This question goes out to the landrace and sun growers as well as any avid gardeners in the community. Have any of you tried growing ganja using a companion planting system similar to the American indigenous Three Sisters?
For those who don’t know, Three Sisters is an intercropping system developed by the First Nations of the Americas. It involves the strategic timing and spacing of corn, beans, and squash to create a symbiotic growing environment that both saves growing space, and creates an environment where the plants will protect and nourish each other during the grow.
The corn acts as a pole for the beans to climb, the beans add nitrogen to the soil as well as adding support to the corn stalk, and the squash smothers out weeds, keeps found pests at bay, and had a much deeper root system, so it doesn’t compete with the corn and beans for nutrients.
What i am interested in learning is, does cannabis have any known companion plants or systems like this. If not, does the community have any ideas for plants that could create this synergistic for our grows?
I think they have. In some fields I tried many combos but I’m not experienced enough to be sure which is the better. There are also some plants they don’t help each others but opposite so need to observe very well and start small unless somebody experienced can share knowledge with you. Something I noticed about this drawing is phase A “adding some scraps” with the picture of a dead fish. Here in my area if you grow in the rice fields like a do when is rain season the field is completely flooded like a small lake and we can grow rice and many fish and shells and frogs they populate the waters very fast and in large numbers. So after you harvest the rice the rain ends and the water dry up completely and almost all of this animals they just die there like natural circle. So the soil become very rich alone and is ready to receive the ganja plants. I also don’t remove (or bring back) the straw and the husk as mulch. I don’t think monoculture is good for the balance of the soil so I always plant multiple crops but not necessarily one by one alternated but I’m small groups each in a small area near each others everywhere
I use carrots to help add nutrients back into the soil for ganja plants. Then I’ll grow tobacco for insecticide, grasshoppers eat the tobacco and then are no more. That’s mostly what I do in terms of growing other plants with ganja.
I never knew carrots added nutrients back to the soil, and using tobacco as an insecticide is super clever. This is what i was hoping to learn when I made this post.
I also remember learning somewhere that if you brew tobacco leaves in hot water like tea you can spray the liquid to act as an insect deterrent. Apparently they hate the smell and don’t want to cross over ground that smells like it.
Mainly experience on plants covering thr smell for curious noses ,many plants with different functions like marigold or sunflower will attract all the bugs and keep them hooked on those , tobacco plants keep bugs away, wild ,garlic , marjoram or hop can cover up smell and wild garlic keeps naughty lil bloodsuckers at bay aswell, always good outdoors
Lavender, dill, basil, garlic all help with pest like and I use marigolds to keep deer away cause they are like wackers in the early season here in Ohio
All together keeps the soil happier than sitting bare
This tech is very well know by the old people from the country side in Italy, they plant corn or sunflowers together with beans that will climb them and other smaller vegetables. Yes is very important to learn about the consotiations
One of the things that mostly I love about indoor living soil is that is completely out of conventional logic. Theorically other plants they will just steal nutrients to the main one. But the truth is that even if that inevitably partially happens the other plants do not only take but they also give back .
I was on reddit the other day and someone had clover growing at the same time as their ganja, and everyone was making fun of them because it would “steal the nutrients” and “dry out the soil”. All i could think was “Tell me you don’t know anything about agriculture with out saying it” lol.
wackers in the early season here in Ohio
