ahh, I gotcha.. Alfalfa and hay are different though, not that it matters much, but hay is almost empty in nutrients. The cubes are for animal feed, right?
cool! thanks for mentioning that... i will definitely look into the neem, or maybe the karanja...?! thanks for mentioning that.
nice! "Neem leaves are dried in India and placed in cupboards to prevent insects eating the clothes and also while storing rice in tins. [4] Neem leaves are dried and burnt in the tropical regions to keep away mosquitoes." I like it! Definitely have to get some! Maybe grow my own...!!! Next year that's what I'm doing... Growing soy, sorghum, comfrey, neem I guess now, and more all specifically for inside grows!
I honestly wouldn't grow organically without crab and neem meal.. and I despise the smell of neem, smells like funky beef boullion cubes or something... uck
comfrey plants are cool, they grow well in soil meant for cannabis. I'd also suggest a good aloe plant or two.
Awesome thanks so much!
Haha!!! I completely forgot about this! This was some great information! Burning neem to keep mosquitos away brilliant! I love learning what cultures have done for thousands of years!
you know I do have these tiny little black bugs that crawl around the ground and when you move the soil... And SOMETIMES there's some In the buds you have to shake it and some fall out... They don't seem to be eating it... Good or bad bugs?!?
never seen that before man.. in my experience whatever is on the buds is eating the buds...
Yeah... Now granted it was SHITTY Genetics KC Brains stuff I had bred... No offense KC but I mean damn those genetics were horrible! Like Common hemp instead of India Hemp.! Actually just threw out ALL those beans I was like these honestly don't deserve to be on the planet and THAT WAS HARD for me to do...! But the buds took 9-11 weeks to finish and they were always real shitty and that's the Only ones I saw them on... And I started spraying with Braggs ACV, Bronners Peppermint Hemp soap, Aloe Vera powder, and Rich Earth humate... Haven't seen the buggers on the buds just on ground now...
awesome thanks brother!
rice hulls are bomb. just did a few mixes with them, really liking them so far. you don't "hate" the promix because then you hate peat. peat is your friend. yes there are better options than perlite, and they are relatively inexpensive. all you need to do to know the variables in soil is READ LABELS.
Bio char can be very cheap to make over a campfire, it's fun and uses small sticks, etc., then, charge your bio char with nitrogen (soak it in fertilizer) and there you go. We made it last year, fun and easy.
yea, that's an old post, been using biochar for many runs now
yes Darth, but you are assuming that i only used rice hulls, which i did not. 20% of the total soil mix is pumice. if the rice hulls break down GREAT; more humus in the soil, as well as the very little nutrients they still hold, right? I'll just replace it in the mix down the road with more hulls, or some vermiculite (which is sounding really killer the more i read about it), or some lava rock, whatever i want. there is NO problem with the hulls.Shullby Problem with rice hauls is they decompose to quickly
I always keep the concept as anything i add to my soils is readily available and comes from my geological area biochar is really simple actually not only do i use hard woods but i also use news print i tend to make it burn half of it then place in soil ..
Basically wood pulp with soya based inks is a welcome addition to any garden
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Holy shit i cant believe its been a year since you started this thread!
lol i hadn't even noticed that....
