endless humus building photo dump

[Gascanastan]

Outside cannabis plants can only take so much piss before they do that...trust me...been there. Once you have unlimited space outdoors to put plants wherever you can....you start doing all kinds of stuff.
..like seeing if you can piss a plant to death..yep.

 

[BlueJayWay]

Here's a picture a bit more directly on topic,

i haven't pissed on her.... yet

Endless humus building, right in the pot, from clone to finish and beyond ad infinetum

(little clover sprout on the bottom left, hehe)

 

[DARC MIND]

nice one BJW
got to get down like coba here

flow threw compost bin,directly were it counts "in the garden"..
lots of biocaccumilating plants growing near and around..

urban composting friends

& the final product

 

[S4703W]

Hey Darc, good idea for a topic and great photos everyone. I'm a new poster here but i've been following the organic section here for a while now. My favorite place on the internet! I used to be a full on chemical commando, but now the whole fam roll organic with me and da plants.

anyways i've been wanting to share my own organic stuff as well. the garden is smaller now, but quality is better than ever. I do one light and keep a few mothers/clones with flouros. My soil is over a year old now and it's been used for every cycle, i am constantly adding all sorts of stuff to the soil and reammend with homemade ewc fed by homemade compost. it just keeps getting better! if you're on the fence about organics hurry up and jump that shit man!!!

On to the pics
the first one is a bodhi seeds "tigers milk" a few days from chop. lovely stuff i call this one ramen cause she smells just like opening a ramen noodle beef flavoring thing for a couple weeks after chop, it turns into a more coffee herbal incense flavor and smell with more cure. this pheno has a strong head and body with it being more in the head for me but KO for others.

This girl is a strawberry something that i found in some random fem seeds(bout a week before harvest). Among my favorites in smell taste and effect. strawberry taste smell just delightful with a smooth cheery up high that if you keep chasing will leave you staring into space with chosen piece in hand.

this is some spider i caught dickin around in my basil

and this guy i just thought he looked like a real OG he aint even flinch when i shot him

and this is what i'm vaping and tried to take a macro of, it's a different pheno of the Bodhi TigersMilk leaning heavily to the cush/chemd side i believe. Taste is thick and mouth coating and right now to me it's like really sweet sage and incense and then sour grapes and a little heavier incense. Can't get enough of it right now, i can see how the cush got her name cause the sweet and sour taste alone is addictive. the high is equally fantastic for me, feels like 50/50 a little heavy if you overdo it but hits all the checkmarks for me.

 

[al-k-mist]

Fuckin, wow. Darc, this is an incredible picture thread. Amazing
Actually I have a royal purple kush in the flowering room, 2 of them, that are doing that, like the pic you showed. The medium was shitty down to earth soil ammended with whatever I had on hand then, neem, karanja, kelp...ones she used the complete organic fertilizer on didnt do that, and none of the lost coast og did either
The plants everyone has shown were just super sick.(sick in a good way...)
Thanks

 

[al-k-mist]

Hey, darc, did the plant by any chance look like these in the begining..in 1st pic its the top right, in 2nd its the 2 in the middle top, about 10 daze ago

 

[DARC MIND]

the "natural" defoliate happend to all my socal g13/hazes,NLHf2's & now its effecting my little blessing2 from the one called bodhi..

thoroughbred soil beneficials,in the form of compost

once a huge amount of biomass,

these guys can easily fully decompose rootballs with in a mounth.
making reusing humus rich living soil for next cycle,all not that hard,even with small containers.
active living soil simply needs organic matter & quality compost is king...get that down and growing is as easy as watering and top mulching...
real soil enthusiast spend most of ther time & energy building great compost or worm casting because when we grow,
all the essential amendments we added that make our soil organisms thrive(feeding the plant) have fuzed to both soil & & the "whole" plant, not just what we harvested...
this is the reason behind not throwing out the roots(rhizosphere);as thats were all the beneficials,time,energy & whats left of our nutrients are cycling...
we aim to recycle all that into greater greater soil,so the rhizosphere dominated soil need a rest period so the microheard can shift its energy to decomposing
recycling soil
by adding rock dust,casting,plant meals ect we help beef up & direct the herd to cycle essentials as active living soil, till we replant.

soil structures gets better,then the denseness most are fimiliar with rootballs.
as they have now all broken down to veins of humus rich,often mycelium covered networking systems..
the soil becomes more soft,spongy in a not soggy way & more importantly alive..

keep in mind that it helps having lots of soil curing & or activly growing around..
this keeps the girls dancing with out the wait of turning 70+%rootmass,back into 100% living soil.

 

[DARC MIND]

and the saga continues

and the saga continues

so we have been filling this bin with ease as thers plenty of biomass generating in the garden..

basically straw,screen caught compost/casting layers combined with fresh gandule mulch,rabbit droppings
& a diversity of what fools may consider "weeds";stacked to the top..

the quick return holes are then filled with a holistic blend of

FPE:yarrow flwrs,comfrey,lambsQ,nettle
honey
dry yarrow grns,nettle & alfalfa
fresh comfrey,dandelion,borage & sowthistle
1 cup for each hole,

then filled with native soil,compost and spent coffee grounds & mulched..
quick return prep
worms live in and all around this bin,plus i have more then plenty plus a diversity of decomposers combined in
the layering and quick return prep;who do all the mixing & back straining "turning" for the brother..

the pile sinks 3-4inches a day,were rockdust,coffee grounds,char & daily scraps are fed to the top

keeping the worms doing ther thing
we harvest from the bottom up,most worms stay at the top & that stays for next cycle.

the quality speaks for it self,practically every image i plan to share has every thing to do with this classic art,
of directing the natural rhythm of energy around us..

 

[Gascanastan]

Yes sir~

 

[Amber Trich]

what up with the honey?

 

[DARC MIND]

what up with the honey?

i use honey because we tend a couple "local" hives and from 'Common Sence Composting',its used for "glucose"
i find the use of it, very similar to the reason behind molasses being added to ACT and have combined or substituted with the same quick return results
common sence compost/quick return method

her easy herbal activator recipe

Honey is always included; it is a powerful activator -- very lively.

Nettle is an essential; it is the only plant I know containing carbonic acid and ammonia. Alternatives are:

1st: Yarrow Nettle Honey
2nd: Chamomile Coltsfoot Nettle Honey
3rd: Chamomile Dandelion Nettle Honey

many who are familiar with the biodynamic method will take notice to the many bio-accumulating plants that are generated and used in this process.
along with the screened caught material from what was just harvested & a diversity of natural inoculants (ACT,LAB culture,BIM,AEM,ect)

quality compost continues to generate at the same ratio i add,
not really the plan just how i eat,part of who i am...

^^screen material gets a handful of rockdust,neem cake,plant meals & moistened with a aerated brew of what it all will eventually turn to in a few wks.
cured humus rich living compost

links to deeper understanding
the decomposition process
composting fundamentals
curing compost
humus and organic matter

 

[BlueJayWay]

Great stuff Darc, you're gonna help a lot of people understand what making quality compost is all about, and inspire me to kick it in to high gear

My climate makes it very hard to grow much let alone actively compost but for a few months a year.

I'm starting some smart pot worm bins in the garage and will use a base of half composted yard and kitchen "stuff" that will otherwise sit under snow till April, and lots of oak leaves, some bags of Malibu compost and layer it with dustings of rock dusts kelp nettle and the usual suspects.

When I get the worms I'll probably throw some in my no-till pots as well. I have 5 gal 7gal 18gal and 45gal no till setups, over. The next couple runs ill decide which is most ideal and probably switch everything over to those....also picked up some 15gal smart pots to use as well.

 

[Amber Trich]

really really like the common-sense compost thing! other interesting reading on that webpage too ..bookmarked..

good info

 

[Coba]

before...

then,

and, with a little coaxing...

 

[Coba]

the goods...

 

[Coba]

moar goodz...

 

[OrganicLearner]

Did you have any bsf grubs in there or did the wigglers devour all that meat?

 

[BlueJayWay]

someone ate a lot of shrimp!

 

[Coba]

Did you have any bsf grubs in there or did the wigglers devour all that meat?

Not on purpose (with the grubs). the last time I threw a raw mahi mahi bloodline directly into my worm bin... was THE last time I threw raw fish meat directly into the worm bin... P-U! the worms ate it all... I was worried though.

All that is buried beneath 2-3' of leaves for the winter.

I read about a neat trick on how to pre-compost some worm bin fodder that may be too moist (90+% water) or too gross to just put in there raw. Take two 5 gallon buckets and 1 lid, drill holes in the bottom of one bucket.

then line the bottom of the first one with leaf litter, SPM or I'm using alfalfa fed horse hockey ATM. put your raw worm food in on top of the liner, then put some more liner on top of that to cover it completely, lid that bucket, then put the first bucket inside the second. gradually, the first bucket will drain into the second bucket, drain the second bucket every so often ( I use that stinky run-off water to water some landscaping behind the house ) and wait a couple of months, it'll be good worm food w/o all the drama.

 

[OrganicLearner]

Oh I see. Your pre worm bin sounds a lot like my attempt of having a worm farm only my buckets are 3 gal. pots with cardboard lining the bottom of top pot.

I think I might have to abandon this one and use it to do what you're saying and make another one to add the material from failed bin attempt because I have been starting to see maggots in there recently..