Outdoor season is upon us in the North! I plan on documenting my outdoor grow this season for you all here on OG because it’s a bit of an experimental one. This year I’m planning on running 2 photoperiod seeds for the entire season and 2 x 2 sets of auto’s. My plan is to harvest my first set of autos in July/Aug and the next set at the end of October if everything goes according to plan. For my auto’s I’ll be reusing the soil from my outdoor grow last season. Basically, I’m using a method I learned from a book called “Bokashi Composting: From Scraps to Soil in Weeks” where you use inoculated wheat bran to ferment kitchen waste then add that fermented food to your soil to remineralize it. The idea is that you can create your own compost in less time and without having the hassle of dealing with a compost pile. That’s the idea anyway. I have NO CLUE if this will actually work so if this is a giant fail I’m really putting myself out there for the masses lol… If I was smart and more organized I would have the soil lab tested before planting into it but I’m just gonna wing it and document the process for the community! SCIENCE!
The photoperiod strains will be (these will just be grown in a tiered super soil mix):
Sherbert x Irene Kush by CSI Humboldt
Peach Puree by G13 Labs
The first set of auto strains will be (these will be grown in the re-amended recycled Bokashi soil):
Double Grape by Mephisto Genetics
Sour Stomper by Mephisto Genetics
The second set of auto strains will be (these will be grown in the same soil but re-amended for a second time!):
Mango Sunrise by Night Owl Seeds
3 Bears OG by Mephisto Genetics
I started this process back in January. It’s taken a bit of preparation and work but I’m excited about it. I added my fermented food waste to my soil about 3 weeks ago. I’ll germ my seeds in a week or two while I wait for the food waste to be assimilated into the soil. I thought it would be a good idea to do this in large bins outside with holes drilled into the bottom of the container to let all the microbial life crawl up into the containers. Again, I have no idea if any of this will work but I thought of the idea when I moved an old recycle bin with some old plants in it out of the garden one day. As I picked up the blue bin I noticed all these worms and bugs crawling and falling from the holes in the bottom of the bin! They had been feeding off the soil/roots of the old plants that we inside of the bin. So I thought, I’ll drill some holes at the bottom of my containers and see what happens!
Here are some pictures of the process below.
Drilling holes in my containers
My Bokashi Bucket (used to ferment my kitchen scraps) Must be seal AIR TIGHT so I use something called a Gamma Seal on a 5 Gal bucket. One bucket with holes sits nested inside another bucket in order to be able to drain the liquid.
Here’s the Bokashi Bran I made.
You layer in the food waste with the bran and after 2-3 weeks it ferments and looks like this. Ready to add to the soil!
Layering the bokashi compost into the soil.
So the bottom 2/3rd’s are bokashi compost + soil and then the top 1/3rd is just soil… All compressed firmly down and sprinkled with bokashi bran ontop and ready to sit, covered for a month!
Here’s where she’s currently at. Check out that thick layer of mycelium. This is a fungi and a sign that the microbes, bacteria and fungi are doing what they’re supposed to do in a living organic soil!
Stay tuned for more updates.
Sadly I was eating dinner when I read that… lol
ironically I think my wife bought us the same book last year, I gotta sit down and read it soon.