keefbox420
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nice words my fellow greenthumb
its ok, were not grammar nazis here, its not politics or t&t here.was available on btjunkie
As far as I can tell, Soil/Hydro is a continuum, from pure laboratory enforced sterile chemicals on a totally inert medium, to outdo guerilla growing.So I run earth juice (not a tea, just mixed into water) in a soiless medium (sunshine#4). My plants absolutely love it. But I've been curious, does a soiless medium still support all the life needed to complete the organic process? The answer clearly has to be yes, because the plants do extremely well.
Any info on this process when using a soiless peat based medium would be much appreciated. Because from what I understand my sunshine mix is a quasi hydro medium, but reacts a lot like soil.
Sounds like a great system. I sure wish I had space and those types of 'free' inputs close at hand. Cotton is the one thing I'd worry about. The great majority of that crop in the US is uber not organic and heavily sprayed in pesticides. How long does your kitchen waste pile cure before use? I am still hesitant to use the contents of my tumbler indoors due to large #s of unknown larvae doing their thing in there.WyoGrow
One thing that has really paid off for me is adding my soil amendments like blood, bone, kelp, cotton seed, greensand and rock dust directly to my compost. This tends to make a pretty hot mix though. I run three composts at my home. One pile is composting manure (chicken, horse, goat, sheep, cow & rabbit) that I gather from my animals. One pile is chopped yard trimmings (grass clippings, screened 1/8" minus whole tree mulch, fall leaves, immature weeds, wood ash and green garden trimmings). The last is a compost tumbler used for 100% kitchen waste. I bulk up the kitchen waste with cottonseed hulls and add the amendments to this compost. This is also the compost I make all of my compost teas with as it's the most rich
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