Hecno's on going organics

[Bob's Auto's]

G'Day guys , end of week 5 and the soil is doing mighty fine . I did add in small of amount liquid Bat Guano - seaweed - molasses - one time then just fish pond water , the growth for the week has been real good and the nitrogen the plants are getting is all from the soil or what ever is in the pond water . I have also done no training these time , but I have done leaf tucking and trimming leaf's that are shading , I like to do it around week 4 and 5 , JSL auto is a Jack -- cross between [ Jack Herer x White Widow ] x Summer Love . by @gorilla ganja . so here we are View attachment 1580968View attachment 1580969View attachment 1580970View attachment 1580971View attachment 1580972View attachment 1580973View attachment 1580974View attachment 1580975
@Teetee Plenty of snakes , mostly tree snakes or small pythons , @DCLXVI No the stream is not on my land , it is one at work , on a hot day when my feet get to hot I take my boots off to cool my feet down .

Using pond water or aquarium water gives the plants a enormous boost, but be careful you don't use to much. ie, Give plain water every few waterings to even things out a bit.

 

[WildBill]

G'Day guys , end of week 5 and the soil is doing mighty fine . I did add in small of amount liquid Bat Guano - seaweed - molasses - one time then just fish pond water , the growth for the week has been real good and the nitrogen the plants are getting is all from the soil or what ever is in the pond water . I have also done no training these time , but I have done leaf tucking and trimming leaf's that are shading , I like to do it around week 4 and 5 , JSL auto is a Jack -- cross between [ Jack Herer x White Widow ] x Summer Love . by @gorilla ganja . so here we are View attachment 1580968View attachment 1580969View attachment 1580970View attachment 1580971View attachment 1580972View attachment 1580973View attachment 1580974View attachment 1580975
@Teetee Plenty of snakes , mostly tree snakes or small pythons , @DCLXVI No the stream is not on my land , it is one at work , on a hot day when my feet get to hot I take my boots off to cool my feet down .

Nice Structure

 

[WildBill]

Using pond water or aquarium water gives the plants a enormous boost, but be careful you don't use to much. ie, Give plain water every few waterings to even things out a bit.

At my old farm, I had GREAT well water and a fully stocked little lake............too big to be a pond and too small to be called a lake. It's just a variant of a long tested fish and rice growing method in Asia.
I had a pumphouse set up that filled a 500gal tank by the garden. That tank supplied the garden it's water as a stand-alone system. I could fill the tank with any combo of well, lake or compost tea.


<-------------dreaming of what canna I could have grown with that garden!

 

[hecno]

@Bob's Auto's I hear ya mate , but I don't have that problem as it is a 800 ltr tank and use in my gardens as well , so I am always topping it up so it doe's not get a build up and I limit the fish numbers and I also have big Elephant ears growing in it . @WildBill Thanks mate

 

[hecno]

Guys here is a little experiment I decided to do . Due to the dry season coming up the ground worms hide away down deep due to the soil drying out ' The reason I like soil worms is because when I am building soil they are what I like to use as they burrow deeper . Going by what I see at the moment I believe there will not be much rain this dry season . So the aim is to keep worms in the spot I have made . This is what I have used , cut off top from a big pool filter , - grass cuttings which have been cooking in the sun in a big black garbage bag - old damp sugar cane straw - chicken manure - insect frass - molasses - fish pond water - 2 things I am hoping for here , main one worms , 2nd a nice broken down compost , Time will tell , I'll post as things change so you can see what is happening , but I do expect it to take a while .

cut off top

In place and loaded , I also surrounded it as well as I will water that as well to help keep the ground damp .

It has a lid on top to stop critters getting in .

next photo is my play are as the wife calls it

The best thing about this it costs nothing with the potential of it working .

 

[WildBill]

Yup, ground worms builds the total soil structure. I like the deep soil bust up with their travels the most. I had both composting (top structure) and ground (both top and deep) acclimatized in my garden. Even in our stupid hot summers, I had composting worms within a couple inches of the top. I used MASSIVE amounts of compost with living cover crop or heavy organic mulch. Heavy mulch on short crops and living cover crop on taller plants.
My garden spot at my old farm is now just part of the hay field.
I visited it last year. The color of the green hay is still extremely dramatically different in the old garden spot.
The entire field is still greener, thicker and taller than any in the area. And that's with heavy hay harvesting and damn chem fertilizer.
I laughed and then cried.

 

[hecno]

@WildBill The thing I find is it is so easy to do , as you know once you have the basic understanding of organics you knowledge base expands from there a lot faster , Then you start to see how fucked up commercial farming is on so many levels , I believe the big chemical companies have way to much power over all countries . We talk about carbon , -- The next topic we should be looking at is killing our soils DEAD
Then how are we going to feed the world , We really are a dumb species . I am a bit pissed off at the moment as I have just seen on the news we are about to mine the sea floor .

 

[WildBill]

@WildBill The thing I find is it is so easy to do , as you know once you have the basic understanding of organics you knowledge base expands from there a lot faster , Then you start to see how fucked up commercial farming is on so many levels , I believe the big chemical companies have way to much power over all countries . We talk about carbon , -- The next topic we should be looking at is killing our soils DEAD
Then how are we going to feed the world , We really are a dumb species . I am a bit pissed off at the moment as I have just seen on the news we are about to mine the sea floor .

Yup......we are STUPID!

 

[The^Dude]

@WildBill The thing I find is it is so easy to do , as you know once you have the basic understanding of organics you knowledge base expands from there a lot faster , Then you start to see how fucked up commercial farming is on so many levels , I believe the big chemical companies have way to much power over all countries . We talk about carbon , -- The next topic we should be looking at is killing our soils DEAD
Then how are we going to feed the world , We really are a dumb species . I am a bit pissed off at the moment as I have just seen on the news we are about to mine the sea floor .

Luckily there are some great conversations going on about soil health. Most soil testing labs around me now offer the soil biology test as well, so at least it’s a seed being planted into smaller farmer’s heads. We need to convince consumers at grocery stores to start buying produce that’s been grown responsively, regeneratively. Without good soil we all starve eventually. I do a lot of webinars for my job, and often segway into soil health to work on building awareness. We’re losing over 700 tons of topsoil every single second.

Those of us here using all bottled nutes and ionic fertilizer, we’re part of this too. It’s on us to learn about the relationship between a plant and the soil, and to start championing it in our lives.

We grow the soil ecosystem. The plant just tells us how well we’re doing. It’s a byproduct of really growing some great dirt.

And we need to stay the hell off the sea floor.

 

[hecno]

G'day all , Hope you are all well , I am as my plants are doing well and I have 2 weeks off work - Holiday - Ok so this is the end of week 6 , I did notice a wee bit of a - k - deficiency . Not a problem as I got it early , so this week up upped the liquid sea weed , it was always in the back of my mind that the - K - levels in my soil may be a bit week , It is something I will have to work on . so one time upped the liquid seaweed , added a bit of bat gauno , cal mag - then water only , still not added -N- I also got a big bag of fish frames to add to the soil when I do a remix , just got to dial in the amount . -- JSL -- @gorilla ganja