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Hope you are well Eco. Need to catch up sometime!

Happy New Year bud hope all is well, going to send you a email here soon!

Rock Dust & Remineralization The broad elemental spectrum rock dusts contain a naturally occurring distribution of macro and micro nutrients delivered in mineral form, are generally insoluble crystaline structure and rely on weathering and an active soil biology consisting of beneficial bacteria...

Hey guys love the diversity of plants being shared around here! Careful with cottonseed meal commonly GMO or harvested with lots of pesticides. That troll had some points, but we are all on a similar and ideal path. I would rather have people using biodynamic natural bottled products then...

Yum, looks like your season is going well. Cheers!

Cool thread bro! Glad to see some variety in the garden. Miss chatting with you guys! Cheers

That male on the right looks great! Good luck on this project, you have some nice cultivars selected.

The larvae themselves are quite hardy. They reportedly can be fully submerged in rubbing alcohol for up to an hour without negative effects. Little literature is available regarding optimum Ph; however, cited in a paper by Dr. Newby is the following: “The larvae tolerate a wide range of pH...

Black solider fly larva are great decomposers, the after product is up there with EWC. Both are great in different ways, BSFL eat meat and dairy products, much more efficient feeders, the harvested larvae are a high protein food source (great for chickens and reptiles), the combination sounds...

We think too much and feel too little.

Indeed bud I haven't got to make liquid chitin yet, what did you use? I was thinking crustacean meal/frass combo diversity of natural occurring microbes in the dry materials would add some benefits, I assume. If I was close to the coast Velella would be another cool option(has a chitinous sail)...

I like to introduce decaying wood pieces to my soil in some fashion and same with pre-conditioned biochar either when mixing soils or top dressing. Ideally using those materials, for water retention, indigenous microbes, aeration, and increasing C. Curious of what my C:N is in some of my beds...

Good info! I use a small amount of frass on transplants in coordination with mycorrhiza. I also use it as a foliar, and my soil has crustacean meal so chitin is present from that too. Powdered malted grains (corn, barley) top dressed and watered in with fulvic/humic substance and/or aloe seems...

A lot of alfalfa, becareful if you over due it you will have some funky new growth. Also neem can burn your plants, oils amplify light on the leaves leading to burnt spots, but use it often indeed recommended before sun has direct contact with plants. Karanja is very similar oil and is...

https://ilcasia.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/chos-global-natural-farming-sarra.pdf http://themodern.farm/index/intro/ I know a few people that run knf feeds with coco, they recommend a good mineral mix to compliment the feeds! I can get back to you about it with more info. But for now hope...

I use my custom Essential Oil Mix, Neem Oil, OHN, Insect Frass, Aloe Vera, Silica, and LAB that's really it. Most of my amendments and such have pest prevention properties too. I like to plant some fragrant herbs, biodynamic accumulators and beneficial insect attracting plants around my plots...

You assume your water retention abilities would increase due to container size but not evaporation rates just because of the amount of soil? You are practically using X amount of soil just for a barrier to hold moisture? In the situation you bring up I feel you would have the small pools/pockets...

It's just woody debris in my experience from reading and practice. Is the right way you are referring to how you plan on placing the debris, if so it should be somewhat strategical. I find the combination of logs fresh and aged arranging in sizes and sticks also are fine(certain types of wood to...

Yea if you are in a area of drought I know some desert farming methods to save your water use by a noticeable amount(without reconstructing water tables). Look into sub irrigated planters, I know people that have custom built 100 gal + sized SIP's. According to United Nations they recorded a 1/3...

Since you are starting in a small container I would either do what GT21 said or straight in the ground and mound the sluts(All the way in dirt until you are at the first node). The only draw back to the solution GT21 came up with is your smart pots aren't going to be moved for a long time so if...