Florida Growers Thread; Reloaded

[Coba]

I've composted Spanish moss a bunch. It doesn't compost like I thought it would. I thought it would melt or something but, it turns into a black ball of stringy hair looking stuff. My worms won't eat it like that.

Snake grass and duck weed are my two new favorites to compost. snake grass turns into this beautiful rich looking, almost the same color as Sphagnum peat moss, compost. It's a recent thing so I can't speak to it's effectiveness but, I've read where the duck weed is supposed to be rich in micro-nutrients and I only assume the snake grass is as well.

 

[P-NUT]

Yeah coba ive got mounds of the stringy black moss. I use it on veggie garden as a mulch. We should press it into bricks like rockwool and sell it to hydro growers lol. Thanks for the info on snake grass and duck weed. Gonna have to start some more piles and do some more testing. Has anyone ever tried composting the invasive armoured or walking catfish? Or the plecos? I could catch probably unlimited amounts and i doubt fwc would care hell maybe i could get paid for invasive removal while making a superb compost from the waste.

 

[unregistered190]

Looking good windy! nice and frosty

 

[Sunny FL Indica]

Windy - isn't 40 days a bit early to start turning purple. I know its been damn cold here lately - did it get crazy cold where you are growing them?

I lost the tops on some of my cucumbers and the tops of my tomato plants a few days ago (and I even had blankets over everything and a heater going - can't imagine the damage I'd have had without those - probably killed em off entirely).

 

[Sunny FL Indica]

For those who've tried Spanish moss - doesn't it have a ton of small bugs / no-see-ems, gnats, etc that live in the moss? Any chance of pests worry?

 

[windycitysmoker]

Windy - isn't 40 days a bit early to start turning purple. I know its been damn cold here lately - did it get crazy cold where you are growing them?

I lost the tops on some of my cucumbers and the tops of my tomato plants a few days ago (and I even had blankets over everything and a heater going - can't imagine the damage I'd have had without those - probably killed em off entirely).

Strain related.I don't grow out doors they turn dark purple by 70ish

 

[bucketswithsoil]

buckets
what is the nitrogen # on the chicken poo

 

[Dawn Patrol]

Snake grass and duck weed are my two new favorites to compost. snake grass turns into this beautiful rich looking, almost the same color as Sphagnum peat moss, compost. It's a recent thing so I can't speak to it's effectiveness but, I've read where the duck weed is supposed to be rich in micro-nutrients and I only assume the snake grass is as well.

Hey Coba, duck weed is great stuff for compost, god help you if you get it in your pond but definitely will compost just fine. Not sure what snake grass is exactly, got any pictures?

Has anyone ever tried composting the invasive armoured or walking catfish? Or the plecos? I could catch probably unlimited amounts and i doubt fwc would care hell maybe i could get paid for invasive removal while making a superb compost from the waste.

Left long enough any fish will decompose/compost just fine, used to use mullet when we got more than we wanted to smoke.

 

[Copperfield]

What's up everybody?! Hope everyone is going good n stayin safe out there. My wife is heading to Colorado next weekend. Does anyone have some solid suggestions of a good dispensary to get some seed stock....... I'd like to get the amnesia haze and the dj shorts blueberry...... Maybe some others......

 

[bucketswithsoil]

Hey Coba, duck weed is great stuff for compost, god help you if you get it in your pond but definitely will compost just fine. Not sure what snake grass is exactly, got any pictures?



Left long enough any fish will decompose/compost just fine, used to use mullet when we got more than we wanted to smoke.

Hmmmmm,smoked mullet.....YUCK... one only wonders how much i would.of had.composting,if i was growing ,while a 7-8year run of commercial fishing...
it was more like catch,kill,sell,party....

but i have heard smoked mullet and kingfish do make a good.fish dip....
ahhh man,fishing,drinking beers,gettin.stoned,then money in ya hand after all that fun,man those were some.really fun times...

did anyone make it to.SFL sunday??? delray was on fire... JUST SAYIN

 

[blue_tick]

buckets
thanks for the pic. helps a lot. i figured it was a little higher than that.


peace

 

[bucketswithsoil]

buckets
thanks for the pic. helps a lot. i figured it was a little higher than that.


peace

ah,i hear ya...scooped up just due to seeing it where i was at,and for the price....
i do have a woody for espoma,i like alot of there shit they put out,...

 

[Coba]

duck weed

snake grass

alligator

I don't have a homemade photo, If I remember I'll take one this weekend... online I noticed that people are calling duckweed - azolla and snakegrass - coontail.

look at all that beautiful compost fodder... this is how I be getting down harvesting that stuff... I have a barge I built out of four plastic 55 Gallon drums, two pieces of 3/4 inch ply wood, and 2x4's for a frame. I get out in the middle of the pond with a rake and pitch fork and hunch. it's a PITA. keeps the pond clean.

 

[Coba]

Yeah coba ive got mounds of the stringy black moss. I use it on veggie garden as a mulch. We should press it into bricks like rockwool and sell it to hydro growers lol. Thanks for the info on snake grass and duck weed. Gonna have to start some more piles and do some more testing. Has anyone ever tried composting the invasive armoured or walking catfish? Or the plecos? I could catch probably unlimited amounts and i doubt fwc would care hell maybe i could get paid for invasive removal while making a superb compost from the waste.

that's an idea! we have channel cats in our pond... never seen an armored cat.

 

[Asslover]

 

[bucketswithsoil]

grape stomper and ortega

grape stomper and ortega

 

[windycitysmoker]

Lower Bud Shot's

 

[windycitysmoker]

you can see I had a ph problem early on. I hate them cheap ones I got to buy a nice one. I have a nice ppm meter Hanna ,and never had a problem. This cheap crap I bought broke both of them now I'm using the drops to test my ph until I go buy one .

 

[P-NUT]

I wondered what the snakegrass was too. Google turned up horsetail and that stuff sounds interesting too. Silica crystals and stuff. But azolla is what you where talking about and i gotta build me one of those platforms to harvest this shit its everywhere. Parts of the st johns are clogged with it and every pond around here is full of it or duckweed or both. Hmm make compost of azolla duckweed and invasive fish. Ive got a big new project to start now.

 

[Copperfield]