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ruby fruit

ruby fruit

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buckets said:
Wow. I did some reading on alfalfa and it sounds like it really does wonders for your plants eh? I did find one store in Australia that sold it in a powder form. 1kilo for something like $58. Is that going to work and how much of it do you use per plant outdoors if I may ask...

http://www.goodness.com.au/Organic-Alfalfa-Powder-1KG.html?sc=11&category=3298#full-desc
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@nuggs will know how much to add to your soil..i got lucky to get about 400 grams so i just mixed it thru my soil when i was prepping it ..im not sure that powder @buckets is ok for growing as its a drinking type powder but hay should be same maybe not ?
 
ruby fruit

ruby fruit

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Do t sweat to much on the alfalfa its not a neut as such but a healthy ammendment or tea to make for the plant.
Still need other goodies in the soil ive learnt that from tmb and nuggs n co
 
reza92

reza92

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Smidge34 said:
I'm not sure about Australia, but it's a big cattle and horse country in areas, so I'd just about bet a dollar your local horsefeed supply store carries 50 pound bags of alfalfa/lucerne meal like mine does here in KY or at the least alfalfa cubes, which only need to be ground into a powder/meal. Alfalfa contains a growth hormone as well, which encourages vegetative growth.

I'd love to see some earth worm castings tossed into your soil mix Ruby. Makes my leaves so dark green they seriously look almost black in color. I know you're working on it though. Even a nice worked in top-dressing of worm castings or compost helps. I should bite the bullet, eat the shipping and ship you 50 pounds of my awesome worm compost man.
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its hard to get meals from feed stores around my area. i had to settle for lucerne chaff but couldnt find blood or bone meal on there own around my area though.

god i wish we could buy wormcasting over here. ive found only one place on the gold coast and they charge an arm and 2 legs for shipping. i cant wait to start harvesting my own castings, just a matter of time now :)
 
reza92

reza92

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buckets said:
Wow. I did some reading on alfalfa and it sounds like it really does wonders for your plants eh? I did find one store in Australia that sold it in a powder form. 1kilo for something like $58. Is that going to work and how much of it do you use per plant outdoors if I may ask...

http://www.goodness.com.au/Organic-Alfalfa-Powder-1KG.html?sc=11&category=3298#full-desc
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holy shit! $60 a kg thats a tad expensive. you can get lucerne (alfalfa) chaff at your local feed store for feeding horses and cattle in 25kg bags for around $25 - $30
 
reza92

reza92

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Smidge34 said:
No shit and in 90 days he'd have a nice pile of castings and double or even triple his worms. Mine have now snowballed in just less than a year from one bin to six and I just got in a shipment of #8 hardware cloth to make a ghetto tumbler/separator. Hand separating the worms and cocoons becomes an exponential bitch lmao. FAST. I bet I have at least a hundred pounds of compost that needs tumbling and worms that need to be separated and divided into 12 bins. Crazy.
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what do you feed your worms to harvet castings so quickly? mine have been getting 50/50 mix of veg leaves and leftovers from work (i work in a supermarket so cauliflower/cabbage/lettuce and whatever else i throw in the bags from the scrap bins) and half composted compost out of my heap, as well as whatever newspaper i have laying around
 
nuggs

nuggs

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the alfala is high in nitrogen. It great in veg. I use 8 cups in 100gl of soil. I'm not sure about the power. I'm sure that I wouldn't spend $60 on it. Use kangroo dung! I bet that might work very good. What other of the amendment's were you able to find on the list I sent you?
 
Smidge34

Smidge34

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reza92 said:
what do you feed your worms to harvet castings so quickly? mine have been getting 50/50 mix of veg leaves and leftovers from work (i work in a supermarket so cauliflower/cabbage/lettuce and whatever else i throw in the bags from the scrap bins) and half composted compost out of my heap, as well as whatever newspaper i have laying around
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I start out with decently composted horse manure (no wormer used on horses recently) mixed with peat for starters, which gives them a rich and edible bedding. I feed them lots of old melons and I buy old bananas from local Kroger on the cheap. I feed alfalfa meal and other fruits, veggies and scraps and always mix either oyster flour, egg shells or both with the food.
 
ruby fruit

ruby fruit

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nuggs said:
the alfala is high in nitrogen. It great in veg. I use 8 cups in 100gl of soil. I'm not sure about the power. I'm sure that I wouldn't spend $60 on it. Use kangroo dung! I bet that might work very good. What other of the amendment's were you able to find on the list I sent you?
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Mushroom compost and worm castings
Really wanted the green sand and DEarth but couldnt source it and got lucky with the nearly half kilo of alfalfa meal (dr earth brand )
Along with rocket fuel pellets the soil gets a monthly feed of gogo juice which is a organic probiotic that helps the bacteria etc in the soil release full benefits.
i will be using maxsea on the wonder woman but not the others and am working during the season to find a complete list of ammendments so as to be practically all organic for the plant that gets my main ground spot yearly.
 
ruby fruit

ruby fruit

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ruby fruit said:
Mushroom compost and worm castings
Really wanted the green sand and DEarth but couldnt source it and got lucky with the nearly half kilo of alfalfa meal (dr earth brand )
Along with rocket fuel pellets the soil gets a monthly feed of gogo juice which is a organic probiotic that helps the bacteria etc in the soil release full benefits.
i will be using maxsea on the wonder woman but not the others and am working during the season to find a complete list of ammendments so as to be practically all organic for the plant that gets my main ground spot yearly.
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If my wonder woman cured weed taste this gd now i can only imagine wat it would taste like with worm castings etc added.
I get the worm castings of a friendly italian grower who does greenhouse tomatoes but want my own farm for next season
 
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