Recycled Organic Living Soil (ROLS) and No Till Thread

[Kalyx]

Its really fun when it rains when you are a catcher. I used to work on a tomato/microgreens farm. We caught all the water off his home, the 3,000 square foot greenhouse, outbuildings and everything. When it was raining it was a fun hustle to run to all the various totes and bins and start all the pumps to the main reservoirs when they started to get too full! Working with nature for sure!

We didn't bring a water truck in all summer and fall that year, it was a blessing to get that much water from the high desert skies! Pretty good as just the greenhouse had 2 1600 gallon tanks under it that we alternated between. One was irrigating and the other was filling. Big, non-tainting catch surfaces, and a nice storage tank are the norm.

 

[Rrog]

Very interesting Calyx. Where I'm moving has plenty of rain, but I like the idea of not using hard well water for supplemental irrigation.

 

[Cpt. Plant it]

Hello fellow organic growers! I wanted to know while my soil is cooking/composting does it have to form that layer of white fungus on top in order to breakdown the nutrients, or should I be fine as long as I wait 30 days.

 

[headtreep]

Hello fellow organic growers! I wanted to know while my soil is cooking/composting does it have to form that layer of white fungus on top in order to breakdown the nutrients, or should I be fine as long as I wait 30 days.

You don't need that. Either way is fine. Keep the soil moist not soggy and turn it once a week or so. That is not called the soil food web as some call it lol... All you are doing is letting the soil break down basically. 30 days will work

 

[headtreep]

Hopefully I can be pain free all day

Fire Alien Strawberry nugs

 

[snowboarder396]

Headtreep, smoke report on that strain please and how you like it? Has anyone tried growing out martian mean green?

 

[headtreep]

I give you a brief one. Denseness of nugs is 9/10, bag appeal 9/10, potency 9/10, and flavor 8/10.

Pretty bummed I had so many males in a pack and also a few didn't germ. I didn't bother to make f2s nor did the mom make it. Be careful as it started to show a few seeds last 2 days of flower or so. That alone gives me reason not to keep it. No seeds. No exceptions.

 

[snowboarder396]

Thanks for the report. Nugs look good but if that many issues not worth it

 

[headtreep]

Thanks for the report. Nugs look good but if that many issues not worth it

Yeah real easy to grow it just I don't like nut on my bitches lol.

 

[headtreep]

Does anyone here make their own co2 or use co2 in their rooms? I don't right now.

 

[yankeegreen]

Hopefully I can be pain free all day

Fire Alien Strawberry nugs

That looks like some dank dope! Kudos!

 

[Rrog]

Sure does look dank!

 

[snowboarder396]

Does anyone here make their own co2 or use co2 in their rooms? I don't right now.

I've seen people make setups for using compost and septic tanks to catch co2 too use. Also for best during winter

 

[Rrog]

You mean collect CO2 from composting matter?

 

[Stoned Drifter]

hi everyone. i did a soil mix about 1 1/2 weeks ago and wanna see if im doing it right.

6 parts Earth juices Amazon Bloom
2 parts perlite
2 parts earthworm castings
2 parts coco coir

combined with one gallon of soil mix.
1/3C hi N Guano Mexican Bat Guano
1/2C hi P Guano Indonesian Bat Guano


When soil is ready to go ima
water w/ molasses, protekt, maxicrop sea kelp, liquid karma(planning to switch to ful-power once i run out), and ewc.
compost tea every 2 weeks.
foliar w/ aloe, neem, protekt

Amazon Bloom Contains:
peat moss
forest compost
coconut coir
feather meal
bat guano
marinebird fossilized guano
steamed bone meal
sulfate of potash magnesia from langbenite
neem meal
earthworm castings
sea kelp (ascophyllum nodosum)
humate ore (leonardite) yucca meal
oyster shell lime

 

[snowboarder396]

You mean collect CO2 from composting matter?

Yeah exactly

 

[Rrog]

I love that sort of thinking.

 

[NickNasty]

A lot of greenhouses do their composting in the greenhouses to raise the temp in the winter and to add supplemental CO2.

 

[Cann]

sometimes i'll throw a homebrew or two in my tent if I have room. pretty significant amount of CO2 if you have a closed system.

check out the thread I started a while back called CO2 + Homebrew = A synergistic approach.

rising moon thanks for those vids dreadbeard! lol. dude is definitely a chiller.

 

[kushking42]

im brewing up some fresh nettle tea. this time i put the nettles in the vitamix. this batch is foaming up big time!! the previous batch i chopped on the cutting board and it didnt really foam at all. the water is much darker this time too, i think processing, extracts a lot more from the plant material, making it potentially more potent/beneficial. ill post results in a couple days.. what do you guys think?