Recent content by apoplast

Hi Butch - Boeing?! That's awesome! I've always wanted to see their capacitor system that reputedly allows them to chard off the grid at night and power their operations during the day when power consumption is higher, helping stabilize the grid. That should be awesome, I'd love to hear about...

Hi Butch - The algae growth is mostly on the tray as a film and peels of clogging the uptake, and allowing bubbles in the edge, thus breaking the siphon earlier than I'd like. I'm going to try a modification to hold the tube down better. The lower, feed line is bent itself up as from the...

Hi Av8tor1 - Actually, I just logged on to let you know how things were going. It's working okay, though algae build up on the upper, full-siphon tube tends to break the siphon earlier than I would like, leaving more water in the tray. The layer still hits the bottom of the pots and also gets...

Hi HCarlton - You sir, are a wealth of horticultural nomenclature information! Makes me think I should trademark the names out of under them and then make them buy them back. :-O

Hi yuusui - Wish you'd mentioned it at the last meeting. I had some available just after. I'll have some maxima seeds that are supposed to be ripe and to me in about a month or so. You are welcome to a few of those if you are interested. Just shoot me an e-mail.

Hi hcarlton - Yes, I realize that creating new names is not "proper". It was said in jest. It was a play off N. x ventrata, which I also realize is published in 1979 and is thus legitimate. Hi SFLguy - Thanks for the reply! I wouldn't be shocked if they were the same clone just marketed...

Hi TF - There are a couple nice and easy to grow ventricosa x ampullaria ("x vetrillaria", can that be a thing?), 'Lady Luck' and 'Bloody Mary'. Are these two different clones? And if so, does anyone one know what the sexes are for each of them? Sure, I could assume from the names that they...

Wow, ask and you receive! Thanks so much adnedarn!!! This is sure to help disorganized people like me.

Hi Bluemax - I am late to the party here, but nice work! Detailed explanation, photographic detail. Great stuff! Not the "I've totally done that" garbage that gets thrown around here. It's an interesting result too (hormonally speaking). What ppm of GA3 did you use?

Hi Bluemax - Great dews! I like the PVC tubes as planters. Very nice! You have some happy plants. Not keeping them in a tray of water must be a tremendous amount of work watering them. I'm all about automation these days. Regardless, whatever you are doing works very well. Your D...

Hi Butch - Well the update with the plants in finally is that my new "Tincher Tray" (Patent Pending <- I assume you are working on this) is performing beautifully! The 1/2" ID tubing is fantastic, and now that I have the shelf angled ever so slightly toward the uptake, it pulls all but a few...

Hi NaN - I was unfamiliar with that tool. Thanks! I'll have to give it a go.

Hi Butch - I'm going to try the egg crate, and hope that works. Your plants are in Turface?! Obviously it works for you. But, I've heard about aluminum leaching issues with that as a soil component in acidic conditions. Interesting. I'll have to look back over the references and figure out...

Thanks for the answer Andrew! Bummer it won't work. I find there is a lot going on here on TF that I want to participate in, but by the next day I can forget what all I've replied to. Tagging is just nice because it let's people know when you are still interacting with them. I guess I'll...

Hi TF - I might have missed this somewhere, but can you tag other members in a post? I know on other forum formats you can add an "@" in front of a member's name and they will be notified they were tagged in the post. Does that work here? Thanks, and sorry if this is somewhere obvious that I...