JustBlazin
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Lol, I just assumed cause I top dress with the malted barley, no idea what else it would be.
You got any idea?
Living soil dry back dilemma...
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You got any idea?
McShnutz
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Spot on! Cannabis is an annual that benefits most from a bacterial relationship. Bacteria and enzymes go hand in hand and actually, they're present due to the bacterial colonies.
McShnutz
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Barley is similar to wheat, spelt, rye. It's all basically a grass.
myke
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Looks like a weed lol.
McShnutz
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Anything malted undergoes germination to increase starch and then converted into sugars by the enzymes in the furnace. This is known as malting. The longer the "bake" the darker the lovibond (color). No malted kernel of grain will ever germinate.
myke
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White clover maybe?
JustBlazin
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I don't think so, looks like those have three leaves on each set, the one i got only has 1 leaf and the flowers are pretty small
JustBlazin
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Pretty sure it's chickweed
JustBlazin
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Beat me to it
Thanks
JustBlazin
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All good thanks for the info, I had no idea what it was.
Looks like it can be used as a living mulch/cover crop. And some people eat it.
McShnutz
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Never an imposition. The more the merrier
myke
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Id chop it,fear of it spreading.
lakesidegrower
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that's a pretty damn genius idea, I really like that
this looks like a really well thought out set-up - its pretty wild that the two carrots supply those tapes, or am I missing something and its one per tape....
I have to use either r/o or rainwater/snow melt as well - my well water is packed with calcium carbonate which doesn't fly with my pots - I've bene melting snow all winter with a livestock water heater wand thingy in a bucket, it actually works incredibly well
I think I might need to get an r/o system set up this spring, unless I decide to try rainwater only
lakesidegrower
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McShnutz
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Very kind of you to say. Thank you.
Yeah only 2 for the whole bed, I was really skeptical so I added a carrot right next to the base of the plant with 2 drippers. I was going for a dual rootzone management approach and I actually brought the plant closer to the overwatered end. Since shutting it off completely, growth has been more than ideal. Once you find that sweet spot the look of the leaves tell you they're happy.
Some of the best water I've used aside from de-ionized is rain or lake/pond water. I have a betta tank I bought for my kids when they were young and of course the kids kill off the fish, didn't tell me and one day I saw it half decomposed on the gravel floor. Thought, hmm... NUTRIENTS! BACTERIA! Gave it to newly emerged seedlings and was mindblown at the reaction. Mother Nature will forever have a place in my gardens.
If your content with the added chore of collecting water, I keep that going until it bores you. An RO makes thing "easy-to-use" BUT requires maintenance and replacements. Took me awhile to get over the amount of brine water that goes down the drain.