increasing productivity

It's been a rough week.  Christmas is approaching and I still don't have a pikachu toy for my daughter.  She has piles of toys laying around in her room and boxes and boxes of all kinds of stuff for us to wrap for her tonight, but still no pikachu.  grr.

Stuff going on with me:

• researching shopify
• Bill Gates' blog
• things to be thankful for
• cleaning up the house

Also researching plants to start growing in my new grow box that is finally operational after several weeks of designing, building, testing etc.

• winter savory - $2/pck, 10g/$16
• goji - $16/kg
• corsican basil - $3.25
• holy basil - $3.25
• oregano - $2.50
• white sage (salvia apiana)
• wild sagebrush plants
• big sagebrush
• wyoming sagebrush
• fringed sagebrush
• allheal
• maralroot
• sea buckthorn
• santolina
• roseroot
• jiaogulan
• wild strawberries
• alpine strawberries
• moringa
• zaatar - $7

I have so much available.  Some via cuttings of plants that are already growing, some via seeds that I've collected, some via purchased seeds or plants.  It's such a huge decision, it really eats up my time and attention.  Currently I have space for 3 trays, which works out to about 3600 plants, depending on the method that is used.  The full capacity of the grow box is about 4 times that, and will require some extra building, wiring etc.  

Time to sell-able product is a major factor, since a plant that can get sold in half as much time is twice as profitable.  I really like the sagebrushes because they're so beautiful, but I doubt the capacity for other people to appreciate them.  We'll see.  I'm leaning towards one tray of goji and paulownia, one tray of sages and sagebrushes and one tray of strawberries and other herbs that are already available.  The lighting of the box may work well for some and not so well for others.



I'm working on building some shelves that have higher luminance so that the seeds and plants which require higher light densities to germinate and grow will have a greater chance of flourishing.  Also, the different shelves have different colors of light, so I'll be learning about what colors of light work for different plants etc.

Back to cleaning up for Christmas.