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.
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.
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!!!!
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.
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!!!