New use for my outdoor mushroom bed

Headwaste

Headwaste

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I never posted on grow forums before (just lurking because of paranoia) but times have changed and I will soon be one of the first people to get a medical marijuana card in IL. Never thought that could happen! I got a horticultural associates degree years ago (for legitimate jobs) in greenhouse management,agriculture, and landscape design, and floral arrangement.So I started indoor growing MJ because I was young and poor but I always went with what I knew. Homemade hydro or potting soil and a HPS.I don't care what peole say because I learned in college that there are many things and complex interactions in soil that affect growth,taste,and resin production( my college profs. partied and grew and talked about pot in class sometimes). I would just mix good outdoor topsoil with peatmoss but ended up using chem. fert. when the nutrients got used up.Pretty much was going hydro and killing the beneficial bacteria.I was never satisfied with it .Harsh chemical smoke but greenhouses really only do hydro or potted soil like I was imitating.Then recently I was reading my High Times mag and saw an article on secrets of the pros,reusing soil and amending it organically.Eureka that's the answer! So I live in a woody area and have a huge number of magic mushroom beds and compost them every year.So I took bucketfuls out of my richest bed(was still full of mycellium at the time) and mixed in some clean topsoil and vermiculite and perlite and come bat guano and the results were incredible.Finally frosted nugs centerfold worthy and incredible yields.I'm on my second crop with this and amended it by going in the yard and scooping a little more out of one of my beds after I post this I'm going totally organic and getting aloe water,coconut water, and kelp,and blackstrap molasses,etc.Does anyone think a little asprin would be beneficial for my plants? I'm growing Wonder Woman and a strain created by a friend who breeds for his dispensary in WA.It is strawberry bubblegum x medicine man.He calls it Strawberry Medicine Man.I am the only person who he has given seeds to. It's awesome but out of 15 seeds I got all females and I wanted to breed seeds,so I kept the 3 best yielders as mother plants.Sorry for rambling but I'm bipolar and have never written in 20 years of trolling forums.
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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Headwaste said:
I never posted on grow forums before (just lurking because of paranoia) but times have changed and I will soon be one of the first people to get a medical marijuana card in IL. Never thought that could happen! I got a horticultural associates degree years ago (for legitimate jobs) in greenhouse management,agriculture, and landscape design, and floral arrangement.So I started indoor growing MJ because I was young and poor but I always went with what I knew. Homemade hydro or potting soil and a HPS.I don't care what peole say because I learned in college that there are many things and complex interactions in soil that affect growth,taste,and resin production( my college profs. partied and grew and talked about pot in class sometimes). I would just mix good outdoor topsoil with peatmoss but ended up using chem. fert. when the nutrients got used up.Pretty much was going hydro and killing the beneficial bacteria.I was never satisfied with it .Harsh chemical smoke but greenhouses really only do hydro or potted soil like I was imitating.Then recently I was reading my High Times mag and saw an article on secrets of the pros,reusing soil and amending it organically.Eureka that's the answer! So I live in a woody area and have a huge number of magic mushroom beds and compost them every year.So I took bucketfuls out of my richest bed(was still full of mycellium at the time) and mixed in some clean topsoil and vermiculite and perlite and come bat guano and the results were incredible.Finally frosted nugs centerfold worthy and incredible yields.I'm on my second crop with this and amended it by going in the yard and scooping a little more out of one of my beds after I post this I'm going totally organic and getting aloe water,coconut water, and kelp,and blackstrap molasses,etc.Does anyone think a little asprin would be beneficial for my plants? I'm growing Wonder Woman and a strain created by a friend who breeds for his dispensary in WA.It is strawberry bubblegum x medicine man.He calls it Strawberry Medicine Man.I am the only person who he has given seeds to. It's awesome but out of 15 seeds I got all females and I wanted to breed seeds,so I kept the 3 best yielders as mother plants.Sorry for rambling but I'm bipolar and have never written in 20 years of trolling forums.
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You are asking the organic guys if you should add aspirin to your water?
Just get a nice aloe plant man, its much much better and you are getting the same effects.
You said you are using aloe water so you are covered.
I'd highly suggest using neem seed meal as well, maybe cut back on the guano and replace with neem meal.
Also keeps the fungus gnats down as well as a general IPM
 
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