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sorry been busy...no you plant either with a growing crop, this is called companion planting...if you use a crop to keep the microbes happy between grows this is a cover crop. Most cover crops are terminated before we plant a target. We do this usually by crimping or folding the crop, eg using a machine or a board, or we cut it and leave the matter in situ, so we dont remove any cut material, we just plant through it. No there is no issue using a soil with old roots, so long as the previous crop hasnt expressed signs of Root Nematodes or Pathogens.@Ecompost or am I better off planting new cover each cycle? On the first run when can I plant the cover crop? Should I let the Cannabis roots get established first? Or is it a non-competitive environment where it doesn't really matter they will just coexist and mutuaLily benefit each other regardless??
So you utilize the fukuoka method? Same methods I practice.sorry been busy...no you plant either with a growing crop, this is called companion planting...if you use a crop to keep the microbes happy between grows this is a cover crop. Most cover crops are terminated before we plant a target. We do this usually by crimping or folding the crop, eg using a machine or a board, or we cut it and leave the matter in situ, so we dont remove any cut material, we just plant through it. No there is no issue using a soil with old roots, so long as the previous crop hasnt expressed signs of Root Nematodes or Pathogens.
I reuse soil all the time, even a single 20L root pouch will have many plants in it. So long as plants remain healthy across the grow, I just chop at the base, leave the old root ball, freshen with a top dress of good well composted material, some ewc and kelp meal usually if I feel the media needs a bit of a nutrient boost, then I replant a new seed or transplant a new cut etc. Simplez, cheap, clean, more secure, eg less trips to the store, less need to be seen with bags of soil, going in to a house which might be in an illegal country :)
Yes, a cover crop is a crop used between grows, preventing us leaving soil exposed and also providing an ongoing source of C for microbes. So this means we traditionally use it between targets so its a new crop each time after a target harvest, or where we have lowered levels of NPK and we need to boost.@Ecompost or am I better off planting new cover each cycle? On the first run when can I plant the cover crop? Should I let the Cannabis roots get established first? Or is it a non-competitive environment where it doesn't really matter they will just coexist and mutuaLily benefit each other regardless??
yes to some extent. I just tweak some of his practice. I live not far from where he was based before he passed away. I follow lots of his theory for sure. I am trying to add to his work :-)So you utilize the fukuoka method? Same methods I practice.
I do work with Jairo Rivera's methods too :) I am lucky to know Jairo and so have excellent access to him which is super cool. He is a lovely man, very gentle, extremely generous with knowledge and an excellent person with whom to discuss my own ideas. I have found this common among those working to drive organics among wider ag, that they are open to transfer and sharing, and in ways that bring to shame the proprietary nature of Ag business.So you utilize the fukuoka method? Same methods I practice.
Very awesome. I finished the one straw rev and I'm starting the natural way of farming. Good stuff. I realize we can only utilize his methods but so much due to hybridizing. It has made plants weaker. For instance our plants wouldn't last a minute with 0 IPM. It has given me a whole new outlook and I don't get stressed out because I understand now not to zero in in a defficiency but to just stay the course. It ends up working itself out.yes to some extent. I just tweak some of his practice. I live not far from where he was based before he passed away. I follow lots of his theory for sure. I am trying to add to his work :)
word, just keep the plants in and in diversity we will find something will always be returning value. I am not a man who thinks we can afford to wait too much, so i just give systems a help by inoculating where its needed. test and know, then do.Very awesome. I finished the one straw rev and I'm starting the natural way of farming. Good stuff. I realize we can only utilize his methods but so much due to hybridizing. It has made plants weaker. For instance our plants wouldn't last a minute with 0 IPM. It has given me a whole new outlook and I don't get stressed out because I understand now not to zero in in a defficiency but to just stay the course. It ends up working itself out.
Feed the soil!
Oh yah. We have to introduce predators. Seems like only the plant suckers are the only ones at the door every Sunday like jahova witnesses. The hard part is we tend to focus in on one idea. For instance Josh steensland even realized he was so focused on bacterial cultures he was wiping fungal cultures out. As humans this natural work on one thing at a time mentality makes us overlook simple things. I was so focused on building soil life because I uses cheap compost and I realized it when I openes the bag and used it anyway like a dumbass. Now im battling between too many inputs and keeping soil life rolling. I set up two 150g worm reactors from 1 year composted doubled shredded oak leaves mixed with forest floor soil. I refuse to call it humus. That word is used way too freely. Humus is a pile of worm castings reworked over the course of a year IMO. I followed coots smart pot worm reactor instructions layering 1 foot layers of compost and topped with kelp/karanja/MBP/LAVA rock. I topped the whole pile with chicken manure for rock dust and microbes. Should make for some flawless runs in about a year or so.word, just keep the plants in and in diversity we will find something will always be returning value. I am not a man who thinks we can afford to wait too much, so i just give systems a help by inoculating where its needed. test and know, then do.
We are beginning to understand again, after years being sidetracked by false science. Nature always had the answers, just some dudes decided to try to mask this simplicity in fancy wording, relying on opinion leader approach models to infect under educated farmers. Its a brave new world where any one of us can put us all back on a more natural path to human health
yes thats the trick with super soil, knowing when its good. I might suggest you look in to Soil CO2 testing. This might give you a better idea as to how things are progressingOh yah. We have to introduce predators. Seems like only the plant suckers are the only ones at the door every Sunday like jahova witnesses. The hard part is we tend to focus in on one idea. For instance Josh steensland even realized he was so focused on bacterial cultures he was wiping fungal cultures out. As humans this natural work on one thing at a time mentality makes us overlook simple things. I was so focused on building soil life because I uses cheap compost and I realized it when I openes the bag and used it anyway like a dumbass. Now im battling between too many inputs and keeping soil life rolling. I set up two 150g worm reactors from 1 year composted doubled shredded oak leaves mixed with forest floor soil. I refuse to call it humus. That word is used way too freely. Humus is a pile of worm castings reworked over the course of a year IMO. I followed coots smart pot worm reactor instructions layering 1 foot layers of compost and topped with kelp/karanja/MBP/LAVA rock. I topped the whole pile with chicken manure for rock dust and microbes. Should make for some flawless runs in about a year or so.
i have gotten purple stems from too much light before, its funny how plants respond on occasion, the trick is not to over react and wait a few days before acting.Also you can see some purple stems in there too (another sign they are hungry)