What to do with cannabis plant scraps???

greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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cindysid said:
After making edibles with the good trim, everything else goes into the worm bin, and I have ALOT. I have a 6 foot metal horse trough as a worm bed, and it's unbelievable how much and how quickly they process it. Of course I have the Florida weather on my side!
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damn!
a 6 foot metal horse trough?
now that's a worm-hotel
hell a worm neighborhood..
I've been contemplating on making some changes to my wormbin (really its just a huge-ass smart pot)
but I was thinking of getting a bigger smartpot, filled with hay and alfalfa feed, and then putting my existing smart-pot inside that, making like a nice lil jacket for them..
been getting frosty at night, and they are still going but it's obvious they ain't happy about it
which I can't fault them for that..
feels like all my tools were in the freezer at night..
course whenever I bitch about the cold @calliandra gently reminds me that i'm a pussy
but hey, i'm a California kid..
 
calliandra

calliandra

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greasemonkeymann said:
damn!
a 6 foot metal horse trough?
now that's a worm-hotel
hell a worm neighborhood..
I've been contemplating on making some changes to my wormbin (really its just a huge-ass smart pot)
but I was thinking of getting a bigger smartpot, filled with hay and alfalfa feed, and then putting my existing smart-pot inside that, making like a nice lil jacket for them..
been getting frosty at night, and they are still going but it's obvious they ain't happy about it
which I can't fault them for that..
feels like all my tools were in the freezer at night..
course whenever I bitch about the cold @calliandra gently reminds me that i'm a pussy
but hey, i'm a California kid..
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And so you are sir :-P

You could also stand a nice piece of rabbit fencing or similar around the pot and fill the gap with leaves, would spare you having to lift the worms? :blsmoke:

Oh and plant scraps, yes!
Dried & crushed for storage (don't want to add too much at once), it's going into my wormbin.
But in future I plan to use it to water the next generation with a nice fresh smoothie containing all the enzymes and cannabis-favourite microbes that they can use directly to advance their own growth.
Oh and about the sticks, yeah I've been pondering that too, and for now have decided to add them to the thermal compost I'll be doing come spring.
But I've also spent some amount of time thinking about soaking them in urine and adding them to my soilifying experiment, where they'd get mixed 1:1 with soil and composting goes pretty fast depending on temps. Not sure about that. Why I decided to compost outside ;)
Cheers!
 
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calliandra

calliandra

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greasemonkeymann said:
nah, If I go there, it's gonna be nipple-age, nakedness, and depravity
all very, very, verrrry visual..
now what you do with your mind after gazing upon such magnificence....
is only bound and limited by your imagination and ethical background
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Ah no! I must insist!
Visual information is likewise pure mind food, no matter how depraved you make it out to be!
Of course if you're just looking for an excuse to develop those visuals in your mind, carry on :-P
 
NaturalFarmer

NaturalFarmer

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Sodium Carbonate (Arm and hammer super washing soda) is how hemp pulp is broken down for fiber. I wonder how much hemp paper pulls on etsy?
 
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GadgetOTG

Member
ShLUbY said:
Hey everyone!

Just curious what you all like to do with your scraps when you are done with the plant....

for example, do you dry all your fan leaves and powder them for a soil amendment, or do you put them in your compost (worms, thermo compost) to be broken down?

today while i was chopping up the bigger stalks into <1" pieces I was pondering putting them in the soil mix for extra aeration and carbon source.... or how about saving the chopped up pieces for a mulch on top of the soil????

hope everyone is well, and happy holidays!
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I do the drying and soil amendment and it seems to work pretty good. I dont give any nutes at all, only compost tea and the defoliation trimmings. I separate the leaves from the stems as much as possible, then I cut up as fine as I can get and spread out on a piece of cardboard (cardboard helps soak up some of the moisture I found...like really, it takes 3 days to dry on solid smooth surface, takes 12 hours on cardboard...go fig). Once it is good and dry I powder it up as fine as I can and go to spreading on the top soil. I then put a small amount of new top soil in the pots over the leaf powder and then water. I do this after every trimming and the plants never seem to get stunted by the trimming as a result. Before when I wouldnt do this I would notice a 2-3 day lag in vertical growth, after starting this regiment I have not noticed any delay and have not switched strains either so I would say this is a good control group to base my findings on. Anyone else tried it and had luck? Also I wonder if I do give the plants nutes AND do this will it end up in nute burn. So is the reason this works for me due to the fact I go all natural? Anywho it works for me so good luck.
 
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