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BlueCollarBob said:
Happy Birthday, @stonemason !

Hope you're enjoying the fruits of your labor, right now :) It looks amazing and I'll bet it smokes great, too.

Yes, I'd definitely appreciate seeing how you're doing things. I compost, but it isn't a planned thing. It might be a little hot with the chicken manure, but I haven't tried testing it. I used it in my outdoor grow last year. It'll be in the mix again this year, but in the ground instead of grow bags.

I just started some seeds, with plans to pick two to try growing in 2X4 tent. I'm not sure whether to try some living soil I found in a grow supply store, or just grab some Coast of Main or FoxFarms. Maybe simpler is better for getting one under my belt. I think the living soil that shop carried was Gaia Green and a more local brand from North Carolina.

Enjoy the rest of your birthday!
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Thanks buddy!!!!

I don't realy know to much about bagged soil.there are a bunch of guys on here that do though. just ask im sure they will have plenty of feed back.i think we used roots organics when we buit my buddies 5 beds, that and some loam (sand silt clay) from the gravel pit.i will throw up my top soil recipe that I used for my beds. it's nothing special mostly just compost,peat,pumice with some amendments and microbes..
 
It's super cool of you to share your experience. I'm looking forward to learning where you've landed on your topsoil recipe. It was this very thread that led me to Bud Builders when I was searching around for soil amendments, last Spring. It keeps paying dividends :D.
 
@BlueCollarBob here is that soil recipe I used nothing special, I'm no expert.

I use 1/3 compost 1/3 peat1/3 aeration. I always go a little heavier on the compost.i try to get 3 or 4 different kinds of compost from different places.. I like to throw in some worm castings,leaf mold also on the compost end. For the aeration I like to use sifted pumice or a bonsai rock mix ,rice hulls,wood chips. A mixture of the 3 but mostly pumice. If the wood chips havnt aged outside a year I like to soak them in a imo4 tea packed with nuitrients or a compost tea will work. Don't use cedar. I mix all together on a piece of ply wood or kitty pool and then spread it out to about a 4 to 5 inch height evenly.after it's spread out I dust it all once with about and 1/8 inch layer of dryed yarrow,nettle,hops,aloe powder,yucca powder,comfrey, hoarse tail and bio char(charge the bio char with biology and nutes before hand).i dust it twice with dolomite( can use wood ash instead) alfafa meall l (I just use organic rabitt pellets gound up its way cheaper than the meal).icelandic kelp meal,cotton sead meal,rock dust,neem sead meal,sunflower seed meall(the sun flower you have to make they don't sell it),soy bean meal,fossilized batt guano, grean bean seed meal(also gome made) canabiss stems and leaf meal imo #4(store bought microbes will work.) I mix it all up give it a light spray of lactic acid bacteria and a imo #4 tea.let it set a week or 2 in about 70% shade.

For the 30 gallon beds the bottom 3 inches are crushed field stone and sand .don't use a play sand try to get nice brown coarse sand.put in rocks first then sand to cover wet It Good and pat down with trowel so the sand fills in all gaps . Next 5 inches is a mixture of sand and clay 50/50 , then add above recipe soil recipe about 30 to 40 percent. The top 10 inches is just the soil mix.i Water slowly over the next few days so the beds get moist but not wo soaked with knf nuitrients and imo4 tea with some lactic acid bacteria. Throw In about 100 red worms a few night crawlers and a biodiversity pack from mi beneficials. A few isopods are good too but they can get out of hand fast.they don't self regulate like the worms .if there isn't enough organic matter for them to break down in the soil they will crawl into the canopy and eat the plants.
After every run the soil level drops.a few inches ,we have been playing around with different top dress methods a .i like to throw a biodiversity pack in there after each run too after I top dress. incase i brought in a nasty bug in my top dress. That about covers it.im still learning and tweaking things too.the soil mix can proubly be made hotter with more admendments if you want to just use water, but I'm still using my knf liquid nutes and teas during the grow to boost things.
 
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Here is some info on the no smell chickens @Stoneyluv .I havnt started doing it myself yet so my knowledge is limited. You can use store bought microbes but it will get expensive. I would breed and multiply them myself at home in imo 3 and 4 piles if I was going to use store bought microbes. You can turn a couple spoon fulls into a large pile alot cheaper.the chicken method starts in the first few days with a special brooding box and diet to stretch thier intestines. These links can get you started on research if you are interested.

 
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We have been covering the chickens since about november on drakes office hours.it last an hour you can ask any questions you want too.its on every sunday at 9 a.m. Hawaii time,which is 2 p.m. for me.he has tons of info on his channel

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