Rhus will start with compost or peat moss, whichever is more readily available. He'll be growing small things in pots in his room at first, like beans and flowers, and then move on to things like tomatoes if he's successful. He'll also probably rope in a few pcs and npcs if he can to help out with the second stage (I'm planning to make a network post for that)
From Rhus' knowledge, different growth formulas have different effects. The ones he'll be trying are beta and gamma. The former is made from jellyfish umbrella, quicksilver/mercury and rock salt and is for flowering plants but not for plants with edible matter. Just pretty things to keep around. The latter is more important because you can grow entire garden plots with it but is more difficult to make because it requires volcanic rock salt, quicksilver/mercury and the leaves of a carnivorous plant. Naturally finding the ingredients is the first big hurdle, and the next big hurdle is creating a mixture that would not just make something grow successfully, but also produce food that isn't dangerous to eat.
... Naturally he'll be eating the food himself to test for poison because he's nuts.
eta: I forgot to mention! In the event of a shortage or absence of ingredients he needs (like, say, that volcanic rock salt), he'll be experimenting with substitutions in order to get favorable results-- and naturally he'll be making a lot of them, which is where asking for help in seeing what works and what doesn't comes in.
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From Rhus' knowledge, different growth formulas have different effects. The ones he'll be trying are beta and gamma. The former is made from jellyfish umbrella, quicksilver/mercury and rock salt and is for flowering plants but not for plants with edible matter. Just pretty things to keep around. The latter is more important because you can grow entire garden plots with it but is more difficult to make because it requires volcanic rock salt, quicksilver/mercury and the leaves of a carnivorous plant. Naturally finding the ingredients is the first big hurdle, and the next big hurdle is creating a mixture that would not just make something grow successfully, but also produce food that isn't dangerous to eat.
... Naturally he'll be eating the food himself to test for poison because he's nuts.
eta: I forgot to mention! In the event of a shortage or absence of ingredients he needs (like, say, that volcanic rock salt), he'll be experimenting with substitutions in order to get favorable results-- and naturally he'll be making a lot of them, which is where asking for help in seeing what works and what doesn't comes in.