Greasemonkey's Compost Pile

Vnsmkr

Vnsmkr

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I dealt mainly with iridium, scandium, antimony, and cobalt which the first three are days 54,64, 72 days I think...cobalt is years....but after years there are still traces of the first 3, maybe below "detectable" levels but they are still there ;)
 
ShLUbY

ShLUbY

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Vnsmkr said:
1/2 lives are something most people don't really have a grasp on in my opinion Shluby, you may but most dont. I worked around radioactive materials for a decade so I have a little bit of one. 1/2 lives don't really mean shit if the amounts are that high. So, If I dump 1000 kg in the half life time (15 years in this case) Im still at or equal to 500 kg....the more waste, the longer half life. It just keeps stretching...
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yup exactly. so at 15 years, the half that remains still has 15 years to go down half in amount, and then that half has 15 more years to reduce in half and so on and so on :) thanks for clarifying that!
 
calliandra

calliandra

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ShLUbY said:
the majority of what our biology is consuming from our hand crafted indoor soils is the amendments and compost that we put in right? sure we have some "dirt" (the sand silt clay component) that makes it in there from the turned compost pile, or maybe a grabbed a handful or two and put it in the pot... but, did most of us not stuff it full of neem, kelp, alfalfa, rock dusts, OSF, egg shells, ect. ect. ect.??? native soils outdoors are all made out of 100% parent materials! sand, silt, clay, rocks, pebbles, (and some organic matter!). that's all i was saying :) i wasn't implying that we don't put "enough" of those things in, but rather we put in other things to replace their function (the amendments).

but i totally agree with you on saying that there'll literally be plenty of nutrition in native soils for millions of years to come! I'd like to start experimenting with putting more of that native soil in these mixes... especially now that I'm going to try and get switched over to notill. should we be trying to make horizon layers "mocking" the native soils? should we be doing passive hydro systems where the water is drawn, for the most part, from below rather than poured on from above? pretty fascinating stuff! Passive hydro just seems soooooo perfect for no till indoor container gardening.
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haha and I wasn't thinking that you were implying anything of the sort etc etc :mrgreen:

I was just positing that we probably have to put those more readily available food sources in because our microherd isn't sufficiently developed to do the extracting from the sand/silt/clay in our pots, not because we don't have enough sand/silt/clay in there (theoretically) to cover the plants`nutritional needs.
Cheers!
 
ShLUbY

ShLUbY

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calliandra said:
haha and I wasn't thinking that you were implying anything of the sort etc etc :mrgreen:

I was just positing that we probably have to put those more readily available food sources in because our microherd isn't sufficiently developed to do the extracting from the sand/silt/clay in our pots, not because we don't have enough sand/silt/clay in there (theoretically) to cover the plants`nutritional needs.
Cheers!
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i'm pickin' up what you're laying down now :cool:bongsmilie:wink:
 
Mohican

Mohican

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Local news channel did a test of some different products from several dispensaries in LA, and out of 44 samples, only two passed the pesticide test!

Many had Eagle fungicide which creates cyanide when burned! Cyanide is organic after all.
 
ShLUbY

ShLUbY

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Mohican said:
Local news channel did a test of some different products from several dispensaries in LA, and out of 44 samples, only two passed the pesticide test!

Many had Eagle fungicide which creates cyanide when burned! Cyanide is organic after all.
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yeah i don't doubt that one bit man. they might do a "mold" test on the medicine in the labs, but they sure don't seem to make any pesticide claims! the problem is once you start taking clones from people... you never know if it has the eagle in it or not... kinda nice thing about starting shit from seed, right??

cyanide totally organic... it says so in my o chem book "lol"
 
shaft09

shaft09

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ShLUbY said:
agreed. my goal is to have 40-100 acres and be as subsistent as possible from it. just has to be the right land so you don't have to start it all from scratch :)
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ShLUbY said:
agreed. my goal is to have 40-100 acres and be as subsistent as possible from it. just has to be the right land so you don't have to start it all from scratch :)
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this composting stuff is pretty cool. It keeps breaking down even if you neglect it, lol.

I had not used any of my own compost until this year, this summer. I’ve still been going to my local park and gathering leaves. I get about 5 to 7 bags of leaves yearly, throw them in the compost pile along with grass and other stuff. I wet it and turn it when I think about it, couple times a year. Still keeps breaking down on its own.

Used my compost and castings for my grows this summer and just about ready to harvest two. Don’t know what they are, should be something good. Indoor. Seeds got mixed up.Gets too hot to grow outside in the desert. They won’t finish at the same time, so I’ll have time to harvest 1 at a time. I hate trimming!
 
shaft09

shaft09

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shaft09 said:
this composting stuff is pretty cool. It keeps breaking down even if you neglect it, lol.

I had not used any of my own compost until this year, this summer. I’ve still been going to my local park and gathering leaves. I get about 5 to 7 bags of leaves yearly, throw them in the compost pile along with grass and other stuff. I wet it and turn it when I think about it, couple times a year. Still keeps breaking down on its own.

Used my compost and castings for my grows this summer and just about ready to harvest two. Don’t know what they are, should be something good. Indoor. Seeds got mixed up.Gets too hot to grow outside in the desert. They won’t finish at the same time, so I’ll have time to harvest 1 at a time. I hate trimming!
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reading this stuff will make you drop a bean at 2:49 am
 
DonTesla

DonTesla

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ShLUbY said:
agreed. my goal is to have 40-100 acres and be as subsistent as possible from it. just has to be the right land so you don't have to start it all from scratch :)
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Well said! What things would make your ideal list, might you say, at this time!? :clap:
 
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