Mikedin’s Living Soil Adventure and Living Soil discussion topic

[donkanaille94]

Yep 100% Landrino white clover

Was quite expensive but I have a bunch more, will be using it to reseed cover crop as well as will go out in the garden this year I think, we’ll see I do top dress the garden usually around halfway through the season so it’s be a good chop n drop for out there too

It’s be a bit more work out there lol

The 130 gallon no till boxes each have a 14 seed cover crop mix 50% clover

Unfortunately i lost my old mobile and can't revocer the pics, my balkony tomato grow last year was maaaaad. Thanks to some fucker that snatched my phone while I was passing out sleeping on a train in Athens. I'm so mad still. They even stole my german books, like nga you can't read anyway, wtf

 

[donkanaille94]

Unfortunately i lost my old mobile and can't revocer the pics, my balkony tomato grow last year was maaaaad. Thanks to some fucker that snatched my phone while I was passing out sleeping on a train in Athens. I'm so mad still. They even stole my german books, like nga you can't read anyway, wtf

Time to get my tomato setup going soon, hell yeah. Totally forgot

 

[Greenadian]

Thats an amazing vegetable garden @Mikedin
Even with those veggies around the house, covering most of the kitchen table.....you took a little me time to play with your dinky cars!!!

 

[Natep]

I just started popping seeds for my veggie garden. Hopefully it will be a good year

 

[Mikedin]

I just started popping seeds for my veggie garden. Hopefully it will be a good year

I go about mid April for my starts

Here was the beginning of the garden last year, it was a insane year highly recommend johnnys select seeds, fucking awesome germ rates, super vigorous hybrid F1’s the Big Beef hybrid F1’s were those huge maters on the vine I had 12 plants of those ended up at 8’ tall each and were clustered like that top to bottom almost no leaf septoria or blight, most disease resistant tomatoes I’ve ever ran, doing 3 rows of them this year 36 plants then wife wants 3 rows of romas as well rest will be peppers etc, less eggplants I did 12 last year and… wow… yeah 3 woulda done the trick haha

Each hole in the garden is the size of a 5 gallon bucket, i empty the hole out, amend with about a half cup of that mix (that was my ratio on top) per hole then soil goes back in the hole

I’ll water with EWC tea mixed with Alaska fish fert once a week for the first week then halfway through the season I’ll hit em each with about a half cup of jobes organics tomato and vegetable grandules for a top dress with about 2-3 tbs of gypsum

Last season after the first 3 weeks I only watered about 4 times when we had some really hot weeks, lift that plastic sheeting and it’s solid earthworms hahaha

Oh and never had to pull 1 weed lol

Thats an amazing vegetable garden @Mikedin
Even with those veggies around the house, covering most of the kitchen table.....you took a little me time to play with your dinky cars!!

Work hard play hard thanks fam haha I’ll post again in a sec I’ll show ya the real collections lol maxed out on pics on this post haha, this page is gunna load slow as hell for folks

Unfortunately i lost my old mobile and can't revocer the pics, my balkony tomato grow last year was maaaaad. Thanks to some fucker that snatched my phone while I was passing out sleeping on a train in Athens. I'm so mad still. They even stole my german books, like nga you can't read anyway, wtf

that sucks but only means you were ment to do even better this year so you had even better pics!

 

[Mikedin]

Might have a slight collecting issue that may have passed to my kids

The cars are multiple full collections SpongeBob, Toy Story, etc

Daughter is a Lego collector and pokemon figure collector (eevee variants specifically) son is starting to get into it too but he’s all pikachu, daughter also loves art (I did as a kid too wish I could still draw like I used to)

I like retro games

 

[Mikedin]

Bit of an idea how the 30 gals hold moisture


I’m thinking I wanna wait a bit longer to water, even a light top watering, the moisture is holding nicely nice step downs daily should be fairly easy to track and keep on schedule if the dry rate stays consistent like this, I know the frequency will increase as the get bigger but they should still have a constant rate of drying that can be managed

 

[Natep]

Bit of an idea how the 30 gals hold moisture


I’m thinking I wanna wait a bit longer to water, even a light top watering, the moisture is holding nicely nice step downs daily should be fairly easy to track and keep on schedule if the dry rate stays consistent like this, I know the frequency will increase as the get bigger but they should still have a constant rate of drying that can be managed

It’s going to change dramatically as the plant gets bigger. My 4x4 bed drinks 5 gallons a day

 

[Mikedin]

It’s going to change dramatically as the plant gets bigger. My 4x4 bed drinks 5 gallons a day

Oh I expect it to for sure haha, so much easier than guessing though quick check and know instantly if you gotta water

 

[Mikedin]

So I have the red wigglers in each bag, about 35 per bag roughly, while researching I found red wigglers prefer the top layer of soil, the mulch layer, they prefer to eat the material and convert it to castings, from what I understand nightcrawlers prefer the bottom end, I just put a 100 count bag of em in my cart might pick them up in a few days, Doing some more reading.

In addition to that I was looking at mulches, cover crops etc, I do think I’m going to start saving my branches and cut them into 1-2” pieces and start using them as a mulch layer, and will layer leaves during defols on top as well, I’d like. Find an alternative to straw, and the branches may be the trick. Either way it’s a dry brown, the leaves being a fresh green I think they’d complement eachother in composting

Any opinions?

 

[Natep]

So I have the red wigglers in each bag, about 35 per bag roughly, while researching I found red wigglers prefer the top layer of soil, the mulch layer, they prefer to eat the material and convert it to castings, from what I understand nightcrawlers prefer the bottom end, I just put a 100 count bag of em in my cart might pick them up in a few days, Doing some more reading.

In addition to that I was looking at mulches, cover crops etc, I do think I’m going to start saving my branches and cut them into 1-2” pieces and start using them as a mulch layer, and will layer leaves during defols on top as well, I’d like. Find an alternative to straw, and the branches may be the trick. Either way it’s a dry brown, the leaves being a fresh green I think they’d complement eachother in composting

Any opinions?

Everything you’re saying makes sense to me. I hated having straw it was always a mess. I don’t use stems in my mulch only the leaves as I defoliate. As for the night crawlers I’m not sure on but it makes sense.

 

[Mikedin]

Everything you’re saying makes sense to me. I hated having straw it was always a mess. I don’t use stems in my mulch only the leaves as I defoliate. As for the night crawlers I’m not sure on but it makes sense.

Yeah I mean if I’m gunna use something I may as well just use recycle the material back into the soil. At least I know it came right from the same tent I know it’s safe, but I’m sure it will also take longer to break down but we’ll see

As far as the nightcrawlers I figured I’m gettin a 100 pack but realistically will probably put 15ish big ones in each bag to go with the 35 nightcrawlers, let them eat the upper top later and cast it up, let the bigger crawlers continue areating the soil at the bottom half and bringing that food down

 

[Eledin]

So I have the red wigglers in each bag, about 35 per bag roughly, while researching I found red wigglers prefer the top layer of soil, the mulch layer, they prefer to eat the material and convert it to castings, from what I understand nightcrawlers prefer the bottom end, I just put a 100 count bag of em in my cart might pick them up in a few days, Doing some more reading.

In addition to that I was looking at mulches, cover crops etc, I do think I’m going to start saving my branches and cut them into 1-2” pieces and start using them as a mulch layer, and will layer leaves during defols on top as well, I’d like. Find an alternative to straw, and the branches may be the trick. Either way it’s a dry brown, the leaves being a fresh green I think they’d complement eachother in composting

Any opinions?

Eveyrthing that involves using all parts of the plants Im on board with . I do my own fertilizer with the material I cant smoke or shift for kief. I have never used mulch, I dont think I really need it havent had gnats in 2 years, too cold around here lately, but might come handy if they decide to come another year. Also I saw something small flying in my big tent and I fucking blasted them with hydrogen peroxide and citric acid whatever was in there is dead for sure after the bath I gave them. Found some thrip eggs and a thrip in my small tent last week, everything but gnats is still around, they got the same treatment, frusfrushed to death.

 

[Eledin]

This is 8 plants worth of trimms without trichomes and banana peel. Its very potent. I boil 3 times during 1 week to avoid early fermentation, then I add the microorganisms I want to break down chlorophyl and other goodies and some enzymes to help them up. Ive been using it with my cheap seed grow as an experiment and theyre doing fine!

Would be great if I could oxygenate it like a compost tea and add some worm castings aswell but I dont have the equipment.

 

[Eledin]

Also I should mention that this is a flower fertilizer as the plants had the nutrients that were given in flower. Im not sure about using it for veg, the PK might be too high.

 

[Natep]

Yeah I mean if I’m gunna use something I may as well just use recycle the material back into the soil. At least I know it came right from the same tent I know it’s safe, but I’m sure it will also take longer to break down but we’ll see

As far as the nightcrawlers I figured I’m gettin a 100 pack but realistically will probably put 15ish big ones in each bag to go with the 35 nightcrawlers, let them eat the upper top later and cast it up, let the bigger crawlers continue areating the soil at the bottom half and bringing that food down

It doesn’t matter how long it takes you will be using that soil for years. I think you will be shocked how fast they completely disappear

 

[Mikedin]

This is 8 plants worth of trimms without trichomes and banana peel. Its very potent. I boil 3 times during 1 week to avoid early fermentation, then I add the microorganisms I want to break down chlorophyl and other goodies and some enzymes to help them up. Ive been using it with my cheap seed grow as an experiment and theyre doing fine!
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Would be great if I could oxygenate it like a compost tea and add some worm castings aswell but I dont have the equipment.

That’s awesome! I’ll get into homemade stuff asap once I get a full grasp on how to handle these massive pots haha, they are looking great this morning kahunas are doubled can’t wait till they outgrow these damaged leaves from my cloning negligence

Just trimmin some kahuna 2 and man it’s gunna be a hard choice between 2 and 3 but wow we’ll see how this run goes winner takes all for mother spot round 2 on both kahunas and round…6 on Frostette

 

[Mikedin]

It doesn’t matter how long it takes you will be using that soil for years. I think you will be shocked how fast they completely disappear

Hell yeah that’s true but the time it’s mixed with chopped cover crop and leaves it should break down fine once it starts breakin down a bit and the worms get into em

Just because organic straw that’s bug and pesticide free is really expensive to source when.. we basically have our own lol

 

[Eledin]

That’s awesome! I’ll get into homemade stuff asap once I get a full grasp on how to handle these massive pots haha, they are looking great this morning kahunas are doubled can’t wait till they outgrow these damaged leaves from my cloning negligence

Just trimmin some kahuna 2 and man it’s gunna be a hard choice between 2 and 3 but wow we’ll see how this run goes winner takes all for mother spot round 2 on both kahunas and round…6 on Frostette

Man those buds look awesome! Nice job! Big pots are a bit of a pain in the ass at first but when the plant is big enough its just bussiness as ussual but with more water and nutes hahaha

 

[Week4Bytch]

Yep 100% Landrino white clover

Was quite expensive but I have a bunch more, will be using it to reseed cover crop as well as will go out in the garden this year I think, we’ll see I do top dress the garden usually around halfway through the season so it’s be a good chop n drop for out there too

It’s be a bit more work out there lol

The 130 gallon no till boxes each have a 14 seed cover crop mix 50% clover

Beautiful garden.