box store organic options
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Ohwolfie
In Bloom
It's pretty easy once you get the hang of it imo. There is a learning curve. But soil is pretty forgiving. I had to learn the concept of feeding the soil, not the plant. Our goal is to create a healthy soil food web, so that the plant and microbes can work together.
It helps to have a worm bin or compost pile too. The cool thing about worms is that you can feed them amendments, and they'll break them down, and then you can use their nutrient rich castings to mix into your soil, or top dress, or to make aerated tea. Or you can do a combination of all three.
Some people do get a little crazy about making ferments, IMO and going the whole KNF route, and that can be intimidating. But you don't have to do all of that to grow good weed. Then you have the religiously pure organic people who only use fertilizers without animal byproducts at all. Some people take things to the extremes. Lol.
misterDeeby
In Bloom
keep an eye on my bagseed journal. i did so much wrong, and I'm 8 days past my screw up, and things look really nice. after starving them on paper scraps disguised as earth worm castings, i gave them 8x the recommended dose of food in one shot, and only cooked my soil 3 days. i never saw root growth like this in hydro.
this is my first shot at organic besides composting dog shit and maple leaves as a teen. i wanted to get the bumps out of the system before i threw my kropduster beans down.
misterDeeby
In Bloom
was at Meijer last night. these were an exciting new addition to the gardening section.
highly affordable experiment, only $4-8/bag
plus it has a mycos!
affordable terra preta? and OMRI cert'd?
sounds good.
biochar, or 4:1 compost: biochar
until i can figure out how widespread this toxic compost (grazon) thing is, I'm going to stay away from compost.
highly affordable experiment, only $4-8/bag
plus it has a mycos!
affordable terra preta? and OMRI cert'd?
sounds good.
biochar, or 4:1 compost: biochar
until i can figure out how widespread this toxic compost (grazon) thing is, I'm going to stay away from compost.
Rozgreenburn
"The Philosopher, is Stoned"
Home Depot has coco coir @ $16 for a full 5 Kilo block. It seems everybody else is $25 or more. I don't see it in the store, but it's always there online!
Rozgreenburn
"The Philosopher, is Stoned"
Home Depot has coco coir @ $16 for a full 5 Kilo block. It seems everybody else is $25 or more. I don't see it in the store, but it's always there online! Viagrow is the brand name of this coco. I've used it often and I love it!
misterDeeby
In Bloom
i miss running coir. do you have a dry amendment recipe that works for it?
heads up, the Wakefield compost+biochar is already on clearance at meijer, and comes with free fungus gnats. the OMRI kind, so they shouldn't be resistant, lol. smells awesome though. really rich.
Rozgreenburn
"The Philosopher, is Stoned"
Sorry, I missed it. I don't grow in coco only, it is part of my organic super soil build, and also about 1/2 of my worm bedding build. I quit using peat as it is not really sustainable, and it breaks down too quickly. Coco coir has replaced peat and I like it better.