College degree?

Murphio said:

Two more semesters and i'll have my bachelors in chemistry. So far it has landed me a job in an environmental organics lab. So anyone who trys to speak lies about organic and inorganic nutrients bring it on. And by the way, for any of you who refer to inorganic nutrients as "synthetic", stop! It is misleading jargon. Also, for those who say they go the organic route rather that the "chemical" route... what does that even mean? People portray ionic compounds (inorganic nutrients) as an evil means of feeding your plants, that makes me laugh.

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Whats it do for your soil??

Clayton Bigsby said:

Looky here, fella, I may not have been to any fancy school, but I have written four books. I'm pretty popular in my parts.

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Read all your books. You definitely got your shit together. A1 captain.

ClaytonBigsby said:

Looky here, fella, I may not have been to any fancy schoolin, but I have written four books. I'm pretty popular in my parts.

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clayton brotherrrrrr

I got my high school report card back today got 68 average and lowest mark on a subject was 50... I honesly hate school, it is so boring, i am pretty confident on living with out electricity in a log cabin or something... as long as i have enough $$$ for weed i am good. anything over that and i am just being greedy, theres no need to be pampered like a baby by the world, i will live the way i want to, and i will not get a collage degree, i will get odd jobs in my area and earn unemployment etc etc...

wilderness living...sounds good. hunt for food. Hell...you probably will be able to collect foodstamps too. You just have to show that you are destitute and cannot afford to buy food. They will ask you about your past job history and why you dont have a job now. Tell them you are looking. Grow a large garden in the spring/summer time(if warm enough).

dirtsurfr said:

Whats it do for your soil??

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I'm not speaking down on organic growing, and based on your humble challenge I can bet you have a strong passion for organic soil growing. There are many people out there who use organics in a useless manner, not really understanding what goes on in a rhizosphere. Like I say I'm not trying to be condescending, it's just that some people need to get their facts straight before they spread lies about topics that they have no knowledge about. You can't understand the biology/chemistry of plants from only listening to the local hydro shop guy, if you know what I mean.
Dirtsurfr, I'm currently only doing hydro with a course perlite. Pure organic hydro is pretty tricky, I do hope to give it an honest shot one of these days. Happy growing man.

Murphio said:

I'm not speaking down on organic growing, and based on your humble challenge I can bet you have a strong passion for organic soil growing. There are many people out there who use organics in a useless manner, not really understanding what goes on in a rhizosphere. Like I say I'm not trying to be condescending, it's just that some people need to get their facts straight before they spread lies about topics that they have no knowledge about. You can't understand the biology/chemistry of plants from only listening to the local hydro shop guy, if you know what I mean.
Dirtsurfr, I'm currently only doing hydro with a course perlite. Pure organic hydro is pretty tricky, I do hope to give it an honest shot one of these days. Happy growing man.

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No actually I was picking your brain, I've been grown out doors and using Man made ferts for vegging and flower.
I was afraid I might be leaving behind salts in my soil that I would'nt get from using organic ferts.
Would it be worth the mess and smell of using organics or just stick with the Chemical ferts?
I do plant in the same hole every year with 1/4 cu ft of organic chicken manure and a big 2 lb fish in the bottom of the hole.

Use more of what I learned in the school of hard knocks than the one where I earned my degree.

Just sayin.

Attended a NW London girls grammar school, followed with uni. No idea why as I ended up working on the basis of 'who you know and not what you know'.

dirtsurfr said:

No actually I was picking your brain, I've been grown out doors and using Man made ferts for vegging and flower.
I was afraid I might be leaving behind salts in my soil that I would'nt get from using organic ferts.
Would it be worth the mess and smell of using organics or just stick with the Chemical ferts?
I do plant in the same hole every year with 1/4 cu ft of organic chicken manure and a big 2 lb fish in the bottom of the hole.

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Haha! My bad I thought otherwise, well at least we're on the same page now. Do you remove your tarp cover during the off season to let all the salt build-up leach out?
Try making some raised garden beds this next spring, that way you can easily rotate out soil, and you won't have to worry about stagnant water at the bottom of a saturated hole. I noticed you're in that wonderful hard clay and rock, feels like concrete in the middle of summer don't it. That's the draw back when planting in hard native soil, it acts like an impermeable bowl, which makes it difficult for ferts. to leach out of the soil. If you do want to stay with your method in the future, I would recommend digging a deeper hole and put a bunch of perlite or something with really good drainage at the bottom, then start building your soil base on top of that.

lahadaextranjera said:

Attended a NW London girls grammar school, followed with uni. No idea why as I ended up working on the basis of 'who you know and not what you know'.

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^^^pics or it didn't happen

dirtsurfr said:

No actually I was picking your brain, I've been grown out doors and using Man made ferts for vegging and flower.
I was afraid I might be leaving behind salts in my soil that I would'nt get from using organic ferts.
Would it be worth the mess and smell of using organics or just stick with the Chemical ferts?
I do plant in the same hole every year with 1/4 cu ft of organic chicken manure and a big 2 lb fish in the bottom of the hole.

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Really? You just throw a fish in the bottom and call it good? SOunds like a great idea, but it also sounds kinda fishy.... How did it change your health/yield?

ClaytonBigsby said:

Really? You just throw a fish in the bottom and call it good? SOunds like a great idea, but it also sounds kinda fishy.... How did it change your health/yield?

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Hahaha! It does sound fishy, I like it though, primitive but effective.

The fish is some thing I may or may not do, from what I understand you don't
throw meat in your compost and it's a protein so maybe I shouldn't do it.
On the other hand the Indians used to do it hahaha.
And when I plant I have to make sure I don't get down to were they are!!

ClaytonBigsby said:

Really? You just throw a fish in the bottom and call it good? SOunds like a great idea, but it also sounds kinda fishy.... How did it change your health/yield?

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health/yield?
I don't quit understand fish emulsoin works on plants and won't burn them.

dirtsurfr said:

The fish is some thing I may or may not do, from what I understand you don't
throw meat in your compost and it's a protein so maybe I shouldn't do it.
On the other hand the Indians used to do it hahaha.
And when I plant I have to make sure I don't get down to were they are!!

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If you enjoy vomiting, take a whiff of most fish emulsion...shit smells worse than a chemical toilet.

The plants seem to like it tho..