Recycled Organic Living Soil (ROLS) and No Till Thread

hyroot

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Yeah Idk who the hell that guy is but seeing that video for his first video, I don't think I'd watch others lmao.
he's actually pretty famous. Jorge Cervantes. He grow videos that came out 10 years ago and he was wearing a deadlock wig in the videos. His video on outdoor has some good tips though. Where to place your plants. What kindo of natural dirt / ground is good etc...
 

AllDayToker

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he's actually pretty famous. Jorge Cervantes. He grow videos that came out 10 years ago and he was wearing a deadlock wig in the videos. His video on outdoor has some good tips though. Where to place your plants. What kindo of natural dirt / ground is good etc...
Well shit I respect my elders and that generation of growing styles, but I mean if I would of paid more attention in college I took a year of soil science I would know that much. I mean I remember some things haha, and to know where good ground is was not a hard thing to remember. My state is actually known for having the best soil for the country. :D

I bet there is some good info if you watched them all but any person worried about their reputation might not be so laid back. Eh maybe they are and they don't give a fuck. I don't know haha. I just know I wouldn't do crazy videos like that, I like getting a good reputation around my parts because I build a good customer base.

Any person that has taken some bs 1 hour business class knows loyal/returning customers are your bread and butter.
 

cannakis

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I have a couple compost bins in my back yard made from old pallets. Granted I don't pay them much attention as it is only used once a year on my veggie garden, but I am no where close to 18 days to get finished compost. Probably closer to 18 months. lol
I'm guessing my C:N ratio is off.
haha yeah, well and the big thing at least for me is getting the Big pile wet.! The bigger pile the better, and turn in to out. Most compost bins are just that, a small bin, and only constitutes Cold composting which Does take 6-12 months to break down, and you lose a third of the original mass, And chunks of material left over.

Hot Composting--bigile at least cubic yard and carbon to nitrogen ratio of 50:1, nice and wet, provides same amount of mass, it will break down almost Anything including bones, and three weeks you have beautiful airy soil.!

Cold composting is common and good for confined areas, but time consuming. Hot composting you need the room and Is Very Laborious especially for those not accustomed to such hard work, and saves time. Though you can't "really" add more to it once it's going, but you could have a pile continually going if you wanted to tweak your turning and placement of the pile, or just have at least two piles which you use one to help feed the other with hot activator and make a new pile every 10 days with last weeks waste.
 
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cannakis

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haha yeah, well and the big thing at least for me is getting the Big pile wet.! The bigger pile the better, and turn in to out. Most compost bins are just that, a small bin, and only constitutes Cold composting which Does take 6-12 months to break down, and you lose a third of the original mass, And chunks of material left over.

Hot Composting--big pile at least cubic yard and carbon to nitrogen ratio of 50:1, nice and wet, provides same amount of mass, it will break down almost Anything including bones, and three weeks you have beautiful airy soil.!

Cold composting is common and good for confined areas, but time consuming. Hot composting you need the room and Is Very Laborious especially for those not accustomed to such hard work, and saves time. Though you can't "really" add more to it once it's going, but you could have a pile continually going if you wanted to tweak your turning and placement of the pile, or just have at least two piles which you use one to help feed the other with hot activator and make a new pile every 10 days with last weeks waste.
But I Will say Even though earthworms Do move into a hot composted pile once its finished, I Am making an indoor worm bin to compost kitchen waste from work, and honestly worth having to Add to the hot composted compost. But you know now thinking about it the I am not adding More waste to the bins untilthey finish a batch... Right?
 

SouthernSoil*

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You can get a good bit of variety from seeds of the same strain. That bagseed looks killer :)
Thank you bro, i planted another one of those bagseeds : ) i just took a whiff off of them damn The Church smells so dope, i dont know how im going to smoke this bud when it flowers, probably just look at it all the time !
 

smokey the cat

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So you just use left over plant material from your garden and waste vegetable scraps? How is odor control with that? Nothing like alfalfa meal or rock dust or other special ingredients into the bin?

Thanks.

ETA: To be clear. I'm essentially looking for a list of ingredients that an individual could buy, mix together, and 'cook' to get good compost. A quick reference for a beginner, handicapped, or 'lazy' individual. I'm going through the threads and formulating my own idea, just wanted to see some other opinions. Looking for 'regular' methods because some people are put off by the idea of earthworms.
I give mine all the veg and fruit waste, coffee grounds, eggshells. Newsprint and cardboard layers. Bits of old plants and garden crap. Start piling this stuff, keep it a little moist and turn it occasionally if you're impatient - it'll turn into compost.

It wont get hot unless it's big enough, cold it takes a little longer. Treat it like a living organism and look to increase variety of inputs - kelp, rock dusts, oyster shell, comfrey, whatever. Compost thread here blows my mind.

Smell is minimal for me - avoid meat and fish. You wouldn't want a compost beside your front door, but any unused corner of earth will do.
 

PeaceLoveCannabis

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Anyone have any recommendations on how to keep unwanted critters out of the worm bins? This time i think i am going to use a garbage can. So i can put a lid on it, before i relocated i had a bin going with no cover. Finally i realized i was not feeding my worms but my neighborhood rats. I really want to make good vermicompost! Anyone else find themselves feeding other stuff besides there worms?
 

greasemonkeymann

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Anyone have any recommendations on how to keep unwanted critters out of the worm bins? This time i think i am going to use a garbage can. So i can put a lid on it, before i relocated i had a bin going with no cover. Finally i realized i was not feeding my worms but my neighborhood rats. I really want to make good vermicompost! Anyone else find themselves feeding other stuff besides there worms?
gotta remember that its an ecosystem, there are little mites (not the bad ones), and bugs all sorts of critters in there, as far as I know they are symbiotic, there aren't too bad, if you have a fly or gnat problem, keep a thick layer of dry newspaper on top of the wet ones, they WILL have bugs though...
 

PeaceLoveCannabis

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gotta remember that its an ecosystem, there are little mites (not the bad ones), and bugs all sorts of critters in there, as far as I know they are symbiotic, there aren't too bad, if you have a fly or gnat problem, keep a thick layer of dry newspaper on top of the wet ones, they WILL have bugs though...
I know what you mean about the mites, and the little cridders of the soil. ( It seems like gnats are EVERYWHERE HERE). Do you keep yours open or closed? Like lid on, or off. Maybe a screen to keep large animals out? One time i even had a racoon in my garage looking at my worm bin! I guess i have bad luck with worms!
 

hyroot

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sunflowers seeds were a bitch and took a while to puree . Turned the water brownish. Barely any foam (I know foam doesn't matter). The mung beans would produce foam almost like cotton candy.. The water would stay clear or maybe a little white. Anyway is this the norm with sunflower seeds? The plants seemed to respond well. Not praying as much as with mung beans.

whole foods has barley seed unhulled now. I'm going to pick some up. Maybe bake the rest of the sunflower seeds
 

greasemonkeymann

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I know what you mean about the mites, and the little cridders of the soil. ( It seems like gnats are EVERYWHERE HERE). Do you keep yours open or closed? Like lid on, or off. Maybe a screen to keep large animals out? One time i even had a racoon in my garage looking at my worm bin! I guess i have bad luck with worms!
I have an extremely low-tech wormbin, but they churn out the EWC like mad, but I just use smartpots, not sure the size, but you can use any size. Fill the bottom with a layer of old soil, then composted leaves, then old cannabis, then shredded newspaper/cardboard, then the normal worm food.
I can't say that my ways keep out raccoons because there is a un-fixed german shepard that live on my property and it pisses on the circumference of the property... lil fucker is good for that.... anyways it keeps the deer, foxes, raccoon, possums, etc, etc. away, so i'm not sure if my methods are good for everybody
 

Pattahabi

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Hyroot, these are malted by a malting house for optimal enzymes (sunflower seeds also). Beer people are crazy about their enzyme levels. This is going to be a little experiment, we'll see how it goes. I have only been able to find enzyme levels for the specific enzymes beer brewers are looking for (mainly Amylase). These are but a few enzymes that contribute to a soil's health: Amylase, Arylsulphatase, Β-Glucosidase, Cellulase, Chitinase, Dehydrogenase, Phosphatase, Protease, and Urease.

Peace!
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greasemonkeymann

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Greasemonkey- That's what I did a couple winters ago. 15 gallon Geopots on a base I made with wire mesh (for airflow underneath) and on 1" ball bearing "wheels."

Low tech and super effective. The aeration all around is biggie, IMHO
works fabulous, and I didn't have to buy anything, except the worms, but they are loving it, and they eat like crazy.
I've found their number one favorite food is rotten apples, that have been frozen and then defrosted, I put them in a plastic bag and mush em in my hands, they are so soft from being frozen that they make a nice slimey rottony-like applesauce, they eat that stuff up like MAD, a gigantic writhing mass of worms, plus I've found that apples don't smell much when bad. Problem is they ignore all the other food when they get apples, they don't seem to like coffee grinds as much as i'd like them to, I drink coffee like crazy and I have to throw away a lot of grinds...
Avocados they like too
 

greasemonkeymann

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sunflowers seeds were a bitch and took a while to puree . Turned the water brownish. Barely any foam (I know foam doesn't matter). The mung beans would produce foam almost like cotton candy.. The water would stay clear or maybe a little white. Anyway is this the norm with sunflower seeds? The plants seemed to respond well. Not praying as much as with mung beans.

whole foods has barley seed unhulled now. I'm going to pick some up. Maybe bake the rest of the sunflower seeds
I still think something was weird with your seeds, my tea was a little whitish-grey and the mashed up just fine, I don't puree (down to only one coffee grinder and its purpose is coffee) but mashing them up was easy enough.
My tea didn't froth a whole lot either though, smelled nice and the plants loved it, like I said before it brought a LOT of new growth on my lavender, roses, dahlia and jasmine plants.
In fact one of my roses bloomed again, which isn't normal this late for that rose. Weird.. but good
 
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