Beneficial to use a handful of soil from the forest in my AACT?

Thai_Lights

Thai_Lights

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I live in the Pacific Northwest and was thinking of getting some soil from underneath a large cedar tree and adding it to my tea with guano and EWC. Would the soil be beneficial?
 
ShLUbY

ShLUbY

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it would be better to put that soil in your compost pile rather than a tea. but it definitely wont hurt. but if you put it in your compost, then you'll provide a place for the organisms to live and reproduce and you'll have them as long as you keep using that compost as an inoculant to your next compost pile
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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ShLUbY said:
it would be better to put that soil in your compost pile rather than a tea. but it definitely wont hurt. but if you put it in your compost, then you'll provide a place for the organisms to live and reproduce and you'll have them as long as you keep using that compost as an inoculant to your next compost pile
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every spring I like to collect some clods of dirt and live grass from a grassy field right after it rains to compost, all the live grass and dirt together, to inoculate my compost bin
which is probably such a superfluous endeavor considering my pile is insane with microbial life, but I figure why not?
now if you were STARTING a virgin soil mix?
and just getting ready to cycle the soil?
oh HELL yea.. that's where this would really be useful
especially from grassy fields (more bacterial than forest stuff)
 
GoRealUhGro

GoRealUhGro

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When brewing a strictly microbial tea, I always go collect soil from diff areas...rich soil from under and old dead stump...where its actually soil and not barky shit...from my old pig pen....ewc of course...carbs of some sorts...but my plants did better than I have ever done in my life...they were bigger than anything I ever grew by July...the month they were spotted by the eye in the sky....i literally walked down and watched them take everything....i won't. Lie..i cried later....i was so proud...fuck it...im poppin seeds this week...but I don't see how adding diff soils could possibly damage your micro building...my teas worked like a fucking charm and I used top soil from the woods then like I said from under and OLD ass stump and the other shit. I mentioned .....i know I may of went overboard according to everybody...but I used the moonshine mix and I fed microbe teas probably 20 times....saturated them ...45 gal and 100 gal ...maybe two or three times w them...and i made probably 6/7 nute teas...of diff kinds....everyone will say too much..maybe....but my plants fucking blew up...so?....if I could of changed anything..besides them getting taken...it would of been bigger bags...ill never go under 300 gal..my 100 was so rooted into the ground and all the others had insane furry ass white roots...i did have two in 18 gal totes and I could read Rubbermade in my roots....so if u are getting diff answers ...clone one and try it w and w.o....but I'm gonna tell u I couldn't see anything but awesome from my microbe teas
 
chemphlegm

chemphlegm

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Thai_Lights said:
I live in the Pacific Northwest and was thinking of getting some soil from underneath a large cedar tree and adding it to my tea with guano and EWC. Would the soil be beneficial?[/QUOTE


outdoor soil used indoors has always been troublesome in my sealed indoor space.
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hillbill

hillbill

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Yes! I do it often. My backyard is wooded and I will pick up bottom layer leaf mold with that fungi I can't spell, and rotted log fibers, about anything on the forest floor. All my flowers and foliage plant love the tea.
 
prostheticninja

prostheticninja

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hillbill said:
Not from under a Cedar if you can help it.
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Agreed. Would avoid the cedars, just as a precaution. Cedar is a really hard to break down wood, and I have heard you can use a preparation of it to clean wounds. Sounds anti bacterial to me. Obviously you aren't grabbing logs to put in there, but it's easy to take from anywhere else, so you might as well.
 
Thai_Lights

Thai_Lights

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prostheticninja said:
Agreed. Would avoid the cedars, just as a precaution. Cedar is a really hard to break down wood, and I have heard you can use a preparation of it to clean wounds. Sounds anti bacterial to me. Obviously you aren't grabbing logs to put in there, but it's easy to take from anywhere else, so you might as well.
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The only reason I say cedar is because they are massive where I live and plentiful. What would you suggest?
 
prostheticninja

prostheticninja

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Thai_Lights said:
The only reason I say cedar is because they are massive where I live and plentiful. What would you suggest?
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Like the guy up there said, I would take it from a under a super rotted stump, or maybe from under a leaf pile. Somewhere where there is a lot of break down already happening would be where I would think to find the best dirt.
 
Thai_Lights

Thai_Lights

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prostheticninja said:
Like the guy up there said, I would take it from a under a super rotted stump, or maybe from under a leaf pile. Somewhere where there is a lot of break down already happening would be where I would think to find the best dirt.
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Then add that to a compost pile or straight into my tea
 
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