Detailed Explanation of the Homemade Method for Fired Soil Round Pellets

When I started growingorchids, I also followed others' example and used crushed brick pellets. For the crushed brick pellets, I found 10 red bricks from outside, then spent half a day downstairs using a large hammer to break them into pieces one by one, then carried them all upstairs to the balcony, and spent two days using a small hammer to break them into small pieces. After finishing, I found that a floor tile on the balcony had also cracked. I was heartbroken, and got a good scolding from the head of the household. No way around it, for the sake of theorchidsI just had to endure it. Looking at the big pile of crushed brick pellets, I found the edges were sharp, and fearing they would cut the orchid roots, I used large scissors to blunt every sharp edge of each crushed brick pellet. This took me a month in total, leaving me exhausted, with two blood blisters on my middle finger from the scissors, a layer of skin worn off my index finger from the brick pellets, and the balcony covered in dust. At the beginning of this year, I passed by a construction site and saw that an excavator had dug up a lot of clay. I suddenly remembered the scenes from childhood of using clay to play games, make toys, and then firing them hard, and had a flash of inspiration. So I filled a big bag with clay and took it home. After getting it home, to prevent the mud from drying and hardening, I sprayed some water on the mud with a watering can every day. In my spare time, I would take out a piece of mud, roll it into a long strip, then cut it into pellets with scissors, then roll them into soybean-sized balls and let them dry. By before Spring Festival, I had finally finished all this work. But how to fire them hard? That troubled me for quite a while. In the past, homes used coal stoves, which could have solved it, but where can you find a coal stove now? Later I discovered that a gas stove has more than 40 gas outlets, and small soil pellets could be placed between the holes. So I tried it out: I placed 20-some pellets, ignited the fire, and in a moment the small soil pellets were burned red-hot. Then I used tweezers to pick them into a basin of water with vinegar added to soak them, and thus the fired soil round pellets were made. After that, I slowly fired small round pellets every day, not letting any opportunity go to waste, and surprisingly I could fire around 200 pellets a day. The head of the household was also moved by my dedication, and when I was not around, as long as fire was being used, would take the opportunity to help me do this work. Up to now, I have finally fired a big bag of fired soil round pellets, and I cannot say how happy I am, haha. (Lanlu Jushi)