Outdoor 100 gallon Smart Pots with inoculated super soil!!

Box of cooked brown rice in a “trap” to capture local microorganisms. Buried the box in the ground, in about 10 days there should be a white fuzz in the box these are the local indigenous microorganisms . That will complete step 1 of 4 in making a living soil amendment. More to come!

Went to 3 gallon pots. Getting big

Dig up the “trap” the other day and found it colonized with local biology step one complete. Step twi is mixing equal parts of the rice and brown sugar together then transferring to a jar and allowed to ferment for about 10 days.

JakeBakeADK said:

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4 hours after mixing rice and sugar.Step 2 in the works! Can’t wait to see what this soil can do!!

Finally had some free time to get the girls outside and into 15 gallon smart pots, up from 3 gallons. Mixed half my super soil and half roots organic, they will go into the 100 gallons with straight super soil around July. Tomato cages to start the support structure for these soon to be monsters.

JakeBakeADK said:

Box of cooked brown rice in a “trap” to capture local microorganisms. Buried the box in the ground, in about 10 days there should be a white fuzz in the box these are the local indigenous microorganisms . That will complete step 1 of 4 in making a living soil amendment. More to come!

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Someones done their homework

A little over a week since transplanting up to 15 gallons outside. These are gonna be crazy lol it’s still so early

JakeBakeADK said:

A little over a week since transplanting up to 15 gallons outside. These are gonna be crazy lol it’s still so early

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Bigger pots !
It is going to be a long summer

Herb & Suds said:

Bigger pots !
It is going to be a long summer

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Got the 100 gallons ready to go !

Making step number 3 today finally!! 100 pounds of wheat bran on the ground to start. 4 buckets of water adding a spoonful of fermented # 2, some azomite, kelp meal and a concoction my buddy Tony brought me consisting of lactic acid bacteria,eggshell extract, fermented plant juice made from stinging nettles and leaf mold biology! Covered it all up waiting for it to get fuzzy!

All mixed together

Cleaned them up and gave them a heavy watering today going to be gone all week for work, excited to see how they grow when I’m gone! Pretty big already

# 3 is complete and mixed with the soil!!! Less than a week and this stuff is ready to use . Gonna do some small test runs to get a feel of how to add to the 100 gallon pots and how much to use.

This is only half super soil half roots organic without the IMO # 4 and these plants still are growing like they are on steroids. Hard to imagine what they are going to look like in those big pots in a couple months.

Took no less than 5 wheelbarrows to stuff one of these pots full! Needless to say it’s looking like I’ll only have enough soil to do 3 100 gallons, the remaining 3 will probably stay in the 15 gallons or go in the ground. The local soil composition is very sandy not very nutritious so I think they may do better in the pots with the killer dirt.

Flourishing

Looking great! Going to need some bigger cages

sirtalis said:

Looking great! Going to need some bigger cages

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Have them all ready to go once they hit the big pots