Indoor No Till Deep Soil Bed

organicterra · Sep 25, 2011

I wanted to show you guys my soil bed I just set up in my tent. It's a 150 gallon smart pot holding my homemade soil mix. The container measures 45" x 22".
I am doing this no till style and will be adding homemade compost, worm castings and plant inputs such as yarrow, comfrey, dandelion and eventually nettle in the forms of mulch and FPE.
I have a bark mulch for now and am really liking how well it insulates the soil.

Some of you may have seen this already but I think there's a few here who might be interested.
Thanks for looking

Microbeman · Sep 25, 2011

Nice job. I'd like to try this sometime combined with crimson clover (not to be confused with red clover but that's good too). Crimson clover (& it's bacteria) is supposed to fix copious amounts of N to the soil. It is also a beautiful plant.
http://informedfarmers.com/crimson-clover/

budman678 · Sep 25, 2011

woah! very cool

Iron_Lion · Sep 25, 2011

Interesting idea. What strain is that? it looks like OG kush.

Scrappy4 · Sep 25, 2011

I bet your not moving that tent for a while, eh?

I thought of making a wooden box for my flower box before but I like your method better.

It will be interesting t see if some cuts dominate over others....scrappy

mad librettist · Sep 26, 2011

Microbeman said:
Nice job. I'd like to try this sometime combined with crimson clover (not to be confused with red clover but that's good too). Crimson clover (& it's bacteria) is supposed to fix copious amounts of N to the soil. It is also a beautiful plant.
http://informedfarmers.com/crimson-clover/

it also does very well with cannabis in pots. It will flower during veg and veg during flower.

organicterra · Sep 26, 2011

Microbeman said:
Nice job. I'd like to try this sometime combined with crimson clover (not to be confused with red clover but that's good too). Crimson clover (& it's bacteria) is supposed to fix copious amounts of N to the soil. It is also a beautiful plant.
http://informedfarmers.com/crimson-clover/

Thanks for stopping by Microbeman!
Crimson clover sounds like a great living mulch plant.

budman678 said:
woah! very cool

Thanks budman

Iron_Lion said:
Interesting idea. What strain is that? it looks like OG kush.

You guessed it. OG Kush (Fire cut) yada yada whatever.

Scrappy4 said:
I bet your not moving that tent for a while, eh?

I thought of making a wooden box for my flower box before but I like your method better.

It will be interesting t see if some cuts dominate over others....scrappy

Yeah it's a beast. It only took me about 30 min to fill it. 30 gallon trash cans of soil on a handtruck and a short handled square point.

mad librettist said:
it also does very well with cannabis in pots. It will flower during veg and veg during flower.

Sounds interesting.
Still not sure about the companion plants atm. I think I would rather fill her up with cannabis.
The bark mulch is amazing however. I've only put 10 gallons of water so far and its staying very moist.

jaykush · Sep 26, 2011

listen to mad, hes not mad he knows what hes talking about.

organicterra · Sep 26, 2011

jaykush said:
listen to mad, hes not mad he knows what hes talking about.

I'm sure he does jaykush, as do you. Thanks for stopping by.
I'll keep an open mind. I can get white clover seed from my local nursery and have seen micro clover as well.

For those slighty curious about my girl. Here are some shots from my last run.

SilverSurfer_OG · Sep 26, 2011

Nice work.

I have one of these puppies on the go too.

Putting in german chamomile and a beneficial insect blend containing over 10 re-seeding annual and perennial flowers, herbs and grasses. Includes red clover, caraway, dill, coriander, alfalfa, marigolds and stuff.

Idea being to use as a living mulch and also to cut and drop if they getting too tall.

Should be a winner i reckon. :rasta:

guest2012y · Sep 26, 2011

I'll be watchin' this one.
Running the same pots no-till for a 3rd time in a row now. No issues so far....in fact it's awesome.
Peace
CC1

Bueno Time · Sep 26, 2011

Insanely amazing! This is going to be something to watch.

organicterra · Sep 26, 2011

Couple tent shots.
A/C rocks for the summer heat waves.

organicterra · Sep 26, 2011

Soil mix.

Base mix is peat moss, coco coir, compost, ewc and pumice/perlite.

Amendments are neem seed meal, fish meal, fish bone meal, alfalfa meal, soybean meal, soft rock phosphate, kelp meal, crab meal, k mag, oyster shell powder, gypsum, dolomite lime, and a hefty dose of glacial rock dust.

My compost component is made up of homemade compost, malibu bu's blend and marwest.

organicterra · Sep 26, 2011

Bueno Time said:
Insanely amazing! This is going to be something to watch.

SilverSurfer_OG said:
Nice work.

I have one of these puppies on the go too.

Putting in german chamomile and a beneficial insect blend containing over 10 re-seeding annual and perennial flowers, herbs and grasses. Includes red clover, caraway, dill, coriander, alfalfa, marigolds and stuff.

Idea being to use as a living mulch and also to cut and drop if they getting too tall.

Should be a winner i reckon.

Capt.Cheeze1 said:
I'll be watchin' this one.
Running the same pots no-till for a 3rd time in a row now. No issues so far....in fact it's awesome.
Peace
CC1

Hey guys thanks for stopping by. I'd love to see some pics of your soil beds.
I'm curious if the tropf blumats would be a good fit for this set up. The depth of the bed is really my only concern.

rrog · Sep 26, 2011

I'm using tall 7 gallon pails with the Max BluMat system. So far, so good

organicterra · Oct 4, 2011

rrog said:
I'm using tall 7 gallon pails with the Max BluMat system. So far, so good

Thanks rrog, do the Max BluMat's tie together like the patio set?

Ok so here's some pics from last night. Two weeks since transplant into the soil bed. They got 24 hrs dark then 12/12.

rrog · Oct 4, 2011

I believe they are strung together the same, yes. I'm just using the bigger max "carrots" and distribution drippers. Also running well water, so I have the BluMat pressure reducer

organicterra · Oct 21, 2011

Day 28 flower.
I'm curious to hear some thoughts on how to manage this bed over the long term.
One unknown is how quickly the old root systems will breakdown and if there are any potential issues with running this type of no till bed as a perpetual flower room with no real breaks in between rounds.
Any thoughts?

Iron_Lion · Oct 21, 2011

Seriously great grow :good:

The only down fall with bed growing is that science shows it works best when all of the plants in the grow space are of the same genetics.

Here is an excerpt from a thread I made a while back that explains how plants recognize their own kin and have improved growth when their neighbors are related to them.

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=210399

Plants Can Recognize and Prefer Their Kin

HAMILTON, ONTARIO, CANADA–The apparently passive garden plant is not as easy-going as people assume, at least not with strangers. Researchers at McMaster University have found that plants become competitive when forced to share a pot with strangers of the same species, but they are more friendly when potted with their siblings.

“The ability to recognize and favor kin is common in animals, but this is the first time it has been shown in plants,” said Dr. Susan Dudley, associate professor of biology at McMaster University in Hamilton.”When plants share their pots, they get competitive and start growing more roots, which allows them to grab water and mineral nutrients before their neighbors get them,” Dudley explains.

Biologist Susan Dudley is the first to discover that plants recognize their kin. “It appears, though, that they only do this when sharing a pot with unrelated plants; when they share a pot with family they don’t increase their root growth,” the biologist says.

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