Brandon420's Living Soil 2022 Second Run

Mycelium Farmer said:
We used a very similar recipe for our nursery. It was pretty feasible for us. I found it depends a lot on your sprayer if you are working on a bigger operation... You can get some really nice sprayers that can really spread just a few gallons over a big crop, while other common cheap garden sprayers might take 100 gallons to spray the same plants.

It's not that the plants are getting more or less spray.... its just able to break the water up into smaller clusters of molecules to mist/soak the plant. Atomizers are pretty efficient way of spraying too. But I don't use them... I ll post some pics of my favorite sprayer and my easiest to use and move around the garden sprayer sometime.
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I’m going to hold you to those sprayer pics!

NTH
 
Spent some time today mulching to help add some more life to the soil and to help combat these back to back 100 degree days. This picture is wood chips I had spread in pile for 14 months now. Also added fresh woodchips from this year on a lot of plants, inoculating it with different bacterias and compost teas.

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Mycelium Farmer said:
A walk through Bed 11, the 10'x110' bed with Gelato 41.
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How many plants are held in each bed and how many strains are going over the farm at all times; does it vary, do you run specific strains at different times of the year, etc. Just curious, sorry for the 10k questions!
 
Mycelium Farmer said:
Spent some time today mulching to help add some more life to the soil and to help combat these back to back 100 degree days. This picture is wood chips I had spread in pile for 14 months now. Also added fresh woodchips from this year on a lot of plants, inoculating it with different bacterias and compost teas.

Mulch

Mulch

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Nice! And those chunks that are held together are supposed to do so with "glue" from microbial activity. I get some of that in my smaller containers and I know it's supposed to be a good thing but it also forms a bit of a crust and makes watering more of a challenge.
 
Krissi Carbone said:
How many plants are held in each bed and how many strains are going over the farm at all times; does it vary, do you run specific strains at different times of the year, etc. Just curious, sorry for the 10k questions!
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Don't be sorry! love answering questions.
It changes year to year... this year was strictly operating on bare minimum it takes to keep the business afloat, and what plants were available to outsource after using our own cuts up for the first crop. Had issues with the the clone mom room for my 2nd run... so I wen't in with 15% of the normal plant count I would cut for myself.
I sourced a few good batches of plants from nursery's and friends of friends as some funds trickled in after the first harvest this year. I will post an spreadsheet I have made later with bed #'s, plant qty's, and strains.
@Azimuth, I'll also post the sprayers tonight I hope.
I've been getting called off for small sales, but sales at the very least, the last few days and have been posting limited from my phone.
 
Mycelium Farmer said:
Don't be sorry! love answering questions.
It changes year to year... this year was strictly operating on bare minimum it takes to keep the business afloat, and what plants were available to outsource after using our own cuts up for the first crop. Had issues with the the clone mom room for my 2nd run... so I wen't in with 15% of the normal plant count I would cut for myself.
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:thanks: wow, 15%. Do numbers like that every worry you?
Mycelium Farmer said:
I sourced a few good batches of plants from nursery's and friends of friends as some funds trickled in after the first harvest this year. I will post an spreadsheet I have made later with bed #'s, plant qty's, and strains.
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Fantastica
Mycelium Farmer said:
@Azimuth, I'll also post the sprayers tonight I hope.
I've been getting called off for small sales, but sales at the very least, the last few days and have been posting limited from my phone.
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We appreciate any time you are able to put in here, I speak for all of us, we love to learn!
 
Mycelium Farmer said:
@Azimuth, I'll also post the sprayers tonight I hope.
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Yeah, I've moved to growing with SIPs (Sub Irrigated Planters) so watering is mostly through a fill tube directly to the reservoir although I do spray the mulch layer a couple of times a day to keep it moist. When I do fertigate I do so through the top and usually spray first to wet the top layer. It seems to accept water much easier that way.

My plants veg either in 9oz or 1L containers which have aeration holes all up and down the sides so if I go too fast the water runs out those holes.

BTW, I've been using my WCA water to mist this last round (twice a day for veg plants) and still have had no issues with delivering it through the soil. In fact, I think I'm seeing a nicer green color from the plants although I didn't think Ca. had that kind of effect. :hmmmm:
 
Taking a quick minute to post some 2 year old memories the popped up. When the august complex fire of 2020 almost jumped across the Eel river and got us.... still smoked out our whole crop. Was a devastation for many farmers that left, as after the fire was somewhat under control on the other side of the river they didn't let people in to access their farm land for over 9 days. I never left for evacuations and kept the farm under control, water tenders and dozers ready, livestock fed and watered, neighbors plants watered, and communication rolling with people that got off the hill. Many people lost their crops to not being able to water for 9 days, and the rest basically lost it to smoke damage and lack of sun for multiple weeks at a time for the rest of the season. I believe there was a 2 week period of sun after the August Complex fire, but otherwise the sky was typically completely smoked out and sunless, lightless. The first week of the fire it was hard to tell the difference of day and night... the weather patterns were trippy with cold and hot winds at any time.

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Yuk! Glad you made it thru OK. Compromized crop but I guess a lot had it worse. :Namaste:
 
Now that's a serious sprayer! I'm assuming there's a filter somewhere for use with your various Jadam extractions?
 
Azimuth said:
Now that's a serious sprayer! I'm assuming there's a filter somewhere for use with your various Jadam extractions?
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Yes the filter is underneath the tank
I try to strain solutions into the tank too

CaptainLucky said:
I thought you were in Mendocino so you’re in Humbolt county?
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I'm in Humboldt... we do have a farm just a few miles away in Mendocino too ran by a good Buddy... But pretty much the Emerald triangle. Right next to Trinity and Mendocino... can literally see all counties from the property.
 
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