Real Organics

Grandpa GreenJeans

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Did a little work in the room with transplanting. I should have taken pics of the roots on the transplants for proof, but sadly my phone was too low on battery. I'm so far very happy with my 2015/16 indoor. It's off to a very solid start. Plants have doubled in size over the last 3 days. All are very healthy and vigorous. Check it out.
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ShLUbY

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subbed. soil looks great man. mine is doing the same thing! mycelium taking off under my barley straw mulch. can't wait to see some more from you. got me interested in making some of my own ferts. i have enough going on for now though. i'll get to that another day!
 

Grandpa GreenJeans

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Thanks buddy. I am completly addicted to fermenting. To me, It doesnt get anymore ORGANIC than that, but it can be a pain in the ass and isnt as easy as "just add water", but its very rewarding to me. In all my years I have learned that a plant will return the favor to the grower based on his efforts. Basically, you get what you give. Thats why Ill go to the moon and back for my plants.

Barley straw is great stuff. All those hollow straws to fill with air and moisture. Excellent for adding a slow release of carbon to the plants and microbes. Great moisture barriar, and a prefered home for fungi. Once colonized by mycellium, its hard for insects to get inside to lay their eggs. Ive also had extremly good luck using coco bean shells in my soiless and as a mulch, soiless or real soil. I had it in with my casablanca Lillys, and the flower buds (unopen) were bigger than a banana. Once they opened the were wider than my head and so incredably fragrant. I could smell them down wind 80 feet down the driveway. Also trichoderma were the fungi that completly colonized the shells. And they are a huge benifit!
 

Grandpa GreenJeans

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I was participating the other day in a thread on best organic fertzs one has ever used. I threw my bokashi bucket up on there, but this is my thread and I think it also has a benifit to be on here since it's titled Real Organics.

I collect all my ingredients from the grocery store dumpster. It's free and loaded with microbial spores and cysts. When we ferment, we encourage only a few benificial microbes. These are flaculative anerobes. They are not anerobes or pathogenic. Flaculative anerobes can live and function within either enviroment. One flaculative anerobe everyone is familiar with is lacto bacillus, a bacteria solely responsible for the production of yogurt and keifer. Which are known for the antibiotic like effect and excellent digestive health benifits they give us. The bacteria and yeasts create an environment that's unsuitable and inhospitable pH for any bad bacteria and any aerobe, like what we all use in AACT. These aerobes stay dormant until the ferment is diluted or returns to a favorable condition. Then, once prompted to colonize, the soil and "pre chewed" fermented food waste is ready for its final decomposition. One that feed the soil and the plant. Worms go nuts for it too and you can guarantee a high EWC ratio with your beds or pots. Or give it to the worm bin.
The ingredients that you choose will dictate the final product. If you want a bloom fertilizer, add lots of fruits high in PK. If it's for veg, add leafy greens and fish. And you mix even ratio for a complete fertilizer. It's your call and really, anything goes. I like to add any thing that's yellow and orange like carrots. Very high in beta caratine and plants need that too. But the idea is to also add fruits that are very high in natural sugar, ie. Cantaloupe, figs, strawberries,ect.. microbes are all fueled by carbohydrates. I also add blackstrap molasses. High in calcium and magnesium plus iron.
The oatmeal in the picture is used for extra nutrient value and mainly as a sticker. In most bokashi tutorials it shows to spray the em1 onto grains or shredded newspaper and let it dry. Lol fuck that. I just add dry oatmeal in layers between the scraps and spray it with EM1. Save some wait time and extra hassel.
After you fill the whole bucket up with your layers it must be full with little to no headroom. This is an anerobic process and air is not conducive. Also make sure your bucket layers are pressed down as sto push out any trapped air within the layers.
An airlock or a loose cap is perfect for venting the C02 that produced as a byproduct. The mix will finish in about 1 month if you did things correctly. The smell should never be nasty or gross. It will smell like sweet vinager or clearly something that's fermented. If at any time you observe molds (black,blue,green,red) or bugs that may have enteted, don't use it. Dispose of that shit asap. Like I said before a sweet smell is desired. The liquid that drains off as leechate is liquid fertilizer. Give to plants @5ml/g for young to mid age. And @10-15ml/g for older/large plants. Non burning and immediately bio avaiable.
 

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VTMi'kmaq

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Here's some pumpkin I whipped up a week or 2 ago. Notice all the white yeast growth on the top? That means it's done.
I'm going to filter the liquid and top off the bokashi fermenter with the solids, and cover with oatmeal. No spray is necessary for this final layer of oatmeal as the pumpkin will hydrate it. View attachment 3531211View attachment 3531212 View attachment 3531213 View attachment 3531214
LMAO, that's almost how hoffman came across lysergic acid lol!
 

VTMi'kmaq

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balut jolokia, red clover black turtle beans, sweet stomper kush, lots of music.............and a nack for learning something new everyday here from you guys......Nah your right i think(if memory serves me) that he was messin with rye and molds, and accidentally tasted some or abouts idk tho its been eons since i studied hoffman.halloween plants 009.JPGhalloween plants 010.JPG new oct 005.JPG new oct 010.JPG
 

Grandpa GreenJeans

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balut jolokia, red clover black turtle beans, sweet stomper kush, lots of music.............and a nack for learning something new everyday here from you guys......Nah your right i think(if memory serves me) that he was messin with rye and molds, and accidentally tasted some or abouts idk tho its been eons since i studied hoffman.View attachment 3531216View attachment 3531217 View attachment 3531218 View attachment 3531219
LOVE IT!!!
looks like your gonna full this season too. Every sq.ft counts. That clover is a great idea! And the aloe is a must for foliar sprays. Very nice man. It's all about the naturals in life.
I never studied hoffman or did much lsd. I had a friend who ate a 10strip AND never full recovered to this day. I have always prefered alkaloids like mushrooms or mescaline.
 

ShLUbY

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balut jolokia, red clover black turtle beans, sweet stomper kush, lots of music.............and a nack for learning something new everyday here from you guys......Nah your right i think(if memory serves me) that he was messin with rye and molds, and accidentally tasted some or abouts idk tho its been eons since i studied hoffman.View attachment 3531216View attachment 3531217 View attachment 3531218 View attachment 3531219
oh no! you have some mites on your bean plants i'm thinking!!!!! :( i recognize that from the beans in my outdoor garden any day. careful with those bad boys! or are the beans a decoy from the cannabis??? there is a friggin epidemic of spider mites in my outdoor city garden from all the growers with mites around here dumping their shit outside and spreading them. it's gonna make the news one day i'll betcha, not that i'll be watching ;)

you are horticulturist correct? where did you go to school at? I have a little background from botany, soil management, couple chemistry, and geology classes. Continuing my education next year to get bachelors of science in ecology management and natural resources. school was not fun for me when i was younger, but when i finally figured out why i wanted to go, it turned me into a 4.0 student lol. amazing how that works right?
 
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