Greasemonkey's Compost Pile

ShLUbY

ShLUbY

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greasemonkeymann said:
sorry my man, I was visting my ex girlfriend in friggin Redmond Oregon, MASSIVE blizzard, negative 14 degrees farenheit got snowed in (turned out ok:mrgreen:)
anyways, I was offline for a while
YES, I would be ALL over that idea, in fact it's sorta what I did, only unintentionally
just remember that the more refined it gets, (i know you know this but it's worth mentioning for the benefit of others) it tends to get finer and finer particles, so aeration is crucial
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NOW THAT is my ideal situation for a snow storm ;) haha glad you made it out ALIVE :blsmoke::hump::lol::lol::lol:

well here's what i did today.... i'll post pics in my thread. hydrated about 2.5 gal worth of fresh peat, 1.5 gal of coco coir, and then topped off the 5 gal bucket with rice hulls and pumice. so it's about 1 to 4 ratio drainage material. Then, I went and lightly packed 5 gal bucket worth of leaves that were fairly moist already but not sopping or anything. I mixed both buckets together, added about 2 Tbsp of dolomite, and a quart of soil from around my compost pile and gave that a good mix. All in all i have about 10 gal of bedding, has lots of air right now.

So what i'm thinking is doing a layer of bedding and lightly mist it with the hand pump sprayer, then a thin layer of my working compost + couple Tbsp of rock dust and couple Tbsp of kelp meal, then another layer of bedding and lightly mist again. Next i have some scraps i'm thawing out and going to mash and put that in, and maybe some oyster shell, and crab meal, and finally cover that with one more layer of bedding, lightly mist, and place some panda film over the whole mix leaving enough room around the edges for air and a little moisture to escape the bin.

sound about right?
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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ShLUbY said:
NOW THAT is my ideal situation for a snow storm ;) haha glad you made it out ALIVE :blsmoke::hump::lol::lol::lol:

well here's what i did today.... i'll post pics in my thread. hydrated about 2.5 gal worth of fresh peat, 1.5 gal of coco coir, and then topped off the 5 gal bucket with rice hulls and pumice. so it's about 1 to 4 ratio drainage material. Then, I went and lightly packed 5 gal bucket worth of leaves that were fairly moist already but not sopping or anything. I mixed both buckets together, added about 2 Tbsp of dolomite, and a quart of soil from around my compost pile and gave that a good mix. All in all i have about 10 gal of bedding, has lots of air right now.

So what i'm thinking is doing a layer of bedding and lightly mist it with the hand pump sprayer, then a thin layer of my working compost + couple Tbsp of rock dust and couple Tbsp of kelp meal, then another layer of bedding and lightly mist again. Next i have some scraps i'm thawing out and going to mash and put that in, and maybe some oyster shell, and crab meal, and finally cover that with one more layer of bedding, lightly mist, and place some panda film over the whole mix leaving enough room around the edges for air and a little moisture to escape the bin.

sound about right?
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i'd say that sounds about right, keep in mind normal peat, rice hulls and coco ARE actual carbon inputs to a compost, in theory you could "convert" peat into a more stable higher ph form of humus, which would eliminate any need for d-lime
if I was to speculate i'd think that would take a while for that to compost considering the ratio to "greens" is gonna be a lil off
if it were me i'd probably like a good thin sprinkling of alfalfa meal, or steer manure, or fish meal to help kick it up a lil, if not it'd be more a slow-compost, which is fine, but just takes longer
that being said, depending on the scraps that would help, but typically table scraps are consumed by the worms rather than the composting microbes
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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ShLUbY said:
NOW THAT is my ideal situation for a snow storm ;) haha glad you made it out ALIVE :blsmoke::hump::lol::lol::lol:

well here's what i did today.... i'll post pics in my thread. hydrated about 2.5 gal worth of fresh peat, 1.5 gal of coco coir, and then topped off the 5 gal bucket with rice hulls and pumice. so it's about 1 to 4 ratio drainage material. Then, I went and lightly packed 5 gal bucket worth of leaves that were fairly moist already but not sopping or anything. I mixed both buckets together, added about 2 Tbsp of dolomite, and a quart of soil from around my compost pile and gave that a good mix. All in all i have about 10 gal of bedding, has lots of air right now.

So what i'm thinking is doing a layer of bedding and lightly mist it with the hand pump sprayer, then a thin layer of my working compost + couple Tbsp of rock dust and couple Tbsp of kelp meal, then another layer of bedding and lightly mist again. Next i have some scraps i'm thawing out and going to mash and put that in, and maybe some oyster shell, and crab meal, and finally cover that with one more layer of bedding, lightly mist, and place some panda film over the whole mix leaving enough room around the edges for air and a little moisture to escape the bin.

sound about right?
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oh... and hell fuckin yea that's a perfect way to pass time in a snow storm..
tiny sexy blonds tend to make a lil weak-kneed..
 
MustangStudFarm

MustangStudFarm

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ShLUbY said:
NOW THAT is my ideal situation for a snow storm ;) haha glad you made it out ALIVE :blsmoke::hump::lol::lol::lol:

well here's what i did today.... i'll post pics in my thread. hydrated about 2.5 gal worth of fresh peat, 1.5 gal of coco coir, and then topped off the 5 gal bucket with rice hulls and pumice. so it's about 1 to 4 ratio drainage material. Then, I went and lightly packed 5 gal bucket worth of leaves that were fairly moist already but not sopping or anything. I mixed both buckets together, added about 2 Tbsp of dolomite, and a quart of soil from around my compost pile and gave that a good mix. All in all i have about 10 gal of bedding, has lots of air right now.

So what i'm thinking is doing a layer of bedding and lightly mist it with the hand pump sprayer, then a thin layer of my working compost + couple Tbsp of rock dust and couple Tbsp of kelp meal, then another layer of bedding and lightly mist again. Next i have some scraps i'm thawing out and going to mash and put that in, and maybe some oyster shell, and crab meal, and finally cover that with one more layer of bedding, lightly mist, and place some panda film over the whole mix leaving enough room around the edges for air and a little moisture to escape the bin.

sound about right?
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greasemonkeymann said:
oh... and hell fuckin yea that's a perfect way to pass time in a snow storm..
tiny sexy blonds tend to make a lil weak-kneed..
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Last spring, I made a worm bin with coco coir and I started to add old stuff from the pantry that was going bad like popcorn, dry beans, and corn meal. It heated up so much that it would burn my hand when I put it in there. Anyways, I was wondering if it would be a good idea to use something like that on my outdoor worm bin that keeps freezing? I really think that it was the corn meal that heated up like that... I checked my outdoor bin to add food but the surface was frozen solid, it looked like a mole got in there to eat my worms too...
 
DonBrennon

DonBrennon

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MustangStudFarm said:
Last spring, I made a worm bin with coco coir and I started to add old stuff from the pantry that was going bad like popcorn, dry beans, and corn meal. It heated up so much that it would burn my hand when I put it in there. Anyways, I was wondering if it would be a good idea to use something like that on my outdoor worm bin that keeps freezing? I really think that it was the corn meal that heated up like that... I checked my outdoor bin to add food but the surface was frozen solid, it looked like a mole got in there to eat my worms too...
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I know that when I added a load of oatmeal(porridge oats) to my compost pile it got steaming hot and I had to keep turning it for a few days to keep it under control. It did have a loads of 'homemade' frass mixed in with it though, that probably contributed.
 
DonBrennon

DonBrennon

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MustangStudFarm said:
I think that I got unlucky and didnt find a good pheno from a pack of SSDD, its cool because I have 5-6 more packs. Did you get the berry flavor??? I got 3 females and they were all earthy OG...
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Dunno yet, first time I've run em', seem to have 2 stretchy one's and a real indica dom, but 3 distinguishably different phenos, structurally at least. What were your earthy one's like?
 
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MustangStudFarm

MustangStudFarm

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DonBrennon said:
Dunno yet, first time I've run em', seem to have 2 stretchy one's and a real indica dom, but 3 indistinguishably different phenos, structurally at least. What were your earthy one's like?
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They were big as hell and potent, but they were missing the flavor that everyone keeps talking about... I think that I need more than 3 females next time, I popped the whole pack and ended up with 9 males though...
 
DonBrennon

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MustangStudFarm said:
They were big as hell and potent, but they were missing the flavor that everyone keeps talking about... I think that I need more than 3 females next time, I popped the whole pack and ended up with 9 males though...
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Well, I toasted a few of my as seedlings, but ended up with 3 females and 4 males, 3 of which were tri-nodal so I've chopped em'. The remaining male's gonna pollinate some of the lowers on these soon, if I don't get it in the F1's, the F2's might throw up something special :bigjoint:
 
MustangStudFarm

MustangStudFarm

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DonBrennon said:
Well, I toasted a few of my as seedlings, but ended up with 3 females and 4 males, 3 of which were tri-nodal so I've chopped em'. The remaining male's gonna pollinate some of the lowers on these soon, if I don't get it in the F1's, the F2's might throw up something special :bigjoint:
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I just remembered. A lot people said that their SSDD didnt get impressive until after week 6, so it's one of those lol...
 
MustangStudFarm

MustangStudFarm

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greasemonkeymann said:
beautiful plants man!
side note, I had to do a double-take on the date, till I realized you are across the pond from us
thought you had a time machine there...
October first 2017..
those plants look REAL healthy man, damn god job!
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Hey, I have a bunch of big boxes that my flooring came in and it has white paper on the outside. I am guessing that it is regular paper and it would compost, right? The boxes look similar to this. I have 44 boxes that are almost 7ft long, similar to these. I imagine that the worms would like them, but I am trying to figure out how to use them. I suppose that I could use a few of them to insulate my compost also?

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greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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MustangStudFarm said:
Hey, I have a bunch of big boxes that my flooring came in and it has white paper on the outside. I am guessing that it is regular paper and it would compost, right? The boxes look similar to this. I have 44 boxes that are almost 7ft long, similar to these. I imagine that the worms would like them, but I am trying to figure out how to use them. I suppose that I could use a few of them to insulate my compost also?

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shit yea man, cardboard is eaten by the worms pretty quickly
that's my go-to longterm source of wormfood
works really well, especially in the colder months
I break em up (make sure to take OFF the shipping tape, cuz it's a whore to do that after)
a square foot of cardboard is about perfect, I layer those (make sure they are sorta damp)
 
DonBrennon

DonBrennon

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greasemonkeymann said:
beautiful plants man!
side note, I had to do a double-take on the date, till I realized you are across the pond from us
thought you had a time machine there...
October first 2017..
those plants look REAL healthy man, damn god job!
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Cheers Brotha, my soil and compost are now rockin it and the plants are loving the environment at the moment, but I'm getting quite high humidity during lights out. Still trying to drag it down with air replacement/circulation, but I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and get the dehumidifier out soon.

........anyway.........Back to the future........pmsl, couldn't resist
 
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