Instead of using hay I wanted to put companion plants into the pot. Would this mean the nutrients would be used up quicker now that there are more plants or do they just recycle the nutrients?
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I found my answer, now I’m just curious if I plant the cover crop seeds prior/sametime/afterwards to the germinated cannabis seed.
I use both straw and cover crop. I start my seeds in small nursery bags with no hay no crop. kinda like starter pellets. Then I drop the cover seeds under a thin layer of fine chopped straw when I transplant. I’m still playing with it to figure out what works best.
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This would be all in one day or once the plant is somewhat establish?
I do it all at once then water everything in.
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I lay down a cover crop when I top dress and recycle the pot. It keeps the micro heard active while you wait to plant the crop. I start plants in cups, and I chop cover crop for green manure after that gets transplanted. I used to run cover crops through veg and then recycle them, but if you get bugs, you’ll never get rid of them with a cover crop running. After battling spider mites a few times, I stopped running one with my plants. They did their job.
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Have you tried spraying spinosad on your cover crop to treat them? That’s what I was thinking of doing because they are more of a sacrificial plant to me.
I sprayed many things, but there are too many places to hide. You can’t ever get under every leaf. They are sacrificial, and are different from companion planting. That’s why I run it the way I do, and I’ve never had an issue since stopping treating them like companion planting.
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Damn I thought spinosad would be on the surface of everything sprayed and then ingested, I didn’t know it was a direct hit pesticide. Hope they don’t become an issue because there hasn’t been live plants in there for almost 4 days now.
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It has to coat the entire leaves and meristems to be effective. Theo problem is that clovers and the like are low and tight. Too many hard to reach spots. Try a companion planting with things like basil, rosemary, or even chives to repel pests and help with moisture retention.
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I see the difficulty in treating I didn’t even consider their height. I was thinking about doing the basil as well, Would it still be effective in a pot outside of my plants pot?
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Yup. I have started using onion tek a lot lately. I plant garlic, green onions, basil & rosemary for outside repellent. I did garlic chives, once, but damn they spread and can’t ever get rid of them.
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That’s pretty neat can basically make a little barrier just off their smells, I wonder if they would drive them away if already there. Either way I appreciate all the information, especially the garlic chive one.
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Do you have any marigolds planted? You can use them as a mulch. As they break down, they provide repellant & root protection
Neem cake top dress will make the plants taste bad to sap suckers, and they will move on to something more palatable
No marigolds but this mix with rhizobium inoculated in it. I figured would be decent because of the cannaisseur name lol
I just use red clover for my N cover. Never bought a mix. Usually a 50% red and white clover mix. Who need both? No benefits from flower color. That looks like a deer plot or animal feed cover in general. My chickens would like it.
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If anything I could find a blue flowering plant and be really patriotic 
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Alyssium comes in blue
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