Went out to my potting table today and discovered this. I use the large, shiny, metal bowl quite often to mix up my soils and left it sitting in the sun yesterday. Apparently the bowl worked like a magnifying glass and burned a hole right through the plastic bottle I left in it. I like to use this bowl because it cleans up so easily. There was a paper coffee filter in it that was scorched as well but luckily it was still wet. I really dodged a bullet. This bowl is going back in the kitchen. Lesson learned.
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Went out to my potting table today and discovered this. I use the large, shiny, metal bowl quite often to mix up my soils and left it sitting in the sun yesterday. Apparently the bowl worked like a magnifying glass and burned a hole right through the plastic bottle I left in it. I like to use this bowl because it cleans up so easily. There was a paper coffee filter in it that was scorched as well but luckily it was still wet. I really dodged a bullet. This bowl is going back in the kitchen. Lesson learned. -
Wow, that is a bit scary! Parabolic concentration of sunlight can get unbelievably hot, huh.Grow # 3 50/50 S/I Critical Mass photo fem
Seeds drop in water 1/8/2022
Medium: FF Coco Loco plus 30% Perlite in 7 gal cloth bags
Space: 30x48x62 DIY cabinet lined w/space blankets
Lighting: Bloomspect SS1000 Quantum board x 3 - 300 watts actual draw
Soil Supplements: Worm Castings, Crab Shell, Oyster Shell, Neem and Karanja Meal, Volcanic Basalt Dust (for minerals), Recharge root micros. Grow 3 is with reconstituted super soil to which I've added several additional minerals and supplements. A more complete list based on Cackamas Coots super soil recipe can be found in my Auto Toka thread
i don't grow plants anymore, I grow soil that my plants can thrive in!
My filtered tap water runs over 7.5 pH but the soil microbes
make pH correction unnecessary
Ventilation: Vipospar 4" Exhaust Fan w/RH controller, 12" Carbon Scrubber8" bottom intake fan, 6" clip on fan, 6" heater as neededCabinet on screen porch. N AZ @ 4000 ft.
My salute to all who have served
Semper Fidelis! -
Reminds me of my first wife after sunning all day in my old aluminum jon boat while I was fishing. She ended up in the hospital with second n third degree burns and dehydrated. She looked like a cooked lobsterTENT 1 4x4 SF7000
s silver haze... strawberry haze...
.. gg4 and cheese berry auto thrown from the auto hut
TENT 2 2X4 SF2000
2x Thundersuck... og Jimmy... flo.... blue cheese
TENT 3 2X4 SF2000 + 2 113w blurples
3 gallon pots all autos
Weddingcake..2 red Gorilla girl..2 cinderella jack
All growing in living soil using Earth Dust
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Man we sure seen alot of that MeEasy when folks float the rivers here first sunny warm, day.
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I’d like to see what that bowl could do to an ant hillComment
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