I was gonna say, at least you can use this experience to figure out the limits, but you can’t really, can you? I’m just remembering what you said previously about not having enough control in this “system” or random chance either, Hahaha. Tough one.
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New Topic! You know, I found out in person, and then had confirmed by a lot of other growers, that SIPs receive well-developed bubbler cuttings, and seedlings, with breathtaking vigour.
To be specific, I mean long roots (12 inches plus) with the beginnings of a fish-bone pattern already apparent at their very tips. I know, I know, but they just leap up - plants like this in a new SIP. Take it for what it's worth to you. And if anyone out there has something to contribute regarding these specifics you are encouraged to speak up, regardless whether it appears to support or defy my supposition. And it is a supposition, by the way, I hope that was clear.
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@Bud Bokashi You’d certainly be happy with an all-coco SIP if you wanted one, and you could still choose organic but in this case you'd need "available fertilizers"; you can even add custom bacteria and fungi from home or retailer. I recommend Great WHite or both NPK RAW's Veg and Flower microbe packs. I use NPK now, excellent response and price. Plus, comes in a wettable powder, making it of use to both potted and DWC or other full hydro product. Whettable powder is just a non-reactive sand that sinks out of the way of yer werks and has no pH or food value. (Always remember that pH Is a thing, like you do). You know, after this process has run through a few plants, one day you will have transformed it into soil.
For the philosophers: On what day did it wake up coco and go to bed soil? Nice try, there wasn't one.
My reality is that coco is 10x the price of peat/perlite, and I don’t have the money. That’s all there is to it. I love coco and it’s variability within the mix, it can't turn into true mush, usually. There's much more variation within a single bag of coco: good. There is much variation product to product, company to company with coco: bad-ish.
Anyway, I’ve used coco alone in a SIP plenty, including a big one. Was really good. If they were priced the same I’d choose the coco (with some peat smuggled in), but the best coco price
possible to me is, honestly, 10x
my best price for peat/perlite. If I had enough income I’d do it for sure too, but I don’t. I’m in a bad spot there.
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New Topic!: My priorities/big bills, Mortgage, insurance, taxes, services, pharmaceuticals and food, those I can do. For everything else, currently, I'm forced to query as to the potential for
any financial aid or meaningful support from an outside source.
Honestly though, such a priority list feels a very natural scenario and doesn't bother me psych./emotionally, just physically. lol! Besides, I've been a free person with choices all my life. Pretty good scenario, and one that makes me partially responsible for my fate. I'll take that.
And so far, support services at all points have been on-fucking-point (For anyone not in-the-know, in mid-September I was diagnosed with esophageal cancer). It helps, a LOT, that I am at the very tip of the triage spear. Which is to say, as a "curative" case of esophageal cancer I am a rare beast, relatively speaking.
In my readings after the initial diagnosis, but before my cancer was "staged" and doctors were prepared to discuss outlook in detail ('staging' is, essentially, an attempt to discover whether the cancer has spread), I came upon some concerning, stark, data. Which is, that an esophageal cancer diagnosis has a 80% chance of being diagnosed as palliative. Which means, you ain't getting better, the most those 8/10 can hope for is that the progression takes 5 years and is only bad at the end. Fat chance. But that's for the 8/10's diagnosis, and wouldn't you know it, so far, I'm in the 2/10, so I have a shot at more, much more.
Keeping in mind that I can drop back into the 8 any moment, and without prior notice, I count myself to have won the lottery to be among the 2, and not the 8. OK, bad example.... but if I had the power to choose to swap places with one of the eight, the offers coming in would hew pretty close to the, "my total financial value" bone, of all 8 palliative cases, regardless of their wealth, comfort, or even prestige.
I receive everything BEFORE the eight. Before the 8 million, in fact. All the tests, O.R. bookings, high-end ICU equipment, and everyone but the Chaplain (thank god) will drop tools and rush to my bedside at the faintest, "beep", and in medicine, "when" you get help is
everything. Thankfully, I understood this when one of the 8 million, but it still stung, and we can do better for them. Anyway, I want those 8 to know how much I appreciate their grace under these conditions and I thank them for my chance at the brass ring. For the 8 million, again, we can do better, and I feel we must.
For an example of an excellent mixed public/private system, I would look to the Netherlands. When I lived there we had a baby, so I have some experience and interest there. I love what they are doing, it supports the public system very well while maintaining great ethics, and populace loves it too. Very high support across full demos.
Peace-out!
