@RainToday 2 out of 5 pineapple plant 36s are popped. Things are moving slow around here so Im guessing itll be another day or two before I plant
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@harveest this thread has some awesome ideas far beyond my 2cents 
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Toss 'em in any time, I donāt wait long post-pop, just remember hopefully theyāre autos in which case they wonāt do well with transplanting so straight into their final solo is a best. Iām quite hopeful that theyāll tolerate your soil better than the others, and very interested to see. 
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Into soil they go then !
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@BeTheLight if you can get unrotted wood chips those can be useful too with a little easy processing. You just need to charge up like biochar with nutrients and microbial life before mulching or turning them into your soil. Most people just soak them in a strong compost tea and some fish emulsion or hydrolysate, lots of folks overlook chips but theyāre excellent mulch or aeration used correctly, I forgot to mention sawdust or rock dust from sawmills and quarries or monument/gravestone makers as another potentially free material.
This lady has a pretty good and simple sawdust-to-compost system using a five gallon bucket that gets dumped weekly into a big burlap sack or you could use pretty much any sort of aerated container or bag:
She brings up weathered wood ash, which I forgot to mention. If thereās any fire pits on your land or a friendās, you could dig that out and use the charcoal and weathered ash in your soil. Fresh wood ash is used more sparingly but is also useful. Iād avoid any public party spots with bonfire pits, those likely have a lot of melted plastic and other garbage contaminating the ashes that you wouldnāt want in your garden.
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Hereās some good videos explaining biochar including making your own with a pyrolysis retort made from a barrel, you could apply the same charging techniques to wood chips and let them decompose for a month covered partially with a dark tarp before mixing them in, maybe turn them once a week but if you make biochar itās ready as soon as itās charged. All you need is an air pump which would allow you to make compost teas generally and thatās a great and mostly free way to get a ton of nice active cultures to start chewing up your dense clay.
https://www.reddit.com/r/composting/comments/zpgs80/woodchip_compost/
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In my area you can get truckloads of free manure tooā¦
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@raintoday the comment in here about mulch and aeration, thatās what Iām trying to do with my cheapy charcoal chicken nutes from Amazon.
coop poop imo is a nice possible aerator too. itās dehydrated chicken shit but Iām pretty sure when it gets all used up it leaves these little pebbles behind. I thought to myself it could be a nice aerator of some kind too. although Iām sure my 5 feet holes in the ground didnāt make much of a difference lol. I used a TON of it with my outdoor plants and they loved it. bought a 40lb bag on Amazon. love that shit
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