Kunta Kente said:

tree frog said:

I think you are misunderstanding the intention of my post because kunta asked about how dark mine are. 

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Thanks TF. Yeah there is a definite appearance difference with all your subs and mine. Yours almost looks like straight black Kow (the thick manure available at big box stores here). I suppose it truly leads to being unless people are using close to the same thing (coir is so much easier!) then visuals can only go so far.

To be fair I'm new to jiffy mix but damn is it an enigma with 'at a glance' hydration. It always looks dark and glistening unless it's dry as hell

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Yeah there's blonde and black peat.  I also add a bit of worm castings to mine.  Jiffy mix also has some coir and verm I believe.

Sorry I didn't think about the color differences before. I think not pointing that out previously, caused extra confusion.

I'm trying to point at the fine dew or lack of puddles mostly.  I.e. surface conditions rather than color.  When it's dry, it's obviously dry.



But there's a whole range between wet and to wet.

This is to wet and on the verge of puddles.  Which happens sometimes, especially trying to water small containers and holding the sprayer too close.  I just left this one alone until it dried a bit.



This one is perfect.  Water glistening, and covered in knots.



Holding the spray bottle back helps a lot.

jeffreykite said:

Is that totally necessary?

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Cakewonder said:

how to cure my insanity?

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Sulfurshelfsean said:

Took some jars out while they were still hot to shake them and there was still a vacuum pulling on the jars through the filters. Can this vacuum suck in contams? I just thought about it, the ragsbibwas using to hold the hot jars were kinda funky, lack of planning on my part.

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Kloakk said:

Get what you know, the 23qt induction presto works great

This one

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