fredman
Masterpiece
My biggest concern is with the constant changes inside the pot....
I don't have a lot of hort knowledge, but are blessed with wheelbarrows full of logic and a solid general knowledge. I've been wrestling with this for a long time, and still are no closer to an answer that makes logical sense.
There is so many variables that influence the "happiness" of the microbial life inside the pot. How they got there is one thing, but how they stay alive, and be happy enough to survive and multiply is another. They have unlike in a stable ground environment, everything against them inside a little pot..... an alien and ever changing environment that must test them to their absolute limits. Constant moisture, heat, food, pH, alkalinity, salts, etc. etc. etc...... fluctuations. In a stable ground environment they don't get these fluctuations on a daily basis. Inside a pot those fluctuations are emphasized. How do they adapt? Do they adapt? Some species must be tougher than others in there. What happens when the weaker ones die off? What was their function, and how is it done inside the pot when they are gone?
The only thing I can hope for, for their sake, is that they are incredibly tough creatures, that can put up with much more than a dry and acid vapour environment can throw at them......
We only assume that they are happy and feed them accordingly. The environment that we provided for them suites us, but the question is, how much does it suite them really?
Can help it but sometimes when I look at a pot, I wonder are they happily smiling happily at me
, or screaming for help....and I cant hear them 
I don't have a lot of hort knowledge, but are blessed with wheelbarrows full of logic and a solid general knowledge. I've been wrestling with this for a long time, and still are no closer to an answer that makes logical sense.
There is so many variables that influence the "happiness" of the microbial life inside the pot. How they got there is one thing, but how they stay alive, and be happy enough to survive and multiply is another. They have unlike in a stable ground environment, everything against them inside a little pot..... an alien and ever changing environment that must test them to their absolute limits. Constant moisture, heat, food, pH, alkalinity, salts, etc. etc. etc...... fluctuations. In a stable ground environment they don't get these fluctuations on a daily basis. Inside a pot those fluctuations are emphasized. How do they adapt? Do they adapt? Some species must be tougher than others in there. What happens when the weaker ones die off? What was their function, and how is it done inside the pot when they are gone?
The only thing I can hope for, for their sake, is that they are incredibly tough creatures, that can put up with much more than a dry and acid vapour environment can throw at them......
We only assume that they are happy and feed them accordingly. The environment that we provided for them suites us, but the question is, how much does it suite them really?
Can help it but sometimes when I look at a pot, I wonder are they happily smiling happily at me
, or screaming for help....and I cant hear them 
