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  1. Posted

    2 hours ago, shonman said:

    A lot of the new growth seemed to dry up and shrivel in the big aquarium 

    not sure why 

    now I regret putting all the plants in there..

     

    No idea about yr prob, sorry. I'd suspect bacterial, because of increased humidity and reduced air flow, but can't be sure I'm 100%.

     

    Is a good lesson to learn- when changing any parameter, keep some material back in it's original place. Always. Not only does it mean you have reserve material, but the remaining group acts as a control so you can compare.

     

    I'm not being unsympathetic at all- I recognise the temptation for a quick fix/ progress, and it's one I've succumbed to occasionally myself with the same results :/

     

    Goodonya for staying on top of it and making sure your babies didn't suffer too much for too long

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    IME unless you have super-dry facilities for it, it won't do well. Or even live.

     

    At least here, every time I have tried to deflask it, even the ambient moisture kills it. Something in the air maybe, bacterial perhaps, it does fine in TC so far with+90% ambient humidity

     

    Herbalistics sometimes has seed. Could be worth a shot that way

  10. Posted

    9 minutes ago, Master B said:

    Holy shit balls!!! Darklight.

    Its yours alright. 

    Nice work for the forum!

    Mate i have to double check? you do realize its for the graft in the very first two pictures? 

    But if your happy and all is sorted i will hook you up with a couple of other nice bits.

     

     

    Yea verily, I do know it's for the pictured graft of beauty

     

    You're the fulla who did the work. I think you just set a new forum record for stunning behaviour

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    Bugger, forgotten how to delete topics

     

    Seems there is a bunch more DIY stuff out there than there was last time I checked, despite the commercial units being the same price

     

    I need to do more reading on the DIY stuff and try to evaluate how good the latest teks are for PAR

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    Are there any electronics geeks who can tell me why the f*k PAR meters are so expensive?  The standard models don't even have a logging function FFS, and start at around AUD $300

     

    PAR ( Photosynthetically Active Radiation ) meters measure light based on that part of the spectrum which is used for photosynthesis by plants.

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetically_active_radiation

     

    Dead handy little buggers those meters. Our human irises open and close to adjust the amount of light they let in, but plants don't have this light-adjusting capacity the same way. So a plant can be getting much less useful light than we realise til we test it.

     

    Plants in tissue culture photosynthesise way less than outdoor plants because they use the sugars ( or other carbon sources ) in the media for energy. It's why we get away with using fluro tubes and get good growth. But fluro tubes lose a large proportion of their photosynthetically useful light after 3 months and need replacing- the light at those wavelengths isn't differentiated by our eyeballs, but the plants notice, believe me.

     

    I've been told that other indoor lights- metal halides for example- also lose some of their PAR strength after a period of time, but I have no experience with this.

     

    And I've seen people swear blind their plants are sick, when after careful checking their plants aren't getting enough light because they're shaded for the parts of the day when there's no-one around. This is more pronounced in winter when the days are shorter and the sun's angle of attack is different

     

    I bought plans to make a unit with an Arduino using LEDs, but it's a world of hurt for me and the tek ( to my n00b eye ) seems to be primitive and possibly inaccurate. It'll have to wait until I have some geek mates in-house for a weekend with soldering irons and whisky and those weekends never turn out the way they're planned anyhow :D

     

    Fuck it, I want a network of the little buggers with temp and PH, two sensors it's easy to build loggers with. Then I can really see what my plants are up to. Plus it could save me some $$ replacing fluros all year. And maybe save some planty lives if there are dodgy tubes in the rack

     

    Anyone know of a cheap chip that's up to the job?

  19. Posted

    Doan chew love it when...

     

    ... you pull some fatty little home kill lamb chops out of the freezer nom nom nom then fry 'em up and realise that maybe the kill day was just that little too warm and they spent a little too long at the top of the freezer and they're just on the turn...

     

    ... so you cut em up and put the meat in the dog pile, but the frypan is full of lamb fat and it smells ok...

     

    ... so you fry up some thin homegrown sweet potato chippies with some super hot chilli sauce as an antimicrobial and they are fucking delicious

     

    I miss ReShroomEd. He'da loved this

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  20. Posted

    48 minutes ago, El Presidente Hillbillios said:

    that looks like it was good for adventures!

     

     

    Back in those days even riding to work was a bloody adventure. Roads were shocking and that thing steered like a pissed camel

     

    12 minutes ago, etherealdrifter said:

    i freakin thought that vertical pipe on the rear was a snorkel ie 4wd style ......ala honda style but then realized it was a shit bar ie the thing that dangled down in old hr holden rear seat that you would grab onto when shit hit the fan ie shit yourself and hold on bar

     

    Is a luggage rack. I hate pillions. How else do you think I got the Weetbix home?

     

    Mind you a snorkel woulda been great for the old 500/4 Kwakka and the stupidly deep creek crossing

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  22. Posted · Edited by Darklight
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    5 hours ago, El Presidente Hillbillios said:

    Ps there is nothing worse than a honda

     

    Course there is. Not having a bike at all is heaps worse. No sooking :)

     

    Now *this* is a Honda. Mine from the early 90s. And no way would I ride it to EGA

     

    Shit, the Marzoccis weren't on in the pic. I need glasses for everything these days :/

     

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  23. Posted

    Worse...

     

    ... also, it's purple, well, bits of it are purple. Many of the other bits are rust and peely chrome coloured

     

    Engine goes like hot shit off a shovel. When it goes. Nicely ported

     

    She's starting to resemble her owner- all engine, no brakes....

     

    Are you trying to distract me from remembering you volunteered to be the Backup Driver for this run? ;)

     

     

  25. Posted

    On 30/06/2017 at 4:57 PM, El Presidente Hillbillios said:

     

    I really wanted to ride down, but i think ill have to drive. it sucks as i really had a romantic idea of some kinda sab easyrider mashup. 

     

    It's important to have a plan :) Ha! My bike currently looks like something the four horsemen of the apocalypse would take on a threeday rooshoot. You are now the official Backup Vehicle mwahahahaha if that's not an incentive to ride down I dunno...

     

    On 30/06/2017 at 10:22 PM, gem said:

     

    I'm not sure I can even get there...  :(  BUT Darklight - who's in with this bet?  What's the pot at?  I can't afford to lose fiddy bucks but I'm putting my money on Hillbilly.  He'd still cockslap MoonUnitBontantic even if sabotaged and hobbled.   :P

     

    The current pool is at exactly fiddy bucks, someone offered to throw in a kidney but I don't think it was theirs so it doesn't count. Unless Ronny can chuck in the EGA Arts Grant funds to buy MoonUnits vajazzled posing strap it's gunna be more of a mooncup than a pot

     

    On 05/07/2017 at 1:10 PM, MoonUnitBotanica said:

    I'll pass this year. I was going to ega before it became mainstream ;)

     

    OMG, are you the token hipster for Eugungurararra or however you spell that place?

     

    You'd better be going, because I know where you live, maybe

     

     

    On 07/07/2017 at 7:33 PM, RonnySimulacrum said:

    A real boxer would bring their fondue to share at the plant head party:P 

     

    Ronny is right. Bring yer fondoo. Otherwise Bad Things Will Happen

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