Lobster compost

Nice stuff bud!

Added some forest goodies, some old cow pasture soil and seaweed to the pile before it froze. I'm going to have to start looking for other inputs now, I won't be grabbing anymore lobster shells myself. Glad I grabbed all those shells in 2019. Rough guesstimate is probably close to a ton of shells I put into the pile so there should be plenty of chitin.

Summer 2020 pollen chuck

I started a few 2020 chucks already. Bodhi Hindu Hash × Bodhi Black Raz and one of my 2019 chucks x Black Raz. Had a bit of a ph problem, but I think I have it sorted now

A few shots of whats finishing up indoors. 2019 chuck, mrs pebbles x gg4 /3 headed dragon. Lowers. I pushed my light ouput this run so I've got some wicked foxtailing on my upper buds.

I live near the beach. I add some bales of fresh green alfalfa to those compost piles. In just a couple of days

I'm done messing around with promix in veg. I'm going to start using my flowering mix instead.
1ft3 happy frog soil conditioner
1ft3 compost
1ft3 of rice hulls
1.75 cups of neem seed meal and fish bone flour, 1.60 cups kelp meal and milled malted barley, 4 cups glacial rock dust, 4 cups gypsum.
This makes up 3cubic ft of soil. No cook time necessary. I will probably be uppotting some solos later today.

natureboygrower said:

I'm done messing around with promix in veg. I'm going to start using my flowering mix instead.
1ft3 happy frog soil conditionerView attachment 4846493
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1ft3 of rice hullsView attachment 4846495
1.75 cups of neem seed meal and fish bone flour, 1.60 cups kelp meal and milled malted barley, 4 cups glacial rock dust, 4 cups gypsum.
This makes up 3cubic ft of soil. No cook time necessary. I will probably be uppotting some solos later today.

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I use that happy frog soil conditioner. Works great.

DarkWeb said:

I use that happy frog soil conditioner. Works great.

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Love the stuff. Lots of extra goodies in there other than peat. I've seen people use it as a topdress in their vegetable gardens with nice results too.

Current grow. Couple phenos of Bodhis goji og, a time bandit, a baddawd headband x longbottomleaf and a couple chucks of my own. 5 weeks or so from flip

So I live in the mid-west. I was wondering if anyone knew if you can use eurasian milfoil (freshwater invasive seaweed), which I heard is crazy rich in phosphorus(which makes sense, because Tru-Green Chemlawn run-off is a lot of the problem). Also could a fella' use crayfish corpses and mussles crushed up after a cooking? I've also always wondered could you make fish hydrolisate with carp/buffalo/other rough fish high in oil content???
Nature provides for everyone, I'm just looking to confirm what I think makes sense.
If you can do it on the coast what can we do inland with what we can afford/find??

natureboygrower said:

Love the stuff. Lots of extra goodies in there other than peat. I've seen people use it as a topdress in their vegetable gardens with nice results too.

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It goes in or on everything here. I gotta find a new place for that and the lobster compost. The place I got it from closed because of covid.

living gardening said:

So I live in the mid-west. I was wondering if anyone knew if you can use eurasian milfoil (freshwater invasive seaweed), which I heard is crazy rich in phosphorus(which makes sense, because Tru-Green Chemlawn run-off is a lot of the problem). Also could a fella' use crayfish corpses and mussles crushed up after a cooking? I've also always wondered could you make fish hydrolisate with carp/buffalo/other rough fish high in oil content???
Nature provides for everyone, I'm just looking to confirm what I think makes sense.
If you can do it on the coast what can we do inland with what we can afford/find??

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The crayfish definitely, i wouldn't go crazy with the mussels. They take awhile to breakdown and not at a huge benefit. I crushed all my lobster shells with a half ton chevy lol. More surface area for bugs in the pile is what you want. I dont see why you couldn't use that freshwater weed, I hate that runoff shit. We have problems with that in my state as well. People want golf course lawns at their camps nowjust make sure your pile gets over 150°. Go to the woods for old soil under big trees ( in a responsible way) or old pasture fields for soil. Must be cow pastures in the west right? That would probably be some rich stuff. It's all about different inputs going into your pile. I've got some pics in this thread of different materials that have gone into the pile.

DarkWeb said:

It goes in or on everything here. I gotta find a new place for that and the lobster compost. The place I got it from closed because of covid.

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That sucks. If my flowering mix works well for veg, i may have to use the COM lobster compost in my veg mix and save my lobster compost for my flowering mix. I wont be able to grab anymore lobster shells thanks to covid as well. Glad I composted them in 2019.

living gardening said:

So I live in the mid-west. I was wondering if anyone knew if you can use eurasian milfoil (freshwater invasive seaweed), which I heard is crazy rich in phosphorus(which makes sense, because Tru-Green Chemlawn run-off is a lot of the problem). Also could a fella' use crayfish corpses and mussles crushed up after a cooking? I've also always wondered could you make fish hydrolisate with carp/buffalo/other rough fish high in oil content???
Nature provides for everyone, I'm just looking to confirm what I think makes sense.
If you can do it on the coast what can we do inland with what we can afford/find??

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It's kinda funny. If you lived near where I do you could got to any dock on the great lakes and find empty craw dad shells that the birds leave behind. They also leave guano behind. As long as it gets composted, there are your cheap land locked amendments. Go spend a day at the beach and bring a garbage can or bag, a broom and a dust pan . . lol!

natureboygrower said:

The crayfish definitely, i wouldn't go crazy with the mussels. They take awhile to breakdown and not at a huge benefit. I crushed all my lobster shells with a half ton chevy lol. More surface area for bugs in the pile is what you want. I dont see why you couldn't use that freshwater weed, I hate that runoff shit. We have problems with that in my state as well. People want golf course lawns at their camps nowjust make sure your pile gets over 150°. Go to the woods for old soil under big trees ( in a responsible way) or old pasture fields for soil. Must be cow pastures in the west right? That would probably be some rich stuff. It's all about different inputs going into your pile. I've got some pics in this thread of different materials that have gone into the pile.

That sucks. If my flowering mix works well for veg, i may have to use the COM lobster compost in my veg mix and save my lobster compost for my flowering mix. I wont be able to grab anymore lobster shells thanks to covid as well. Glad I composted them in 2019.

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Mix is working great for seedlings. Good riddance promix.


A little temple ball of some bubble hash I made up using a 2019 chuck. Mrs Pebbles x Gg4

And a freshly cut temple ball of Bodhis hindu hash after a 3 month cure

2019 chuck finishing up, ima let it go the rest of the week

Veg cab doing great, except for a few ugly clones

Bodhis dragonfruit, female on the left (smaller one) male on the right. Might be a candidate for a pollen donor 2021 outdoor chuck. Really nice structure on both.

I had no idea we had treefrogs in this State until last fall. Found this big bastard in our woods last week. Really cool looking

Great thread man.... haha, sorry so late to the show. My issue with the flying insects was solved by putting up a bug zapper near my compost barrel.. I was able to collect pounds of insect frass to add to the mix!

Been harvesting tops all week and will likely pull the rest tomorrow morning. Sips will be emptied into the compost pile, filled and planted by tomorrow night. I mixed up a batch of soil today, same mix as post #66. Forgot to add a .5 cup of sulpomag to the ingredient list in that post.
I'll be running a very small cut of a 2020 outdoor chuck I did ( Bodhis black raz dad crossed with my Mrs pebbles 2019 chuck ) I'll probably have that share a sip with another strain. I'm dedicating one sip to a multi topped pebbles chuck that should produce really well being by itself. Same strain as below I just harvested.
In veg I have some nice looking Useful seeds blueberries and chocolate going as well as a couple bag of oranges, but I want to mother them for this upcoming summer chuck. My sips produce hollow stems, i want to make sure i get some viable cuts. Bodhi and baddawg in veg too.

2019 outdoor chuck Jaws Mrs Pebbles x baddawg seeds gg4 x 3 headed dragon


Spotted a couple of 2020 chucks coming up from the compost pile. Maybe I'll try to transplant it somewhere.

Growing in SIPS I get hollow stems, so it was a tough decision not to put some of these into flower. I want to be able to clone some of these for this up coming summer's outdoor pollen chuck. Mainly bodhi ( dragon fruit, cocoon) and useful ( blueberries& chocolate and Bag of Oranges) strains in the cab rn, a couple baddawg freebies as well. As of right now, I've got a really nice male bodhi dragonfruit, or a baddadwg white skunk cross as a possible pollen donor. Plenty of time to decide

Male dragonfruit on the left, skunk on the right

Useful seeds bbs and chocolate and boos


Female bodhi dragonfruit

Put a couple very small cuts to share a sip.The one on the left is a 2020 chuck, my 2019 chuck crossed with a bodhi black raz Male which was a really fast growing plant. I expect to watch this take off very soon. Right side plant is a 2019 chuck. Also have a big pheno of this in it's own sip. Plants were planted in sips 6 days ago.


Veg cab looking great


Looking forward to making a few different crosses this summer. We're expanding our vegetable garden, so I plan on sticking a boo and bluberry in there for some temple balls and edible making these plants will be strictly for flower and away from the seed making site.

Man, ever since I got away from promix and went to my flowering soil in my veg cab, things have run so smooth. Everything has fallen nicely into place in the grow room.

Two weeks since their transplant. I'd say they laid down their roots. Growth is almost noticeable daily.

Multi topped 2019 chuck in it's own SIP

Veg check. Boos, blueberry, dragon fruit all recently topped.