Cottage 420's Organic Perpetual Indoor Garden

[bobrown14]

I get the Mykes locally ... Gonna have to try the Xtreme Gardening gear. It's only got 1 species but its the right 1 and the price is good.

It's got a fancy label so.... gotta take a peak under the covers... yikes. All good, my next purchase.

Bezos... should have bought stock ... WTF was I thinking? I'm sure he made a shit ton of millionaires in addition to changing shopping culture in America.

When I drive to the local garden center... it's actually a special feeling for me.. 1 of the only places I actually "shop" for anything. I have a nice selection of composts, peat moss's and annual and perennial flowers.

 

[Van Stank]

Hey Bob, question for you on your vermi-composting. Just started our vermi-composting journey and am curious as your favorite 'inputs' for your worms. Thanks brother!

 

[Van Stank]

The Xtreme Gardening version is the brand we use. Love it. But don't have anything to compare it against other than not using it.

 

[bobrown14]

Hey Bob, question for you on your vermi-composting. Just started our vermi-composting journey and am curious as your favorite 'inputs' for your worms. Thanks brother!

Everything from kitchen scraps but no meat/fat/dairy (attracts vermin and smells).
Almost everything we clean out of the garden. NO citrus.. worms will avoid them.

leaves are great input and use them as a layer to keep the heap aerated. Best to mulch them with a mower to break em up but not required for sure.

Grass clippings are great too..
Coffee grounds are GREAT ... VERY good keeps the worms working overtime.

I grow Comfrey (Bocking 14 its sterile) just for the compost bin. Cut them down to the crown about 6 times a season. Stuff em in the bin to over flow. Worms go wild and Comfrey is a green manure so it will heat up... worms move down or to the sides until heat dissipates.

There's some science to it but it's not all that critical.

The important part is "quality in = quality out" so I don't put paper/cardboard that kind of stuff in there.

Every few months I throw in some rock dust, crab shell meal, alfalfa meal... anything you wanna amend soil with you can put in the bin and the nutrients will be ready when you make a batch of soil.

Gotta keep the bin covered tho.. or rain water washes away the goodness mainly the Nitrogen... which isn't a good thing. We want to keep that in the bin so its there when we mix up some soil.


The science says 70% brown matter to 30% green matter...

I've read up on all the science and there's a lot of it and it gets pretty serious science with advanced math formulas and all kinds of stuff. Crazy but hey they figured it out and it works for sure.

Basically all we do in mainly kitchen scraps and amend with extras from the gardens and leaves. It's all going to break down and it it doesn't that's what the screen is for. The stuff that doesn't break down this time will go back into the bin and it will break down eventually.

I've been doing this since the 70s and never really worried too much about the ratios. Just only put in quality food ... think of the worms as your pets and feed accordingly. There's bacteria and fungi also in the bin even more so than worms.
So there's a trifecta going on... keep a balance and everthing will work out.

2 things from the kitchen I don't add in:
1) egg shells (even washed crushed) a lot of work washing then you need grind them up... may as well cook em and put them in some vinegar. They take WAY too long to compost.

2) citrus - worms don't like citrus.. must be a PH thing.

There is absolutely nothing better for soil than vermi-compost you make your self.

If you burn hardwood fires for heat can add in some of the charcoals or even the ash but go easy.. add a little at a time = shovel full, not buckets at a time.

Common sense... always good.

 

[NorCaliwood]

Something everyone always says I don't have,, common sense.


Keepem Greem

 

[lowrent]

hey bobrown. I listen to thedirtdoctor, on the weekend on the radio, and he talks about composting a lot. he also said tomatoes don't breakdown so well either...goes along with your citrus/acidic thing. c'yalaterbye

 

[Big Sparks]

All caught up...again! lol! Those worm castings boy... *whistles* I can almost smell the earthy-ness from here. I use Coots mix also. But been using Bu's blend compost mixed with a lil worm castings. My living conditions make it difficult to make my own compost piles, and/or worm bins. I do believe the humus part of the mix to be the most important. One day though....one day...... One day i'll grow up and have a big boy garden too. *looks down and kicks rocks*
Hope you all are enjoying your evenings.
Sparks

 

[Big Sparks]

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I had just made up a few cu. ft. this weekend also. Keep em green Bobrown.

 

[bobrown14]

All caught up...again! lol! Those worm castings boy... *whistles* I can almost smell the earthy-ness from here. I use Coots mix also. But been using Bu's blend compost mixed with a lil worm castings. My living conditions make it difficult to make my own compost piles, and/or worm bins. I do believe the humus part of the mix to be the most important. One day though....one day...... One day i'll grow up and have a big boy garden too. *looks down and kicks rocks*
Hope you all are enjoying your evenings.
Sparks

Sparky don't sell yourself short bro... BU's Blend is probably better than my home made stuff if not it's damn close. I use it too but it's a little pricey here on the E/C.

Soil FTW.


Mini update...

Buffalato #3 is getting pretty frosty so going to have some good bud porn here in a little bit.

The BH are all chugging along getting taller and taller. I super-cropped 3 of the 5 so far, bent them over as I was running out of head room. I can get away with a few plants in the lights but not all of em.


Buffalato #3 - Platinum Buffalo x Dolato. All nuggs on this one same as the others. Hoping for some last few weeks of swell and all will be good.. Testing some of the Buffalato that has been curing and its very very good. Got a great body buzz for a bit last night too...very upbeat happy time. This one doesn't have the dark red pistols yet so I'm thinking more of a White Buffalo leaner. Still frosty A/F... not far from gooey.

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Buffalato #3

Buffalato #3 - nugs

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Buffalato #3

Buffalato #3 - nugs

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Buffalato #3 Platinum Buffalo x Dolato

Buffalato #3 - nugs

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Buffalato #3

BH #1 - top cola - before super-cropping

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Black Hyena #3 - super crop'd

BH #1 - top cola - after super-cropping

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Black Hyena #1 - super crop'd

BH #2 - She was super-cropped last week and has turned up already. So she slowed down a little but still going. I'm hoping the side colas catch up!

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Black Hyena #2 - super crop'd

 

[dr.h00k]

......cheerz...h00k...

 

[NorCaliwood]

That Buffalato #3 looks hella tasty. You do like them tall sativa ones don't ya?

 

[Big Sparks]

Boy, i hope you have the room for all them tall *ss sativas. Lookin good Bob.

 

[bobrown14]

hey bobrown. I listen to thedirtdoctor, on the weekend on the radio, and he talks about composting a lot. he also said tomatoes don't breakdown so well either...goes along with your citrus/acidic thing. c'yalaterbye

I think there's a tomato in the bin there still red after well over 6 months..maybe its an egg shell Tomatoes are also bad because the seeds... no mater what I do they will germinate. They are easy to weed so no too bad!

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• bobrown14
• May 2, 2018
• vermicompost vermiculture

Vermi-compost bin

Getting some flowers growing again. Not used to a regular run where every plant are close in age. This round just ended up that way for some reason. I usually have finishers in with young'ins.

Anyway so pics of the pretty one.. Took these pics yesterday... this morning all the side branches did "The Flop".. I had to tie up all the branches well a lot of em. Going to be worth it, I'm mining for nuggets. Silver green and black ....

Buffalato #3 - under skirt nug shot

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• bobrown14
• May 10, 2018

Buffalato #3 - don't worry yes I puff these. The sugars on this strain are actually some REAL good puffage. I vape so they are not harsh. Taste is smooth like mouth coating buttery nug goodness.

Nugness... now high A/F... not from sugars, was puffing the Popcorn nugs. Super shit.

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Buffalato #3

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Buffalato #3

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Buffalato #3

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Buffalato #3

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[NorCaliwood]

Drooling... Tasty looking morsels...........


But hey dude,,, bout the tomato,,, she'll be a better-acclimated plant. Iffin she's from your yard or a neighbor. Back In Arkanasa volunteers plants, were in big demand. Need a plant that deals with HEAT and DRYNESS. I use to grow starts for half the neighborhood when I was a youngster. They got better every year...

 

[kelticBlue]

Drooling... Tasty looking morsels...........


But hey dude,,, bout the tomato,,, she'll be a better-acclimated plant. Iffin she's from your yard or a neighbor. Back In Arkanasa volunteers plants, were in big demand. Need a plant that deals with HEAT and DRYNESS. I use to grow starts for half the neighborhood when I was a youngster. They got better every year...

Ah Ha, acclimated cool, never thought. I used to turn my whole tomato plant back into the soil at the end of the season and my cherry tomato and plum tomato plants would grow back stronger than ever. I think I had them grow back 3 or four years in a row. I wasn't trying to keep them going. I always had to much. Which is why the whole plant got pitchforked back into the ground.
My early girls and big boys never did it but cherry sure did. I got to not like the cherry tomatoe plants after a while.

 

[bobrown14]

A little update..

In the flower room we have 5 Black Hyena = Blue Dream x Blue Dream/white widow ...
1 Buffalato #3 (Jurassic style) and a very nice DT #9 laying back and doing her thing.

DT is soo easy to grow. Plant and water.. can hack her down to nothing and she will fill the room in no time. She just needs to cure for 4-6 months. Not a problem for me!

Buffalato #3 - @ 55 days. She finally started bulking up and getting real frosty. Almost black fans too, they are a very dark purple with mega rails on the under side with reddish purple trichomes.

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• bobrown14
• May 14, 2018

Buffalato #3 - nug shot

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• May 14, 2018

Buffalato #3 - rails of goodness

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• bobrown14
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Buffalato #3 - there are several colas that look like this one. Looks like she has a flat top and more than 1 top merging together. This looks Jurassic to me and sharp pointy and she's going all black. The puffage is freaking fantastic.

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• bobrown14
• May 14, 2018

Family Picture - Buffalato there on the right and the rest are Black Hyena with super crop the lazy way.

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• bobrown14
• May 14, 2018

Black Hyena #1 - #4 @ 30ish days ... they are starting to build some cola.
I got the ropes out. These girls all have VERY strong fat stems. A good thing, shit's going to get real here in a few daze.

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• bobrown14
• May 14, 2018

 

[Pennywise]

Buffalato fading awesome!

 

[imtoasted]

Looks great mr brown.. love that jurassic style. Good way to describe it.

 

[ilikemsticky]

oh that buffalato my my good one bob!

 

[gr865]

All caught up...again! lol! Those worm castings boy... *whistles* I can almost smell the earthy-ness from here. I use Coots mix also. But been using Bu's blend compost mixed with a lil worm castings. My living conditions make it difficult to make my own compost piles, and/or worm bins. I do believe the humus part of the mix to be the most important. One day though....one day...... One day i'll grow up and have a big boy garden too. *looks down and kicks rocks*
Hope you all are enjoying your evenings.
Sparks

There is a system, Can-O-Worms, that I had in my kitchen while living in Cal. If you learn to use the proper materials in the bin you will have no problems.
Also look into a Bokashi kitchen system, uses EM1 and also works well as a compost unit.