m4s73r
Well-Known Member
I wanted to share my experiment I have going on with my grow. I have started a new bed based around HugelKultur. We will be growing the last 4 clones of Gorilla Cookies (GG#4xGSC). These are being grown under DIY ChilLed Growcraft x5 600w. This is a fresh made soil mix as well. Click Here for a full write up.
The general idea is that wood take a lot longer to decompose providing nutrients to your soil over a long period of time. Now they have been doing this in Germany and other heavily wooded areas in the world for a long time. So having 220 gallons of soil needed to fill a 4x4 no till bed I set out to save myself some money. Say hello to the oak log sitting at the bottom of my bed.
All said and done we filled the bottom third of the bed with this log as well as some 1.5" branches of oak and maple. This all got broken down and then wetted down.
From here we threw on a bag of mulch, a few handfuls of alfalfa hay and craft blend from BAS. Wet that all down and then kinda bang it in. Mix a third of your soil. Throw that in and bang it in a bit. Mix the rest and fill your pot. We mixed up a fresh batch of soil. Saved me about 100 bucks filling the bed. Watered it in with 12 gallons of water and some aloe. Cover with plastic and let sit till it cools down.
Now this did warm up to about 95F for 4 days I think. Then dropped to around 80 then hovered around 77 for a few days. At this point I threw on the composted mulch and clover.
On March 8th we dropped in our 4 girls and watered them in.
Here we are on March 14
March 17
The general idea is that wood take a lot longer to decompose providing nutrients to your soil over a long period of time. Now they have been doing this in Germany and other heavily wooded areas in the world for a long time. So having 220 gallons of soil needed to fill a 4x4 no till bed I set out to save myself some money. Say hello to the oak log sitting at the bottom of my bed.
All said and done we filled the bottom third of the bed with this log as well as some 1.5" branches of oak and maple. This all got broken down and then wetted down.
From here we threw on a bag of mulch, a few handfuls of alfalfa hay and craft blend from BAS. Wet that all down and then kinda bang it in. Mix a third of your soil. Throw that in and bang it in a bit. Mix the rest and fill your pot. We mixed up a fresh batch of soil. Saved me about 100 bucks filling the bed. Watered it in with 12 gallons of water and some aloe. Cover with plastic and let sit till it cools down.
Now this did warm up to about 95F for 4 days I think. Then dropped to around 80 then hovered around 77 for a few days. At this point I threw on the composted mulch and clover.
On March 8th we dropped in our 4 girls and watered them in.
Here we are on March 14
March 17