I know that stuff - I taught horticulture t one point. It's awful.
Vermiculite is a soft, lightweight material that takes up water,
almost like a porous thermofoam. Perlite is a mineral material that
absorbs but, dry or wet, crumbles to dust or paste when
irritated.Each is better at different tasks or stages in the growing
cycle - Perlite is a better anchor, for instance and need less in the
way of blending. Vermiculite is better for things like epiphytes and
orchids as I remember.
Obviously he should have used a nice sticky popcorn instead. :-)
Refusal to take responsibility seem to be a cultural epidemic now,
but then hairy old farts have always said things like that.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 12/04/2007, at 10:31 PM, John Hermanson wrote:
> Some people don't get it, I'm amazed how disconnected they are from
> accepting responsibility for anything. I'll always remember the
> guy who
> shipped an OM-1 to me, no body cap, no plastic bag.....packed inside a
> box of vermiculite (a gardening additive, looks like ground up mica).
> There are grades used as packing material, but this was like
> Miracle-Gro
> brand "Pearlite". It was everywhere inside the camera, inside the
> focus
> screen, meter, shutter. It became my fault for delivering the bad
> news.
> "Your camera is now beyond repair". DOH!
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