Greasemonkey's Compost Pile

calliandra said:

LMAO thanks for the warning, I'll make sure to never ever go there haha, I get too much seed inspiration hereabouts as is!

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just the damn Bodhi thread...
I swear...
that being said I reaaaaaally wanna try the lavender x jack herer...
droollll...

greasemonkeymann said:

just the damn Bodhi thread...
I swear...
that being said I reaaaaaally wanna try the lavender x jack herer...
droollll...

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LMAO see? sounds enticing!

greasemonkeymann said:

just the damn Bodhi thread...
I swear...
that being said I reaaaaaally wanna try the lavender x jack herer...
droollll...

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My mate just laid out £140 for a pack of jack herer from sensi, but he left em with another mate to germ, who proceeded to kill em all. He brought em round to mine after a week of them being in wet paper towels. It looked like they'd cracked then been allowed to dry, gutted, I had my name all over his males and was getting cuts of the fems.
I'm gonna propose we put to for another pack, with the same plan as before, but I'll pop em and let him grow em out. I've got 9 SSDD and 7 PK x livers seedlings to play with at the mo, hoping for more, but they'd defo be stragglers

Just added Kiwifruit to compost

DonBrennon said:

My mate just laid out £140 for a pack of jack herer from sensi, but he left em with another mate to germ, who proceeded to kill em all. He brought em round to mine after a week of them being in wet paper towels. It looked like they'd cracked then been allowed to dry, gutted, I had my name all over his males and was getting cuts of the fems.
I'm gonna propose we put to for another pack, with the same plan as before, but I'll pop em and let him grow em out. I've got 9 SSDD and 7 PK x livers seedlings to play with at the mo, hoping for more, but they'd defo be stragglers

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a travesty!
shit I don't let the tails even pop out, I plant as SOON as they "oyster"
haven't lost a seed in yrs.

greasemonkeymann said:

a travesty!
shit I don't let the tails even pop out, I plant as SOON as they "oyster"
haven't lost a seed in yrs.

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I soak overnight or for 12 hours in water, gently push into surface of moist soil, cover with damp vermiculite, pop em in propagator. Works a treat usually..................this time had a bit of a temperature problem, pmsl. Woke up morning after putting in soil, it was freezing, thought, they could do with a bit of heat, so set my heat mat on low............sure enough, turned out to be one of the hottest days of the year and I'm very lucky not to have roasted ALL of my beans. Opened the prop when I got back from work and it was like when you crack the door of a sauna(maybe slightly exaggerated). I reckon anything that had already 'oystered' got roasted that day, the survivors have been creeping up since, but look ok. Reckon I've lost 10 beans in total, but 7 of them were freebie's, good un's, but 3 were also SSDD though, shit!!!

DonBrennon said:

I soak overnight or for 12 hours in water, gently push into surface of moist soil, cover with damp vermiculite, pop em in propagator. Works a treat usually..................this time had a bit of a temperature problem, pmsl. Woke up morning after putting in soil, it was freezing, thought, they could do with a bit of heat, so set my heat mat on low............sure enough, turned out to be one of the hottest days of the year and I'm very lucky not to have roasted ALL of my beans. Opened the prop when I got back from work and it was like when you crack the door of a sauna(maybe slightly exaggerated). I reckon anything that had already 'oystered' got roasted that day, the survivors have been creeping up since, but look ok. Reckon I've lost 10 beans in total, but 7 of them were freebie's, good un's, but 3 were also SSDD though, shit!!!

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heh, I have a weird method...
I have an oldschool receiver for my surround sound, a nice old onkyo, and i'll be damned if that onkyo doesn't stay a nice like maybe 90 degrees or so
put the beans in a shotglass full of water, put on top of the receiver, and they oyster within 24 hrs
hell my last Bodhi seeds oystered in less than 8 hrs.
put them in before work, I went to work, came home and they had cracked

I have a few tons of leaves and pine needles about to fall. Should I collect the extra into a chicken coop style containment to keep just leaves? And use them somehow later? Second question, if I run out of grass for my compost box can I use Nitro Bat Guano in between the leaves?


Here comes fall!! I'm excited to be making dirt lol

I found the answers in the thread.. The leaves you can just capture and the green input was on the third post lol

greasemonkeymann said:

You can use coffee grinds, grass clippings, nitrogen bat guano or seabird guano, fresh "feed" alfalfa for like horses, fresh bull kelp (if you can find it), fish carcasses, rabbit manure, rabbit bedding, etc.
All those will work FINE as your "green" input between the leaves.

After the thermophlic portion of the compost is done, you can add a handful of your worm castings from your wormbin if you have one.
I added a tiny ass palmful of castings with the baby white worms just hatched and like ten days later my whole damn pile was crawling with worms, waaaay more than my wormbin

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MeJuana said:

I have a few tons of leaves and pine needles about to fall. Should I collect the extra into a chicken coop style containment to keep just leaves? And use them somehow later? Second question, if I run out of grass for my compost box can I use Nitro Bat Guano in between the leaves?


Here comes fall!! I'm excited to be making dirt lol

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leaf mold takes a LONG time to make, but is supposed to be about the most perfect growing media after it's completed.
it's pure leaves, no nitrogen input, and it takes a few years to make.
I've never made it personally, tried once, but after a yr the damn leaves looked pretty much the same, so I lost patience, and composted them and they were melted in about a month.
I would be ALL over hoarding as much leaves as possible, I always do.
if I had the room i'd be making my own compost business.

try and source a type of fish to add to it, it's always a good thing to have a fungal based compost to pair with the bacteria rich worm castings.
fish meal, grass clippings, and steer manure are my favs for green inputs

--side note--
I LOVE the sig you have.
composting cardboard into marijuana
awesome
I LOVE cardboard as a cover on top of all my containers, esp in the summer, the roots grow through the cardboard and you can literally GROW your rootball vertically

Thanks greasemonkeymann you are awesome I really appreciate all the information you pass along. Yeah I trip on being able to compost cardboard. Regarding the leaves I have a huge area set aside for them now, it's a shady area that things don't tend to grow in I will let them set so hopefully in a few years I will have some mold.

there's ways to encourage the leaves to breakdown quicker. have a great fall.

greasemonkeymann said:

if I had the room i'd be making my own compost business.

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I am going to hold you to that man!!! Just kidding.

Here is a pic of the pine bark that I have been screening out of my "Metro-Mix" soil. Man, what a pain! Most of the soil is on its 4-5th recycle, so I have been fucking with this stuff for a while. Thanks for telling me to screen my compost! You probably inadvertently fixed all of my soil problems when you told me to screen my "almost done" compost. Hell, I started to run ALL of my soil through the screen now!!!

My son LOVED all of the dirt coming his way. There is a tray that he is sitting on for the left-overs.



I have about 100gallons of this stuff now!!! What do I do with it?

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Here is some Bodhi seedlings from the screened soil... Looking better than ever! LOL, I have these ladies(hope) under a 4ft 8-bulb T5. Probably overkill on the light.


Bodhi's Dragon Fruit has some nice looking seedlings! The whole pack was healthy looking like this.

MustangStudFarm said:

I am going to hold you to that man!!! Just kidding.

Here is a pic of the pine bark that I have been screening out of my "Metro-Mix" soil. Man, what a pain! Most of the soil is on its 4-5th recycle, so I have been fucking with this stuff for a while. Thanks for telling me to screen my compost! You probably inadvertently fixed all of my soil problems when you told me to screen my "almost done" compost. Hell, I started to run ALL of my soil through the screen now!!!

My son LOVED all of the dirt coming his way. There is a tray that he is sitting on for the left-overs.
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I have about 100gallons of this stuff now!!! What do I do with it?

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nice dude!
hey and that leftover forest scrap is totally fine for a carbon input on this yrs pile.
just layer that or even better, run it through a mulcher with your leaves, or you can just mix it in with the layer of leaves too, to accelerate it a lil faster have the wood parts on the side facing the layer of your "green" input.
so grass, alfalfa, cannabis leaves, whatever.
another option is to layer it next to any amendments that are higher in nitrogen, like fish meal, shrimp meal, etc.
you could also charge it similar to biochar when mixing it in, to help it go faster.
probably not needed though as I imagine it to be composted by the time the next pile is done.

greasemonkeymann said:

nice dude!
hey and that leftover forest scrap is totally fine for a carbon input on this yrs pile.
just layer that or even better, run it through a mulcher with your leaves, or you can just mix it in with the layer of leaves too, to accelerate it a lil faster have the wood parts on the side facing the layer of your "green" input.
so grass, alfalfa, cannabis leaves, whatever.
another option is to layer it next to any amendments that are higher in nitrogen, like fish meal, shrimp meal, etc.
you could also charge it similar to biochar when mixing it in, to help it go faster.
probably not needed though as I imagine it to be composted by the time the next pile is done.

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It's hard to tell how much rabbit manure is there, but it is a lot! I also have three of my 3'x3' worm bin stalls ready. I could empty my worm bins and refill them with the stuff from the ground.

Also, I have my compost on the side that is full of leaves and grass. Should I add the leaves/grass first and start layering it with wood chips and rabbit manure worm castings?

MustangStudFarm said:

It's hard to tell how much rabbit manure is there, but it is a lot! I also have three of my 3'x3' worm bin stalls ready. I could empty my worm bins and refill them with the stuff from the ground.

Also, I have my compost on the side that is full of leaves and grass. Should I add the leaves/grass first and start layering it with wood chips and rabbit manure worm castings?
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yea you could do that, the rabbit manure will def match with the wood shrapnel just fine.
so would the worm castings, you could very easily use the wood and castings mixed together for the worm bedding.
but if the castings and rabbit manure is ready i'd use t for your soil, but if you don't need any soil then you could easily use the wood shrapnel for a worm bedding, or any part of your compost that is matched with nitrogen

Had to come back and look at the setup you used for your compost pile. Got a composter from my neighbor, the one you can turn. Hopefully it'll make some good compost.

Joe Blows Trees said:

Had to come back and look at the setup you used for your compost pile. Got a composter from my neighbor, the one you can turn. Hopefully it'll make some good compost.

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I've often sat in a THC addled daze, dreaming about a bigass cement truck... filled with compost.
yea, I got problems

greasemonkeymann said:

I've often sat in a THC addled daze, dreaming about a bigass cement truck... filled with compost.
yea, I got problems

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Hahahahahaha