Cover crop is popping up more and more. It needs to hurry up a bit so I can amend this bed and get to filling this tent again.
I have a few plants backed up that are bigger than the others I planned on running in the bed, but drastic times call for drastic measures! So most likely I will be putting 5 plants into the bed unless one ends up being a male.
You don’t need to wait for anything, you can sow your cannabis seeds together with your covercrop,
the same day as your harvest.
The more plants you have taking off at the same time, the more microbial activity.
It’s that activity that makes everything happen, it all works together, all at once, like the whole universe, it’s all happeing at the same time.
Look at the stars often, they whisper great wisdom.
I just want the cover crop to get a hair taller so I don’t completely snuff it out with a load of amendments and castings.
I was planning on letting the cover crop take hold, working some amendments and castings into the existing mulch layer from last cycle, topping it all with some Kashi blend to get everything churning and then put the last of my fungus filled straw mulch onto the bed.
This straw is so dominated with the fungus and breaking down that it is actually EXTREMELY hard to mulch with properly. I will need to pull it out and let it sit in the bed with the light drying it out a little, then I should be able to start spreading it around so it can dry a hair more and break it up again so its not matted in clumps here and there.
Interesting how all that straw broke down as I had the mushroom log lingering around in a box waiting to be used again lol.
Hmm… you could maybe put a pot in the middle with a big hole in it to throw all the amendments that need to decompose in there.
Or a short piece of tube/pipe with a wide diameter.
That way you can cover it up and it’ll hold extra moisture and break down faster, especially with worms.
You can water only the pot and then the worm juice and nutrients will spread to the rest of the bed.
And the rest in perpetual covercrop.
Only chopping and dropping some areas at different intervals.
Like a forest. Have all the different stages of growth at once. 
That’s what I’ll do when I have more space.
Could be interesting indeed. Or have a worm bin surrounding a bed or something, could be some fun integrations to mess around with.
I have been needing to get a worm bin going, luck has it that my daughter is in FFA at her school and was accepted for a 1000$ grant to start worm farming lol. So me and her will be starting some worm farming at a little higher volume than I had originally planned. So that will be an interesting adventure.
Thats’s aces!!!
Much fun on your endeavor!
Just so you know, avocado(skin)s make them horny.
Throw in a couple of whole ones and you’ll have a grande familia in no time!
And probably avocado tree sprouts too, which you can sell.
Go nuts!
This goes back a ways… but yes, EM5 works great for cleaning the chapin.
However, I’ve found it works best at full power and that is just not at all cost efficient.
Brown rice vinegar is a good solution for me.
I just transplanted some pomegranate seedlings that germinated in my bin!
Aah gotcha, ya my sprayer is due for another cleaning soon heh. I am not a fan of vinegar (hate the smell) but it is a cheap source to clean with so I may stop sometime and get some instead of walk buy it at the grocery store since I need to clean this thing more often lol.
Nice bro…
I was wondering if we could plant seeds couple of weeks or a month before you harvest, Harvest only above the roots and let the root decompose…
The seedlings would have reached beginning of the vegetative state…
Would that work bro?
I assume it would be possible since seeds will not start flowering for around 3 weeks after sprouting from what I hear. I am not sure how they would react to changing the light cycle back to vegetative hours, but if the plant is not flowering yet then I would assume it would handle the light change. Or if you just plant more seeds and let them stay on 12/12 you will just bet more smaller plants out of it.
Not what I personally would do in my setup since I always have plants that are waiting to go into another home, but I could see how it could work.
My daughter had friends over for a few days so I had not done anything in the tents sadly (veg tent had a drooper or 2).
But today I got in there, watered everything and amended the 3x3. Craft blend calls for 2-3 cups per cubic foot, which is seems like a lot lol. I ended up putting less, about 13 cups of CB in a 5 gallon bucket with about 3 cups of ground up malted barley, 9 teaspoons of thermex 15m, roughly equal amount of worm castings and some extra rice hulls I already had in the 5 gallon bucket I was going to mix it all in.
I distributed it evenly around the bed.
Rustled it into the mulch layer and then watered it in with some Quillaja extract and Big 6
@Pluckyevil added another crystal to the bed after I finished up amending, it is some Labradorite.
I also am going to attempt to add some of this mushroom log as mulch, but it is literally disintegrating so we shall see how it goes trying to spread this out for a few days lol.
Stage 1 of Operation Can It Mulch…
Dried mushrooms, broke down barley stray, plates of mycelium and slime molds along with some Trichoderma and other bright yellow slime mold.
This is the best I could do mulching with it right now, it was so damn sloppy I knew I was going to have to let it sit on here for a day or 2 and dry some so I can distribute it around more. Stuck the dried mushrooms in the corners for the hell of it as well. Should be interesting lol!
How did it smell?
My last batch was pretty far along but not at all that far along. I bet that will add a bunch of MO diversity.
The one I just put on was super fresh, could barely tell there were even mushrooms on it other than the smell.
Smelt like a normal mushroom log accept a few spots where lots of things were happening and I got only a slight smell of spores/mold. Only in a couple spots though, the rest was perfectly fine/normal when it comes to smell. This log was just composting itself in there lol.
@BeagleZ @OldGator @LegsMahoney and anyone else that may be interested. I threw together a ghetto tutorial video on how I use/install my spreader units. Tent is dead at the moment so figured I would temporarily throw a trellis in to show.
Only attached the supports with 1 zip tie so I could blast through and get the footage done before my other tents went to sleep. Also I use a lot of reusable zip ties when doing this shit heh.
This is great @bassman5420! I think ill utilize the net from now on, way easier looking than tying individual lines and weaving them.
very cool! ive done something similar with the high CFN kit that i had for my 2x2.5 when that was up and running
I guess it has been quite a while since the 2x4 has made an appearance. I have been in a vicious battle with fungus gnats in there for a bit. I realized some issues a couple plants were having were possibly from the larva chewing on the roots and making the roze cookies on the left freak out. It was growing really weird at the beginning of flower and I thought it had thrown a couple hermies on the bottom possibly at one point.
After I had knocked them back from some drying of the bed and neem drenches to the top of the soil, I decided to snuff the rest of them out with compost and rice hulls. Turns out I just happened to have topped the bed with the compost that must have given me the gnats to begin with…
I noticed millions of little jumping/hopping bugs on the top of the compost after a few days and was questioning if they were gnats or something beneficial. It turned out to be the Gnat’Pocolyps in the making. They came back faster and stronger than before…
Finishing up knocking down this crazy population once again, I have been drying the bed out once again sadly and put a big layer of rice hulls on top. I also have a bag of DE here to give the top a dusting here soon. Talk about a nightmare…
I also have a little dish sitting on the soil with apple cider vinegar and liquid soap to try and get a few flyers to land in for the hell of it.
Dude I feel your pain. Fuck gnats
