetics ,

Yes illegal migrants have access, as well as do everyone else in those places like people taking in during war.

The topic is specifically about people immigrating to those places from a country without soical nets, to a place with social nets, where they can only take from the system and never put back.

Illegal migrants and people accepted during wars, WILL eventually contribute to society. Immigrants that are already disabled is something else entirely.

SchmidtGenetics ,

Or you just don’t understand the verbiage.

Which countries? I bet if we looked through there would be limitations.

SchmidtGenetics ,

What countries? You can’t prove your claim without anyone being able to verify it.

Make excuses, but you need to provide the countries or your claims are quite frankly bullshit and not valid.

We don’t need a life story lmfao, two countries. Thats it.

And why are you saying I’m conservative? Because I’m calling out your bullshit claims? lol good one dude.

SchmidtGenetics ,

To get a visa in Panama you need to have X amount of income…. Thats the restriction on disability or being able to support yourself….

As I said, different verbiage, same end result.

Bury your head all you want.

SchmidtGenetics ,

If you’re disabled and can’t work, you wouldn’t have an income. These places will give you money to support you if you can’t work.

If you have income, you pay taxes when you spend that money, you’re paying for your burden……..

It’s so simple, yet you miss this? Come on. You should insult me some more, show how little you understand of the world…..

SchmidtGenetics ,

Huh, it’s almost like these restrictions are for ones that can’t work and provide excessive support to those who can’t work. Like autism for example, that takes the caregiver out of being a productive citizen too.

And an income limitation is exactly that, discrimination…. If there wasn’t an income limitation, anyone from like Uganda can come in and take advantage. You’re the heartless conservative now for limiting them.

See how you’ve made this arbitrary line yourself that’s acceptable…? Income limitation, disability limitation, why is one okay and not the other….? That’s hypocrisy you conservative….

You call me weird and conservative, yet those are things you’ve now shown yourself since we found your line, funny how that works doesn’t it? You can’t even see how simple and easy and discriminatory an income limitation is. It limits people with disabilities most since they have issues working and making money…. Fucking lol.

SchmidtGenetics ,

Don’t be discouraged if one type of growing style doesn’t work for you, maybe another will. Not everyone is capable of doing everything.

If organic amending isn’t working, maybe try the salt nutrients, or time delay nutrients in your soil. There’s nothing wrong with it.

My cannabis growing exploded once I changed from soil to aeroponics(hydroponicsesque), doesn’t mean I can’t grow in soil, I’m just apparently better at aeroponics, or it suited my lifestyle better.

SchmidtGenetics ,

Embrace the failures, sometimes it’s a learning experience, other times you did nothing wrong and it still didn’t work. You still learned something if you want to spin it, which could be that failures can happen in a perfect situations sometimes. Or you forgot to sterilize your scissors once.

Let’s learn!

SchmidtGenetics ,

Don’t they still need energy for that? So if you constantly till it for a year you should be good too. Or am I way off base on that?

SchmidtGenetics ,

Yes, but after you till them a second time, before they can pull energy back into the roots it will slowly kill them over time. I’ve just heard of it as a cheaper more efficient way when it’s a large patch since it’s so much soil to remove and replace.

SchmidtGenetics ,

Dang, maybe I’ll look up their growth process then, I wonder if they get enough energy from the soil, or if it starts storing energy by the time you see the shoots.

Natures fascinating.

SchmidtGenetics OP ,

Some does yeah, I can’t keep the top as moist as I would like with the watering restrictions though.

We get really bad gusts, otherwise I think it would be fine.

SchmidtGenetics OP ,

Actually didn’t mind the look, thought about doing grass clippings, but weeds and I’m not sure about the nitrogen fixing from the clover. Maybe I’ll try on of the small beds next year with that.

SchmidtGenetics OP ,

They seem to be good

Honestly, I wanted to go with hemp, but it was all online order and wouldn’t have gotten here fast enough. Which is strange with them being local, I can’t just drive there.Hempalta

I agree, they recommend 2” thick, but I’m worried about the seedlings making it through. The radish tops would barely crest the top by harvest time?

SchmidtGenetics OP ,

Want their marketing spiel?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ac69763a-ebd9-46be-9ffa-2c15a38b8f45.jpeg

It’s an organic mulch, I contemplated using my grass clippings, I wanted hemp, but all was online order and it was the weekend. Can also use leaves.

End of the year, I can just compost it into my soil by tilling it.

SchmidtGenetics OP ,

I worry about the clover and excess nitrogen, and wouldn’t that become a bit more hard packed and make it hard for seedlings? If I had just a bed of starts I think that’s a great idea though.

SchmidtGenetics OP ,

Anything can be a mulch from what I’ve seen. Even rocks. A mulch is defined as a covering.

SchmidtGenetics OP ,

Doesn’t most grass species take a couple months to go to seed and dry to be viable? I would worry about spreading other weeds that couldn’t get established through the ground cover, but would excel in the fresh dirt. But that shouldn’t add much more than what was naturally already there though?

SchmidtGenetics OP ,

Can’t say I’ve ever seen one, I know they can be here, but it’s usually dry, doesn’t rain often so stuff doesn’t stay very wet. Now that we have talked I’m sure I’ll get some now though haha.

SchmidtGenetics ,

Can you just let it dry and brush off with a stiff bristle or leaf blower? Thats my plan for my cheap wire mesh. Good stuff is so expensive. But mines are peas and tomatoes, assuming cukes for yours?

SchmidtGenetics ,

Dang, I was hoping it would be easier and I could save the metal mesh, but sounds like I’ll invest in something heavier. This years the more expand and experiment anyways, so didn’t want to invest too much on trellis yet anyways.

The peas will attach, but I’ve got plant wire and twine for the tomatoes, so hopefully they peel right off after o remove those?

How do you deal with rotation with something like this? Thats partly why I’ve been hesitant about permanent structures like this.

SchmidtGenetics ,

It’s the labor intensive I’m worried about right now, next year will hopefully be better if my surgery is done. My only other thought was thicker wires like with yours and take the weed whacker to it >.>

And omfg, sorry side rant, why is everything either a “Florida X” or “California Y”, I don’t get it, it’s common nomenclature for stuff in Canada even.

Yeah that makes total sense, just rotate the stuff around it, little more complicated than I wanted for my garden planner thing I’m using. I’ll see if I can figure it out.

SchmidtGenetics ,

Love it, do you water the smaller ones more though? They would dry out faster, the terracotta also provides an insulating effect as it has air pockets in it.

I’m curious if my cloth bag ones are gonna do better than my plastic myself, the air pruning they give the roots is supposed to be better than any hard shell ones, BUT they dry out faster so need more water. Tradeoffs with everything it seems.

What’s “heat” in your neck of the woods? springs barely made it, summers 2 weeks away and we are supposed to be 25c (77f) which is already bolting territory for a bunch of stuff if I’m not mistaken.

SchmidtGenetics ,

Definitely gives justification to get more since it works for your grow/life style haha.

I’m the other way, my pots usually break, they get brittle with hot cold cycles so I don’t like buying expensive ones, and I don’t want to store them indoor, garage at most. I do rinse them off, but still less critter chance the better.

Ughh that’s too dang hot, we average 25s all summer, but it’ll get up to high 30s sometimes. The shitty throng is, there’s like no spring as you’ve seen, so we could easily get mid 30s here in the next couple weeks even. So straight from winter into the fire, but those aren’t frequent atleast, and they typically bring afternoon thundershowers. The hail and other shits another story haha.

New toy for the birthday! Wife nailed it with this one. ( lemmy.world )

The unfortunate thing is, I don’t really have a place to put it for wind without it being right on the public fence, and being on a 20 foot pole to be the same height as this. It’s sheltered by the house from the east and will get a wind tunnel effect from between the houses, but other than that it should be ideal here.

SchmidtGenetics OP ,

It’s got a funnel and collects rainwater to measure it.

I’m gonna calibrate it sometime this week hopefully, it takes 20 minutes though, you fill a cup with a cup of water. Make a pinhole in the bottom and let it drip out, 1 cup says it should say 1.06” of water, and should drip 25 times before the internal bucket tips and marks an increment.

SchmidtGenetics OP ,

Thank you!

We already do that, the city has lots of microclimates, can be snowing in one part of the city while others sunbathe, so you can’t trust the weather too much as it’s done at the airport on the other end of the city. We are also in a valley, you’re right though, it’s all hella interesting.

SchmidtGenetics OP ,

No I don’t think so, is there an electronic sensor for that?

I know you can do a rough calculation for a foot of snow being about an inch of precipitation, but snow can vary in densities as well. So would they melt and do the inverse or would it just be an optical sensor and a tube?

Now I’m curious and my look up an electric snow gauge later!

SchmidtGenetics OP ,

This is the Acu-rite 5-1 with screen. I can’t give any information on other brands, I did some light research to see pricing, then left my wife with get me a fancy one.

The one thing I need to see if this does as was on my potential to do list was see if this is home assistant capable, it does have an app and connects to pc I think, still learning and figuring it out to be honest.

SchmidtGenetics OP ,

This exact model is This one lots of options though.

SchmidtGenetics OP ,

No I did not, I just quickly looked up a few to see the high end price (like make sure they weren’t $500-$1000) before asking the wife.

SchmidtGenetics ,

Most town houses have fire walls up to the roof, so it’s your own liability and issue as it’s not a common space.

SchmidtGenetics ,

Jeez at 2,300 feet you should have two central airs already or a vastly optimized system that should have handled that. That’s shitty code or builder unfortunately.

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