Clover coming out of dirt of my grow?

Southerner

Southerner

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I’ve seen em lots with bales of pro mix as well as other soil mixes. Strangely I’ve used a shit ton of FFOF in my day and never seen one pop out of that. It’s like a free cover crop.
 
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HashBucket

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We turned a room Friday, and I noticed two pots that had clover starts in them.
And we use Coco Canna.
Yea, I know ... that's not possible, but yet ...
there they are.

A head scratcher.
A mystery.
Jonny Clover seed broke into the room and spewed his seed everywhere.
Bastid.
 
Rondeady

Rondeady

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madvillian420 said:
lots of lower quality potting soils are full of random seeds. clover, grass, weeds, trees.
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Oh okay now that i think of it, 95% of the soil in that pot is ffof but i eventually ended up running outside and got some handfulls of random dirt to cover up those roots so that makes since
 
xtsho

xtsho

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Just Be said:
Clover actually aids by means of nitrogen fixation.
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I keep forgetting to plant it in the garden after everything is harvested for an overwinter crop and soil enhancement when it gets worked back into the soil in the spring.

madvillian420 said:
lots of lower quality potting soils are full of random seeds. clover, grass, weeds, trees.
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I've had random plants grow from Black Gold, FFOF, Happy Frog, various brands of coco, etc... You'll find random seeds in just about everything. The quantities of ingredients they use take a significant amount of space and are typically stored outside. That allows wind and animal born seeds to contaminate the product. Lower quality potting soils may have a higher amount of seed contamination but it's not something to use as a metric with regards to quality.

Time segment starting at 3:40 gives a good idea as to how random seeds can enter the soil mix.

 
madvillian420

madvillian420

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xtsho said:
I've had random plants grow from Black Gold, FFOF, Happy Frog, various brands of coco, etc... You'll find random seeds in just about everything. The quantities of ingredients they use take a significant amount of space and are typically stored outside. That allows wind and animal born seeds to contaminate the product. Lower quality potting soils may have a higher amount of seed contamination but it's not something to use as a metric with regards to quality.

Time segment starting at 3:40 gives a good idea as to how random seeds can enter the soil mix.

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interesting. I guess ive been lucky with my foxfarms soils lol, the one and only time its ever happened to me i grabbed a cheap 5$ bag of potting soil from the grocery store to top off my pots and got a few weed sprouts soon after.
 
Kingrow1

Kingrow1

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Im sure the contamination at soil factory is after sterelization, stuff blows in or comes in on my hair and clothing quite often especially after a ramble.

Just what nature does, colonizes stuff, i quite enjoy the odd clover grass or dandelion but few make it to flower lol :-)
 
Kingrow1

Kingrow1

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Renfro said:
Pretty sure FFOF isn't sterilized due to the hypoaspis miles bugs and whatnot that is commonly found in it.
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Whatever it is soil factories do - compost probably to make heat, been a while since i knew but pretty sure they do one thing to kill any seed and such. Intresting google :-)
 
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