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alpha010 · 06-09-2009, 07:08 PM

ROFL!!! @ Jens!

To continue on.....

From my actual work with Sodium Hydroxide, If you can get a good solution of it worked up to about 180-200 degrees F lets say a 5 gallon bucket worth of water and roughly 1/2 pound of granuled caustic (industrial grade normally carried in 55 gallon drums). Put a 1" diameter rod about 18" long of any grade aluminum into the mixture and let soak for roughly 2 hours.... The medium should weaken to the point of where it is just barely beyond the bare-handed safe zone and let cool to 100 deg F. Soak the seeds for a yet to be determined time, and rinse with distilled white vinegar.

This is just an idea I had rolling around in my head for a while now, I just dont have the "connections" anymore to get "dead" caustic.
On the upside of that is, if you grow tomatoes, the crystalline scrape from the solution after the aluminum etching and subsequent cooling if wonderful in the home garden, grows wickedly large tomatoes and cucurbits.

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