New Grower Hog's First Perpetual Garden

[Hog_M@Gundy]

Is that because of the tarp that's over the pot?

Yeah, the Earthbox mulch covers are part of the "earthbox magic". Keeping the top layer out of direct light allows the soil food web to function more rapidly/effectively. But mostly the mycelium is from the Bokashi grain and Rootwise Mycrobe Complete. Bokashi seems to really turbocharge the biology.

 

[WildBill]

Yeah, the Earthbox mulch covers are part of the "earthbox magic". Keeping the top layer out of direct light allows the soil food web to function more rapidly/effectively. But mostly the mycelium is from the Bokashi grain and Rootwise Mycrobe Complete. Bokashi seems to really turbocharge the biology.

Yeah I find the same thing!
I use TeraGanix bokashi.
I got some Rootwise to test in the next grow. Jeremy loves it, but it better be a producer with his expensive as it is!

 

[Bob's Auto's]

Yeah, the Earthbox mulch covers are part of the "earthbox magic". Keeping the top layer out of direct light allows the soil food web to function more rapidly/effectively. But mostly the mycelium is from the Bokashi grain and Rootwise Mycrobe Complete. Bokashi seems to really turbocharge the biology.

Been reading up on that Bokashi and I'm gonna order me a kit to try it out. Think this would be a good addition to the amendments I'm already giving.

 

[Bob's Auto's]

Yeah I find the same thing!
I use TeraGanix bokashi.
I got some Rootwise to test in the next grow. Jeremy loves it, but it better be a producer with his expensive as it is!

Once you've bought your first bag of inoculants it's apparently very easy to expand that. All you need is a bucket, molasses, barley and time...is all.

 

[WildBill]

Once you've bought your first bag of inoculants it's apparently very easy to expand that. All you need is a bucket, molasses, barley and time...is all.

Are you talking about expanding the rootwise?
I know you can make your own bokashi.


You know, you just stimulated an idea. Way back in the early 90s,in the early days of owning my farm, I came upon an opportunity I just couldn't pass up. I got notified of a train derailment and some interesting ingredients were available at pennies on the dollar .
What I got a hold of was a part of a train car load of dried molasses. I had a trailer that my uncle had way overbuilt, so I borrowed a neighbor's F-450 truck. Bagged dried molasses is heavy as hell ! I packed that trailer! Tested those 10 or 12 ply tires!
I mainly use that in building and maintaining my compost piles. I call them piles, but they were long huge rows. I made a lot! Talk about firing up and heating up a compost pile!

If I can find some readily available, I think I'm gonna start using it at the same time I'm doing my top dressings on pots and earth boxes. Just a little bit edge of time of top dressing. I think it'll be easy to use also when re amending media in my totes.

 

[Bob's Auto's]

Are you talking about expanding the rootwise?

Yes, the inoculant. I've ordered myself a two bucket kit. Just have to get myself 10kg bran/oats and 1L molasses. One bucket from the kit will be used as described and the other will be used to make my own inoculant from the starter pack. Three weeks later I can dump the fermented inoculant onto a tarp outside and sundry it. That way, I'll have more then enough to keep me happy for years to come.
By next spring I'll need to add about 200L fresh compost to my soil to amend it and my worm tower can't keep up with that amount. I was thinking in using the Bokashi setup to speed things up quite a deal. Two to three weeks in the bucket, then mulched into the mound of soil which is inside the greenhouse. Let it rest over the winter and then by spring I'm good to go.

 

[Hog_M@Gundy]

Yes, the inoculant. I've ordered myself a two bucket kit. Just have to get myself 10kg bran/oats and 1L molasses. One bucket from the kit will be used as described and the other will be used to make my own inoculant from the starter pack. Three weeks later I can dump the fermented inoculant onto a tarp outside and sundry it. That way, I'll have more then enough to keep me happy for years to come.
By next spring I'll need to add about 200L fresh compost to my soil to amend it and my worm tower can't keep up with that amount. I was thinking in using the Bokashi setup to speed things up quite a deal. Two to three weeks in the bucket, then mulched into the mound of soil which is inside the greenhouse. Let it rest over the winter and then by spring I'm good to go.

How does this process multiply the mycorrhizae? As far as i know, those fungi only live and multiply in symbiosis with living plant roots

 

[Bob's Auto's]

How does this process multiply the mycorrhizae? As far as i know, those fungi only live and multiply in symbiosis with living plant roots

The same way you proces the bokashi. But instead of using food scraps, you use bran/oats. Let it fermet for two to three weeks. After fermentation you spread the oats open on a tray and let it airdry in a dark place.
Once the oats are dry you can store it in an airtight container for up to two years.

 

[Hog_M@Gundy]

 

[Hog_M@Gundy]

Things are going smoothly. 2 of the Carebears are a bit small, but I think they may have been a little underwatered. SNxPP (top left) is looking like a Strawberry Nuggets leaning broadleaf/indica so far which is what I was hoping for!