Panman wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:12 pm
I think I used equal parts peat/perlite/sand. If you are just worried about tomorrow, toss a couple of frozen water bottles it the mailbox in the morning.
The gemmae didn't make it Thursday, but they arrived yesterday during rainy, semi-cool conditions.
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I'll be planting them later today. I'm going with a 1:1:1 recipe as you mentioned...peat:perlite:sand. I've got some of the "play sand" that I've been pilfering from my wife's play sand stash she uses for the kids at Sunday school all along...it's pretty much gone now.
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She had a couple of plastic containers of it for the granddaughters to play sitting on the porch. All our granddaughters are getting a bit long in the teeth now...youngest one is eight now. So....I'm raiding the granddaughters' sand containers!!!!
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Of course, I have to pick out the plastic bunny rabbits, scoops, strainers, cups, thingamajigs, etc,. but...it's paid for!!!! "OCD-Me" also goes by the moniker of "O'Cheap-Me", on certain occasions.
It rained a good bit yesterday so I collected probably 15 gallons or so of rain water. I've already got a quart of sand soaking in some of it. Initial TDS reading reflected the rain water TDS...4ppm. 4ppm is kinda "dirty" for what I usually get...I'm not sure what that rain passed through, though I know there's been a lot of clear-cut burning going on recently. Anyhow, I'm going to rinse the sand good and try to get all the snot, lollipop droolings, cookie crumbs, etc., out of it.
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I'll recheck the TDS and might do a vinegar test just to be sure, though I'm pretty sure this is some of the sand that I've already used and tested.
Anyhow, we'll see how the geriatric gemmae do!!!
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