As I write this, on a relatively cool Sunday morning I just had my 10lb sweet rice, and tiny-tim tomato seeds, delivered from Amazon. Which means...it's plantin time!
Haven't been able to start on the hydroponics project due to the lack of seeds, but now that I spent (a ridiculous amount of) money on getting seeds from Amazon, there's literally nothing that's stopping me. Plug the machine in, put the water and the nutrition liquid, plant the seeds in the pods, turn the lights on and let it grow! I'm a little afraid, a bit skeptical because have never actually germinated something (not in Nepal) and this is going to be finicky probably, so there's some fear obviously. But if it works, it's going to be in.credi.ble. Won't take a whole lot of time either. I'm so looking forward to the tomatoes that I've grown by myself!
In other project news, the 10lb bag of sweet rice is here, so after a gap of 8 months, I'll be back to starting a new batch of chhyang. I'm trying to sort out whether I want to do one large batch, or multiple small batches, because it depends if I want to spend 1 hour or 3 hours in the entire process, but I can always make a bunch once, and let it all ripen over the coming weeks and months, so might be that all 10lbs turn into rice wine one lazy day. I had 5 lbs of rice the last go and got about 2 gallons of chhyang. Which means 10 lbs should give me at least 4 gals, if not 5. Paid like 25 buckaroos for the bag, so 5-6 dollahs for a gallon of 'dessert chhyang', plus negligible costs for the other materials ain't bad at all. Not. bad. at all.
Let's get goin, peeps!
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