A little announcement...
Lately my attention has been turning, in small increments, towards my next growing project, A single plant grow in my SweetSue inspired DIY Tiny Closet. It’s probably going to be a Blue Dream - I have the seeds already
The closet requires some enhancements, and I’m slowly building a light for it. I’ll get to more of those builds when I start the next journal in a while. For now, and for the last 4-5 weeks, it’s the soil I’m the most pre-occupied with.
I’ve absorbed a huge amount of soil and plant life cycles related information and experience over the last 8months - what a ride!
I’ve found out that mineralising soil provides fantastic results and I easily grew the best I ever have. I am thoroughly enjoying them in every way as I type. It turns out that the Professor Chaos blended with the Money Bush is a very relaxing and happy experience, without being actually sedative - although I can feel a little nap coming on in a couple of hours or so. That will be a good thing
But I digress! I had a great time researching and building my own mineralised organic soil. Even with the things I missed and got a bit ‘wrong’ it went super well. I will announce though, that I’m not going to do it that way going forward, and here’s why. To do it that way and do it very well, you have to do a lot of extra gardening business to gather and prepare the plant based or compost teas, and make sure the supply keeps up with demand etc. Plus, sourcing the components is a continuing process of research and is actually quite expensive I’m finding. Add to this the mental energy required in researching and delving further into expanding my knowledge on the subject. It all sounds great I know and I’m glad I’ve done it this way do date. But I’m trying to learn how to micro manage my activity output the way I need to, and free up precious and limited resources for other tasks, like living and most importantly
healing.
And, well, let’s face it -
someone else has already done all this work and developed an amazing system for growing which, even including the cost of shipping halfway around the world, is cheaper by far - and I mean by very, very far - than any other option I’ve been able to work out for doing it myself organically and including all the amendments I’d like to. Plus, doing it myself, I’m still a fair way off the heights of high grade cannabis that I’m going to learn how to grow with this! vvv
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It’s been in the pipeline for a while and arrived on my doorstep about a week ago
Thanks Doc!
The plan is as follows. For my indoor grows and some container growing outside I’m going to use this ‘off the shelf’ kit, as directed. Doing it in 10 gallon pots, three runs per batch of soil and I can pretty much grow out 10-12 plants over time - and at the rate I’ll be growing the potted ones (one at a time) that’s actually a few years worth!
Later in the year I’ll send some outdoor soil samples to Doc for testing and take it from there. I’ll find out then what it will take to amend the soil appropriately. Then, over the next few years, I’ll work on a no-till (or low-till
) DB High Brix Blend setup in a few outdoor spots and raised beds, with custom DBHBB amendments. So if my outdoor ground soil is amendable and I manage to get that going, I assume I’ll then be able to use all the drenches and sprays and tea, off the shelf.
It’s been in the pipeline for a while and, arrived on my doorstep about a week ago. I was so relieved when I finally knew I was going to go this path. I’ll continue a bit soil research, but very slowly and without the time pressure of growing plants.
The ease offered by this kit is awesome. I know I’ll get the bulk sizes down the track but I have to say I’m partial to these small bottles
The product is so concentrated, and a happy byproduct of that is that I have no trouble lifting the bottles, at all. It reminds me of something Jennifer Saunders once said about the controls on the original AlfaRomeo Spider (during an interview on
Top Gear); “... so delicate you could operate them with your fingernails almost”. That’s how handling these feels! APart fromteh weights of water involved, my gardening activities just got a lot ‘lighter’. All I have to do now is source the peat and the castings.
They're great shots too. Cool Amy! Nice playing with light.
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