It’s like a living carpet of succulents, providing insulation from the heat, keeping the ground cool and thus slowing down evaporation and lowering soil temperatures and thus also the temperature of the entire environment it’s growing in.
Chop and drop and you fertilize and water the soil at the same time as there’s gel inside them like in aloe vera, fungi will absorb it faster than it can evaporate.
All kinds of organic matter gets stuck under it as well, so it harvests mulch from the wind basically. Creating more soil without you having to lift a finger!
^ Two males I’m gonna let pollinate. I don’t care much for judging parents anymore.
My parents are both much shorter than myself and very different from me.
The offspring is always full of surprises anyway.
Let them all pollinate!
Two scrawny parents can make a crazy buff offspring, and two buff parents can result in scrawny offspring, you never know! Life is curveballs all around!
Well, that is to say, it was like that for a week or so because that’s what they required at that time, I just look at the amount of new growth every day, and if there’s a lot of yellow and light green new growth then I turn up the light, when everything still looks dark green when I take them out of the closet then I keep it dim.
It feels right and more natural.
Throughout the day I also change the intensity a little bit, depending how fast the new growth turns dark green. Fiddling is so much fun.
Is it too much? Is it too less? Not knowing what to do liberates one to do anything and find out!
Lots of seeds forming, the two males definitely did their job. Made tea with them.
Topped the remaining male that was about to bust a nut to give the female of the same age some time to grow a few more pistils as she strides into puberty.
Edit: slayed the dude and topped the gal out of curiosity.
