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Comments (23)The only thing I sort of disagree about is that vinegar or citric acid does make bicarbs soluble. So if you water a 2nd time very deeply maybe a few hours after the first watering, you can flush the bicarbs out of the pot. In other words remove them. At least this is my understanding of what happens when the bicarbs are neutralized they become soluble. I may be wrong, but I think that is correct. Tap water is basic because of the bicarbs. Often it is added as acid corrodes pipes, so best to move alkaline water for long life pipes. Eventually you should leach out all the lime in your pots. As long as you water deeply, some is flushed out each time. Of course how many your adding matters too! In the other thread we found some data about aquariums, and they use phosphoric acid. The articles clearly states in a closed system vinegar and citric acid are useless. We though are not in a closed system. but was proof at least as far as us on the Orchard forum were concerned that acetic or citric acid did not really remove bicarbs long term. This is more important in raised beds, or in ground, we need to remove them, as they cannot be leached out very well. I just collected some more rainwater today. I will melt snow in the winter for my potted plants. I have enough now to get me through the winter with some supplements from snow. Luckily I try to limit water in the winter. Most of my plants are dormant. Only a few actually grow in the winter. antidotal evidence but when I switched to rain water a few years ago, my plants grew like crazy, the deposits on the pots disappeared too. The difference was obvious. If I run out of rainwater, I do have sulfuric acid. In the middle of summer, I cannot collect enough and use the acid on tap water. This post was edited by Drew51 on Wed, Dec 4, 13 at 15:22...See MoreHow do you make a fluorescent light stand?
Comments (35)Making a light stand is worth it. Overdriving the lights is not worth it if what you are using them for is tomato seedlings. I have done that. I have two banks of six fluorescent tubes each and all of them are overdriven. Before, I could raise seedlings from the day I put in the seeds until they were ready and almost too big to plant out in five weeks. Now, I can raise seedlings from the day I put in the seeds until they are ready and almost too big to plant out in five weeks. So, no gain there if it is for tomato seedlings. The better move and more useful is to ensure there is enough light by strapping several shoplights together. As you can tell, three shoplights together is six tubes. Also, I use Philips T8 tubes. They are TL 865 Plus, which is a 6500 degree Kelvin color temperature, almost equivalent to sunlight. They were expensive at the time I got them because they were a new product and not widely available. I believe now you can get them at places like Home Despot for a better price. That part is worth it and the significant part is the 865 designation which gives you the size and color temp. Other numbers are longer life or less mercury, etc. etc. If you can find them, that's OK too....See MoreNeed new Pump - Have Questions
Comments (8)Racket you are contradicting yourself. I say you want a seperate pump and you say not really, then in your next line you say "On a pool/spa combo I would add another pump" which is what I said. "On a pool only system, you can save little bit of money using the water that you are all ready filtering for the water feature plus whatever extra requirements it may have. When you add another pump, you have to pay to move the water you are all ready filtering, plus all of the water for the feature." You would be hard pressed to save any money at all since you will be moving more water through the restictive filter, through your returns and water features, unless you want to add some sort of automation to close the valves, again more $$$ than a seperate pump, and you will be running the VS/VF at a higher speed which this pump is not efficient at doing. Also, what are the odds your filtering/circulation schedule will coincide with the time you want to use the water features? You will then be circulating the water through the pump at oddball times more often than needed. Whats an extra $500 in the whole grand scheme of things anyways, whats a new pool with spa, $30k+??...See MoreArchitectural Style and the Power of Place
Comments (44)Holly, the house my first husband's family has is not on the Belvedere - great grandfather, his brother and his banker, thought building a house on land one didn't own was VERY risky. Well, he made a big mistake and bought a parcel with a view of Lake Charlevoix up the hill from Depot Beach. They bought this from the railroad with it in the deed that no houses could ever be built on the lake/railroad side of the street. Train quite running on those tracks, railroad sold the land, houses applied for permits to be built, grandmother sued to stop it as the deed said it couldn't happen, but it did anyway and they no longer have a view of Lake Charlevoix from the wonderful front porch of the three cottages that were built. Theirs is the only still owned by the family of the original builders. That house on the Belvedere would be worth a fortune today. I'm glad the Weathervane is still there. First husband took me to Charlevoix to stay in the family cottage on our honeymoon in 1966. We bought a small Christmas ornament in the Weathervane gift shop. I still have it and it's still one of my favorites. I was not about to let husband take it when he left me! I was heart sick when my children told me many years ago that the old Schrader (sp?) Drug store was gone so no more Jeffs or Concretes (a super-thick milk shake hand blended, with each probably having 1000 calories in it!). They were my greatest craving when I was pregnant with both my babies while up there! I have many fond memories of Charlevoix, Petoskey, and Harbor Springs - all lovely places to visit, and in those days Petoskey was a shopper's paradise....See Morestef369
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