Micro No-Till Grow

Growing this Roc Bud Inc., ROC’s Auto Mix Freebie No-Till style in the StealthBox! CODA, a small company out of Colorado hand made this air pruning living soil bed to perfectly fit inside of the drip tray and dimensions of the growbox. Their name is CODA on Etsy shop. There is about a 2 in gap around the entire perimeter of the grow bed where the intake vent is located, allowing airflow to pass around the entire bed. There is a drip tray below that holds up to 3L of water so that I can feed from bottom if needed. The bottom of the bed is filled with 2 inches of 3/8in-1in Black & Red Lava Cinders & 3/8in-1in mixed river stones, this helps prevent the bottom of the bed from becoming anaerobic while also allowing the roots to find additional minerals and oxygen. The rock also helps wick extra moisture from the drip pan which maintains steady moisture at the bottom. I filled the bed half way with soil and then laid down a light mid layer of; basalt, dolomite lime, oyster shell & kelp meal before adding in the remaining soil. I topped the bed off with a 1in layer of local vermicompost & Malibu compost. I added a generous amount of cover crop seed plus a light layer of barley mulch, cocoa bean shells, bokashi bran and some decayed wood full of IMO’s from a dense forest nearby. Once the cover started to become more established I put more barley mulch on top to finish the bed and prepare for 🌱. Environment: StealthBox Lights: StealthBox - Full Spec LED 100w 3000k + Amazon 10w Red/Blue LED. Grow Bed: CODA - Custom made 17inx17in Living Soil Grow Bed (bed holds 1.75cubic ft/13gal of soil) Soil/Growing Media: Homemade 1/3 Mix (Peat Moss + Coco Coir), (Local Vermicompost + Malibu’s Bio-Dynamic Compost), (Lava Cinders, Pumice, Rice Hulls, Desert Sand + BioChar) Mulch & Cover Crop: Barley Straw, Coco Bean Hulls, Cannassiuer 13 Seed Cover Crop + Mini Dutch Clover. Nutrients & Minerals: Organic Dry Amendments, DTE Bio-Live, Roots Organics Terp Tea Bloom, BioAg FUL Power, BioAg Ful Humix, Agsil16h Silica, MycoChum, Impello Bio Veg & Bloom Microbes, KNF & JADAM inputs. IPM: Mammoth Canncontrol, BTI Bacteria & Yellow Sticky Traps. Beneficial & Predatory Insects: Red Wigglers, Springtails, Oribatid Mites, S.Scimitus, A.Cucumeris, N.Californicus, P.Persimilis. and A.Swirskii, Predatory Nematodes & Rove Beetles. Watering Style: Manual with pump sprayer and watering can. Soil Recipe - 1 cubic ft • Base • - Peat Moss (4.28 dry qt) - Coco Coir (4.28 dry qt) • Aeration • - Pumice (3 dry qt) - Black Lava Rock 3/8 (2.57dry qt) - Rice Hulls (2.57 dry qt) - Bio Char (1.5cup) - Desert Sand (0.5cup) • Compost/Castings • - Local Fungal Dominant Vermicompost (4.28dry qt) - Malibu BioDynamic Compost - (4.28dry qt) • NPK Amendments • - DTE Bio-Live (0.5 cup) - Neem & Karanja (0.5 cup) - Alfalfa Meal (0.25 cup) - Kelp Meal (0.25 cup) - Powdered Diastatic Malted Barley (3 tbsp) • Mineral Amendments • - Basalt (3 cup) - Oyster Shell (0.5 cup) - Dolomite Lime (0.5 cup) - Solution Grade Gypsum (1cup) • Other Amendments • - Yucca Meal (1tsp) - Humic Acid (1/2cup)