Recent content by Buddha's Botany

Please don't take this as a pop shot at you...but how are you defining organic vs. inorganic gardening? Because all organisms use and need all sorts of inorganic compounds to thrive and in order to get silica into your plant's organically you would be limited to a list of carbon bound Si...

Your idea is sound but odds are your lake is full of nasty shit you don't want to be smoking out of your plant later on, I wouldn't use it. However, here is how I get what you are looking for cleanly. I have a 120gal south american FW aquarium that I know is clean, has a ph of 6.7-6.8 and I...

Not at all, have to use cat carbon to get that. What RO is good for though is removing alkalinity, dissolved metals, salts and other potentially harmful levels of any number of things. IMO if you don't have really nice well/spring water source or rain collection going on RO saves way to many BS...

New to the forum but not to gardening, wanted to stop by and say hi :bigjoint: I'm just a dude from the PNW living the dream, and I can't wait to learn all sorts of new stuff and meet some other like minded folks.