So who here is growing in true organic living soil?

Hey Hamish! How you been, man?

Rrog said:

Hey Hamish! How you been, man?

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Been a good finish to summer mate I have no PC at the mo and I am a tad fearful if shopping for a new one (too many options these days lol) so it might look like I dropped off the face of the earth... Teaching living organics to a small group of noobs out here, funny thing is how they are accidentally teaching me, like the fish emulsion thing. Hoping Spring finds you guys soon!!!

http://youtu.be/NampsFKlR58

http://youtu.be/Fq6OJUrlwUc

The Rev... I prefer simple.

Guys i had one plant that looked like one of those walking trees, all nasty looking like it was sprayed by roundup that didnt kill it?
I got rid of it?
All the other plants look great? Any ideas?

Sounds like a bad recessive pheno

Someacdude said:

Guys i had one plant that looked like one of those walking trees, all nasty looking like it was sprayed by roundup that didnt kill it?
I got rid of it?
All the other plants look great? Any ideas?

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My idea would be you did the right thing......why wait 3mnths to find out if it was the 'one'---or crap

then again you may have wanted to take a cutting in case it WAS the 'one'-
now you have room for a healthy replacement.......

Keep riding your bike w/o training wheels and you will be able to cruise thru the questions and know all the answers.....takes years tho......you got the rest of your life

enjoy!

What 'flavor' was it out of curiosity......?

Buckaroo- How'd you like Hamish's comments about fish. Lots of talk of fish lately. Very cool, IMHO

got a bacillus question for y'all! will thurgensis survive the tea brewing process or do i need to add it right before i water with the tea or do i need to add it in a separate watering?

I soak the BTI dunks overnight to activate, but it's in a bucket in the warmth and dark. Calm. Not sure what would happen in a vortex brewer, but I'm sure a bubbler would be harmless to the BTI

K ya I'm just bubbling my own as of late. its kinda a pain hauling tea around 15 gallons at a time. just easier to make my own really and i havent seen any change in growth. if anything they've gotten healthier. i had a 45 liter/min air pump laying around so i put her to work! think thats enough to bubble 2 buckets at once?

sure! Doesn't take much bubble to keep from going anaerobic

o and Rrog remember that nitrogen fixing seed/seedling treatment i dug up a while ago. I've been doing a bit of reading on it and it says its a type of bacteria that will bore into roots and draw in nitrogen from the environment around it. does this differ from current N fixing tech thats out there? when i read how it actually worked it didn't seem so miraculous and kinda just seemed like what has always been available like you said. in every article I've ever read on the topic they talk about how air is made up of 78% N and this treatment allowed the plant to utilize this. well when i found out it bores into roots that kinda changed the way i looked at it. they make it sound like the whole plant just draws N out of the air, but that doesn't seem like the case? whats up? its a strain of bacteria from sugar cane

Rrog said:

sure! Doesn't take much bubble to keep from going anaerobic

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sweet thnx will save me alot of hassle. brewing one at a time really F's up my day lol.

I'm getting old, so some new technique or microbe doesn't make me wet anymore. Most new things are new because someone is selling something

I purposefully avoid microbes not from my back yard. Whatever I need is right there. I'm an ever-growing believer in BIMs

kickin it old school rrog. i like.

I picked up some cottonseed meal, anyone else using this in their soil mix or as a top dress?

Lots of people do and like it. I haven't personally. Curious what you think of it. Nice aeration? Holds water? I've never looked into it.

its a really high N amendment isn't it? if I'm not mistaken it breaks down into something else too? i remember reading somewhere about it. my soil recipe uses it but only a little bit. i seem to remember it can burn your plants quite easily?