oh no, we're taking it to the next level. No till baby, in a [HASHTAG]#10[/HASHTAG] airpot. At the moment it's Jacks No Till Coco. But my African Nightcrawlers are working on all that. I was bragging to a no till guy how I could just dump my coco out in a 20 gallon tote and re amend it and mix it all up and reuse it, and he talked me into no till. A few modificiations and now my worm bedding and my original mix are exactly the same, and then I top after each watering with the same mix/bedding that the worms have spent 4 months working on. My wf 360 produces 2 gallons of ewc/mo and that supplies my two plant top dressing needs so we are hitting it right in stride. Hardest thing was accepting that old roots may not be bad since I was always told when I tried to grow many plants in the same container that the old roots exude some kind of protective force field around them which inhibits any new girls from hanging out on their corner. But I think the overlooked secret may be just hanging a do not disturb sign in the grow room. It's all coming down to microbes man, NPK is just a by product. But before I go, my enfatuation with coco started out observing how much my worms liked coco, but has progressed to where I think pure unammended coco may have the perfect drainage I was attempting to achieve with perlite. So therefore, anytime I dumped it out after use that act alone was disturbing it's perfect drainage properties. If left untilled will it breakdown and compact? Well, that's where the old roots come in. I'll let you know. I already have a plant growing in a container with pure virgin coco on the bottom and used soil/ewc on top. The lack of Calcium and the ph shock when the roots hit the pure coco with no buffering zone was quite impressive. But that was before I started thinking about no till so it will have to be dumped and started over properly. Eventually my goal is to violate every gardening law known to man all at the same time. Man, that pot these kids grow today sure does make me talkative.
