Soil without cooking?

shorelineOG

shorelineOG

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MistaRasta said:
I don't understand your question, are you asking why you don't pull as much when using synthetics vs organics?
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I yield more in hydro. Even in rich organic soil, I yield a lot more when I feed every watering with botanicare pure blend. It is a no till with tomatone, red wigglers and all the amendments.
 
DonBrennon

DonBrennon

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MistaRasta said:
Yes, mainly the malted barley. I'll water the bin with coconut water every once in a while. But a top dress with malted barley every week makes the worms go crazy. They love it
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I wonder if that's what came in the separate bag with the worms? , they call it worm fattening food, but it does look just like some kind of milled grain
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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shorelineOG said:
No, it was my own mix. Not too elaborate, but still rich and balanced. Feel like the worms balance and neutralize everything.
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a hydro grow usually outperforms in the sense of yields, especially at first, but after you get good at it, it'll be reaaally close.
But depending on your soil mix, it's probably from not enough nitrogen, or too many uncycled nutrients
 
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greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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shorelineOG said:
I was kind of thinking that, too about the nitrogen. Have all of you done comparisons with hydro?
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years and years ago.
The only comparison I do is when I see other products.
I just came back from hempcon in san Francisco, and the herb there was 98% hydro, and it wasn't impressive at all.
ONE booth there had herb that was worth a shit, the rest was CRAP.
 
DonBrennon

DonBrennon

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shorelineOG said:
I yield more in hydro. Even in rich organic soil, I yield a lot more when I feed every watering with botanicare pure blend. It is a no till with tomatone, red wigglers and all the amendments.
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I yielded more in hydro, it's like feeding a plant with an intravenous drip, if you were fed like this everyday without having to find food, you'd be fat as fuck, but also unhealthy as fuck, same principles apply IMO

The reason you see better results when adding bottled ferts to you 'supersoil', is probably because that soil is dead or out of balance, if there's a living nutrient cycling process going on, 'controlled by the plant', it will kill bottled nutes in soil.
 
DonBrennon

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DonBrennon said:
I yielded more in hydro, it's like feeding a plant with an intravenous drip, if you were fed like this everyday without having to find food, you'd be fat as fuck, but also unhealthy as fuck, same principles apply IMO

The reason you see better results when adding bottled ferts to you 'supersoil', is probably because that soil is dead or out of balance, if there's a living nutrient cycling process going on, 'controlled by the plant', it will kill bottled nutes in soil.
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sorry, thought you were using 'rev' supersoil, lol
 
DonBrennon

DonBrennon

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greasemonkeymann said:
Ahhh i see... well brother, ya got no nutrients in there man.
You need more inputs.
Alfalfa meal, crab meal, comfrey, manures, something.
That mix won't grow much flower..
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He might have the N covered with the grounds
MistaRasta said:
Yes, mainly the malted barley. I'll water the bin with coconut water every once in a while. But a top dress with malted barley every week makes the worms go crazy. They love it
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The best response I've seen is with the leftover curds from making lacto serum, they f-in loved it and went into a serious mating frenzy
 
DonBrennon

DonBrennon

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DonBrennon said:
He might have the N covered with the grounds


The best response I've seen is with the leftover curds from making lacto serum, they f-in loved it and went into a serious mating frenzy
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I didn't know what worm mating looked like then, and thought they were eating/crawling through each other, it took a couple of you tube videos to calm my nerves..........pmsl
 
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greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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DonBrennon said:
He might have the N covered with the grounds


The best response I've seen is with the leftover curds from making lacto serum, they f-in loved it and went into a serious mating frenzy
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meh... i'm not a fan of coffee grinds... I tried, and tried to like them...
I don't even use them in my wormbin anymore
 
DonBrennon

DonBrennon

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greasemonkeymann said:
meh... i'm not a fan of coffee grinds... I tried, and tried to like them...
I don't even use them in my wormbin anymore
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never used em myself, no real access to em, I drink tea, I'm from England......pmsl, joking apart, worms do love used tea bags. From what I've read though, there's plenty of n there, they're just slow to break down
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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shorelineOG said:
How come?
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worms didn't like it, plants didn't either.
It'd take a full 10 days for them to breakdown coffeegrinds, and um.. well... I drink coffee EVERY day..
Besides, the fruit that I give the worms they love, and they decimate that in like 2 days.
The worms would eat it if there was nothing else, but they wouldn't eat it at all if there is fruit in the bin..
They def have their preferences..
grapes, melons, avocados, pears, peaches... all frozen, thawed, and mashed into a slimy mess
 
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