Hey everybody I am new to posting here I have apparently had an account for a while but recently noticed this section for RI patients and decided to start posting over here. I want to use this thread to discuss everything related to organics in regards to a living soil. I do not use bottled nutrients and this thread is not for discussing growing with those. There are a few bottles that are accepted for use in organic growing but we do not rely on using bottles to feed our plants.
We start out by mixing up our own soil mixes, however complex or simple they may be, and these are loaded with our nutrients which the microbes are then given time to breakdown, 4-6 weeks depending on how "hot" your soil is, and convert into plant food. After this we just have to keep the soil moist with non-chlorinated water, not allowing it to dry out yet not giving it too much whereas you would create an anaerobic situation. With a properly mixed and cycled soil you can go from seed to harvest while just giving it water. This is a lot easier, a lot cheaperr and a lot safer/healthier than a bottle of something we do not know what it contains.
This is just the beginning of organics, but even keeping it this simple will get you a higher quality and higher yield than most people who use the bottle stuff. It all comes down to having a healthy plant, which the nutrient companies intentionally cause you to be deficient in order to continue buying their products on top of having to buy them everytime you run out, that is expensive!
I do not personally know others who are doing this in RI but I am sure there are more of you out there, it would be great if we all got together in here and shared our soil mixes and information on locating the cheapest and best amendments around. Patients need healthy medicine and it is not going to happen if everybody keeps dumping bottles of crap on there plants.
We start out by mixing up our own soil mixes, however complex or simple they may be, and these are loaded with our nutrients which the microbes are then given time to breakdown, 4-6 weeks depending on how "hot" your soil is, and convert into plant food. After this we just have to keep the soil moist with non-chlorinated water, not allowing it to dry out yet not giving it too much whereas you would create an anaerobic situation. With a properly mixed and cycled soil you can go from seed to harvest while just giving it water. This is a lot easier, a lot cheaperr and a lot safer/healthier than a bottle of something we do not know what it contains.
This is just the beginning of organics, but even keeping it this simple will get you a higher quality and higher yield than most people who use the bottle stuff. It all comes down to having a healthy plant, which the nutrient companies intentionally cause you to be deficient in order to continue buying their products on top of having to buy them everytime you run out, that is expensive!
I do not personally know others who are doing this in RI but I am sure there are more of you out there, it would be great if we all got together in here and shared our soil mixes and information on locating the cheapest and best amendments around. Patients need healthy medicine and it is not going to happen if everybody keeps dumping bottles of crap on there plants.
