Makes me want to buy their seeds to see for myself thats so cool we really are living in the future!
From the link above:
SUPERSTRIKE CLOVER
Superstrike Clover seed treatment includes:
A systemic nematicide – to protect seedlings from soil nematodes, widely regarded as New Zealand’s most costly pasture pest, affecting clover establishment and performance
Molybdenum – an essential trace element for clover establishment
Lime – provides localised pH correction around the seedling for improved clover root nodulation
Rhizobia – inoculated with nitrogen-fixing bacteria
Note – continued presence of rhizobia after inoculation, and establishment of rhizobia in pasture, depends on many things and is not guaranteed.
Superstrike Clover can improve the performance of clover seedlings in all situations.
And the pics look identical to what I was sold today.
So doing some further research on the benefits of clover as a living mulch and I’m finding a lot of reasons not to. Apparently it attracts alot of pests and in no-dig beds it can adversely affect the amount of nutrients available to your plants. It spreads rapidly throughout your bed and even into your lawn and can completely take over your bed and make it difficult to get rid of just like a weed.
Not even sure how much to use and do I cover the whole bed then pull it up when I need to put a plant in there?
Roughly a tablespoon of seed per square foot. It wont rob nutrients if you keep it chopped low. As long as you are not planting rooted clones, the plants will outcompete the clover. Just dig it up when you put the plants in. As the plants get bigger, they will shade out the clover and it will die off.
Dont forget the benefits, nitrogen fixation, moisture retention, erosion prevention, etc…
Yeah, it’s a living mulch, that’s kind of the idea. But like I said, once the plant is big enough (couple feet) it should shade out most of the clover anyway. If you dont do a living mulch layer, at least cover it with straw or cardboard.
Fair enough, I guess I should sow some then. I did plan on trying some direct sown autos in a patch in here too hopefully that wont be too much of an issue. Thanks for the info kinfolk.
Hmmm. This is exactly the info I needed. I have bad issues with aphids AND leafhoppers here every year and I built this bed with the gravel and weed-free approach because they always start on the surrounding weeds before moving to my plants.
I am NOT using it if it’s an aphid magnet as one of this years man goals is to control them. They did an absolute number on my crops last year.
Wow thank god for your reply @cannabissequoia I was going to sow it tonight and that would have been awful.
Edit: And alfalfa hay well, that’s just available everywhere here at $5 a bale including the horse farm next to my house… lol
In the SP250 tent I have some overflow from the other tents and 18 new seeds started. I started the last 4 of my FAMs and 8 Dark Sparks, these will be to fill the SP250 tent and possibly the Bridgelux tent if I get enough good phenos.
I also started 6 more photoperiod plants for outdoor. I know it’s a little late, but my photos I have ready for outdoor arent looking so hot and I need an insurance policy (more on that later) I started 4 more of the Northern Outdoor Mix from Seedsheaven, a random fem from a Female Seeds mix, and a Janis by FDM.
In the propagation tent I have 4 photoperiod plants and 3 dark spark rejects from another project. They needed to be transplanted 3 weeks ago but I wanted them fitting inside the prop tent so it’s way overdue.
I got 2 females for sure (front middle and front right) and I’m still not sure on the other 2. I already threw out 2 males from this batch so I’m hoping at least one of the remaining 2 are girls.
As for the outdoor it’s just about to time to start taking plants outside. There shouldnt be any more frost and I think theres enough light in the day to keep most strains in veg. Gotta harden the ones I have off, and where they’re sickly looking now I’m not sure how they’re going to adapt to being outside.
Good thing I got a bunch of autos on hand as they are going to be an outdoor insurance policy if everything goes wrong before it even starts. Lol.
Due to my affinity to mutants, @Mr.Sparkle sent me his remaining seeds from his ATM pheno. These ones had alot of weird traits in the mix, some negative and some just plain interesting like the fluffy “pussy willow” pheno but yeah that’s mostly what I run these days as thats what I have lol
I get acceptable yields out of them to the point where I’m usually pretty excited when I get one. They look like normal plants until like week 6 or 7 and at that point you might as well let em finish.
Their potency is on the higher end of the Dark Spark/Devil family I’m assuming because more of the bud is exposed to light/air and can mature more fully before being harvested.
I just finished off the jar of the last stuff I had, it was a good time lol
That’s actually exactly what it looks like in the jar. And the big quart jar was stuffed full last time I had it. It’s also really easy to harvest just grab and pull to strip it. Also was one of the only plants not to have a bit of mold on it last round despite being right next to it.
Day 61 in the Bridgelux tent, RH has shot up this last week with all the rain (and had the oscillation function on my tower fan stop working) so I figured it would be a good idea to do a pretty heavy defoliation while I let these girls finish up.
Aphids, leafhoppers & whitefly seem to dig it. 
I’ll probably use alfalfa hay at 20$/bale.
all the way around 
proud 
keep an eye on those donkey dicks…