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This comes after I deleted a second try at talking about this - I dredged up a buncha sh** about it from memory and put it together not organized, in any way, in a post on guerrilla tricks.
People complained, and rather than seem like I was trying to thread crash I started this one and basically did the same thing, dredged up this big ocean of facts related to rock dust and just threw them on the page as one stoned rambling post or two.
I approach this in a way that's not easy to sum up. I haven't even tried to make an outline and unless I crash this third try badly, I'm still not.
This is a subject whose central role in all botany is understated, and there are several reasons. Only one of these really matters so it ought to be the very first thing you see, when introduced to the subject. Rock dust is very difficult to apply in large amounts. Particularly in dealing with pot because your crop matters to you, it's just easiest to teach you how you can f*** this up.
I was just about to start trying to tell this story a different way, and as I did, I realized, that just a little bit of narrative will make a whole lot clearer why I tell this, the way I do.
The way and reason you can f*** up your rock dust, glacier dust, river/pond/lake/stream silt expedition, is by letting it slip your mind, however momentarily, how fine, this stuff really is.
This, as all and above all things, if you should ever dare forget it, be the guy who knew SOME about it but just had the personality profile of some distractable squirrel, and 'forgot' that 'too much' means 'too much' - you're done having fun and lots of it for free, and you're a fungal pathologist now,
because you let that clay-fine stuff coat your roots JUST thick enough that mega-tiny, anaerobic pythium fungal outbreaks spontaneously cranked on your roots here, there, however badly you forgot about this - and messed this up.
According to how much you let build up into a glue like, anaerobic paste, WAY THICK enough to sustain litttttle tiny colonies of Pythium alllllll over your root ball, here, there, like little fungal confetti celebrations, of you, forgetting wtF you were doing, and let that stuff build up. Ok?
Don't you let that stuff build up. Ok?
Because it'll do what? Form a paste.
Why? Because it's so incredibly fine.
Well, how fine is it?
This is how fine it is, when you collect it as silt, and in a practical manner if you buy or collect glacial silt, OR talcum fine rock dust, the same glue-like, paste-like danger applies, but - telling it the way I do, brings to your mind heavily, that this stuff is some of the physically finest natural material, imaginable.
There is a physical condition of being so small, something is in the size ranges, of what are called clays. Ok? And clays are among the finest materials, ever gathered by mankind. The particles of clays are so small that - you can dye material with them because the clay particles are way, way, WAY too small for the human eye to detect, and even for soap, to wash the f*** out of things.
And in some sort of raw sense here, -since, you're gonna be collecting raw materials,
you need to understand that this is true - even when these things are unrefined.
We have all seen people, leave some sort of lightly or very accurately colored garment, left in a mudhole, where the water is so thick you can't see your hand when it goes under the surface, and - that thing can NEVER be washed clean.
Last chance, for you to see these words: this was your safety meeting. You need to know that if you even make a muddy slurry with this stuff and pour it in around your roots, in a way you are literally, literally distributing a crude, water based paint, because while it's true it's not a TRUE paint, and it's a stain, it will form a glue like consistency at times, when blended with other things so you are always to bear in mind, that you're making a slurry, of clays. And their screen sizes are among the smallest on earth and you might not ever be able to see any of the scores, dozens, hundreds of tiny pythium colonies you cause to set up and each one, jussssst be hanging in there but - your plant not do well and you not really realize wtF, until it's WAY too late.
I've personally given plants root rot with it specifically to see how much it really takes and it boils down to the fact that if you make a paste of it thick enough to cover the standard little 1/16th or so root hairs pot puts a lot out of in hydroponic situations, this sorta thing, little roots called fishbone type roots - just a little patch of the stuff the size of a dime and bang: howdie, we're the Pythiums we're moving in MAKE me a SANDWICH. Aw man f***k. Well, I guess I learned, and hey - you gotta refresh and I had plenty of weed so don't you think, people don't know, you can choke out your little herd of green sheep there, and how much it takes. I already found out for you all, and the answer is ''all it takes, is too much.''
Nah I'm not that undisciplined but you just saw me say, if you make paste with this, thick enough that the roots are covered in it, even when it's aggregating with other substances in your ground, your medium whatever it might be, - if it can create a little area of anaerobic paste, sticking together little sand grains, and a chunk of this, and that - it will, and pythium spores think the thickness of a dime, is a 100 story building so - you've GOTTA be able to figure this out. The question, ''have I let this stuff build up little water-tight, air-tight globules of muck, any w.h.e.r.e. in my root zone?"
Sand grains are huge in comparison to the silt, and to the pythium spores that can start partying and doin the nasty in your root zone, and as a matter of fact the way you find the stuff is reminding yourself that sand is huge in comparison to the grains of this stuff.
So,
on with the bull shoot.
People complained, and rather than seem like I was trying to thread crash I started this one and basically did the same thing, dredged up this big ocean of facts related to rock dust and just threw them on the page as one stoned rambling post or two.
I approach this in a way that's not easy to sum up. I haven't even tried to make an outline and unless I crash this third try badly, I'm still not.
This is a subject whose central role in all botany is understated, and there are several reasons. Only one of these really matters so it ought to be the very first thing you see, when introduced to the subject. Rock dust is very difficult to apply in large amounts. Particularly in dealing with pot because your crop matters to you, it's just easiest to teach you how you can f*** this up.
I was just about to start trying to tell this story a different way, and as I did, I realized, that just a little bit of narrative will make a whole lot clearer why I tell this, the way I do.
The way and reason you can f*** up your rock dust, glacier dust, river/pond/lake/stream silt expedition, is by letting it slip your mind, however momentarily, how fine, this stuff really is.
This, as all and above all things, if you should ever dare forget it, be the guy who knew SOME about it but just had the personality profile of some distractable squirrel, and 'forgot' that 'too much' means 'too much' - you're done having fun and lots of it for free, and you're a fungal pathologist now,
because you let that clay-fine stuff coat your roots JUST thick enough that mega-tiny, anaerobic pythium fungal outbreaks spontaneously cranked on your roots here, there, however badly you forgot about this - and messed this up.
According to how much you let build up into a glue like, anaerobic paste, WAY THICK enough to sustain litttttle tiny colonies of Pythium alllllll over your root ball, here, there, like little fungal confetti celebrations, of you, forgetting wtF you were doing, and let that stuff build up. Ok?
Don't you let that stuff build up. Ok?
Because it'll do what? Form a paste.
Why? Because it's so incredibly fine.
Well, how fine is it?
This is how fine it is, when you collect it as silt, and in a practical manner if you buy or collect glacial silt, OR talcum fine rock dust, the same glue-like, paste-like danger applies, but - telling it the way I do, brings to your mind heavily, that this stuff is some of the physically finest natural material, imaginable.
There is a physical condition of being so small, something is in the size ranges, of what are called clays. Ok? And clays are among the finest materials, ever gathered by mankind. The particles of clays are so small that - you can dye material with them because the clay particles are way, way, WAY too small for the human eye to detect, and even for soap, to wash the f*** out of things.
And in some sort of raw sense here, -since, you're gonna be collecting raw materials,
you need to understand that this is true - even when these things are unrefined.
We have all seen people, leave some sort of lightly or very accurately colored garment, left in a mudhole, where the water is so thick you can't see your hand when it goes under the surface, and - that thing can NEVER be washed clean.
Last chance, for you to see these words: this was your safety meeting. You need to know that if you even make a muddy slurry with this stuff and pour it in around your roots, in a way you are literally, literally distributing a crude, water based paint, because while it's true it's not a TRUE paint, and it's a stain, it will form a glue like consistency at times, when blended with other things so you are always to bear in mind, that you're making a slurry, of clays. And their screen sizes are among the smallest on earth and you might not ever be able to see any of the scores, dozens, hundreds of tiny pythium colonies you cause to set up and each one, jussssst be hanging in there but - your plant not do well and you not really realize wtF, until it's WAY too late.
I've personally given plants root rot with it specifically to see how much it really takes and it boils down to the fact that if you make a paste of it thick enough to cover the standard little 1/16th or so root hairs pot puts a lot out of in hydroponic situations, this sorta thing, little roots called fishbone type roots - just a little patch of the stuff the size of a dime and bang: howdie, we're the Pythiums we're moving in MAKE me a SANDWICH. Aw man f***k. Well, I guess I learned, and hey - you gotta refresh and I had plenty of weed so don't you think, people don't know, you can choke out your little herd of green sheep there, and how much it takes. I already found out for you all, and the answer is ''all it takes, is too much.''
Nah I'm not that undisciplined but you just saw me say, if you make paste with this, thick enough that the roots are covered in it, even when it's aggregating with other substances in your ground, your medium whatever it might be, - if it can create a little area of anaerobic paste, sticking together little sand grains, and a chunk of this, and that - it will, and pythium spores think the thickness of a dime, is a 100 story building so - you've GOTTA be able to figure this out. The question, ''have I let this stuff build up little water-tight, air-tight globules of muck, any w.h.e.r.e. in my root zone?"
Sand grains are huge in comparison to the silt, and to the pythium spores that can start partying and doin the nasty in your root zone, and as a matter of fact the way you find the stuff is reminding yourself that sand is huge in comparison to the grains of this stuff.
So,
on with the bull shoot.
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