Sweetsue's First Grow - Stealthy Trio of Autos Under CFLs

Probably, honestly if you get firewood in CO, chances are it's beetlekill. I have an arrangement with a local sawmill that only works with beetlekill. I get to sort around through the scraps and take what I want. There's literally mountains of wood. I heat my house using same.

Here's how I make the biochar, if you wanna make it yourself it's real simple. I make a raging fire in wood stove, then add a couple fresh logs, then completely shut damper. Leave overnight then next day remove logs, place in Rubbermaid tub, smash with baseball bat, fill tub with water to rinse, strain, dry and done. Then charge it before use. Easy process for making small amounts of bio char for the DIY'r.
 
COorganics said:
Probably, honestly if you get firewood in CO, chances are it's beetlekill. I have an arrangement with a local sawmill that only works with beetlekill. I get to sort around through the scraps and take what I want. There's literally mountains of wood. I heat my house using same.

Here's how I make the biochar, if you wanna make it yourself it's real simple. I make a raging fire in wood stove, then add a couple fresh logs, then completely shut damper. Leave overnight then next day remove logs, place in Rubbermaid tub, smash with baseball bat, fill tub with water to rinse, strain, dry and done. Then charge it before use. Easy process for making small amounts of bio char for the DIY'r.
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Good to know. Someday when I have wood stove I will be able to source my own. Id love to try out your end result as well if you don't mind.
 
COorganics said:
I'm making biochar now, sue. I dialed in an effective and easy process. Using CO beetle kill pine. If you want some I'll send you a little bag. I think some people running no tills have added bio char to their soil via top dressing.

Just say the word and I'll mail it off.
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Try this:

1 Tblspn biochar
1/2 cup 6-5-3 (6 parts CaCO3, 5 parts Soft Rock Phosphate, 3 parts Gypsum
4 tblspn myco powder of some kind
4 cups cannabis leaves

Mix up thoroughly and moisten with a fish hydrolysate. Add leaves when they digest.

Use this mix to top dress and as a soil conditioner. This will train your biota to eat minerals AND will increase your humus content in a very specific manner. A process similar to this is how Roots! is made....minus the leaves.
 
Doc Bud said:
Try this:

1 Tblspn biochar
1/2 cup 6-5-3 (6 parts CaCO3, 5 parts Soft Rock Phosphate, 3 parts Gypsum
4 tblspn myco powder of some kind
4 cups cannabis leaves

Mix up thoroughly and moisten with a fish hydrolysate. Add leaves when they digest.

Use this mix to top dress and as a soil conditioner. This will train your biota to eat minerals AND will increase your humus content in a very specific manner. A process similar to this is how Roots! is made....minus the leaves.
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That's amazing. Do you have know any other dressing like that? Or rather, just any other dressing you would recommend?
 
Doc, thanks for the suggestion. Since youre handy here now, I have a quick question, are you ever concerned with OVERmineralizing your soil? Like as in continually adding minerals like in the 6-5-3 into your soil. I'm not sure if this is a potential problem, curious to your opinion.

Thanks!
 
I'm thinking since we are returning nearly everything that grows in our soil (living mulch, cannabis stems, stalks and roots, everything but the buds) back into the soil that this could potentially be an issue for us.
 
ClosedCircuit said:
That's amazing. Do you have know any other dressing like that? Or rather, just any other dressing you would recommend?
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I'm not trying to solely promote myself or my products....just sharing what I do. I have a product called Roots! which is all of that and more. It sells for 25.50 for 3 lbs......which is a very nice deal and will last a long time.

The important thing with myco is that they are accustomed to eating rocks. If you feed them sugar (molasses) they act like crack-heads....run around breeding but get no actual work done. If you raise them on minerals, they harden up and go to work eating minerals and then feeding them to the plant, which is what we want!
 
COorganics said:
Doc, thanks for the suggestion. Since youre handy here now, I have a quick question, are you ever concerned with OVERmineralizing your soil? Like as in continually adding minerals like in the 6-5-3 into your soil. I'm not sure if this is a potential problem, curious to your opinion.

Thanks!
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Definitely! I don't use the 6-5-3 anymore because it's all incorporated properly in the mineral amendment I use. I'm just trying to help the DIY folks out.

I don't recommend continually adding ANYTHING.....and I get the soil tested to make sure I'm on the right track.

for virgin Peatmoss I add maybe 1.5 cups of minerals and a half cup of "other stuff." I've seen some growers just pile it on...too much.
 
Doc Bud said:
I'm not trying to solely promote myself or my products....just sharing what I do. I have a product called Roots! which is all of that and more. It sells for 25.50 for 3 lbs......which is a very nice deal and will last a long time.

The important thing with myco is that they are accustomed to eating rocks. If you feed them sugar (molasses) they act like crack-heads....run around breeding but get no actual work done. If you raise them on minerals, they harden up and go to work eating minerals and then feeding them to the plant, which is what we want!
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Oh right. Sorry, didn't know if that was one of your products or just something you picked up along the way.
 
Doc Bud said:
Definitely! I don't use the 6-5-3 anymore because it's all incorporated properly in the mineral amendment I use. I'm just trying to help the DIY folks out.

for virgin Peatmoss I add maybe 1.5 cups of minerals and a half cup of "other stuff." I've seen some growers just pile it on...too much.
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Doc is that per bale? or certain amount?
 
With no till gardening there is a pretty cool natural dynamic in place, where initially we amend our soil. The soil microorganisms cycle the nutrients and make them available to the plant. Nutrients are again returned back to the soil as growing plants die and fall on the forest floor. (We kinda make this process happen as we see fit). Each individual cycle we can add to the soil via the top, but less and less is required over time.

I'd like to eventually be to the point where all I add to my no tills is VC and occasional new dynamic accumulators in the mulch layer, occasional enzyme tea or botanical tea. I'm probably not realistically very far from that at all.

Organic gardening and a strong pot of Costa Rican has got me all jazzed up this morning.
 
Dutty Panty said:
We have berry bomb to. My wife choose to grow bubble Yum first before berry bomb.
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I was really tempted by the Bubble Yum Dutty. Maybe next time.
 
COorganics said:
I'm making biochar now, sue. I dialed in an effective and easy process. Using CO beetle kill pine. If you want some I'll send you a little bag. I think some people running no tills have added bio char to their soil via top dressing.

Just say the word and I'll mail it off.
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Absolutely CO! I'd love to incorporate some in. What a thoughtful gesture. :Love:
 
them buds look dank as F

great job Sue :circle-of-love:
 
COorganics said:
With no till gardening there is a pretty cool natural dynamic in place, where initially we amend our soil. The soil microorganisms cycle the nutrients and make them available to the plant. Nutrients are again returned back to the soil as growing plants die and fall on the forest floor. (We kinda make this process happen as we see fit). Each individual cycle we can add to the soil via the top, but less and less is required over time.

I'd like to eventually be to the point where all I add to my no tills is VC and occasional new dynamic accumulators in the mulch layer, occasional enzyme tea or botanical tea. I'm probably not realistically very far from that at all.

Organic gardening and a strong pot of Costa Rican has got me all jazzed up this morning.
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This is exactly what we should anticipate. If you study BlueJay's no-till journal (another site)'you see this is exactly what he does. Regular waterings and drenchings, continually adding in things like aloe vera, coconut water, kelp, fulvic acid, enzyme teas and silica with occasional applications to include neem seed meal and alfalfa. Maybe an occasional bioaccumulator tea or a different type of SST for variety. All pulled together by regular top dressings of vermicompost that you designed yourself.

Plant the seed and let the soil and the worms do all the work.

It can be that easy. It should be the goal we all shoot for.

Thank you Doc Bud for that great top dressing recipe. Your contribution to helping us make our soil a bit more mineralized will benefit us long term. Our soil will only be stronger for it. :Love:
 
Daily Update: Pots in Limbo

I topped off the reservoirs with 3 cups of water each. These are going to look completely different in a couple days, but here they are in all their semi-neglected glory.

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The harvests turned out to be well timed. If the nursing home had been the problem then that it has now become I would have missed the window of opportunity. As it is, the universe has been very gracious and kind to me. I appreciate that. :laughtwo::green_heart:

I prefer to compliment medical staff and do all I can to make their lives easier. This is why we're so beloved on the hospital floor he always gets assigned to. With the demonstrated incompetence of this nursing home staff I have had too much confrontation, because I insist that this man I love be afforded the highest standard of care. Because that's supposed to be their job. Today I clashed violently, and at times profanely, with nurses, aides, the floor Care Director and the Head of Nursing staff for the entire facility. All for naught in the end, because nothing - absolutely nothing changed. Tomorrow I think a sit down with the facility Administrator is called for.

I am a determined and headstrong woman and a force to be reckoned with when you threaten the health of someone I love. I need another garden going to fill me with the love of nurturing young seedlings. It will fortify my spirit and remind me that love can change even this dismal abode and their overworked and underpaid staff.

:Namaste:
 
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