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mon the mircofauna ! i gotta admit i didnt expect that much clover when ya moved back
Clover spreads like crazy, I only lightly planted one of the planters, it sprouted up and spread to fill the whole planter then reached over and established itself in the planter next to it and filled that up too. Nature finds a way.
Preach! i put some in one plant like 15 seeds in my mother space and the shit is now in ever house plant i have
Spartangrown wrote:Hello everyone, I just wanted to pop in and drop a quick video of my living coco, SIP container, auto grow.
I have been experimenting with making coco work with living soil as a peat substitute. So far I am over a year now still using the same exact soil and only adding an occasional top dress. I have 2 planters side by side in a 4 x 4 space under and HLG 360 elite light, the other side of my tent is veg overflow/moms.
All the leaves I remove from the plants, their stems, and anything else that I am not using is recycled by tossing back on top of the soil. I have mushroom bags sitting near the back to provide some CO2, I have some wheat growing in one planter (I assume this came from the straw mulch I used the first run), and mostly white clover cover crop that has spread to cover the majority of the soil surface. I have added fresh worm castings along with the occasional worm and now both planters have a big worm population on their own.
I amend with an all in one top dress after each cycle and occasionally I may add a random top dress if the fancy strikes me, but I usually just add water.
In the video, you will see it was just after I beat the shit out of my cover crops in an attempt to kill some of it to release some nitrogen into the soil. I pulled away the ground cover to expose the soil surface and put my Baby Huey auto seed (Morning star seed co) just under the soil surface. If you look closely you will see a bunch of soil life as I zoom past the sprouted seed. What you won't see, is when I first dug in there were a lot of worms, but they don't like the light so when I got back to film, they had already dove down out of site.
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Good job man! I have been working on my living soil as well and I say forget the Peat! Coco works awesome and doesn't become hydrophobic like peat! Save the peat bogs!
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