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Cheap Grow Lights
No AI chatbot this week either, just Silentpoisen, two cheap clip-on grow lights, and a coriander plant that dies out of pure spite. A rare hands-only detour on an AI show, into growing your own basil.
In this episode:
The cheap lights actually work fine, once he stops hanging them a whole forearm too far away.
A tray of "cupboard dirt" grows a full blanket of mold instead of basil.
The coriander dies within a day of being moved two inches, on principle.
The temptation to buy a light six times the price to fix a problem that was really just placement, and why he didn't.
The honest math: it's…
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