Hi I give molasses every time & with nutrients .
Ok yāall, riddle me this.
I have a 12 gal bin of h2o I use to h2o my girls. It is RO & DI h2o.
Can I add 1 TBS of molasses per gal in the bin & use it to h2o the girls, or will the blackstrap go bad? My h2o bin has 4 air stones aerating the h2o.
Do you use worms with every grow? Does pot size come into play? All things being equal, worms, organic pot soil, or Dr. Earth, which one would u suggest for living soil?
So if I understand you correctly, you suggest using Dr. Earth once I get into flower. And you encourage the use of molasses.
Do you use the Great White all the way up to harvest?
Or are you talking when the soil needs a little somthinā somthinā during flowering?
It is sugarā¦Does your reservoir empty and then you refill or is it just a water container? I would just add some to a bottle and add the waterā¦keep the bin CLEAN
I use worm every time I recycle my soil. I also use it when I TOP dress, about once a month
Great White when you make your container for a grow and you can add a little when you top dress. It will help the soil for the NEXT CYCLEā¦DO not discard your soil, Recycle it.
Yesā¦when the soil needs it
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Good to know. Iām recycling one pot of soil. The other rootball to huge.
Iāll add worm casting to my soil if weather permits.
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Farm some worms? Iām going to have to since Iām in place for a while.
Naw, thatās definitely more than I wanna lol. Amazon to the rescue!!
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Just a noteā¦when I recycle, I do not go from grow to grow. I skip 1 turn. I compost my soil for a cycle or even more (my outside I recycle for a full yearā¦and move to garden / containers each spring)
I have 3 worm farmsā¦easy i to do in cheap plastic containers with lids
I let my roots, leaves, veg table scarps - compost and add 50% to my NEW SOIL
50% composted, 30% peat/coco, the rest is vermiculite and perlite and worm castings
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Can you please post about this?
I add h2o when my reservoir is empty.
So what would you recommend for a storage container for compost? I have a 40 gal bin w/top that might work. Iām no large-scale operation here, just 3-5 plants @ a time.
Would you keep a bin of compost in the garage or outside, considering the summer months?
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Then I would add molasses to it
Compost - I would keep it outsideā¦you want the sun / heat to decompose thingsā¦moisten it periodicallyā¦your 40gal is fineā¦it should be dark to absorb heat
Does anyone use coffee grounds in their soil?
Yepā¦all the time. Be careful as they are acidic but I keep all my grinds for the garden / compost pile and worm bin. Worms love coffee!
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Hey dudes & dudettes, Iām thinkinā on starting a compost pile.
How does a dude from L.A. (Lower Arkansas) start? What should I start with? When do I add worms?
I am mentally processing some vids I saw on utube, but I need a personal account from yāall.
Iām thinkinā a rotating tub would work very well. Itāll keep me from doing much manual labor like shoveling, mixing, and such.
What works well in a neighborhood, what should I compost, how long should it cook before using?
Curious minds want to know.
Thanks in advance for any help yāall provide. Yāall are truly amazinā.
The above pics of my babies. week 4 day 29. They are blueberry x mazar or bluzars, and Iāve topped 2 & LSTād all 4. One of them (the one with the oregano label) was topped x2.
Yāall canāt tell from the photo, but all of these girlās main stems are parallel to the ground. I am attempting to expose the lower branches to light before they start to flower.
I am actively looking for pistils, but Iāve found none to this point. So I will continue to brutalize these girls until they say uncle.
This is why they may look a little stunted or short. Iāll add some pics from the side showing height later.
PEACE
I add every table scraps ever that goes to or thru my kitchen. Like an OCD nut. Itās free humus rich better than you can buy home made black gold. Coffee grounds kick but and make me smile. I add bones too even though every compost guide says not to. Its pure calcium and phosphorus. Itās because they attract rats and flies.
I have found compost tumblers to be extremely helpful to combat this. I have 3 of them and just rotate until each one is full. They bring the compost up into the air and stand the whole container on a frame. Round ones make the rodents slip off and they skip them. Donāt get the ones the sit on a small ground level roll pad. Those rats will chew right in. They have to be up on a frame in the air. If they ever get stinky from table scraps just pack in grass clippings. Pack them in as they cook down like collard greens do in a pan. Grass clippings literally get it hot. Grass clippings fire up all the microbes and the tumbling in the tumbler feeds them tons of air. Tumblers work great and solve the rat pest problem at the same time. Tumblers are what having a good light is to growing for composting. 
I store the scraps for compost by the kitchen garbage in a 5gal bucket. One with a good lid. I put about 3-4ā of raw biochar in the bottom. Then have the fam stack the kitchen scraps till itās full. Once full I like to float the scraps and packed char in urine. (New method last season. Liked the results a lot). Let it ripen by the tumbler until the next bucket is full inside. Then dump in the tumbler and switch. Pack in some grass clippings. Homemade black gold.
GOLLO, I have found that Coffee grounds work best in the off season when garden is fallow if you want to skip the composter. Especially if you add a lot. Like the big bags you can get from the coffee stand. Skip top dressing it on live plants unless you do it light. Burns tomatoes too I have found. If you top dress too thickly the rain will run off it like clay hard pan. It gets hard 1-2 days in the sun. Mix it in a tad with a rake to combat this. The worms love it like Mike said. Or indoor just add them at the bottom of the pot like a tblspoon when you repot or potting a fresh planting. No problems. Do NOT top dress with them indoor. They are too hot (my experience) and will burn plants. But mainly fungus nats fu**ing love coffee grounds like a dinner bell. Indoor.
The composers you can buy ( or the city gives away every year) that sit over the dirt and look like a big traffic cone with a hatch on top. Or the ones that stack teirs of plastic bins with handy door hatches work great. But even if you are careful about what you compost the rats will get into it eventually. They just chew in and spend all night dragging your rotten table scraps all over you yard so you have to (gag) pick that stuff up in the sun the next day. You will wish you just got a tumbler.
I was gifted a mantis duel sided 55 gal one. It is my favorite because it has a crank handle (like rotisserie) so itās easy to turn while packed. And itās thick solid metal smooth and round so the rats slip right off. And the stand is metal. And tall like 40ā so my wheel burrow fits right under it to dump. But they are price prohibitively expensive over priced. My other 2 models (costco specials)just have hand holds and a lock to stop rotating. No crank but are way cheaper $ and Still work well.
The worms seem to find the compost I have found. Surprisingly fast. Like build it and they will come. Except compost and worms instead of ghosts and baseball.
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compost tumblers sound like the way to go. now if I can just get the wife to buy into saving compost in the kitchen. Thanks for the info.
Peace
I have my compost in the yard and WISH i had tumblersā¦It is my exerciseā¦I have worm bins in the garage and she wonāt even go near themā¦lolā¦
I had a countertop bin but she made me take it away. I put it in the garageā¦ I gather the scraps (no meatā¦veg only). I add the compost to both my worm bins and compost pails. I let them sit minimum over winter, best for a whole year. If I had a tumbler, I could compost much quicker. The worms are easyā¦cheap plastic bins, 3 and 3ā¦Bottom one is catch basin. I can install a spicket if I want worm tea but am happy with worm castings. Upper containers are drilled with holes so worms pass upwards and castings go down. No smell, no gnats, fliesā¦
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Good morning.
How long should I brew a tea with worm castings & molasses?
Curious minds want to know.
24 hours is enough timeā¦for tea. You can do more but that is enough. In the warmer weather, I have a5gal pail outside and add worm casings constantly, keep it aerated and clean it out maybe once every 1-2 weeks. Make sure to add an airstone and oxygenate the solution. Add the molasses before you feed and make sure you check your Phā¦
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