It sounds like you accidentally did it mostly right. The directions you find online, in gardening books etc are wrong.

The best way to plant a tree is bare root into native soil. Dig a hole just big enough to fit the roots into and pack the dirt down tightly around it. Topdress any fertilizer or compost on the surface and water it in.

The traditional directions you find, create a small area of loose high fertility soil, surrounded by a denser less fertile native soil. Guess what the roots do? Follow the path of least resistance and food. Effectively forming a pot in the ground. Water also collects in the pot leading to root rots.

Complete guess as well but… The right idea would be to get behind cover 30m or more away and shoot the shit out of the drone.

The online guides assume that you want enough nutrients from the compost alone to feed the plant through the entire growing cycle. The actual nutrient analysis of compost varies radically based upon the source of the composted material. So they all assume the lowest testing stuff and overdo it.

If you are adding in compost as an organic matter “battery” to recharge with conventional fertilizer, 5% is plenty.

Go ahead and use vermiculite or perlite but you have to send me pictures after you water so I can laugh. It floats and makes a mess everywhere. It also makes the mix lighter and a little breeze will knock over the plants. If you want to reuse the soil, blend in a bit of sand. It stays put, adds weight, and does a better job. Commercial potting soil mixes use the lighter perlite/vermiculite to save on shipping costs.

Slow release fertilizers are coated with polymers that degrade at a steady rate based upon temperature and moisture. Leaching out nutrients with the water will occur but having a bit of organic matter to catch the positively charge ones helps immensely.

Sadly those don’t really exist due to the hyperspecialization in the fields. It leads to all sorts of really terrible studies being published because the researchers do not understand the whole picture. They try to counter this by encouraging collaborative research across disciplines but it doesn’t really work.

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In plant science and agriculture there is a shit ton of variables. The majority of them are unknown and/or constantly changing You can only create general approximations to cover the plants basic needs and hope for the best.

Water storage. Coir does a good job at this as long as it has been treated with the proper surfactant (wetting agent). Untreated coir is hydrophobic and a complete clusterfuck.

Gas exchange with the roots: Coir alone tends to hold too much water and blocks adequate air motion. I always blend in 40% sand with it to improve drainage and gas exchange. It also adds in some weight and keeps the pots from falling over in the wind.

Cation Exchange Capacity - this is the storage battery in soil for positively charged nutrients. Mineral Clay, Compost, Peat etc are all very high in these. Around 5% compost by weight is usually enough.

I usually blend in some 6 month slow release (polymer coated) fertilizer in my pots at the beginning of the season. I almost never have to add in more during the growing season. This needs to have a NPK ratio of around 3-1-2 plus a micronutrient blend.

I reuse the soil in the pots every year. Add 2-3% more compost to replace the lost organic matter and blend in some more fertilizer.

My son fell into a bad group of mostly straight A kids in middle school.

They collected a large collection of webpage based games. They started out attempting to host them on the schools network through shared docs etc. The IT guys wised up to them and shut it down.

Then they turned into 14 year olds and took it up a notch.

Got together and paid for a hosting location overseas. Built a video hosting webpage with thousands of pirated educational videos. Made a secondary menu without any links on the homepage. They have to type in the index page in the URL. All of the games pages show up as educational videos in the history.

Most of the teachers in the school are using the free educational videos so the webpage is on the trusted site on the school districts content filter.

The IT teacher at highschool figured it out. Instead of ratting them out and banning the webpage. He started working on getting them scholarships to colleges. Now most of the ringleaders have full ride scholarships.

My son was invited in because he is extremely good at games (unusually fast reaction times). He holds the high score on most of the games. I don’t play against the little shit. It’s pointless to try to beat him.

You’d probably have better luck reading some college textbooks on the subject. Plant physiology, Soil Science, Soil Microbiology, and Agronomy textbooks would give you a more rounded understanding on the subject.

Eggplants tend to spontaneously abort their first flowers. Some species do this on their first flowers to attract pollinators. The after a few weeks they will set fruit. Last time I grew eggplants it took 3 weeks from the first bloom until fruit set. That’s also the time I found out I was highly allergic to it’s sap.

Cucurbits will start male bloom and then abort all of the early female flowers before they open. It’s an interesting biochemical mechanism.

BYOD - Bring your own donkey.

Ehh… As somebody who is old enough to remember before the standardization and consolidation of software, I disagree with you.

A workforce that are trained in more software options makes them more valuable to the company. It pushes for constant innovation. It’s not efficient, but innovative processes almost never are. It also increases the difficulty to replacing experienced employees.

The widespread adoption of Photoshop as the standard has depressed wages and increased job insecurity. I also suspect that the trend of simplification in designs is the direct result of this. Mediocre talented designers are selling boring easy to create designs to artistically blind CEO’s.

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Thermobaric munition on a long range drone. Sounds like something that could cause a large ignition of munitions stacked outdoors.

When I was first out of college I used to get 8-10 of pre-payed envelopes every week. I kept a PO box for my mail that I would check weekly.

I would have maybe 1 or two pieces of real mail and a full box of junk.

So I started folding up the junk mail I to the 8-10 prepared envelopes every week. This was all done at the counter next to my PO box and dropped mailed back right then.

It was quite cathartic.

I don’t know the tactical donkey might be the better choice.

No metal to set off the magnetic triggers on anti-tank mines.

Excellent hearing to warn you of your imminent death from a drone or ambush.

Excellent sense of smell to warn you of danger around you.

Able to navigate rough country and stay in the tree line to avoid being easily detected.

Fuels up on the local vegetation.

I did respond to your other comment. Sorry bud, basic plant physiology and thousands of hectares of commercial production disagrees with everything you wrote.

Nurseries sell them like that because they can charge higher prices. Poorly informed consumers pick the larger plants thinking they will grow better. It’s also easier for retailers to keep them wet very few of them have watering systems setup for them.

Running a specialty grow without basic knowledge of plant physiology… Yep checks out.

The reason they are so tall is because of low light levels. With lower light levels the interplant competition causes them to stretch taller. More space under the same light levels would have a much shorter plant.

So what they need, more light. Specifically hardening off outside would be best.

They also need to be knocked around a bit by wind or mechanically to trigger stem thickening and lignin formation.

FYI commercial transplanters for thousands of commercial hectares around the globe usually use a 256 cell tray. I have also seen them use a 512 tray.

It also doesn’t matter if tomato transplants get root bound. They are stem rooters. Transplant a 8" tall seedling with 6" of the stem buried and the entire 6" of stem will form roots.

Also transplanting with a larger plant usually means more severe transplant shock. A smaller plant generally adapts faster, grows a more balanced root system and produces more.

Poor lady lost her dildos in a cave 8,000 years ago.

That’s a really nice suicide machine they built there

the anti-mine setup is charming. That thin sheet metal is going to be pulverized and blown back into the engine. Depending on the speed they are traveling I can see it causing them to do an awesome backflip.

Drone netting on an unarmored vehicle = ideal airburst explosion for maximum damage.