how to "re- aerate" soil

meangreengrowinmachine

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So I have a lot of soil I have been re amending and re using, but initially I was using perlite for my aeration... If I wanted to re add things like pumice and rice hulls how much should I add to this already perlite rich soil?
 

Week4@inCharge

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I'm thinking I need to do this too but would love to try this no till at some point, growing in pots seems like no way you can go no till if your constantly having to reamends with the fluffy stuff. So is super soil that bad compared to not till? And what to do if your running a little hot from a current grow?
 

meangreengrowinmachine

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I'm thinking I need to do this too but would love to try this no till at some point, growing in pots seems like no way you can go no till if your constantly having to reamends with the fluffy stuff. So is super soil that bad compared to not till? And what to do if your running a little hot from a current grow?
personally I have not gone full no till, but I do re use all of my soil and dont use anything salt based. I think no till inside is a very hard thing to do I might be able to get there eventually with my 4x4 raised bed and that would be amazing, even Jeremy at build a soil says they try to do "low till" as opposed to no till at all. seems like a more logical approach and a bridging of the gap there between the no till, don't ever touch your soil approach and the well we want to also grow the BEST that we can so sometimes we need to touch the soil... approach.. if that rambling makes sense lol
 

Week4@inCharge

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personally I have not gone full no till, but I do re use all of my soil and dont use anything salt based. I think no till inside is a very hard thing to do I might be able to get there eventually with my 4x4 raised bed and that would be amazing, even Jeremy at build a soil says they try to do "low till" as opposed to no till at all. seems like a more logical approach and a bridging of the gap there between the no till, don't ever touch your soil approach and the well we want to also grow the BEST that we can so sometimes we need to touch the soil... approach.. if that rambling makes sense lol
That makes a lot of sense, I've been chasing my tail trying no till and was thinking , if they can do it I should be able to do it. But honestly, I've ran out of patience and am now going with this super soil mentality now. Really hard for me really, as the fungi is the one thing that controls the feeding under the soil, so what to do. The fungi takes a lot of time to establish and undoing the soil every grow, yeah..we're chasing our tails aren't we. Maybe slamming the soil with proprietary products like that great white shark stuff is a major service to super soil growers? This last grow was done without it and I lost half my grow, I'm going back to that stuff now that I think about it, it's expensive but dam does it work.
 

BongerChonger

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Really hard for me really, as the fungi The fungi takes a lot of time to establish and undoing the soil every grow, yeah..we're chasing our tails aren't we.
If I may interject, it's important to consider scale regarding fungi and no-till soil.
What you say is mostly true for very large areas land. Like Redwood Forest big. It's all relative.
Container gardening, those same networks are established faster than you can blink.
 

Week4@inCharge

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If I may interject, it's important to consider scale regarding fungi and no-till soil.
What you say is mostly true for very large areas land. Like Redwood Forest big. It's all relative.
Container gardening, those same networks are established faster than you can blink.
Maybe if you inoculate after tilling it a bit, I sprinkle some mycorrhizae in there on every transplant. Left to its own devices, I don't see this recovery that fast (on its own) after tilling it outside of it's pots ( mixing in pumice, perlite, etc).
 
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