Next time you're wandering around the Olympic forest areas, find the right fungi and you'll see thousands of these hopping around - seriously.
Next time you're wandering around the Olympic forest areas, find the right fungi and you'll see thousands of these hopping around - seriously.
haha what would the hanky be for?
No other plant on Earth gets this kind of BS applied to it as if fact
is this a good place to debunk sub's "supersoil" hot bottom-layer method?
Human beings fuck up on a grand scale on a very, very regular basis, Gascan.
Just sayin'....
Wurd.... incompetence in rampant and spreading faster than a slime mold.
Funny...could buy hyglow-zyme or make your own EM-1....or a lacto bacillus culture would be just as effective....for free.put some hydrozyme on that.
organic matter breaks down underground
It depends on what you view as natural, also what your "spike" is made of..
One example of a spike with a lot of nitrogen would be a dead animal, or a pile of predator poop, pretty damn hot for a while, concentrated in one area, and for sure as it decomposes, the nutrients are going to head down pretty directly, due to gravity and rain.
Certainly, out there in nature, there's nobody stirring up your compost, or mixing aeration ingredients, or any of the other things we do..
I know what you mean but the spikes themselves rely on living soil, otherwise they will burn roots/leavesThat you apparently need to place into the spike, blood, guano and other nitrogen materials with a high solubility ratio seems to indicate not relying on the life of the soil for nutrient delivery.
yeah all purp being something like foxfarm 555 or coast of maine all purposeI do not know what all purp is but assume all purpose fertilzer. Is this not a step away rather than a step towards the philosophy of living soil? Not saying that it is not organic but perhaps not keeping with the title TLO or whatever.
s far as big lumps on the soil/ground in nature, I concur with Gascan that if something in nature survives intact in one place the plants proximal to it die back for a year or so. If you observe a cow pie that is dropped in a meadow it causes a lack of grass growth except for a few inches away surrounding it. This ring of growth is caused by the soluble leach coming from the manure. The same can be said for piles of horse apples (hmmm....must be lunch time soon).
However once these 'piles' have been dried by the air and sun, attacked by beetles and worms and fungi and bacteria/archaea they rapidly degrade into living soil nutrients and the grass abounds.
so there is an initial hot time of die back but then things boom.. that is like the spike.
by the time the root is in the vicinity things are apparently ready to boom
But in the meantime, sure the hell ain't nuthin' gonna grow there until that dead animal is completely gone, either.
So, again, until that "spike" is totally and completely composted ain't nuthin' gonna grow in that spot, either, and for the relatively short life span of a marijuana plant I ask again - how could that possibly be good? It seems like a common sense thing to me.
To each his/her own.
Jerry