hong so glad you found some time to come HOME! for a while. This is the nice thing about GW Brugs forum. It is HOME and no matter what you are always welcome back with open arms. I hope your beautiful plant will recover the transplanting soon. Can you show us a picture then of your beauty? That sure would be GREEEEEEEEEEAT :-) Lucy

Your idealism is touching, however, you will not be able to farm indoors without a lot of expensive equipment. And you for sure will not be able to feed even one child, let alone four. Think about feeding your family with beans, rice, and wheat. All these things come dried, and with a few inexpensive spices, like salt and pepper, and maybe a can of tomatoes, will be very tasty. Supplement with boiled potatoes, mashed, with added eggs and vegetable oil - at least you will know that your children will not grow up obese, be more healthy as adults, and they will be thankful for what they have. Indoor growing is mainly for herbs, cherry tomotoes, peppers, and if you are able to conceal it properly, cannabis. Also with cannabis, you are able to sell it and pay for some life necessities. However, if you get caught, the judge might confiscate ur children, so it might not be worth it. It just depends on whether you love them or not, and it sounds like you do. Sativa.

SJP, Don't dread.....is there anyone in your area that sells a heat matt for plants? If not look them up online....It is the HEAT that makes them root...The warmer the soil temp, the faster it will root. If you are not interested in using a heat matt, then take your cutting indoors since it is getting cooler out, it stick it in the sunnniest window you have. If your cutting is in dark colored pot, the sun will heat the pot up which in turn will heat your soil. Just keep your cutting warm with lots of lite ok...It will do fine... I would not water it though. Don't let any water touch your cutting unless you know for sure you have roots. Water at edge of pot instead if your soil is bone dry ok. Mike

The handwash or delicate cycle tends to use marginally more water to cushion the clothes ... but otherwise, no, there's no way to get more water other than perhaps by manually adding it through the detergent drawer. If you end up adding too much more, the machine will trigger a flood fault and go into drain. People are not understanding that these machines are designed, engineered, and intended to work with a minimal amount of water ... that's part-and-parcel of the high-efficiency, energy-and-resource-saving aspect. You either accept the situation and modify your laundry habits accordingly, or get another kind of machine ... such as a traditional agitator toploader that fills to cover the clothes. My suggestion for getting the residual detergent rinsed out of your clothes is to keep running them through full cycles WITHOUT detergent until the water runs clear. No need to use the intensive sanitize cycle ... a warm wash on regular or delicate or whatever cycle is appropriate for what's in the load is sufficient. Then start afresh with proper amounts of HE detergent, load sizes, and cycle selections.