Saturday, May 20, 2017

hydroponic observations

I've come to realize no matter how well something can grow in soil, it can grow much better in a hydroponic solution.

If that's true, why do people still garden in soil?  Probably for the same reason I still have raised garden beds.  Soil is still the only acceptable medium for growing fruits and vegetables, at this time.  Industry is geared up for soil gardening with cultivators, hoes, hoses, fertilizers, pesticides, and bagged soil of every kind, creating sub-industries that rely on the warmer months to keep their businesses going.  The cost to convert hundreds of acres of farmland to greenhouses is out of the reach for the small family farms and the giant corporate farms are run by ADM, Monsanto, and a few other corporations, heavily invested in GMOs and chemical farming, who aren't about to cut their own economic throats.

Not so in other parts of the world.  Ontario, Canada has massive greenhouses a mile long that can grow anything, year round, with climate controlled efficiency.  Sure, it costs millions to build one of these greenhouses but they pay for themselves in a few years.  After that, it's all net.  And they do it hydroponically.

Compare that system to earth farming that requires a million dollars worth of farming equipment before you break soil.  Not to mention dealing with Monsanto as a business partner, intensive labor, irrigation, storage, weather concerns, equipment malfunctions, and the risk that your whole crop could go bust.  Any soil agribusiness could lose it all without a hedge fund to counter potential losses, further reducing profits.  Not to mention, all that GMO food laced with glyphosate costs more, has little to no food value, and will keep you sick for the rest of your life.

In my limited experiments with hydroponics I learned a few things that could radically increase my bottom line, if I was in the food producing business.

This hydroponic system has been running a little more than a month and I began harvesting greens within a couple weeks of planting.  No weeds, insects, or rabbits.  It's all at waist level so there's no back breaking work.  Startup cost is extremely cheap and easy.  Daily maintenance takes minutes and only requires mixing a solution once a week as the major duty.  It's portable and can be run indoors.  With lights and a timer you can produce just about anything, year round.  Exposure to soil bound bacteria and parasites is a non-issue.

But what about larger plants like tomatoes and asparagus?

I'm working on it.

The five gallon bucket to the left has a nutrient solution with an air stone to oxygenate the water that feeds the tomato plant in a perforated cup filled with an inert growing medium.

Theoretically, adding a light and keeping it indoors during the colder months, this system could produce indefinitely, year after year.

And it all comes back to growing indoors for a reason.  In a SHTF scenario, there's a very real possibility that air and soil contamination could threaten the food supply.  Rather than prepping by stocking up on canned food that will be gone in a few months, why not grow your own, indefinitely?  A few solar collectors and a little technology could easily turn any system totally off-grid.  An unheated basement with a little floor space is all you'll need for perpetual, food sustainability and independence.    

Just think what you could do with cannabis.              


8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi! To activate water this man uses pure quartz sand and exposes it below a 12m Wilhelm Reich Tower. You also can use oxygen (from an oxygen plug)to inoculate its message to the quartz sand (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSMjMi-T4tY, starts at 16:00 time mark). This sand can be given into any water reservoir (as a pond with a rotten smell, very common in South America unfortunatelly)

Anonymous said...

(Hi, just found this vid. w/ subtitles in your language):
With (Reich-tower actiivated) "Quartz flour"
"Swiss TV Channel MTW showing how the PLOCHER-System" (the video referenced in the previous comment makes reference to this gentleman)is used to restore lakes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmAVFDaLQk8

karmasurfer said...

Interesting stuff. It's times like this I wish I paid attention in German class, but I think I got what they were saying. Programming nano quartz is giving me a few ideas and a quick search found some low cost powdered quartz. I'd like to know more about his Reich tower.
Thanks for the info.

Anonymous said...

Imho the tower is made the same way the NHS is! Here is a copy and paste of one of my previous comments:

"http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=29f5vs7&s=9
The vertical tube in the background is a copy of this open-source NHS (Nature Harmonisation Station) video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVfNLLCTdAY (instructions on how to build it start at 2:02). "

(7 layer of wool felt alternating with 7 layers of steel wool) Each layer is separated from the next with a layer of wrap paper (14 layers). After the assembly is completed a resistant platic waste bag is wrapped around in order to prevent water infiltration.) (these alteranting layers in principle are analogous to Reich's Orgon box building instructions).

The 12 m tower (called Majid-Tower in the following link) is in principle identical to the NHS. (http://www.misterwater.eu/video-orgon-energie-turm)

karmasurfer said...

So this Reich tower is about 30 feet of orgone accumulator that charges the powdered crystal at the base. A smaller version for the pipes should ramp up the energy on a cb to impressive levels. Looks like I'll be working on a new modification real soon. Thanks, bud.

Anonymous said...

Yes, you're wellcome! Here's a short video showing how to make an "orgon stick" wound around a 1cm diameter metal cylinder (which is extracted after completion) first a layer o kitchen plastic foil then a layer of fieo inox net. Afer tight winding up both layers will be wound over 20 times around the cylinder. He recalls that he once held this cylinder against one of his eyes for 5 minute or so and (with that eye) started seeing wild bright colors... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp_Xt5nOgj8. Later in the video (time stamp 10:30 approx.) he shows a cushion made out of alternating layers of cottonwool (6) layer alternating with (5) fine steelwool layers (try making two identical cushion, one with only cottonwool and another with the alternating cotton/steelwool layer scheme and ask your wife or someone eles to tell the difference, the video presenter suggests, don't let it become humid otherwise the effect will change, he actually referes to a DeMeo book for more details). Finally at position 22:40 he shows how to make an accordeon style foldable chakra activator (40 layers very powerfull). (keep them away ftom tv sets mobile phones etc he stresses)....

karmasurfer said...

That pillow is the same technology as an orgone blanket. Multiple layers of steel wool, cotton, and wool blanket or felt. It can be used as a full body orgone accumulator. Very effective. In the book Orgone, Reich and Eros, the author gives detailed instructions on building all the stuff Wilhelm Reich used in his lab in Maine.
I'm scrounging the materials to build the orgone pipe you sent me a link to. I should be starting that project next week. I want to see how that device works as a CB pipe, among other things.
In the meantime you can bet I'll be building some orgone sticks and orgone accordians. Thanks for the info.

Anonymous said...

Great! Can't wait to see you poosting some pics on your blog! Don't know if I already referred to this Plocher video (with english subtitles) where he presents the scheme of how to imprint the quartz sand (or other carrier) with the desyerd catalytic properties (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTUm0LGVzQg starts at 1:00 approx.). Mr Plocher sells a lot of katalyzing products to bio-farmers in Switzerland and Germany. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRhCrvXaIvU in this case an empty steel case, charged with Reich's tower energy, is positioned over the water pipe of a public swimmingpool (position 0:25 approx.)!)