The Clone Dome

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/3/5/

The clone dome has been at the heart of the decent smart home since inception. To better your chances in experimentation, make a micro prototype!


Valuable Lessons and Bright Ideas from The Clone Dome

💡 Life enjoys moving water and air.  If you move the water to the top and let it fall, the air displaces with/against the water!
Falling water oxygenates the water reservoir while also creating airflow within the dome! Brilliant! 

💡 Plants are most tender when they are small and first starting out. By perfecting this stage, we can muster up an army of strong younglings in whatever crop we wish to grow in just a few weeks.  Great for the early days while you learn your local environment extremes.  With plenty of replacements, you can correct mistakes early instead of nursing along through your many wasteful lessons.  When everything goes well, plants make great gifts!

💡 Always keep a healthy mamma nearby! 

 

💡 Everything is cheaper when it's smaller. Make a prototype.  Since you're the one eating the food and you have no one to answer to ... just use the prototype if it still functions! I'm still using my first one from 8 years ago! 

💡 Propagation success seems to have a cyclical nature to it that I can't quite put my finger on - maybe something to do with the moon, though different types of plants seem to have differing optimal germination and rooting times.  i.e, root veggies vs. leafy greens - plant one on the new moon, one on the full moon. Take cuttings on a half moon and watch them shoot roots all at once on ekadasi... main lesson being, wait two-3 days to see how things go, then 10-14 days to make the judgement call of whether to keep or toss and restart.

💡 Clean the surfaces with peroxide every now and then but try to keep the same reservoir as long as your cuttings are rooting fast and healthy!  There are bacterial and yeast cultures that will grow and you can even add them in to enhance nutrient uptake, stabilize ph, and promote rooting!

💡 Word on the Smart Home and Garden Block is that the willow tree, as well as some other plants, have an excess of rooting hormone so no need to worry about expensive and destructive chemical nutrients.  I've had similar experiences stretching nutrient cycles 2-4 times my normal by making sure to keep half a rack of well rooted cuttings and then just feeding a regular vegging nutrient or weak compost tea brewed out back!

💡 No Space in your tiny apartment to grow food?! Wrong!  The Clone Dome can easily be repurposed for micro greens or mushrooms!  Either way, by growing a tasty meal every weak, you will feel more connected to your natural existence and will begin to lighten your burden on our mamma Earth a little bit more with each crop flush!

💡 Different plants, soil mediums, and nutes like different water cycles - easily program for diversity with arduino

💡 Fluctuations are good.  Within the range of happy growing, if you gently swing the environment vitals from the low end to the high, and back and forth, you create a natural breathing mechanism for your local environment.  Good for the plants. Good for you.  Temperature, Humidity, Nutes, O2, H, etc

💡the clone dome is the first thing to plug into your arduino smarthome and garden!  A light, a pump, a fan will make use of the algorithm already written and you can jump right in and get your roots wet ;)

💡Maintaining a clone dome was the start of my regrow regime.  Now, every time I do get groceries from a store or box delivery, I get organic living veggies.  I eat half of them, and plant the rest.  They usually produce 2-3 flushes before I get the seed for free and/or mini cuttings for the clone dome!



Wouldn't it be nice to live inside that wonderful little prototype?  I mean, we do if you think about it ...




What riches do we really have if we do not have food and water?  Look around ... if one out of 10 of us isn't growing a crop for the lot ... well I guess we're stuck trusting the monocroppers, supergrocers, and supply chains of yesteryear, aren't we?

Looking back on my smart home journey, a clone dome was the model within the model within the model that was the baby step to send me off and running.  I started it when I was still in an apartment and it led to me feeling comfortable enough to think bigger. 

If a Decent Smart Home interests you, I'm interested in seeing what your setup is!  
If a data collection device is already hooked up, lets talk about how to standardize a data stamp :)
If you are not collecting data, plug in an arduino yun and download the code!
Maybe in the future we'll organize a clever way to generate startup funds for new-comers! But for now, just posting and tipping each other whenever someone's setup leads to your success will help us all reach that comfy 1:10 ratio 💡

Do you already have a clone dome? Call it something else? Did this inspire you to put one in your boot closet or in your living room window?  Let us know about it so we can follow along and send a token to help water the roots! Add some pics or links and join the Decent Smart Home Group to take the next step in growing for you and your peoples today! 


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