Recycled Organic Living Soil (ROLS) and No Till Thread
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bbggkk1177
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the owner of redbud living soil does it on ig
OSBuds
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m4s73r
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I seen that. I was considering using them. Having spoke with him he said he dont believe the wood will ever really break down and if he had the wood available to him he would rather do 1" to 1.5" layed in there 3 inches deep. Im going to go to the city brush dump and see what i can find. If not its off to the local woods lol. Im hoping to find a mix of some soft maple and some pineoak. Once thats found and put in then im going to put in leaves, cotton burr mulch, and some alfalfa. Wet that down and let it get that biology going. Then ill fill in to the last 3 inches then cover that with more mulch and plant in it.
bobrown14
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You can look to hardwood debris from aborists. Use that as a mulch layer or just compost it mixing in with your other inputs.
Another option is collecting dead rotting wood and wood debris in the woods/forest.
I think there's a huge question about how much you gain in the short to medium or even long turn with regard to Hugelkultur. Maybe work after 10 years or so... maybe.
Other options out there. Leaf mold is WAY WAY more effective.
Another option is collecting dead rotting wood and wood debris in the woods/forest.
I think there's a huge question about how much you gain in the short to medium or even long turn with regard to Hugelkultur. Maybe work after 10 years or so... maybe.
Other options out there. Leaf mold is WAY WAY more effective.
m4s73r
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I agree. I think there is some questions that need answered. But if this is something that would allow the end user to start a single pot and after the first year or 2 getting that pot to a place that the pot has enough nutrients to grow for 10+years. Im not going anywhere. Im going to rock this shit and try it out. The science is sound. Its a actual system that I have seen outdoors. Im sold. Ordering the bed tonight and when it comes in ill throw up a post on how I build it.
2cent
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I got 100 gal planter
Was loomin at sip and swick but the swick seems to be sat in the watwr my weight would be toomuch?
And the sip im a fabrik planter so that cant work but overflow seema good fir airgap i like that...
What wud u do.
I run autopot spyder feeding midway and bluemats on top. Feed teas etc every 1 to 2 wk but big pla ter and 8 plant they can get hu gry in flower so i wanted base feed to fill in flower if need more?
2cent
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Dont think my bed wil fit on that lol.
Im on about the autopot spyder it has a box and 8 wickers in the soil.
Bit sip/swick is what i need at 1meter x 2 meter
Dtownhellbilly
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Have some Questions about no till tried posting in grow design but didn’t get a hit so I’ll try here. I’m wanting to make two large beds for my flower room and set up a notill just for flower. I usually use transplant clones from solo cup to 1gal air pot to to a five or seven a week before flip. Could I go from the one gal into an established bed or would this disturb my notill too much?
2cent
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nah its a 4x8 grassroots livong soil raised bed but not full yet..
Full of coot mmix.
Blue mats x6 and a autopot spyder .which is a wick system again.
I just feel in flower they may need the base tray water from ground too .
So looking at the sip. As the overflow and 1inch root gap looks good at not overwatering.
But i am a grassroot fabric so i cant container grow it.
So wondered the swick. But saw they can get over wet. And at 400kg grow bed it wil sit doej so hard im not moving it So i cant exactly lift it off if toomuch.
So...sip...with a overflow ?
Possibly sat on a mesh grid and rocks/pipes covered in perlite to keep the grow bed from sinking in perlite.?
If you understand me?
Like a sip chopped off and a fabric pot ontop
Either wick fabrick up or the netpot of pearlite x10 resting on the growbed base or sumin
2cent
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Yes n no.
Its 100gals in total and 8 plants in it. Wil have 5 wk veg and flip in scrog.
Its got 1400watts in 200watt cre3030 3500k pannels x4 and a 420w pannel centre .
6ft x 6ft grow in a 7x7
2cent
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Yeah if full to the top. I was told 10inch is all needed rest comes in topup ontop latwr on..6x6 at 15" deep is 43 cubic feet = 300+ gallons with my math??
300+ gal of soil = say 10#s per .... my math says ~3000 pounds.
I'm sure your floor will hold it.
My beds a 4x8 fabric so its easy to fold 1 corner in and it takes off a few feet few stitches . Cudnt buy the size i needed so we made it fit
So at half full its just under 100gal
Thats 35gal worm cast 40 gal perlite 35gal peat.
And amendments. Then ibhave soe left in the barrell fullo worms and other bits for topup in flower
Dear ol" Thankful Grower!
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Had some buddies over the other day. As they are used to pumping heavy synthetics and dry organic amendments they were astonished to see such a great use of no till natural organic replication of the outdoors. I dig it its all bout feeding the soil and utilizing your waste into something beneficial.
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Dear ol" Thankful Grower!
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bobrown14
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I read an article in Mother Earth magazine in like 1968 about composting and that was when I started doing it. Was sorta cool back then if you were a hippy. Got a design for a compost bin out of a popular science mag and built my first bin. No internet .... I dont know how I did anything back then. lol