Using Mulch for indoor soil grows.

I wanna see what others are doing with mulch on their indoor soil grows? I have a shredder and can use shredded paper. I don't know why I hadn't thought of it sooner but anything I've ever mulched grows like gang busters. It is all part of the organic realm, optimizing surface soil holding moisure for root/fungal growth by reducing evaporation. I also notice the paper is very reflective. Yeah paper is not entirely non man made chems/organic but I'll use it.

Cannabis leaves and stems, got a ton of them, and it makes great mulch for cannabis. It's a never ending cycle of everything going back into the soil except of course the flowers

Also living mulches of red clover here and there, I have wheat grass and some random shit growing in and around the extra pots in the room and that often gets trimmed and used as mulch

indoors mulch provides a breeding ground for pests, imo. there's no need for it indoors. no baking sun.

It also provides a breeding ground for beneficials, in a balanced healthy soil mulch breaks down quickly and provides valuable humus and food for bacteria and fungi.

If your soil is pest ridden or out of balance then there are bigger problems and mulch certainly won't help.

Mulches are supposed to trap moisture, act as a weed barrier, and protect the ground from over heating in the summer. An amendment or conditioner is something you mix into the soil to improve texture, provide nutrients, or to stabilize pH. Mulches haves very little use indoors, but conditioners do.

Vindicated said:

Mulches haves very little use indoors, but conditioners do.

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I am not dismissing this statement but would would like to research it further do you have an academic source on the topic of indoor mulch?
It seems to me the mulch I lay indoors if nothing else reduces evaporation allowing the roots to grow closer to the surface.
Under circumstances with-out the use of an external mulch, the upper few inches of surface soil act as a mulch.
This aspect of using mulch to reduce evaporation seems to be relevant both indoor and out.
I googled the quote and found this: http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/1002/

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