Maybe a bioluminescent one even?
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I changed up my character to represent the PFP change:
I may have only used him once before, but I care enough to change the design anyways!
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Do you plan on adding βMauriceβ to your new PFP?
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I harvested my flax plants this morning. The stalks are now retting in the yard and the seed pods drying on my windowsill.
Hoping to thresh the stalks soon enough to get myself some linen fiber
I planted about 500 seeds,I think I just about broke even on amount gathered.
Awfully convient that fungus likes to break the pectin rather than cellulose first, making retting possible; I wonder if thrive will in anyway simulate fibres/cloth.
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How long do you think it will take to get enough linen fibers for making some sort of clothing from your flax plants?
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This is my first time doing this with flax, so I donβt know exactly the yield to to expect until Iβve threshed them. Iβll update you with the square inchage of fabric when Iβve spun and woven it.
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What other types of grains have you used to create linen fibers?
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Linen is fiber from the flax plant, no other plant fiber is called linen.
Iβve retted and threshed hemp fiber from cannabis before, since the person was growing the 4 plants for marijuana (legal here) and I was allowed to take the stalks.
I made about a foot and a half of hemp cord (not cloth because hemp is very course and I still donβt own a spindle) before I ran out of long enough fibers. I made the mistake of using the cannabis branches for fiber which left a bunch of short fibers that I canβt use for cord.
I was also intending on growing industrial hemp plants for the fiber this year at first, but the licenses are annoying to obtain and pricey, so I went with flax because it has no legal restrictions.
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How did you get into flax plants?
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Scientists have found a way to keep oil droplets bouncing for a long time via vibrating mica surfaces.
https://www.science.org/content/article/watch-oil-droplet-bounce-endlessly-tiny-basketball
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That could this be practically used for?
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Probably to help study quantum physics phenomena.
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I see. Maybe this could spark a great invention one dayβ¦
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Because Hemp and Flax are the 2 domestic fiber plants that grow in my climate (I guess I could grow nettles, I donβt want to do that, theyβre prickly).
They were actaully kind of difficult to find, the only retailer would even potentially sell them was the local farm and garden store, and they didnβt have it in stock so would have to place a special order.
So I just ended up ordering the seeds online and had them shipped to my house.
They are very cute little plants, only about a foot tall, look a bit like grass, have pretty blue little flowers. I almost felt a bit bad killing them, but they would die of age by autumn, and I canβt gather the linen if theyβre withered.
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Will you do the same thing next year?
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School starts in a week! ahhhhh!..
Edit: also, hi! I guess itβs time to come out of hibernation lol
Edit2: Holy Belgium! I didnβt realise my last post was in Aprilβ¦
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Welcome back Nie!
Will you visit this place more oftenly now or is this a brief return?
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University starts for me today.
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Which year of it for you it is?
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