TaoRich

A holistic thinker ... always looking at the bigger picture ... always playing connect the dots.

First grow in over 10 years ... and first legal grow thanks to recent changes to our local laws.

Past Growing Experience
  • cannabis plants
  • psilocybin mushrooms
  • pineapple & naartjie homebrew
    • to get me through our 2020 covid lockdown alcohol sales ban
Now trying to combine my experience and knowledge and research across those three types of recreational cultivation.

Going 100% Organic Living Soil

Using a variety of earthworms in bins ...
... to make my soil
... and as my canary in my coal mine

If I keep my delicate, sensitive, skin-breathing worms happy ... my plants should be happy.

That's my theory ... let's see how that pans out ...

Outdoor Grow in Pots : Southern Hemisphere
  • October
    • INDOOR
    • Germination in paper towels
    • OUTDOOR
    • Seedlings in polystyrene coffee cups
  • November
    • OUTDOOR
    • Transplant into 4.5 litre / 1 gallon black planter bags
  • December
    • OUTDOOR
    • Transplant into 25 litre / 5 gallon food grade drums
Ingredients : Soil Enrichment

Almost all of the below is being pre-processed by feeding through my worm bins
  • excess fruit & veg from my local supermarket
    • broccoli
    • spinach
    • eggplant
    • cauliflower
    • baby marrows
    • - - -
    • apples
    • paw paw
    • strawberries
    • avocado pear
    • - - -
    • limited amount
      • potato
      • tomato
      • oranges
      • sweet potato
  • kitchen waste from our house
    • rice
    • bread
    • teabags
    • weetabix
    • wheat germ
    • crushed egg shells
  • - - -
  • rabbit pellet droppings from our pet bunny
    • & bedding hay
    • & red wriggler earthworms which live naturally under the bedding
  • racing horse manure from my local race course
    • & stable straw
  • - - -
  • wood ash from my local pizza parlour
  • coffee grounds from my local coffee shop
  • crushed prawn & crab shells from my local Chinese takeaway
  • - - -
  • epsom salts
  • - - -
  • fresh sea kelp collected from my local beach
    • chopped & pounded & mashed
    • added molasses & brown sugar
      • half fed to my worms
      • half brewing into tea
  • - - -
  • compost from our garden
    • mostly small brown leaves
    • & pink earthworms which live naturally in the compost bin
  • hand ripped cardboard
    • corrugated cardboard boxes
    • egg cartons
    • toilet rolls
    • newspaper
  • - - -
  • and of course harvested from my worm bins
    • castings mixed into my soil
    • vermicompost mixed into my soil
    • & worm castings tea with molasses & brown sugar
  • - - -
  • using rainwater wherever possible
    • & including some algae growing in the rain barrel
Grow Medium : Final Mix
  • 40% nursery potting soil
  • 30% nursery compost
    • 1/3 is mushroom compost
      • made from chicken manure & straw
      • infused with mycelium
  • 30% home-made vermicompost as above
Potting Layers

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Grow Thread

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Birthday
April 30
Location
Cape Town, South Africa
Gender
Male
Occupation
Human

Signature

• God's Halogen
• Organic Living Soil
• Earthworms for the Win

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