Getting ready for my next grow, assembling the usual suspects. I've never grown in anything larger than a 10-gallon, was wondering if that's enough space for live worms? I want to try using a certain mushroom with a certain cannabis cultivar, and having worms in the mix for the added intelligence. If the worms speak to the earth, they must navigate mushroom politics all the time, so I figure if I recreate a disgusting shit-pile in the sunny corner of a swamp in the armpit of nowhere, as... Worms ..read more

I'm getting tired of buying bags of Happy Frog and tossing the finished soil in my vegetable garden after harvesting the plants. I was wondering how people reuse soil after a grow finishes. I use 3 gallon pots so the soil is usually pretty much a root ball. Is it enough to break up the root ball into a large rubbermaid container and mix in a bag of worm castings and let it sit a while ..read more

Bokashi composting is an anaerobic process that relies on inoculated bran to ferment kitchen waste, including meat and dairy, into a safe soil builder and nutrient-rich tea for your plants. In Bokashi composting, kitchen scraps of all kinds — including meat and dairy products banned from aerobic systems — are mixed with some of the inoculated bran, pressed into the Bokashi bucket, covered with another handful of bran, and tightly covered. When the bucket is...​ What is Bokashi ..read more

Anybody tried it. Sounds like gnats heaven... Any other bb ..read more

here i mixed the first of my 4 20 gallon pots today. not quite 20 gallons though, 74l to be precise and i added a drainage level at the bottom for aeration. covered it with used coco mulch disks to keep the pebbles from mixing in with the soil. dumped in 21l of coco coir, a 7l bucket of homemade ewc, half a bucket of wheat bran, half a bucket of zeolite and crushed basalt and half a bucket of bat guano (3-4-3, 1-10-1) and manure (2-2-2) mix, topped it off with 10 gallons (35l) of the... here i went mixed 20 gallons of organic goodness (well 74l ..read more

I had a question, which also gave me a good idea for a thread, title says it all, we make this all about dry amendments and questions ppl may have! so to my question, I'm wondering what's everyone's "go to" for trace minerals! all the good 13 micronutrients, that most ppl never really think about out until there all gone lol, like me ..read more

don’t kill these guys if you have them, don’t drench your soil or soilless mix with pesticides, don’t use diatomaceous earth to cover the top soil either because these guys will do the job for free. hypoaspis miles, a beneficial guy all the way. scavengers, so they will eat any pest that spends at least one phase of its lifecycle in soil (thrips and fungus gnats are the obvious pests targeted by these beauties). you may even see them roaming on the lower leaves of small plants or on... a mite to remember ..read more

In my experience peat based soils are off the charts acidic. If you don't amend your soil to raise the Ph a whole lot you will never get good natural feeding on a consistent basis. I reuse my soil and found it takes a couple grows in a natural peat based soil to get the soil just right. I freeze or sun bake my soil in black garbage bags occasionally to kill bugs in the soil. I also rinse it in batches with dolomite tea sometimes. My soil has 30% perlite and 70% peat based soil. And every... Raising PH of Peat Moss based soils ..read more

I've never ran any nutrients before other than some cal/mag, always amended my soil from scratch. I'm behind on getting my soil going for up potting of my plants for the flower session. I'm at the point I have to buy everything I need to get started....sooo thinking of trying an organic nutrient line. What's the word from y'all ..read more

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