Poly-Mulch!

GreenSanta

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Hey everybody, here is a tip, poly-mulch! what that means is when you mulch your plants, its a good thing to divide your pots into 4 quadrants or more and switch up the mulch, you might have living mulch in one quadrant, dried weeds in another, comfrey in another.... you see what I am saying?? Different mulch support different types of micro organism and the more diverse it gets the more plants will dig it!

In nature, things arent perfect, sometimes things fall more on side of a plant or tree than the other, seasons change, different things happen... which takes me onto a different topic that greasemonkey mann is gonna love, layering!!

ahh just saw this...
DON'T layer...
really...
just don't
without necessarily layering, Id like to start a discussion here on soil layout, If the theory of the poly mulch holds true, it also means that in nature, sometimes there is more nutrients or available food on one side of the plant, less on the other , could this be beneficial!? Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and Id like to point that I am neither for or against layering, its all good guys!!
 

GreenSanta

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Well looks like I am the only one interested to the idea! BTW I got the idea from biological orchardist Michael Phillips on YouTube. I'm gonna start experimenting with...
 

DonBrennon

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Well looks like I am the only one interested to the idea! BTW I got the idea from biological orchardist Michael Phillips on YouTube. I'm gonna start experimenting with...
Always interested in different mulch ideas, i experimented with a rotting log in each of my pots with my straw mulch. The worms absolutely loved them, but i introduced all kinds of pests when i did it, lol
 

DonBrennon

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Been trying some diff living mulches with my container fruit tree's, and my favourites so far are Indian mint and creeping thyme, good ground cover and definitely detering the pests
 

GreenSanta

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Always interested in different mulch ideas, i experimented with a rotting log in each of my pots with my straw mulch. The worms absolutely loved them, but i introduced all kinds of pests when i did it, lol
I have found that most bugs that are not a typical pest of cannabis will eventually die indoor. I get beneficial insects every other week too so I'm really not that worried about introducing new pests anymore. The last one for me was spittlebugs but I picked most of them off and I think the mantis took care of the rest lol.
 

greasemonkeymann

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... which takes me onto a different topic that greasemonkey mann is gonna love, layering!!



without necessarily layering, Id like to start a discussion here on soil layout, If the theory of the poly mulch holds true, it also means that in nature, sometimes there is more nutrients or available food on one side of the plant, less on the other , could this be beneficial!? Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and Id like to point that I am neither for or against layering, its all good guys!!
I don't have any vendetta against layering, it's just nonsense.
now if your argument for mulch is to incorporate different microbes, that's hard to establish and argue, hard to prove OR disprove.
Just is more work than I want, I can't fathom any special microbe specie that I don't have in the compost and wormbin.

as far as layering the soil via "supersoil", we can have that discussion, but many have heard it all before from me.

A simple argument that doesn't get too technical would be this.
when and where is 99% of the plants nutrients derived from in nature?
detritus, compost, etc?
on TOP of the soil.

now layering water soluble nutrients at the BOTTOM of a container is just silly, for more than one reason (since I stupidly opened shop on a holiday and I am quite bored, i'll elaborate)
Here are my arguments against supersoil/layering.
1. Cannabis is a drought tolerant plant, and the roots upon transplant do this FIRST, they look for water, period. SO the roots SHOOT down to the depths of the container literally within hours of transplant. SO you now have a bloodmeal, guano'ey mess, anaerobic, ammonia-rich environment that those roots go to. What happens next? Those roots get pruned by the ph nightmare that's at the bottom of the soil.
2. Water soluble nutrients will be LONG washed away before those nutrients are cycled.
3. Bovine bone meal requires acidic conditions to even become available. Not to mention it could have disease causing prions in it.
4. Redundent nutrients.

Since tone is impossible to decipher from typed words, i'll add this here cat's happy surprised face to this to make sure everyone knows my intended attitude.
enjoy.
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