The past 2 months I've been working on a book on plant propagation. The working title is "Micronursery: How to grow a personal garden center in your backyard"

I completed my first draft of the body today: Preface + 7 chapters. I wrote it out by hand on about 2 1/2 legal pads.

Now to get this thing typed in and edited!

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I did some reading in The Almanac of Naval Ravikant today.

The big take away for today was Leverage, which is define as using what you control to grow and maximize your influence.

In the not too distance past this was a Permissioned Leverage, meaning you'd have to ask for permission to use the resources. This could be in the form of capital (loans), labor (employees) or even following the rules (Twitter). This means someone or groups of people control you. Think the influence of the big investment banks or unions or other powerful interests. Look at what the state education systems are trying to do: leverage the minds of students to make good employees, not independent thinkers.

The other form of leverage is Permissionless where you can use the resource without permission of anybody or you own the resource. Think self publishing, code, distributed monetary systems (#bitcoin), protocols (#nostr). #homeschooling your children to be independent thinkers. The basis of a lot of these examples seem to be your mind.

My own little niche on the Permissionless Leverage front is plant propagation, and worm farming. Agriculture, #gardening and #permaculture. Biology and the systems we define and create can grow our wealth and influence. I do not need to trade time for money I can set up the systems and let them go and grow, I leverage biology to produce wealth.

You can look at what the "old guard" is trying to gain and maintain control over: education, crypto, food, nutrition, agriculture. Making these systems permissioned, under their control, to influence and leverage them out force you to use the established system. And this is often done under the guise of trying to protect you.

My thoughts for today!

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Thanks! I'll DM you!

Elderberry would be hardwood cuttings I'll stick in a February/March.

Willow would be hardwood or softwood cuttings depending on the time.

Mulberry and blackberry I've had success under mist... but would definitely try your aquaponics system.

I had used that for previously for some shrubs, but got away from it when I got the mist system going.

Hello fellow #permaculture minded Nostr peeps.

I'm exploring the idea of creating a book related to starting a home "micro" plant propagation setup and nursery with the knowledge I'm gaining working on our nursery at our property.

However, before I get too far, I wanted to chat with a few people who are interested in the same topic. It could be that you want to start your own "micro" nursery for a little extra money, or it could be that you're working on a food forest or a permaculture property and want to get going quicker, without spending money buying lots of plants.

If you have a few minutes for a DM conversation, I'd love to chat with you and I'd greatly appreciate your help!

I'd like to understand your background, needs, and current goals. I'd also like to understand any challenges or obstacles standing in your way.

My objective is to find a common thread in which I can help people using my unique skills and the expertise I've gained, so you can get started faster and with fewer mistakes.

If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, please DM me and we can communicate there!

Thanks a bunch and I look forward to hearing from you!

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Just noticed our kids stockings:

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Yesterday as I was listening to a sermon the pastor was discussing Calvinism vs. Armeninism.

My take away is anything that puts the focus on man and not God will lead us in the wrong path.

We end up focusing on doctrine differences and comparisons and not seeing that God is awesome and that we need the relationship with Him.

Religions focused on man, where the aim is to categorize or focus on others are a distraction so we don't focus on ourselves, often because that may be uncomfortable.

Jesus' prayer reflects the focus on God the father.

Ever bite off more than you can chew?

#grownostr #snakestr

Not to mention dependence on the bank for operating capital.

Not to mention the chemical pesticides and fungicide are doing to their health.

Or government subsidies.

As long as they aren't in direct sunlight you can put a clear plastic tub over them to maintain high humidity.

You want the high humidity so they don't dry out before they can root.

These I believe are red mulberry.

From what I've learned over the years if you can propagate one member of the species a certain way, the others will work the same. Again there are exceptions.

Mulberry is dioecious meaning there are certain trees that are male and others female. Only female will produce berries.

I'm raising these partly for berries and partly for fodder, so if I get some male trees that's fine as the animals will eat the leaves.

I've read that white are great for fodder. High protein rivaling alfalfa.

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Here's a Youtube video on aquaponics propagation of mulberry from nostr:npub1f2p8754drsmjltdqdf57g7zuexz9u7fvhdk4xpq3cm8z02tvaa7s98wt7n

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9qYinQVtRs

As promised: Mulberry #propagation via Semi-Hardwood Cuttings under mist in your #nursery.

Here is the final result: 61 mulberry cuttings from 5 branches collected a couple days ago. Intermittent mist 10 seconds every 10 minutes.

First we start off with our branch. Choose this year's wood. It will still be somewhat green at least in our area. You also want it to be over 6 weeks old should you do this earlier in the summer.

I chose this particular cutting because I loved the leaf shape. I chose some others because of the leaf size and health. Some leaves where I were had a fungus growing on them as well, only choose healthy ones since they will be growing so close in the nursery.

Mulberry is a "2-node" plant. Each leaf node will either be a leaf or roots so we make a cut leaving 2 leaf nodes on each cutting:

Now to clean it up a bit. We need to leave a leaf on the part of the branch that was furthest from the roots. We remove some of the leaf to reduce the moisture loss, and on the side we'll root, we remove the leaf by tearing it off (to create some damage) and also scrape the bark. This will help rooting.

Dip in some rooting hormone. I'm using Dip-n-Grow liquid at Semi-hardwood strength this time of year. I get it off of Amazon: https://amzn.to/3YMXv9n (I'm an affiliate and this was an affiliate link. You can click here to support me and help a pleb buy more rooting hormone! 😉 ) $16 worth of the stuff has lasted me about 1600-2000 cuttings.

Now stick in the sand bed under mist and you're done! They should be rooted in 6-8 weeks.

I also snagged a juniper branch on our walk and stuck 15 of those cuttings as well:

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments!

#grownostr #plantstr #propagation #nursery #garden #permaculture

#carnivore Cinnamon Toast Crunch:

Pork rinds, melted butter, salt, cinnamon.

We are calling it Skin-a-mon Toast Crunch.

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Awesome! You have a YouTube video on your hydroponics propagation, right?

I'll do a note on mulberry propagation. :👍

We spent part of the afternoon out on the Erie Canal with the kids today. We were gathering mulberry cuttings to propagate.

Here are the gates they use to shut off the water for the winter to drain the canal:

A little closer:

The path is the old tow path the mules would use to pull the barges. They still is the canal to transport large items too big for the road.

Here is the mulberry cutting haul. We should hopefully get 20 trees out of these:

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