Nice work broLove how nasturtiums repel cabbage loopers. Some of my outdoor crop was damaged by their larvae
its also highly mycorrhizal that rye grass :-)Nettles, yarrow, chia, fennel, clover, cilantro, beans (legume fixes N). Any weeds will do. I use annual rye grass. Rye has a deep root system so it keeps the soil very well aerated as well as catching leached nutrients.
Nettles, yarrow, chia, fennel, clover, cilantro, beans (legume fixes N). Any weeds will do. I use annual rye grass. Rye has a deep root system so it keeps the soil very well aerated as well as catching leached nutrients.
I wouldn't really bother but there isn't a problem with perennials. A lot of No Till growers grow stuff like cilantro that stays growing the whole time. They use the herbs.What would happen if you used a parenial grass? Would it just overtake the pots and suffocate your crop?
Aloe you can get from ebay in most cases or local health stores hold it, some better than others, ie full plant extract, if not use Bio Hydrate, this has Aloe among other water regulating and bio stimulating plant extracts and saponins, its ultra potent too, so you are talking drops per gallon not ml or tsp and there is no need to faff about mixing Aloe from powder for example. While on BOX's site you can pick up K+AMINO, this contains high levels of bio activated silicon, SiOH4 (@20,000ppms) as well as abundant Amino forms of N, Ca, Fe, Mg, Mn, Zn, plus Fulvic acid, salicylic acid, B12 Vit A, C and E, Growth Hormones, SOD's and VOCs, it is suited for use from seed to week 3 / day 21 bloom. can be used later to stagger ripening where clones are used and manpower to harvest is low. Contains living wild microbes both growth and health promoting, so has a shorter shelf life than traditional products @12 . Is a super foliar and or soil drench treatment not only for MJ but for a wide range of plant types.
it contains many bio control microbes (soil antibiotic secreting) which can be used to pre treat outdoor beds after winter periods, limiting many common mold pathogens, fusarium, white molds etc ahead of planting, and or re-purpose existing media, restore polluted spaces boosting microbial counts esp NPK and mineral based Bacteria.
not all liquid nutes are created equal, some can be used to consolidate many inputs in to a powerful, low cost, easy, ready to use application, delivered to the door without the wait on reduction, or concern of soil/ media/ environmental conditions. Both products are 100% vegan, highly tested in this space, and contain only wild resonant microbes, not lab variants. Environmental factors are crucial to well functioning raw organics, and there are many cases where applying a salt or liquid, would in fact short cut much of the energy required to mobilize native OM in to plant available forms, without slowing microbial colonization, or breaching organic practice.
its one thing to have functioning soil, quite another to create it from shop brought compost without lots of time
Merry Xmas
What did you feed?So I had my head up my ass when I planted my first seedling, and decided a day after it sprouted it was time to feed lmao. Currently have another seed going and if it gets a tap root should be in the soil tomorrow. I really need to read more on actually growing plants lol
Aloe, light fulvic acid top dress and mbp top dress... and over watered the hell out of it all in the process lolWhat did you feed?
It's easy to overdo it. Seems if you keep adding you get more out. Quite the opposite.
people always wanna grow the plant, but soil is what grows plants. That's why they've been growing without human contact. Study what plants need and build a soil.So I had my head up my ass when I planted my first seedling, and decided a day after it sprouted it was time to feed lmao. Currently have another seed going and if it gets a tap root should be in the soil tomorrow. I really need to read more on actually growing plants lol
people always wanna grow the plant, but soil is what grows plants. That's why they've been growing without human contact. Study what plants need and build a soil.
What plants know, teaming with microbes, teaming with nutrients, teaming with fungi are some amazing books to start with.
My two cents
weigh it dry, wet it totally, weigh it, see how long it takes to lose 70% of its weight, use this as your dry marker, after a while you will be able to tell simply by lifting the pot, but you might also use your finger, pop it in to the soil to the knuckle, if it comes out covered in soil its wet, if it comes out clean its dry, water it when your finger or soil probe is clean :-) In order to keep microbes happy, you must aim to maintain a base moisture level approx 30-40% min to avoid the microbes stalling.She peeked her head yesterday but hasn’t popped back out since, hoping she’s a little lost lol. For the first watering I only used about 8 ounces of bubbled water with some aloe because I over watered the hell out of it by accident during watering it in.
For the second watering I sprinkled some mbp very lightly across the soil surface, as well as some fulvic acid and mykos. I mixed in a liquid aloe and used about 2 gallons of water, and slightly over watered (when I say over watered I mean a decent amount of liquid dripped out of the smart pot) with everything I’ve read, I’ve done almost no research on watering so I’m just going by what seems right lol.
I’m more or less following mofo’s watering cycle
weigh it dry, wet it totally, weigh it, see how long it takes to lose 70% of its weight, use this as your dry marker, after a while you will be able to tell simply by lifting the pot, but you might also use your finger, pop it in to the soil to the knuckle, if it comes out covered in soil its wet, if it comes out clean its dry, water it when your finger or soil probe is clean :) In order to keep microbes happy, you must aim to maintain a base moisture level approx 30-40% min to avoid the microbes stalling.
It's not hard to understand, it wakes up with that awe factor!What plants know is super cool. I really do want to get to teaming with microbes and fungi but I heard teaming with nutrients is super hard to understand lol.
Good tip on build a soil and what plants need thanks buddy!
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