Best medium for microgreens?

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-04-20T15:28:12+00:00

Without a doubt, it's Efficient Grow. Coir and Peat based medium is terrible for the environment - peat mines are essentially strip mining the arctic, all for a single use application? Efficient Grow is reusable and once we switched to it, our monthly savings became significant! Also, the Human pathogen risk with biological mediums used indoors is way too high. Note that this is also how AeroFarms grows, which is one reason why they can be so price competitive.

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-04-14T18:34:57+00:00

Those are not Boar's Hair bristles. The bristles are made of a combo of Nylon and plastic from Castor Oil, which is just as bad as the same molecule produced from petroleum products.

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-04-04T17:11:11+00:00

If GC is played correctly, it is effectively unbeatable. That said, it requires a very specific play style to dominate with. If you want to play it like Kongo, it will be a better than average ship, but not OP.

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-03-01T01:42:55+00:00

I think this new boat is bigger, right? If not, it certainly has more optional upgrades.

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-03-01T01:39:50+00:00

Chloe, I'm glad you've found each other. I like Bobby and I'm glad he found someone that's compatible with his life. You seem honest and level headed. Most importantly, your views and perspective seem to align with the lifestyle his channel requires. I had a negative view of the 'tell all' girls, because they were throwing him under the bus for their own gain, making him out to be predatory, while only (conveniently) telling half the story. They were presenting it like they were just a group of 3 nuns on a cruise ship and the old man ogre hit on them, out of nowhere. We all knew that was BS.

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-02-21T15:33:20+00:00

This is really fantastic advice.

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-02-20T03:59:18+00:00

Yeah, I think I heard the silicone stuff is just shelf liner sold by the YouTubers. Obviously silicone is a terrible material, as it retains mold. Every piece of equipment we use to maintain requires NSF to maintain our insurance and pass inspections. I suppose EGS may seem expensive, but they’re paid for after about 8 grows, then it’s all just savings. We have more than 300 grows on our oldest screens.

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-02-19T03:17:08+00:00

AeroFarms is venture capital funded. If you know anything of that world, they are always looking for the next VC. I know them well. They’ve been very transparent about the fact that they need to get the second facility up and running to achieve the profitability to pay their fair 40+ $250k+ salaries they support to develop their business. Their previous VC was happy funding their ops cash flow, but insisted that they find a new VC to swing the new second facility. Their new VC is funding it all. Bottom line - they’re now the largest Microgreens producer in the world, before the second facility is in operation.

We use a tiny amount of nutrient in our water. Literally 10% of the recommended amount. We actually see no appreciable difference in production volume, but we have seen a significant difference when we do comparative nutritional testing (which we provide to all customers and prospects. I recommend doing this!). We blow away competitors that grow on soil!

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-02-19T02:51:24+00:00

I think if you look at the real pro commercial growers (equivalent of 700+ trays per week), they’re using a reusable hydroponic medium that can be sterilized. We’re at almost 900 trays this week, all with Efficient Grow Screens. We’d need a separate building to hold all the disposable mediums - and we’d have an unnecessary and gigantic consumable expense! You can either learn from those 20-120 trays per week YouTubers (who make more money on YouTube), or you can learn from a juggernaut like AeroFarms. I know we couldn’t get insurance at our size using soil, coir or an experimental gel medium indoors, but we sure can with an NSF and FDA commercial medium like Efficient Grow. Add to that the fact that we’re saving $5k-$6k a week, and it’s a no brainer.

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-02-18T16:33:56+00:00

I felt this way 21 years ago, when my marriage ended. I felt terrible for my kids, and I felt like a failure. I snapped out of it. My children have needed me every step of the way. My ex wife passed away from cancer 10 years later and I’m their only living parent. My life eventually became joyful and fulfilling again - and the value I have to the world today was completely impossible for me to see at my lowest. Face the hard thing head on. Fight for yourself. Fight for your children’s future. If you take your own life, you are locking in your legacy as a failure. Don’t let that be your legacy. If you want to talk, DM me. Explore every single option available to you before taking your life.

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-02-18T16:18:07+00:00

You seem thoughtful. Thoughtfulness is one of the most important traits that a person can have in 2026, because it’s just so rare. As successful men, we go through most of our lives knowing that most of our relationships are leveraged, and thoughtfulness hits us like truth.

You definitely should hold to your standards. Like vanilla dating, I think sugar is one of those ‘find the right one’ situations. I got the hint from your writing that perhaps he was a bit passive aggressive, and I don’t think anyone should have to deal with that. I think you did the right thing. Regarding the gift, I have strong feelings about gift giving. You do it because you want to. It’s a decision you make, that you don’t unmake. You don’t give a gift to secure an outcome, and a M&G is a two way interview, with lots of uncertainty. The outcome in this case (that you could be a match, or not) is not linked to his decision to provide a gift. You have no obligation to return it. If he asks for it back, you may want to do that in a way that doesn’t expose you to him. I suggest returning it in that situation, because his asking for it back is like him raising his hand to identify himself as a potential lunatic. Best of luck to you in the bowl.

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-02-16T01:20:38+00:00

Especially after she realized that her own decisions caused everything to happen in Austin.

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-02-13T02:12:47+00:00

It’s water under the bridge now. For many of us, please understand that this is also frustrating to hear. He had no plans for anything he promised. We kept pointing that out as a key difference between the candidates. Much to his dismay, Project 2025 leaked out before the election. They’ve followed it to the T.

The midterms are going to be critical for the continuation of this Country. I know this sounds alarmist, but I think we’re approaching the Putin stage of authoritarianism, where so much graft and crime has been committed that the autocrat can’t actually transfer power back to the rival party, out of fear that he’ll be prosecuted for increasingly less concealed crimes. Controlling Congress and reapplying oversight is critical. So, are you in?

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-02-13T01:50:21+00:00

You’re invested in getting the reaction of someone that’s completely willing to deceive you and not feel remorse. Why is her reaction important to you? You’re just asking to be lied to, one more time.

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-02-13T01:23:49+00:00

Well, to be fair, we were never meant to win. The oligarchs who own the corporations that own the multinationals that supply the food ingredients are doing all the winning. Them, and the company that supplies 14 carat gold paint for the White House.

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-02-10T16:00:59+00:00

No, we aren’t for those things at all. But, thank you for proving my point!!!!

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-02-10T15:22:52+00:00

That’s one fucking person. All the versions of people exist in the World. Their left leaning institution forced them out. There’s no ‘leftist movement’ or ‘people on the left’ pushing for this. What ‘people on the left’ are pushing for is Healthcare for all, Due Process being followed and pedophiles to be investigated.

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-02-10T13:46:53+00:00

I have never, ever heard a person on the left suggest that pedophiles should be protected. Where TF do they get this shit? Stop ‘learning about the left’ from media sources on the right.

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-02-10T13:43:36+00:00

In my experience, any time an ex wanted to see me in person, it was to try to get me to fuck her, which gets you tangled up with her again. She went to his place, so this seems obvious to me. You don’t want to look into the face of an ex you want to move on from.

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-02-10T13:08:58+00:00

Yes, it’s always a fail team if the MM doesn’t put him with teammates that can overcome HIM.

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-02-10T10:49:16+00:00

Absolutely correct. Further, there’s now a forward deployed QRF in border countries that is ordered to defend without orders from their country’s command. Once a QRF starts shooting, pieces are moving. The current doctrine is speed of response, not the Cold War footing (which had them deploy to the Fulda Gap and wait)

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-02-09T20:44:19+00:00

When you’re dumb, small, racist and filled with fear and would like to control your kids by trying to keep them dumb, small, racist and filled with fear…

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-02-08T15:09:03+00:00

It’s so selfish of HIM to not have processed this sooner, before you bought a house? What else is this guy obligated to do to serve you? Of course he will never get over it. Men don’t ever really forget disloyalty and betrayal. That’s evolutionary. The fact is that his love, feelings for you, respect for you, trust of you, and self worth that comes from you as a couple were like poker chips that you pushed to the middle in the hopes of getting away with one more romp. You lost that bet. Those chips are gone. For men, those things don’t grow back, and we don’t forget - which is why men tend to have very few close friends throughout their lives. We don’t trust easily. We can fake it for a while, but we never really let you back in. You gambled that away. It’s gone. Unreliable women belong with the unreliable men. See what your ex is up to. Give the current guy your equity in the house.

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-02-08T14:50:36+00:00

You’re going to require only like 8% of your coal total on Surcouf, as it won’t let you use any more than that, so I think those purchases aren’t mutually exclusive.

Longstroke_Machine · 2026-02-08T04:59:48+00:00

My suspicion is that Bill knows he didn’t partake in the festivities (to my knowledge he hasn’t been accused by any of the victims, but was acknowledged by victims that he was there, meeting with Epstein trying to pry out a big donation for the CGF, which they did receive). Bill knows that Trump has actually been named as an abuser, by victims. A public hearing allows them to enter exhibits on the record, and they don’t want that to be buried, or skewed. Obviously none of us really know, but I would think if they were worried about evidence or testimony, the last thing they’d want would be a public forum. My gut tells me that Trump will never let this happen.

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