Organic soil fertilizers to bring out the full flavor of cannabis?

Richard Drysift

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Do you feed any other amendments to your worm bin? I'm new to mine and I've got a few going to play around with!
Ive been using just recycled soil as bedding instead of coco & perlite which seems to make better faster compost. Besides green sand I put oyster flour for grit & some garden gypsum, and perlite for aeration. I feed my worms alafalfa meal, corn meal, dried canna leaf, fruit & veg scraps and coffee grounds. I get another tray of castings about every 3 weeks but it took over a year for my worms to get this productive.
 

Rasta Roy

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Ive been using just recycled soil as bedding instead of coco & perlite which seems to make better faster compost. Besides green sand I put oyster flour for grit & some garden gypsum, and perlite for aeration. I feed my worms alafalfa meal, corn meal, dried canna leaf, fruit & veg scraps and coffee grounds. I get another tray of castings about every 3 weeks but it took over a year for my worms to get this productive.
Nice! Do you think they would munch up fish bone meal?
 

Rasta Roy

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My girl refuses to let me get a worm bin. The landlord concurred.
I've got three in my basement right now. Odor is not an issue at all. Not to say it doesn't have it's smells, but there's already a lot of smells going on with my plants and it doesn't overpower them. And you don't smell the worm bins upstairs. And they're only messy of you don't clean up after yourself!
 

Yodaweed

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Ive been using just recycled soil as bedding instead of coco & perlite which seems to make better faster compost. Besides green sand I put oyster flour for grit & some garden gypsum, and perlite for aeration. I feed my worms alafalfa meal, corn meal, dried canna leaf, fruit & veg scraps and coffee grounds. I get another tray of castings about every 3 weeks but it took over a year for my worms to get this productive.
I been crushing up egg shells for the grit. I put them in my magic bullet for a few seconds, makes them like powder.
 
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indianajones

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when you guys talk about this or that being anti-fungal, what you don't realize is there
is no end all anti fungal. there are things that are effective at killing or slowing the growth
of a particular fungi, but there is no carbon containing organic material i know of that
is unable to be broken down by fungi. here's an example of substrate specificity which
illustrates my point.

the common oyster mushroom, pleurotus ostreatus, typically grows on trees in the wild,
but is commonly cultivated on straw and/or sawdust for food production. this mushroom
can also digest and draw nutrition from hydrocarbons, like crude oil, but can't digest hair,
because it lacks keratin digesting enzymes.

then you have chaetomium globosum, which doesn't produce mushrooms but like an
oyster mushroom, it inhabits cellulose rich plant materials. it is commonly found in leaf
litter, is considered a beneficial fungi for corn, can also cause infections of the nail and
breaks, and produces keratinase enzymes.

now, think about pestalotiopsis microspora. this fungi received some notoriety in the past
few years because of its unique ability to digest certain plastics under anaerobic conditions.
it also parasitizes ganoderma genus mushrooms and causes some leaf spot mold on hidcote
bushes.

so, to say that neem seed cake (or practically any other material) is anti-fungal is thinking
small... there's a whole world of microbes out there just waiting for their niche to show up.
 
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