My “Supersoil” Compost Mixture (never fails over 30 yrs)

[freebird919]

If you have a chipper, use it. The increased surface area of the smaller pieces help expedite the decomp process. @Ninjadogma makes great point!

Now you’re on it for truth!

 

[Oldchucky]

why do we grow in stuff with wood chips ? what are benefits, all i know is that anything wood will hold onto a lot of calcium,
looks good by the way, I am thinking of creating something a bit more loaded.

Jade Nectar chips up his down oak trees, piles it up and let it sit for a year till it gets to composting! He uses a lot of wood chips in his soil and swears by it! So keep an open mind! His plants are as impressive as anyone’s! put it on as a mulch, but eventually turns it into the soil year to year!

 

[freebird919]

Jade Nectar chips up his down oak trees, piles it up and let it sit for a year till it gets to composting! He uses a lot of wood chips in his soil and swears by it! So keep an open mind! His plants are as impressive as anyone’s! put it on as a mulch, but eventually turns it into the soil year to year!

Nature; isn’t she beautiful? I learned everything from age eight up living in a swamp State & Federal game preserve. I walked, road bicycle through those 2,000 plus acres admiring and loving that land. Orchards, grape vines (cultivated), all manner of trees, every farmers wife having plants, bulbs, tubers, dirt and gravel roads through woods for miles! And that magic, deep black soil in the lowland was vibrantly growing strong everything planted in it or near. I transplanted just about everything from abandoned eminent domain state bought farms with that soil and rotted cow manure for my mothers property. Amazing learning experience. Now @ 66 yrs., I’ve learned and applied everything natural science can teach. Ever learning to this day.

 

[defective]

Jade Nectar chips up his down oak trees, piles it up and let it sit for a year till it gets to composting! He uses a lot of wood chips in his soil and swears by it! So keep an open mind! His plants are as impressive as anyone’s! put it on as a mulch, but eventually turns it into the soil year to year!

I’d kill for some oak chips…jade could speed up the process by growing some mushrooms in that chip pile! Quite a few like oak or other hardwood chips/logs.

 

[Oldchucky]

I’d kill for some oak chips…jade could speed up the process by growing some mushrooms in that chip pile! Quite a few like oak or other hardwood chips/logs.

Yeah, he rams that loader into the pile and comes out with a steaming load! Grab a handful of it and says, this is coated with mycelium! Sounds kind of shroomie!

 

[freebird919]

I’d kill for some oak chips…jade could speed up the process by growing some mushrooms in that chip pile! Quite a few like oak or other hardwood chips/logs.

They’d love it. Mushrooms here (not that kind) everywhere in and near my compost. But everywhere else as well (yards, woods) in my area.

 

[Gmix]

I’m all up for making your own soil
Seem many recipes over the yrs

However imo I’d get some nematodes to get rid of the gnat infestation

Do this and you get this w/no to little nutes. Still have to see later in grow. It’s my first of this kind.

 

[freebird919]

I’m all up for making your own soil
Seem many recipes over the yrs

However imo I’d get some nematodes to get rid of the gnat infestation

Suggestion appreciated for sure. Those stickies are many weeks old. Should discard. Honestly, almost nothing left. Crawling or flying. Caught very many and on fly traps you can’t see. Taking advice on all the fixes too as probably, at some point (maybe sooner) will gladly try. Looking up nematodes now!

 

[Gmix]

I get them from Amazon
The seller also sells on eBay & there own site however I’m uk based

I remember once getting them locally I don’t think there hard to find

They end a infection in days & keep the soil protected till they starve & every egg has gone

 

[grayoldnproud]

put it on as a mulch, but eventually turns it into the soil year to year!

Exactly! But not fresh mixed into the soil.

 

[grayoldnproud]

I’d kill for some oak chips…jade could speed up the process by growing some mushrooms in that chip pile! Quite a few like oak or other hardwood chips/logs.

Or add Chicken shit.

 

[Dankster47]

Wood chips are bad. Bark fines are good. They provide structure, help keep coco and peat from collapsing and improve lateral water movement to prevent pocketing, and they increase oxygenization in the root zone. They also support the biome. Fungi love feeding on lignin.

I use EB Stone Soil Conditioner Mix as a source of my bark fines. There's no nutrients in it besides what the fines produce decomposing... It's strictly for structure and performance.

Yes wood chips steal nitrogen micro organisms need to break them down but are ok as a top mulch

 

[freebird919]

Yes wood chips steal nitrogen micro organisms need to break them down but are ok as a top mulch

So true if considering addition of brown just before planting. Long term thinking and use of brown in compost/earth mixtures are key. Like in nature, green and brown that compost over long spans of time develop heat and chemical breakdown decomposition providing food for living organisms, good and bad for plant life. While many organisms hunt and kill those negatively effecting plant life. Biodiversity and long term thinking, turning compost to avoid anaerobic states to aerobic conditions adding to further fast decomposition breaking down matter from all sources providing soil for life with living organisms. Not the least of which are worms, red compost worms and super red night crawlers. The addition of these into a cooler pile adds to further decomposition adding worm excrement so valuable for plant life. There are thousands in my piles I add regularly!

 

[freebird919]

Suggestion appreciated for sure. Those stickies are many weeks old. Should discard. Honestly, almost nothing left. Crawling or flying. Caught very many and on fly traps you can’t see. Taking advice on all the fixes too as probably, at some point (maybe sooner) will gladly try. Looking up nematodes now!

Update: Out of cool, dry basement. Vivosun 5X10 after conceding it must be. Then 80% humidity, bought 8” pro exhaust kit, conceding again (until arriving, opening doors relieving humidity), purchasing nematodes, mosquito bites and sticky pads as necessity. Plants entering high growth apparently quite happy.
Just learning about lung rooms. The room the tent is in is at least 6 X 12 larger than 5X10 tent, is heated in winter and cooled by HVAC & vented into room. With the door to room open there’s good air flow. The exhaust will be vented into room/house then, obviously back through HVAC filter. Cooled air in summer comes from vent in floor nicely situated near vent openings in tent. The obvious attitude is to use the 5X10 as a complete grow through the seasons. In spring/fall temps the window in room can bring in cool (65 - 75 deg) fresh air. The cool, dry basement is always averaging 55 deg., humidity avg. 40% and used for dark, cool, low humidity hanging/drying/trimming flower. Then dried bud in mason jars for burping in said basement. That’s way more info I intended sharing but need your insight if at all doable. I like using K.I.S.S. method.

 

[orggrwr]

Earlier in this thread I mentioned bears getting into my compost pile, well it's happend again. Went out this morning to find my compost spread all over. Couldn't think of what he was after at first then remembered i put a half a loaf of stale cinnamon bread in there a day or two ago. Oh well, it needed turning anyway. Kind of hard to tell in the pic but the second one is an almost perfect bear track in the compost. I have a trail camera laying around somewhere, I should put it up.

 

[freebird919]

Earlier in this thread I mentioned bears getting into my compost pile, well it's happend again. Went out this morning to find my compost spread all over. Couldn't think of what he was after at first then remembered i put a half a loaf of stale cinnamon bread in there a day or two ago. Oh well, it needed turning anyway. Kind of hard to tell in the pic but the second one is an almost perfect bear track in the compost. I have a trail camera laying around somewhere, I should put it up. View attachment 2637551View attachment 2637559

I’ve been fully expecting that very outcome over the last four years (new home) but just the two of us so little green except for veg gardening time. Other thing I’ve thought might be, maybe, is the amount of coffee grounds I add. At least 1/3 of pile (I have a truly great recipe) and it will grow to the max anything put in it approx 6.5 to 6.7 depending. Coffee deadens smell but bear have intense ability of smell so, who knows. I know they’re out there and close by!

 

[freebird919]

Update: Out of cool, dry basement. Vivosun 5X10 after conceding it must be. Then 80% humidity, bought 8” pro exhaust kit, conceding again (until arriving, opening doors relieving humidity), purchasing nematodes, mosquito bites and sticky pads as necessity. Plants entering high growth apparently quite happy.
Just learning about lung rooms. The room the tent is in is at least 6 X 12 larger than 5X10 tent, is heated in winter and cooled by HVAC & vented into room. With the door to room open there’s good air flow. The exhaust will be vented into room/house then, obviously back through HVAC filter. Cooled air in summer comes from vent in floor nicely situated near vent openings in tent. The obvious attitude is to use the 5X10 as a complete grow through the seasons. In spring/fall temps the window in room can bring in cool (65 - 75 deg) fresh air. The cool, dry basement is always averaging 55 deg., humidity avg. 40% and used for dark, cool, low humidity hanging/drying/trimming flower. Then dried bud in mason jars for burping in said basement. That’s way more info I intended sharing but need your insight if at all doable. I like using K.I.S.S. method.

Update: 8” AeroZesh T pro exhaust w/controller, first ever since seedling 3/23/26, almost none as non really needed, FF Bloom, first so very light trim, hook up to HVAC TO INSIDE BOTTOM OF TENT but might still need dehumidifier (hope not). Pics