Cut a small access hole in an empty Helium cylinder & screw on patch too close it up. pack with used coffee grounds and few bits of woodchip

Burn that baby. Estimated 2hrs but no way, took more like 5hrs!

Lesson - dry the grounds completely before charring

Temp around 450-500c

Im wondering what brand of worm castings should I buy. I know I should make my own, but I want them now to use for my soil. I will make my own worm farm in the future. For now what brand should I buy I do not care about price I just want the best. Thank you.

I’m using living soil for the first time and growing in 7 gallon pots with dry amendments. I’ve been adjusting my tap water ph from 8 to 6.5.

I’ve been told I dont need to do this and as I’m watering with zero runoff the ph down will buildup in the soil and cause issues. Is this true?

What are you guys thoughts on natures living soil mix. I used it this year and it was the best plant I ever grew. I just used plain water with a filter the whole entire grow and plant was healthy and green the whole time no problems. my soil was 1/3 fox farm, 1/3 perlite, 1/3 peatmoss, then the nature living soil.

I very rarely share my own work, but I'm in the mood. Beginning week 7.

2x4 bed inside a 4x4 tent. Soil is about 4 years old having run 5 cycles. Basic coots mix with biochar and some other goodies. Regular top dressings include ground barley, gypsum, compost & ewc. Liquid feedings and foliars using fish (in veg), kelp, mollasses (in flower), and em1. This run, I tried out dry amendment blends from optimizeorganics.ca, and the plants seem to like it. Before I started this run, I also applied nematodes and predatory mites from the same supplier. My fungus gnat population has been minimal throughout the grow - very happy. In the past, I've used aged horse manure from a local stable, but I am stopping that practice because it dries out too fast and doesn't retain moisture as well as compost does, and I am nervous about bringing in pests (although it hasn't been a problem). I'm glad I added the diversity, though. I run blumat drip tape with a gravity resevoir.

The genetics you see are Romulan S1 (Romulan Genetics). East Coast Sour Diesel S1 (Dr Greenthumb). Super Lemon Haze S1 (Green House Seeds). and, Cinderella 99 S1 (Brothers Grim).

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C99

Romulan

ECSD

SLH

Looking for examples of no-till farming without plastic tarps. I've used tarps for three seasons but dislike the waste and how they've held up, especially since they’ll need replacing soon. I know of cardboard for beds but not sure I can acquire as much as I'd need and wouldn't work for my cover cropping. Also, since I'm organic certified, biodegradable plastic mulches aren't allowed. Any advice, alternative examples, or outlines would be greatly appreciated! I'm a small market garden on 2 acres but expanding to 4. Zone 5b.

Looking for the best in the game don’t like Hlg flower

I just finished my first cycle in my (2) earthboxes using BAS 3.0. I top dressed with Craft blend 2x in veg and then 1x BuildAFlower first week of flower. I had some yellowing of leaves during the middle to end of flower, nothing crazy bad but noticeable.

I just bought the clover mix cover crop by BAS and plan on planting that and letting grow for the next month or so while my new seedlings sprout in my veg area.

•Should I throw the craft blend in first or put the seeds down first?

•should I remove the earthbox soil/mulch cover while the cover crop grows? Id assume so

•I bought some straw, should I wait to throw that on top when I bring my actual plants in? Or is it not needed if I chop and drop the cover drop?

Thanks everybody

In the title. Anyone grow shrooms and then add their spent substrate to the mulch?

I may be over thinking things, as I'm still quite new to organic grows, done 3 runs so far using living soil dry amendments as well as a few other additives. Are there any particularly beneficial soil amendments or improvers that can be foraged and dried and run through a coffee grinder such as leaves (nettles, mint or goose grass for example) even "medicinal" ones such as mugwort that will contribute to not only nitrogen, but maybe improve terpine profiles once broken down etc? I know just in my local woods and fields, I could forage lots of different edible leaves as well as flowers such as elder, dandelion, borage, a few types of violet, rose and lavender for drying and grinding into a fine meal. Even seasonal mushrooms such as parasol, chicken of the woods and a few different oyster mushroom species. Is this just a nonsensical idea, or could there be any potential benefits?

Is anyone brewing composted steer manure in AACT? In addition to worm castings? Have been doing this for years and starting to question this practice