What I do love about fresh hash you rub off the plant is it is gooey and sticky but still smokes and is full of flavour, kind of like your scissors after trimming
that stuff is like magic my man, I even have a titanium scraping tool to get it off my scissors and fingers on harvest day lol its just a good quality rosin tool, but it works great.
Sounds like a good plan! I prefer larger pots because it means I have to water less lol but I was surprised by how well everything went in 3gals, I only had to water every 4th day which is perfect! My final boss will be a garden bed too, but I want to understand how everything works before I go that far. I have started saving my soil though, just broke it all up and put it in a large tub.
After reading a bunch of the product descriptions and the soil descriptions it looks like my soil is meant to be re-used, but I don't want to just jump right into it when I don't fully understand organics yet. But I also don't want to be wasteful so I am saving it all and just using new soil until I am confident in reamending and re-running it. I see a lot of people re-running their soil over and over so it just didn't feel right throwing it away!
What soil are you running exactly? And if you’re running organically then absolutely any soil you’re using can be re-ran
Basically all organic soil is living soil, until you put something in that’s not organic, it gets better with each run if maintained nutritionally, so I always thought they said living soil is best over 10 gallon pots because of the slow release. But when you really research the reason is completely different, it’s ment to not drain all the resources from the soil ever at any point. The soil is always ready to go for veg or for flower.
So the cover crop is a nitrogen fixer or organic compost builder, these are the “greens” in composting. Some are not fixers and some take and are only ment for organic material building, other like white clover are nitrogen fixers and supply nitrogen Into the soil instead of pulling. Problem is it’s very expensive cover crop I can get a 10# bag locally of 100% white clover seed for about $60, mind you it’s ment for a full field so if I store it right I should have it for years if I decide to grab it (I have a ton of uses for it between the 4 tents and the 130 gallon no tills out in the garden. Plus all 200 garden holes for the spring. Plan is to re amend each hole organic (same amendments I use indoors on my canna, if I won’t put it in my canna pots it won’t go in my garden either and visa versa)
The straw or mulch you use is considered the “browns” etc in composting, combine these 2 together greens dying (or being chopped down) and laying on the mulch, these begin to compost naturally to begin adding organic material to the soil, the earthworms / red wigglers will eat this top layer and bring it to the bottom naturally, where the beneficial bacteria / microbes will break it down for use
I plan to buy a 250 bag of red wigglers, if you plan to add worms to your pots or beds don’t add to many, a handful for the 3x3 or 5-10 for a 15 gallon pot, they are efficient little fuckers and your soil will be all EWC before you know it, from what I’ve read on their reproduction they should double in population at minimum every 60 days
I’m also looking into predator mites as well
So far the most I’ve done is rerun soil from 4 12 gallon pots running all organic, I feel the 3x3 for the 4x4 is the next logical step then 2x 30 gals will run in the 4x8 I thought it would not be enough until I realized how big 30 gals are, 24” across, I wanna try out the bed and the pots at the same time
If you skip build a soils website and go right to grassroots website everything is cheaper (but if ordering multiple items BAS with the free shipping ends up cheaper still even with the higher prices) cool part is BAS as well as Grassroots are both small family owned companies so I’ll order from BAS so the can both make a buck.
Anyways on grassroots website the now have a “hobby” bed that’s 1.5 x 1.5 x 1.5, and you can even still get it with the trellis fittings. I think they were $89 but that’s a fairly large amount of soil, damn near 30 gallons itself plus you’d get the benefit of beginning to play with a Living soil bed and learning. So feed the soil on a small scale
. I was only a couple of grams away from a 600g harvest, but I also have a huge container full of sugar leaf haha.
