Kitchen waste

[Eyes on Fire]

Well thats a bit of a tricky deal since your going to be subject to climate and weather,Glad theyre free range though. Essentially all you do is add some aeration components.Like wood chips leafy browns n so on.let it compost and the temps rise to 140-160 ideally. larger piles will make higher temps.Give it a mix a time or three a month and it should be good within a few months or faster depending.It will smell of earth and rich soil like a cow manure or composted chicken manure. youll know.plus the look will not be as sludgy either.it'll be more of a cake type of consistency and crumbles like a damp soil.try squeeze tests too. both will help determine if its ready.youll see and feel it change every few weeks.itll smell like wonderful rich earth really is how to tell.and the texture.

 

[DTOM420]

Well thats a bit of a tricky deal since your going to be subject to climate and weather,Glad theyre free range though. Essentially all you do is add some aeration components.Like wood chips leafy browns n so on.let it compost and the temps rise to 140-160 ideally. larger piles will make higher temps.Give it a mix a time or three a month and it should be good within a few months or faster depending.It will smell of earth and rich soil like a cow manure or composted chicken manure. youll know.plus the look will not be as sludgy either.it'll be more of a cake type of consistency and crumbles like a damp soil.try squeeze tests too. both will help determine if its ready.youll see and feel it change every few weeks.itll smell like wonderful rich earth really is how to tell.and the texture.

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I went and filled up a 55gallon drum with wet, fresh cow manure this afternoon. I followed a video I found and mixed it in layers with some wood chips, leaves and grass clippings. Then I covered it with some black plastic. According to the video I should leave it to cook for 2 weeks and then turn it, re-cover it and let it cook another 2 weeks. Supposedly you can use it in 30 days using this method: but I’m composting for next spring’s grow. So, I’ve got 5 months to let it compost. Surely it’ll be ready by then using this method. I’m going to try and double the size of this pile and, then, make 4 more piles. If I could get around 200gallons of composted (finished) cow manure by next spring I’ll be happy. I’ve got the chicken manure and bedding composting which should give me around 70-80 gallons of compost and I’m going to start doing Bokashi with our food and build a 100gallon worm bin. I talked to a worm breeder and composter today and he is interested in helping me get started and teaching me what he knows about worm castings and making/using EWC teas. <—-I really lucked out there!!

 

[Eyes on Fire]

yeah depends really but greens and browns.I always felt if its fresh a higher brown content makes it compost a little faster.then you can sort of boost the brown half composted brown stuff working.Once you boost it kind of re cooks somewhat which a longer cook time tends to be better since most smaller piles only get so hot.and to kill pathogens and whatever have ya,is around 150F or so.Sounds like you got it.Good luck man!! happy harvesting.Not terribly hard,just take some work to turn here n there.

 

[hecno]

@DTOM420 I started a wood compost using hard wood chips and chicken manure just before last wet season , it started around 800 liter it is just over 1/2 that now , but will need another wet season yet .

 

[DTOM420]

@DTOM420 I started a wood compost using hard wood chips and chicken manure just before last wet season , it started around 800 liter it is just over 1/2 that now , but will need another wet season yet .

Yeah, I’ll just have to see how it all turns out. I turned the chicken coop bedding today and it’s looking great but still nowhere near ready. Still, I have confidence it may be ready by April. I don’t know but I think the soft pine chips I use in the coop are going to break down faster than a hard wood chip. But, I intentionally used some real small old leaves for my brown in the cow manure piles. Yesterday’s pile was ROASTING this morning under that black plastic. It was freaky hot! I collected another 55 gallons of cow manure today and will be making another pile in the morning. I sure hope some of this will be ready by April but if it isn’t, I’ll just be putting some of my composting horse manure. @912GreenSkell uses horse manure religiously and said even a little fresh horse manure can go in shortly before your grow.

Man, I love this thread. I feel kinda bad, though, like I’ve highjacked it. Sorry OP!

 

[G.Leave]

Horse manure + lime + sun = Monster Plants!!!

 

[hecno]

The master has spoken , Take heed . This man grows bloody big plants .

 

[Hybrid]

1000 kg grass dry weight removed from the soil take away

30kg Nitrogen(N)
3,5kg Phosphorus(P)
30kg Potassium(K)
4kg Sulfur(S)
Or in grams 30'000g(N), 3'500g(P), 30'000g(K), 4'000g(S)

Reduce it to a kilo dry weight grass we get
30g(N)-3,5g(P)-30g(K) and 4g(S)

Most of us don't grow 1 kilo plants so let us do a final reduction to a 100g dry weight plant

3g(N)-0,35g(P)-3g(K) and 0.4g(S) that is what it takes to make 100 grams grass.

These numbers are for grass(for horse and cows)
Can we use this numbers for growing cannabis?

 

[hecno]

I would say no , on a stand alone NPK ratio . I may be wrong .

 

[Hybrid]

I would say no , on a stand alone NPK ratio . I may be wrong .

Fair enough but where should we adjust the numbers?
More or less N, P or K?
And remember this is the total use of NPK from seedling to harvest, I’m not saying 3-0,3-3(or 30-3-30) is the right ratio from start to end