MustangStudFarm
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It is a GREAT help knowing which direction to go!!! Sending good karma your way lol...
Greasemonkey's Compost Pile
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Man, I have been thinking about what you said. I had a loss of words yesterday, seems like anything that I tried to say just sounded dumb... I think I understand what you are saying, it is harder to have fungi in the soil, so I should focus more on the fungi. I really could not find much info on myco, I was hoping that there would be a cheap way of getting it or making it. I have been busy the last couple of days and have not had a chance to read anything![/QUOTE]
I hope this works. this is my first time trying to post a link.
this looks cheap enough
I hope this works. this is my first time trying to post a link.
calliandra
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Looks a bit complicated to me
I've just been listening to Elaine Ingham on how to get the fungal growth in the compost pile, and according to her, a spoonful of good forest soil -- the one under the debris but above where the soil goes inorganic (=changes colors, = bottom of the O-level of the soil) is enough to inoculate the "woody" part of the compost materials (dry leaves, stems, wood chips, cardboard...): put that teaspoon-full in the middle of the "woodchip" pile and keep it moist for a while before starting the compost pile. Sounds even cheaper and no-hassle to me
MustangStudFarm
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I would be in trouble if I had to smog my mustangs!!! I cant seem to find Pineapple Hashplant anywhere, is it a new or old strain?
MustangStudFarm
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Oh, I cut my grass lol. Here are the fan leaves. I have trim, kelp, organic feather meal, and a little more rabbit bedding. I imagine that diversity is good? Also, organic feather meal, is it safe to use? I think that the lady at the store is savvy to organics and I would like to think that they didnt use chemicals on it... After I run some bubble hash, I imagine that I could use the left-overs also.
http://maestro-gro.com/feathermeal.aspx
http://maestro-gro.com/feathermeal.aspx
MustangStudFarm
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I have been looking into composting and fish fertilizer also... What I came up with recently is black soldier flies to compost meat type materials. I was over-run with them last year and I am trying to find a good purpose for BSF. They turn compost very fast!!! The only problem that I saw from them is that they create heat and it could be too much for them worms. Directly, they do not bother eachother, but i there is food around, they will populate quick. I bet that they could eat a fish in 2-3 days!!! I was watching a Brit maintaining his bin and he started talking about BSF...
DonBrennon
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Shit, did you check out the minerals plus on the same website, that looks like an awesome product, fuck I wish I had the Amendments all you guys can get
MustangStudFarm
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I was complaining about having to mail order some things, but it is not that bad! I dont get it, I live next to farms and farm supply stores, but they dont have anything that is useful for me. I was watching a video about people starting a worm farm in Michigan. They were saying that they were ordering their worms from England! The farmers were acting like it is a brand new concept and they were just getting started into it... The farmer acted like he had his life savings invested in the company and said that he needed to sell a million worms to break even. At the end of the video, he admitted that he only had $15,000 in the worm farm! This is a farmer that has worm food and bedding on hand already!!! Sounded like it was breaking his balls
darkzero
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greasemonkeymann
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heh yea, old 5.0s are impossible to smog..
The pineapple hashplant is sorta a new strain, think it came out last yr.
I just am a HUGE jack herer fan, and one of my phenos is basicly just a frostier more potent version of the jack herer.
Can't go wrong there.
I still have 5 beans left of the P.E., thinking of popping them and looking for a male to do some pollen chuckin
Chicsgro2
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dog hair for real?
greasemonkeymann
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heh, absolutely...
I have a couple dead mice at the bottom, tons of old cannabis leaves, I once made a pile using about 60% redwood pineneeedles (to prove a point, that it wasn't acidic after composting), doghair, beard clippings, bigass mushrooms...
all sorts of things..
but doghair is LOADED with slow release nitrogen.
very close to the macro value of feather meal (basicly the same thing really)
DonBrennon
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How did the pine needle compost turn out?, I'm interested because somebody's cut down a pine tree near me, put it through a woodchipper and left it in a pile which my dog pee's on every time we walk past it. It's been there for around 3 months and has already started composting on it's own, despite it being the end of winter. It's only about 100 yards away from where I'll be doing this years composting and I've already been eyeing it up and thinking about getting the spade and wheel barrow into action.
I've also read that it's not good to compost and can make your compost acidic, which is why I haven't already used it.
Spring is just about starting now and I'll soon have access to plenty of grass clipping, nettles, dandelions and I've got a bag full of alfalfa pellets and a bucket and a half of chicken shit building up under the shed.
Is it worth using? or will it take too long to break down?
What would you recommend adding? if it is worth doing
MustangStudFarm
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It is not that old of a thread! I just thought that other people were not interested in compost? Grease is a great guy, I am still learning from him!!!Know this is an old thread but I am glad to have found it. Damn I hate I no longer have my bunny! PLENTY of alfalfa and droppings for a compost pile! Thanks for showing how UNcomplicated it can be to mix THE REAL "kind soil". Peace
MustangStudFarm
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My friend has a tractor and he gets contracts to mow fields mostly, but he was almost brought me his clippings that was full of pine cones. I was not sure, so I told him that I would pass for now. Maybe after the grass starts growing greener. I was hoping that the 1st mow was going to contain a good ratio of grass to leaves, but the dude is a drunk and he dont have to listen to me. He made Chief warrant officer and I was only a E-4, even though he was supply and I was infantry...
greasemonkeymann
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well.. keep in mind it's redwood needles.. those are MUCH different than the other conifers.
they have a waxy like substance on the needles for those, and that evidently is what takes them so long ot compost.
my redwood needle pile was done in a "normal" time
like 5 months or so, unturned.
if you really wanted to get it done in 4 months you could
but remember the redwood needles are MUCH different than the typical pine needles.
If I were you, i'd stick to a normal compost, especially considering you have some good stuff to throw in there
grass clippings, nettles, dandelions, chicken shit...
good stuff man
youraveragehorticulturist
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In late November, I pulled up wheel barrow loads of clover from a friend's deer food plot.
I mixed the clover into my compost pile. Over the winter, anytime it got warm and sunny out, clover grew on my pile.
I mixed the compost into my soil. Now clover grows in my pots.
I mixed the clover into my compost pile. Over the winter, anytime it got warm and sunny out, clover grew on my pile.
I mixed the compost into my soil. Now clover grows in my pots.
greasemonkeymann
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nothing wrong with that my man
in fact not only does it add nitrogen back into the soil (after the legume composts) but it's also a good "canary-in-the-gold-mine"
cuz EVERYTHING likes the way legumes taste, you'll get mites, or aphids on those rather than your cannabis
BUT only for a day or two.. then it's a clusterfuck
here is a pic of a big-ass clover in a no-till smartie from last yr
if you "wheres waldo" it hard enough you can see the stem from the harvested plant, that one was a slow-ass GSC... hate that strain... good enough to wanna run more than once but such a slooooow strain.. and yields small too
