23 buckets

Each has 4 cuttings of red mulberry.

🤞hopefully in a few months I have a LOT of mulberry plants ready for transplanting.

Yo home to bel-Air

Reminds me of this quote from one of the cofounders of permaculture, Bill Mollison.

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I made this for my best friend for Christmas this past year. It’s a replica of George Harts 72 pencils sculpture but I took some liberties with colors, black light reactive and glow in the dark paints, and colored glitter glues.

There are four hexagonal arrangements of 18 parallel pencils. Each of those sets of 18 pencils has a theme.

One is ‘merica with red, white, and blue pencils with corresponding glitter glue to give the star spangled banner’s colors a bit of starry sparkle.

One is independence with camouflage pencils bearing the text “Who is John Galt?”, along with some hunter safety orange to go with the camo. He is an excellent hunter and his first profession was taxidermy.

There’s a Rasta colored set of 18 pencils, because he grows his own weed. He makes butter and BHO dabs.

The central column of 18 pencils has an Austrian economics theme with glittered silver and gold pencils scattered in with a dozen Bitcoin orange pencils bearing the text “The Times 03/Jan/2009 -Satoshi”.

He added the flow toy light thingy and I gave him the Red Tail Hawk. https://nostr.build/av/757df5669d65ca765bbeef5c7a4497433066df6c66cc202d568e331f66e2a2e8.mov

Mark Twain…great quote

I usually just eat them but in the future perhaps I’ll have enough to make mulberry preserves.

What’s the strain?

Buckets are prepped:

1/3 sphagnum peat moss

1/3 vermiculite

1/3 perlite

Tomorrow I’ll start taking cuttings from the red mulberry tree out back.

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I can gather some berries maybe and ship them to you? I’m not sure I could ship cuttings intended for propagation. I believe the cuttings must remain in a water filled container until they are planted but I don’t know…perhaps there’s a way if cuttings are of interest to you.

Don’t get to see a multistory building getting demolished live very often, especially just as one passing through. https://nostr.build/av/b5628c15bfcae33fff2bec19cfbedb19303c00759dc8287c6c0da01d23374fd0.mov

It helps to know what kind of mulberry you’re propagating. White mulberry is super easy. Just just cut off your cutting at a 45 degree angle slightly below a node and plant it.

Other varieties may require more work. Again, cut off your cutting at a 45 degree angle slightly below a node. Pull all the leaves off except for a couple small ones at the top. Store cuttings in a water container until ready to plant them for rooting. Use a rooting hormone on the cutting. Gel rooting hormones work best because the gel adheres to the cutting.

Give them humidity domes like a clear trashbag. Give them plenty of time to develop roots before transplanting them. Cuttings like humidity while establishing roots. Give it a few months.

When you transplant, use mychorizal fungus to give the roots a “modem” so they can connect to the local mycelium natural internet economy where they trade sugars and minerals and enzymes.

Rinsed out a bunch of 3 gallon buckets tonight. Tomorrow they’ll get filled with 1/3 sphagnum peat moss, 1/3 vermiculite, and 1/3 perlite. Then either tomorrow or this weekend, I will take a bunch of red mulberry cuttings and propagate them. The red mulberry tree on my backyard south fence line is growing way too tall and too far out so it needs a pruning anyways. Might as well propagate the plant and have more berries in subsequent years, right?

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That the reticular activating system (RAS), which is the “on-ramp” for 4 of the 5 senses (not smell, that’s routed through the emotional center of the brain), has the ability to modulate the amount of sensory input the brain intakes at once. In people with ADHD, the RAS has no modulation ability. Their sensory input flow is always 💯 wide open. It’s like drinking from a fire hose.

This “low latent inhibition”, when paired with high IQ, manifests as creative genius.

Propagating red mulberry. Did some prep work tonight while I was putting my garden salad together.

Tomorrow I’m gonna remulch the 4’x8’ raised bed garden, hose out a bunch of 3 gallon ice cream buckets that had been used for potatoes previously, and then fill them with about 6” of a mix of 1/3 sphagnum peat moss, 1/3 vermiculite, and 1/3 perlite.

Once that’s done I’ll be ready to start taking cuttings.

From there, it’ll take 4-6 weeks to get the cuttings to root, at which point they’ll be ready to transplant. I’m gonna plant some at my home and at the SHTF bug out property.

Yep. Makes life easy that way.

Finished the SHTF fuel storage project. 12 five gallon metal NATO jerry cans with a number for each month painted on the side.

Every month I will dump the corresponding gas can into my vehicle and refill the can next time I fill up at the gas station.

They’re all secured by a 30’ long 3/8” bike lock cable secured to my garage structure and each gas can has its own padlock for convenience and security both.

Spinach, carrot greens and roots, wild onions from the garden. I added bacon bits, shredded cheese, pumpkin seeds, and ranch dressing.