We currently grow our food for maximum profit on minimal inputs and labor. In many species we are reaching the maximum genetic yield potential under these conditions.

With some heavy investment into irrigation systems, protected culture, and optimal growing methodologies, we can produce 10x our current production on 1/4 of the land area.

Naw I have to keep him small to fit in the space. Eventually I want a house where I can let my poor little guy to grow up big.

Water + evaporation + water collection tray = salt buildup. Depending on the water source it can take decades or a few months. It’s one of the top reasons not to use softened water on houseplants. The addition of sodium can mess them up quickly.

It’s pretty easy to remove however. I haul the plant outside and run around 50 gallons through the pot in a day or so. You can do the same thing in a bathtub for smaller plants. After leaching the pot always fertilize the plant.

Monsteras are very drought tolerant and do better with intermittent watering. Soak the pot then let them let them dry out. They need another dunking when the sheen of the leaves get a little dull.

They also break any rule about pot size you have ever heard. That’s a 10 gallon pot btw. For the first 10 years of its life, I kept it in a 2.5 gallon one. I had to water (2-3 weeks) and fertilize (2x per year) more frequently but it grew to the same massive size.

They just need something to lean against. It’s leaning against the window. Since I never rotate it, it does just fine.

Growing up in Montana, we had a herd of around 20 mule deer on the bottom fields.

With a little bit of time you can easily tell them apart. There is quite a bit of variation in their appearance; head shape, body size and shape, ears, coloration, etc. When the bucks start growing their antlers every one is different as well.

Do not attempt to transplant the corn.

The roots go much deeper than you think at that stage.

You can leave a cluster of 3-4 plants if their closest neighbor is 18" away. It actually helps with pollination.

Destroy the transportation, then destroy soldiers who are now stuck with a long walk back to safety.

Have you run into a Teancum?

For those that are not up on your mormonisms, it’s pronounced:

Tea-an-cum

An it’s a boy’s name.

Grew up on a ranch with hundreds of beef cows. I spend a lot of time on dairies, organic farms etc… so I am constantly around the smell.

It still stinks.

However you are correct, pigs smell much worse.

2 but I need coffee.

After coffee… Still probably a 2.

The fuzzy thing is a wooly aphid/mealybug in the sub-family Eriosomatinae.

As for controlling them:

Predators - parasitic wasps are by far the most effective on aphids and mealybugs. The second is lacewing larvae.

Insecticidal soap works pretty well on them if sprayed directly on them.

Most smaller cars are designed for 150lbs * 5 people plus a little cargo. So around 800-1000lbs.

Four 300lb people = 1,200lbs. The suspension on that little car was fucked.

The F150 is rated between 1800-2300lbs depending on the model. They can even squeeze in a 5th person into that setup.

Tanks and AFV’s usage have both fallen off. Reliance on other vehicles has steadily increased. This started a little over a year ago.

The last remaining massive stockpile of Soviet equipment was artillery. Ukraine has been beating the shit out of them for the past year. Artillery has been Russia’s “god of war” since pre-WWII. Destroying it will break their primary weapon of offense and defense.

Runs just fine on windows. A little slower than on Linux but it works.

Aphids have two forms. A flying form and and a wingless colony forming form.

Those are wingless colony forming form. All you have to do is run your finger along the flower/ stem to remove them. Keep it up for a few weeks and the predators will eventually find them. Once you have some predators around the aphids will go away for the rest of the year.

I used to spend several thousand every year buying books. Usually from small independent bookstore. I was also always in the library checking out books but the local libraries collection was very small and limited.

Next I got one of the early generation kindles keyboard when I was traveling all the time before I had a smart phone. I of course found all the free books and downloaded several thousand of those. Amazon made almost nothing off of me for that one. I still hit the library regularly for books I could not get for free or stuff for my kids.

Then my local library started offering digital books via Libby and Hoopla. I have pretty much completely stopped using kindle completely in favor of those two apps. I vote every chance I get for the library to get more funding as its back to being my go-to place. I physically have only gone to the library once in the past 5 years however.

Honestly, I would rather see a massive extension of library services than more private bookstores.

A nice attempt but you’ll have to dig deeper to understand how it works.

First off this is how phosphate contaminates waterways.

Phosphorus gets into water in both urban and agricultural settings. Phosphorus tends to attach to soil particles and, thus, moves into surface-water bodies from runoff.

The soil particles holds the phosphorus in the top few inches of the profile. Then during saturation events, it dissolves runs off with the water.

It also can leach into groundwater but it’s not as common and depends on the chemical makeup of the soil type.

https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/phosphorus-and-water#overview

This is why phosphorus in lawn fertilizer has been banned in many states.

1/3 of phosphorus is not available to plants at application - completely missed that one.

Plants only take up the ortho-phosphate. Water soluable phosphate is usually a blend of polyphosphate (2/3rd) and ortho-phosphate (1/3). Polyphosphate is converted to ortho-phosphate via hydrolysis in water. Depending on the composition of the soil temperatere, moisture, it can take a few days or a few weeks or months to convert.

K+ interfering with the uptake of Mg+ and Ca+.

K+ , Mg+ and Ca+ compete for uptake directly with K+. Any amount of excess K+ directly competes with the uptake of Mg+ and Ca+. This is why some species just uptake extra K+ and store it in their vacuoles. If you want to cause BER in tomatoes/peppers, watermelons etc… extra K can do this the first year. These species struggle to get enough Ca to the growing point under good conditions. Anything that slows it down can cause BER.

People have genetically different ability to detect flavors. Some people lack the receptors to detect the bitter rindlike taste in todays seedless watermelons.

Close but not quite. 3N plants are sterile. This is because the odd number of chormosomes cannot line up during meiosis and form gametes.

They use diploid pollen 2N pollen to trigger fruit formation but the resulting fruit is parthenocarpic. The white pips and even the occasional colored hard seed coat does not contain an viable embryo.

Crossing of plants with different numbered chormosomes can create fertile offspring if the resulting ploidy is even. For example crossing wheat (6N) with cereal rye (2N) creates Triticale (4N). The Triticale is fertile.