Using cover crops, dried banana peels, red wigglers, bone meal, alfalfa meal, bamboo!

[freddyyola]

i figured id share some of what i do for my plants i try to keep it organic and natural without chemicals as much as possible and i pretty much feed my soil and worms and they feed my plants..

so im crushing my crimson clover cover crop (Nitrogen and worm food) and adding in kelp meal (for micros and plant growth hormones), dried banana peels (for Potassium K and micros), bone meal (for Phosphorus) and feather meal, fish meal,fish bone meal, potash, blood meal, bat guano, alfalfa meal, gypsum and best for last red wigglers (compost worms) and vermi compost from my worm bin/farm to break down everything added in than i will put a layer crushed bamboo leaves from my bamboo forest which is full of good microbes and will also break down to feed the worms..

then i watered it in with Recharge and some worm casting tea.

im also mixing in a new batch of cover crop seeds crimson clover, vetch, turnips, austrian winter peas, sunflower, mustard, and collards mixed up when these grow out to enough i will repeat this process by smashing those down or cutting it as close to the soil as possible to become a layer of mulch and humus and whatever else i add..

ill be doing this for all my plants for now on..

 

[freddyyola]

im gonna order some seeds around Christmas.. but ima go ahead and get the pots they gonna be finished in started asap and have a cover crop going with red wigglers and all the amendments there ready for a plant to come in and make it home.. im gonna treat the pot like its a worm bin with a cover crop on top and itll be full of all the amendments and the worms will already be breaking everything down for the next plant..

 

[Canuck147]

Sounds like a good plan freddyyola - Last couple of grows I did I neglected a plan, just thought I'd top and do whatever as it came along.

But now it is best to start with a plan, get that vision going in your head as you see how it's going to look. And stick to your plan. Thanks for sharing your plan with us.

My only criticism - didn't see much of a sweetener in your extensive list. Cannabis plants really like their sweets. Grind up some raw cane sugar.

 

[freddyyola]

recharge is full of molasses and i feed with recharge and vermicompost teas mixed with my nutes every feeding and i add brown sugar or molasses or cane rock sugar depending on whats on hand..

 

[freddyyola]

ive done a shit loads of research and learned a bunch of stuff but actually growing cannabis.. this is my second grow.. im at the point i know what kind of grow i want to do and so on.. cause as a noobie grower there is so many ways to grow and until you try a few out you don't know what works best for you.. now that ive got a worm farm going and im into korean natural farming and growing fruits and veggies im mixing all that knowledge with live soil/super soil organic type of growing with no till cover crop style of growing and it all fits together almost perfectly cause worms can break it all down and make it plant available. and its full of beneficial microbes.. i make my own labs and em1 but mycorrhizae and lacto bacillus are both in recharge, my soil mix, and some of my other amendments..

ima try to post more of me making compost, feeding my worms, making biochar, and stuff like that including more stuff to do with my plants..

 

[Cocho]

This is awesome! I would love to try something like this some day.

- C

 

[freddyyola]

cover crops are super cheap if you have a feed n seed store/place nearby check them out a pack of crimson clovers are 1.50$ a pound here where im at and that was enough to cover a bunch of pots and a 4x4 area.. you can also mix it up some every seed does a specific role.. they sometimes offer a cover crop mix too but for about 5 bucks you can get a decent mix/amount to start.. you basically sprinkle them into your pot/bed let them grow and crush them down or chop them down without disturbing the soil and thatll become a humus/mulch layer also if you add worms thatll be worms they will break it down faster and turn it into worm castings full of nutrients..

 

[freddyyola]

my worm bins are outside and its raining today so ill add them later..

 

[freddyyola]

this is the plant in the milk crate above.. this is also the first time im using cover crops period.. itll take awhile for the worms to break everything down.. im using nutes so it doesnt matter but some ppl that do no till/cover crop grows get all their nutrients from the soil and only use water/compost teas.. i could get away with this if it was my second cover crop being smashed to become nutrients/food for my worms/plant and since i add dry amendments at this time.. eventually ill only need to feed with vermicompost teas/recharge.

 

[freddyyola]

bout that time for another tie down... LST..

 

[freddyyola]

i eat alot of nanners about 1 a day sometimes 2 and i split the peels after i eat the banana sometimes im lazy and dont split it as much but then i toss it next to a fan thats blowing towards the back of my pc which gives off a good bit of heat and the mixture of that dries these peels out pretty quick they turn hard in a day or two i just keep tossing them there till they pile up enough i then toss em ina coffee grinder but mines broke so i had to chop it up this time then i feed it to my worms or use it as a dry amendment for my soil which gets ate up microbes/red wigglers then becomes food for the plant.. soil food web type shit lol.

 

[freddyyola]

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[GreenhouseEffect]

I like your thread man!
That banana looks like a little Hoola skirt.... Just said the same thing about feeding the soil on another thread, glad some other folks are into Organic soil growing

 

[freddyyola]

here is video where brownguy420 (channel got deleted from youtube earlier this year..) is using cover crops similar to how im cover crops except im using a mix instead of straight crimson clover (use their leaves to pull nitrogen out of the air and when they die it releases that nitrogen to your plants) and i add my dry amendments and then cover with bamboo leaf mulch which is also to be broken down into worm castings.. and you can just repeat these steps every time you need to reamend your soil.

 

[freddyyola]

yeah im still learning as i go but im into organic growing and beneficial microbes bacteria and fungi and making your own nutrients/fertilizer through korean natural farming ways...

are you into seed sprout teas? they are basically an enzyme tea that helps break everything down to feed your plants.. super easy to and super beneficial.. its better than hygrozyme and you can make it yourself with popcorn.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlJhMN3HqHY this guy is using some other corn but you can popcorn, barley, alfalfa different seeds offer different benefits you could even use coconut water try to get the most natural no preservatives one you can find you have to water it down though a can to a five gallon bucket might be good..


if you know about biobizz they are a great bottled nutrient company and the way they make their nutrients is basically through fermenting plants and fruits. feeding plants with plants blooming buds with fruit and flower extract through a fermentation process.. which you can learn to make and do your self through korean natural farming/knf for short.. knf shows you how to make all that great stuff for pennies.. check it out on youtube.. "knf fpj jadam sst"

 

[Rwise]

I too do things organically, have for many years! Now that the laws I live under have changed, I will be doing an indoor grow with the same methods.

 

[GreenhouseEffect]

Thanks! Never tried the sprout tea before, but that totally makes sense, so much energy in a seed gets released when it germs! I used a Bubbler with earth worm castings and molasses this summer, it worked really good. Gonna have to read up on more of this stuff over the winter, be a good way to help keep the snowy winter time blues away, as well!

 

[freddyyola]

this crate is now topped off and the cover crop underneath will start to come up soon and ill update you guys! this should be plenty for those worms and microbes to chomp down on! i have a caption on each picture for more info!

 

[freddyyola]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee-oTKO__zg

 

[freddyyola]

yeah it has everything a plant needs to grow and full of enzymes you grind it up and toss it in some bubbling water/compost tea and use it like that. you can subsitute corn for barley, alfalfa, and you can use coconut water and aloe water or get freeze dried powders of both.. idk if you know mendo dope guys but they grow 20 ft trees 8+ pounds a plant and thats all they use plus kelp and fish head soup!