Living Soil

My experience obviously was fresh chicken shit, i have no coop but had 'access' to fresh stuff from the inside of coops i think where the holders cleaned the shit banks and i had them fill my bucket. I wont use it again this fresh 🤣
Having acces to properly aged and composted source is of course favorable, the straw also helps shaving some spikes off the CN ratio, good stuff!

Yeah biochar wants to be activated and fed a few nutrients to it and i havent dived into the PH side of thing but it beeing alkaline makes sense, but thats a learning curve with any ingredient.
A good source will offer activated or at least point out the differences...

I see what you say about the branding and how you dislike it because if your experience but all this doesnt make charcoal a bad input and you can also easily produce it in your backyard instead of sourcing industrial.

That last argument is kinda leading nowhere looking at what really happens globally its just not even close to any real issue. The gases are burnt by the heat if done properly, thats the reason why no smoke appears in a proper setup.
I think your issue with biochar is possibly more personal than anything else and you look for an argument that accompanies your POV.
Which is common human behaviour but lets just make a point, its not some kind of nuclear meltdown, petrochemical catastrophy or synthetic compound leaking into a river.

Its just carbon...made from wood...

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Fair enough.

I do have a slight problem with cutting trees down that are already sequestering carbon and burning them in an effort to reduce carbon.

It seems counterintuitive.

The biofuel industry is very wasteful.

Listening to them is like listening to a fox talk about how he should be in charge of the chickens.

I would rather be strapped to a chair and forced to listen to Vogon poetry or be ear-bashed about photography by a passive-aggressive attention seeker.
 
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@Uncle Jack i get it, i wouldnt cut any tree down for it, makes no sense, only if guys are point blank commercial it may be good maths.

You can really do it like that, or check out videos about the Kon Tiki method.
Shit you can even dig a little hole and make it right there.

Theres really no need for big chunks of wood, you can utilize stems and stalks from your Cannabis harvest or whatever harvest, or use cuttings from bushes or whatever comes free and gets chopped anyway. Smaller pieces are no issue in fact the charcoal reasonably fine grade is said to perform just as well if not better - higher surface area.
The good thing about this is you are completely in charge and if i was you i would try it in the chicken coop with some Em1 possibly amd i bet it will step the game up, also chickens can pack it up and clean their stomaches with the carbon particles.

This is basically about turning 'waste' product into prime product.
 
Little example of my latest soil adventure.

Suomi Haze (Mango Haze IBL Bx3 x Mango Haze IBL Bx3) @week 12

- LOS / Terra Preta style craft soilmix
- 90% water only
- 100% Terroir

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First run on the new type of soilmix and the new cultivar so not exactly dialed in yet, just getting a feel for the new balance.

Very promising so far, yet some minor issues to solve.

Need to up the amount of compost in the total mix and have some more liquid goodness ready to supplement (Bokashi juice, Guano Tea etc pp) also want to incorporate some pre fermented organics to add more life to it, especially in the myco department.
 
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Swifty said:
Great plants Proud Kraut. 😊
You certainly know your way around plants.👍

The experiment with the tub went very well and that Suomi Haze is a beauty!
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Thanks man, sometimes i just manage to keep them alive till harvest ;):ROFLMAO:

Have to compare that Suomi Haze which is (MHz IBL Bx3 x MHz IBL Bx3) with Mango Haze and Mango Haze IBL - really like that direction. Terps are killer, there are really some juicy 🥭 terps present - one of my favorite fruits. Tester nug lets me indulge in high hopes....

McDry also gets me there, just a little outdoor larf but i am always grateful for natures gifts and some good outdoor just hits different...plenty of phenos to explore and so far they all hit the gong.

Whats up in your garden?
 
Proud Kraut said:
Thanks man, sometimes i just manage to keep them alive till harvest ;):ROFLMAO:

Have to compare that Suomi Haze which is (MHz IBL Bx3 x MHz IBL Bx3) with Mango Haze and Mango Haze IBL - really like that direction. Terps are killer, there are really some juicy 🥭 terps present - one of my favorite fruits. Tester nug lets me indulge in high hopes....

McDry also gets me there, just a little outdoor larf but i am always grateful for natures gifts and some good outdoor just hits different...plenty of phenos to explore and so far they all hit the gong.

Whats up in your garden?
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That Mango line is quite special indeed.
I love the high from most of them.:)

Outdoor buds are always nice!

Atm going through Honolulu Haze and Sannies Jack and testing my Nevilles Haze Mango phenos.
Though job but somebody has to do it.😇
 
Back to the topic, living soil.

My thoughs about living soil goes to microorganism and mykhoriza. You will need small organism that transports the spores through the medium. And your must feed em. In Nature they will be Feed with Glucose from plants.

So i started to use Fenugreek, poppy and other pioneer plants in some of the pots.
As long they survive, the much bigger Hempplant will survive, too. The small Pioneer plants shows ways earlier some nutrient problems. Like a canarian Bird in coal mines. If the Pioneer plants/bird suffer, we all suffer.

Works pretty well with worm compost, Coco, perlite mix
 
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