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ferrel_human
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Re: Welcome to the Stone Eaters- A Soil Revolution [Re: TheHydrogenBomb]
#19971436 - 05/11/14 10:47 AM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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I think the top layer dries faster but I have not seen any bad results with it. Try to add more clay to the mix.
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ferrel_human
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Re: Welcome to the Stone Eaters- A Soil Revolution [Re: ferrel_human] 1
#19971542 - 05/11/14 11:15 AM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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Ariocarpus fissuratus babies from seeds of my plants.
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Desert Delerium


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Re: Welcome to the Stone Eaters- A Soil Revolution [Re: ferrel_human] 1
#19972734 - 05/11/14 04:46 PM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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Found an Opuntia living in a rock. Thought I would share. I may use pieces of this kind of rock in my next mix.

And from another angle.
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ferrel_human
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Re: Welcome to the Stone Eaters- A Soil Revolution [Re: Desert Delerium]
#19974958 - 05/12/14 07:06 AM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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Desert Delerium said: Found an Opuntia living in a rock. Thought I would share. I may use pieces of this kind of rock in my next mix.

And from another angle.

those are wicked man.
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Corporal Kielbasa


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Re: Welcome to the Stone Eaters- A Soil Revolution [Re: Desert Delerium]
#19975967 - 05/12/14 12:03 PM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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Very cool
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Desert Delerium


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This area has primarily that type of rock. It shows promise for the opuntia in my collection. I will smash some up and try to sow some seeds in the resulting gravel.
Ferrel, for smashing rock I noticed you used a plastic box to prevent the pieces from flying everywhere. What did you put in the bottom to smash them against? I can't imagine the box would hold up for long otherwise.
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LSoares
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Re: Welcome to the Stone Eaters- A Soil Revolution [Re: Desert Delerium]
#19977123 - 05/12/14 04:02 PM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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Desert Delerium said: This area has primarily that type of rock. It shows promise for the opuntia in my collection. I will smash some up and try to sow some seeds in the resulting gravel.
It resembles basalt. You may try to find an eroding surface or a road cut, collect gravel there and save yourself a lot of trouble. I am lucky to have a huge mound of semi-degraded basalt near the place where I work and it makes for anything from 1/4 to 1/3 of my substrate.
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ferrel_human
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Re: Welcome to the Stone Eaters- A Soil Revolution [Re: Desert Delerium]
#19977166 - 05/12/14 04:07 PM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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Desert Delerium said:
Ferrel, for smashing rock I noticed you used a plastic box to prevent the pieces from flying everywhere. What did you put in the bottom to smash them against? I can't imagine the box would hold up for long otherwise.
It's a 4 inch piece of iron I got from work. I was messing up the cement underneath but that iron works great.
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Desert Delerium


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Re: Welcome to the Stone Eaters- A Soil Revolution [Re: ferrel_human]
#19977339 - 05/12/14 04:54 PM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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Awesome. Thanks guys.
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TheHydrogenBomb
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Re: Welcome to the Stone Eaters- A Soil Revolution [Re: Desert Delerium]
#19980724 - 05/13/14 09:48 AM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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My lophs were squishy this morning,
Is this normal with stones?
I usually had them plump in a mix of soil sand and coir
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ferrel_human
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Re: Welcome to the Stone Eaters- A Soil Revolution [Re: TheHydrogenBomb]
#19980928 - 05/13/14 10:39 AM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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TheHydrogenBomb said: My lophs were squishy this morning,
Is this normal with stones?
I usually had them plump in a mix of soil sand and coir
None of mine are squishy. And I dont know how normal that is. Im playing this whole rock thing by ear. But I have seen nothing but good results with it. I will have to see how my oso locale seedlings doing in the coming days. They were transfered to rock a week and a half ago.
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weilii-coyote


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Re: Welcome to the Stone Eaters- A Soil Revolution [Re: ferrel_human]
#19982818 - 05/13/14 05:52 PM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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Potted these last week into a completely stone mix, and they seem to be lovin it so far.
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ferrel_human
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Re: Welcome to the Stone Eaters- A Soil Revolution [Re: weilii-coyote]
#19982985 - 05/13/14 06:22 PM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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weilii-coyote said: Potted these last week into a completely stone mix, and they seem to be lovin it so far.

Nice.
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TheHydrogenBomb
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Re: Welcome to the Stone Eaters- A Soil Revolution [Re: ferrel_human]
#19984177 - 05/13/14 10:11 PM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yea mine are adjusting to the stones I'm guessing
They used to be at a lvl 10 of plump and hard
Now I'm guessing they are at a 7-8
I hope all goes well
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ferrel_human
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Re: Welcome to the Stone Eaters- A Soil Revolution [Re: TheHydrogenBomb]
#19985962 - 05/14/14 08:03 AM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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The only ones that ive lost are astros in this rock mix. I should have mentioned that probably. I lost them a while back to rot. So maybe its not fool proof but I always expect tome to die. This has been the case with all my seed. Only the strong survive.
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TheHydrogenBomb
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Re: Welcome to the Stone Eaters- A Soil Revolution [Re: ferrel_human]
#19989870 - 05/15/14 12:01 AM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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Why rot?
I haven't watered yet.-.
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ferrel_human
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Re: Welcome to the Stone Eaters- A Soil Revolution [Re: TheHydrogenBomb]
#19991198 - 05/15/14 09:28 AM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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Dont know. They just did. It was like 2 of them. The rest love their rock.
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SuperD
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Re: Welcome to the Stone Eaters- A Soil Revolution [Re: ferrel_human]
#20006097 - 05/18/14 03:17 PM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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I thought I already updated here but apparently not. Put my lightly variegated LW into the soil mix to see how it performs and am planning on using what little rock mix I have left to pot up a whole bunch of seedlings. Meant to do it this weekend but I was away most of the time. There's less than 5% perlite mixed in because I dumped all the rock mix into the same bucket I had just used to hold some perlite and I didn't feel like tossing it out.
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ferrel_human
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Re: Welcome to the Stone Eaters- A Soil Revolution [Re: SuperD]
#20006403 - 05/18/14 04:52 PM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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SuperD said: I thought I already updated here but apparently not. Put my lightly variegated LW into the soil mix to see how it performs and am planning on using what little rock mix I have left to pot up a whole bunch of seedlings. Meant to do it this weekend but I was away most of the time. There's less than 5% perlite mixed in because I dumped all the rock mix into the same bucket I had just used to hold some perlite and I didn't feel like tossing it out.

Looking good D.
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Re: Welcome to the Stone Eaters- A Soil Revolution [Re: ferrel_human]
#20044278 - 05/26/14 08:08 PM (9 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yup stones for the win,
It took my babies a week to get going but know they plumped back up
No water
Just shade.
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