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[MadPlanter]

Ya man eBay does suck anymore. Etsy is better and generates more sales but also fees there too increasing. Both no longer get free advertising on major search engines like Google which totally slows sales big time. I think they are trying to cater to the large guys that can handle the BS and push the little guys outta existence personally. Bonanza just totally sucks don't try selling there unless you want like 2 sales per 6 months lol...

When eBay kicked all the entheogen listings off it kicked me in the nuts fiercely. Heimia and Phalaris is about the only thing I can list without it being taken down within an hour. The funny thing is though that others even in the USA still got their stuff up from time to time and apparently aren't being bothered. Even dried ready to use material no less but I list a PV leaf and it's down in 15 min...

I've wanted to open my own site for a long time. Unfortunately I'm like mostly tech illiterate. Have a buddy that is a tech genius and I've asked him to help in which I'm more than willing to give him all the credit for the designing of the site. He agreed to help but then never seriously would do anything so I just quit asking.

Don't have the New Zealand spinach but do have all those others. They are super easy to propagate and are good sellers too.

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if looking for website weebly.com was pretty easy to figure out,
you can create a free site.. it just adds .weebly.com at the end,
(not suppose to sell from the free site, but i suppose you could)

or if you pay monthly fee, they remove the .weebly.com and let you sell stuff,
40$ i think they don't take any percentage and list unlimited items.
25$/month they take some percentage and limited items..
i can't remember exactly, but that sounds right.

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i was bored, here some picts..

Found some fairy shrimp! lowered magnet and cup attached to string into well hole..
magnet helped cup sink, and was hoping for soil sample, but string not long enough.

had a broken laser light and pulled it apart..
the lens and tube it screws into makes a nice micro-lens-cap for webcam..
wish i could upload the video it's much more clear, but you can almost see the shrimp in the picture..




very tiny harpoon was only thing attached to magnet


only slightly dirty finger tips


holding quarts crystal rock


tiny blue truck on fingernail?



 ..so little people are real?! maybe but little invisible shrimps in your drinking water is very possible. 

[ONandONandON]

glow worms !!! the other night planting stuff in the yard after dark...
i noticed little glowing lights in the soil, so i brought some into the light,
they look like common earth worms, but smaller.. about 1'long.. 1mm wide.
with glowing heads ...i want to ID the worms, anyone know their name? ...
they are not firefly larvas, which are bigger, and look like a centipede.

i collected them in a big pickle jar.. in hope i can breed a bunch of them.

update>  i think they are: Microscolex phosphoreus

[ONandONandON]

Any suggestions for water-sealing a raised wood frame?
..(maybe plastic liner, cover bottom/sides with concrete, and another plastic liner,
 if concrete isn't to expensive.. would any concrete do, or special type for ponds?)
Finally finished the wood-frame for the pond..
it was a lot more building than i was thinking.

next the pvc hoops will be attached, plastic roof covered, door frame built, pond sealed, aquaponics setup, and done.

[ONandONandON]

sooo...
the hoophouse was cheap and easy, finished within hours.. even built a second smaller greenhouse with the leftovers..
fishpond has been expensive and difficult finally finished the concrete, now painting with dry-lok waterproofer.
almost finished, hoping it holds water, because if not it just becomes a really expensive raised flower bed.

one problem is it gets very hot in there, even with the fan blowing into the double layer, it probably gets in the 100's
i'm hoping the pond will cool it down at least 20 degrees.. also water should slow release heat in winter time.
thinking about attaching tube to the outer-layer plastic to let the air out into the second greenhouse.

[ONandONandON]

getting closer.. the pond still leaks a little bit, going to try 'flexpaste' when i can afford some..
the extra thick plastic has already split at seems where it was folded.. it needs wrapping again.
that double inflated layer was working until the rip.. it's fixable just need to buy more plastic.

otherwise, it's going good.. still getting everything organized. started moving some plants in..

[ONandONandON]

so now the plastic has turned into tiny infinite self replicating pieces of plastic litter.. at least it lasted just long enough.
Let that be a lesson to ya;
New plan greenhouse2.0 it wraps around the entire greenhouse, and my house, covering walls with clear plastic panels.

it will be heated with a 'rocket stove mass heater' wood burning type fireplace...

here is a traditional style 'rocketstovemassheater'... (to my understanding, please correct me if not)
it has a closed barrel chimney/heat-pull.. smoke then goes down threw the underground chimney


My questions are : is the traditional heat-pull/chimney necessary?
also can i use a larger sized burn hole, where the wood goes in?*
(*the round fire-place in this design is a cut aluminum water tank)

if it works this way would spread the heat into the ground for a more slow release.


ALSO
planning to add a steam pipe; where a copper pipe is wrapped around the burn barrel,
water can be poured into it, and that closed inside a tank/box to create steam i can use for essential oil extractions..
and maybe build a small room around the steam, to house the distiller equipment, but doubles as a sauna..
and why not, if possible ill add some kind of moonshine still in there too.. and some kind of oven/ cook top.


but the main purpose is heating the greenhouse.