Mikedin’s Living Soil Adventure and Living Soil discussion topic

[BearWater]

That’s the basic mix of my living soil, it’s areation/peat/compost plus your food (craft blend / kelp / azomite / fish bone meal / earthworm castings / gnarly barley / kashi blend / big 6 nutrients / there’s more I use when I make the soil but I’m having a brain fart just mix in the craft blend or top dress plus grab some clover cover crop seed mix on Amazon they sell 5lb bags that’ll last you quite awhile indoors or out

Was out at the project 4516 she’s lookin and smellin nice

Thank you again! : )

Wow! That thing is looking FIRE i can only imagine what it smells like!

 

[Mikedin]

I love your deck shots because I can just imagine the grin on my face with nostrils just a sniffing as I walk down those stairs of heaven with my coffee in the morning if it was me.

Here’s the bedroom

Gotta empty out around the wood stove so I can get ready to use it this winter

When the wife lights the upstairs stove there no heat down here so I open the doors up to the back room tents with the 4x8 and 4x4 and run this stove in the cool side to keep basement around 67-70

 

[Mikedin]

Thank you again! : )

Wow! That thing is looking FIRE i can only imagine what it smells like!

Oh they smell as stinky as you’d think haha stuck my arm in to pull some fans and my arm hair feels like I put cannabis scented hair gel in it

 

[Mikedin]

Oh yeah! Got all the top dress materials in I needed, now once I go to plant I’ll chop and drop or just cover everything with a blend of dominion blend soil and craft blend amendments and plop in the seedling!

Seedlings are cap’s Max AC on the left and my Copious (Gary Payton x okie X 2012 cement shoes) not sure who I wanna run yet in the 60 gallon I’m leaning twords copious, gotta make a choice soon!

Also thinking when I chop Frostette I’ll put the other into that 4x4 then once I flip them I’ll wait about 4 weeks then start veggin 2 in the 4x8

With so many tents I’m starting to work on a perpetual cycle so it’s not such a large burden at once but a nice smooth flow to work with

 

[Mikedin]

Ment to get back on here last night but Jesus what a midnight shift lol never stopped for 12 hours straight

 

[Greenadian]

I hate when I actually have to take my job serious and work hard for an entire day
Much rather fuck around in my garden and work on my own home!!

 

[Greenadian]

Quick question and your gear.....The AC Infinity ionbeam lights, do they need to be plugged into the UIS controller to function? I bought those lights and opening up the box I vot to think'n!?!?

 

[Florida_Mike]

I hate when I actually have to take my job serious and work hard for an entire day
Much rather fuck around in my garden and work on my own home!!

 

[Mikedin]

Quick question and your gear.....The AC Infinity ionbeam lights, do they need to be plugged into the UIS controller to function? I bought those lights and opening up the box I vot to think'n!?!?

I only have an acinfinity tent (the 4x8) that has a Mars Hydro FC-E8000 and a Phlizon PL-6500, the 4x4 back here is running a Mars Hydro FC-E4800x I use all spiderfarmer controllers on everything, I’d hope they give you an option to just use a timer thatd suck if you need everything in the set to use one piece of gear

 

[Mikedin]

Frostette never fails

 

[Greenadian]

Thanks for the info! Frostette kills it every run bro

 

[Mikedin]

Thanks for the info! Frostette kills it every run bro

These apples and bananas x okie outside are fuckin kickin now, pull in the driveway and I can smell em before I make it to the front door super sweet can’t even pinpoint it but smells delicious it’s definitely fruit immediately when you walk up

These are 5 gallon buckets using peat perlite and Gaia green plus FFJ and Build a bloom for waterings

 

[Mikedin]

What’s up homies!

 

[Halloweed]

Morning homies now we’re rockin!

Damn, that cover crop definately covered lol. I just got a 2nd earthbox and got the 2 ready. I sprinkled with clover but don't think I used enough seed.

This morning I saw some starting to sprout on the fresh e.b. it's sparingly though not really covered.

I'm reusing Bas 3.0 for my old e.b. nothing sprouted yet. I then covered with rice hulls. I'm not sure how much to water them. I'm assuming top water and not from the resivoir?

Your plants are looking sweet man. Harvest times a coming.

 

[Mikedin]

Damn, that cover crop definately covered lol. I just got a 2nd earthbox and got the 2 ready. I sprinkled with clover but don't think I used enough seed.

This morning I saw some starting to sprout on the fresh e.b. it's sparingly though not really covered.

I'm reusing Bas 3.0 for my old e.b. nothing sprouted yet. I then covered with rice hulls. I'm not sure how much to water them. I'm assuming top water and not from the resivoir?

Your plants are looking sweet man. Harvest times a coming.

Yes top water! I seed them heavy sometimes I’ll seed them twice maybe 4-5 days apart, work them into the top 1/4-1/2” of soil then the rice hulls, mine look like I needed to do more until after maybe a week or 2

Here’s some 30 gallons in the 4x8 the peas etc from the rest of my 13 seed crop came up but you can see the clover coming up sporadically in the pots, I found the best to sprout cover crop was to get your soil moist throughout then twice daily I water with my Chaplin sprayer

I like using th sprayer for this especially because say I put a gallon of water in the sprayer to split between 2 30 gallon pots, after watering dig into the top 3” of soil it’ll still be dry below that, when I water for deep water I remove the sprayer tip and soak the pot (flood the top quick) then let that sit, once I see the moisture meter in the bottom of the pot tick up once, then I put the spray tip back on and just water the top, that way I know I have moisture deep for the worms and microbes down there at the bottom thennI can focus on the top, you’re just poking to keep that top 2” super moist for a week till you see cover crop sprout, then is just light waterings for a week, then back to normal watering

Yes those are peas going up between the lights and nets lol

 

[Mikedin]

Droppin some outdoor photos! The little midget plant is lookin and smellin nice, still never touched her all summer, no water no anything, she came up on her own in the late winter / early spring, the cover crop kept her warm enough to survive and here she is still untouched!

Other plants are doing great gettin close to chop watchin pistils at this point

 

[keepthelandraces]

Dear, Mr. Mike

Could you please teach me a nice base towards living soil? As well as an ongoing feeding for them beautiful little things?

 

[keepthelandraces]

I'm sorry. Would you

 

[Vick_Vinegar]

Droppin some outdoor photos! The little midget plant is lookin and smellin nice, still never touched her all summer, no water no anything, she came up on her own in the late winter / early spring, the cover crop kept her warm enough to survive and here she is still untouched!

Other plants are doing great gettin close to chop watchin pistils at this point

Fuck that one in the last pics has some beautiful leaves and long petioles. Absolute stunner. Not that the others aren't.

 

[Mikedin]

Fuck that one in the last pics has some beautiful leaves and long petioles. Absolute stunner. Not that the others aren't.

Thank you! That’s the apples and bananas x okie im really happy with them really nice aroma on em too super sweet can smell em from the front of the house haha