Greasemonkey's Compost Pile
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ShLUbY
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yup exactly. so at 15 years, the half that remains still has 15 years to go down half in amount, and then that half has 15 more years to reduce in half and so on and so on
thanks for clarifying that!
calliandra
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haha and I wasn't thinking that you were implying anything of the sort etc etcthe majority of what our biology is consuming from our hand crafted indoor soils is the amendments and compost that we put in right? sure we have some "dirt" (the sand silt clay component) that makes it in there from the turned compost pile, or maybe a grabbed a handful or two and put it in the pot... but, did most of us not stuff it full of neem, kelp, alfalfa, rock dusts, OSF, egg shells, ect. ect. ect.??? native soils outdoors are all made out of 100% parent materials! sand, silt, clay, rocks, pebbles, (and some organic matter!). that's all i was saying
but i totally agree with you on saying that there'll literally be plenty of nutrition in native soils for millions of years to come! I'd like to start experimenting with putting more of that native soil in these mixes... especially now that I'm going to try and get switched over to notill. should we be trying to make horizon layers "mocking" the native soils? should we be doing passive hydro systems where the water is drawn, for the most part, from below rather than poured on from above? pretty fascinating stuff! Passive hydro just seems soooooo perfect for no till indoor container gardening.
I was just positing that we probably have to put those more readily available food sources in because our microherd isn't sufficiently developed to do the extracting from the sand/silt/clay in our pots, not because we don't have enough sand/silt/clay in there (theoretically) to cover the plants`nutritional needs.
Cheers!
ShLUbY
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i'm pickin' up what you're laying down nowhaha and I wasn't thinking that you were implying anything of the sort etc etc
I was just positing that we probably have to put those more readily available food sources in because our microherd isn't sufficiently developed to do the extracting from the sand/silt/clay in our pots, not because we don't have enough sand/silt/clay in there (theoretically) to cover the plants`nutritional needs.
Cheers!
calliandra
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when you posted that I was lighting one up though pmsli'm pickin' up what you're laying down now
ignore me, I'm completely silly today
ShLUbY
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ha! i would never! silly makes life fun!ignore me, I'm completely silly today
ShLUbY
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yeah i don't doubt that one bit man. they might do a "mold" test on the medicine in the labs, but they sure don't seem to make any pesticide claims! the problem is once you start taking clones from people... you never know if it has the eagle in it or not... kinda nice thing about starting shit from seed, right??
cyanide totally organic... it says so in my o chem book "lol"
ShLUbY
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agreed. my goal is to have 40-100 acres and be as subsistent as possible from it. just has to be the right land so you don't have to start it all from scratch
shaft09
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agreed. my goal is to have 40-100 acres and be as subsistent as possible from it. just has to be the right land so you don't have to start it all from scratch
this composting stuff is pretty cool. It keeps breaking down even if you neglect it, lol.agreed. my goal is to have 40-100 acres and be as subsistent as possible from it. just has to be the right land so you don't have to start it all from scratch
I had not used any of my own compost until this year, this summer. I’ve still been going to my local park and gathering leaves. I get about 5 to 7 bags of leaves yearly, throw them in the compost pile along with grass and other stuff. I wet it and turn it when I think about it, couple times a year. Still keeps breaking down on its own.
Used my compost and castings for my grows this summer and just about ready to harvest two. Don’t know what they are, should be something good. Indoor. Seeds got mixed up.Gets too hot to grow outside in the desert. They won’t finish at the same time, so I’ll have time to harvest 1 at a time. I hate trimming!
shaft09
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reading this stuff will make you drop a bean at 2:49 am
DonTesla
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Well said! What things would make your ideal list, might you say, at this time!?agreed. my goal is to have 40-100 acres and be as subsistent as possible from it. just has to be the right land so you don't have to start it all from scratch
DonTesla
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Becoming the great skill of the times, yet again. Good on ya;