Basic everyday shit you can find around the house to add to your plants

vernal · February 9, 2020, 10:57pm

I don’t care what way you grow, if you leave kitchen scraps on your grow, you will get bugs.

Heritagefarms · February 9, 2020, 11:11pm

I’m not sure why anybody would leave raw kitchen scraps around there plants or in there soil. Those things can make great compost or teas but will creat issues of some kind during there decomposition. Now pure coffee grinds that’s different story and ive never had any issue with them attracting anything but earthworms.

vernal · February 9, 2020, 11:12pm

Tried 1" of coffee grounds as a mulch layer. Boy that went awry.

Heritagefarms · February 9, 2020, 11:23pm

I normally only use them outdoors, my indoor plants get roots organic and some oily can every once in awhile.

anon32470837 · February 10, 2020, 4:53am

ReikoX:

Like @ifish said, KNF uses everyday stuff from around the house. I’ve done grows with it and an organic soil. You can start by using the rice wash (leftover water when you rinse your rice) to capture some bacteria. Then you can use that along with some milk to make a lactobacillus serum. This can then be used with molasses to ferment all kinds of stuff to make plant available nutrients, I like fish for veg and banana, squash, papaya for flowering. You can even do garlic and peppers for an IPM.

As @Heritagefarms suggested, make a worm bin. Worm castings are straight magic. I feed my worms mostly coffee grounds, cannabis leaves, and newspaper. I simply top dress with the castings and water it in.

And like @Foreigner said, you can make a calcium supplement with egg shells and vinigar.

At my local Whole Foods I’ve found aloe vera leaves, young coconuts, and malted grains. All which can be used as fertilizer. Heck, I’ve even used popcorn and sprouted it into a tea.

I really got into making my own nutrients for a bit.

What you are doing is not quite the same as just dumping leftover vegetable soup on your plants;) What you are doing is closer to running an organic chemistry lab to produce things with actual nutritional value

Tappy · February 10, 2020, 5:07am

Bookmarked this a while back…i suggest everyone does the same. Fuckin’ gold, right here…

Deadinside88 · February 10, 2020, 7:04am

I understand why the urine is good(came up alot when I was looking to see about how turtles would do living in a aeroponics environment ) . But what is the hair good for?

TheHighCheef · February 10, 2020, 7:14am

If you have left over rice let it spoil a couple of days add water to it… it’s kind of like a bokashi but it’s a Korean style of farming.

TheHighCheef · February 10, 2020, 7:21am

Oh yeah and some coffee grounds… make sure to bury under a layer of soil. Don’t let it sit on top… also try to get some worms so they can eat all that shit up. Any left over vegetables/ fruits NO citrus nothing too acidic… I bury in my garden.

stONER775 · February 10, 2020, 1:58pm

This is from the book, Teaming with Nutrients:
Human hair (N-P-K 18-0-0)
“Wow, talk about a lot of nitrogen! For every 7 pounds of hair, there is around 1 pound of nitrogen. Here is a natural fertilizer that exceeds the normal percentage for organic fertilizers, with a nitrogen content closer to a chemical lawn food. You wont find this bagged and on the market, but you can get it fo free. Hair, fortunately for those of you who still have yours, is not readily soluble and does not readily decay, so the high nitrogen content doesn’t harm the soil food web. In fact, hair is a very slow-release source of nitrogen, lasting 1-2 years.”

DesertGrown · February 10, 2020, 8:45pm

Adding coffee grounds into the medium isn’t so much for the slow release nitrogen, as it is for the carbon content the plant needs. With coffee, there’s not a lot of N, but there is a lot of carbon and it should be mixed in, not top dressed.

Urine has been used as a fertilizer for centuries, however, it’s a hot fertilizer and must be diluted 10:1 with water or the nitrogen level will likely kill your plants.

An aspirin disolved in a gallon of water and fed to your plants helps boost their immune response and makes their epidermis thicker and harder to penetrate by insects that feed on plant sap. Aspirin water is similar to willow water and may be used as a rooting agent.

Cannasaurusrex · February 10, 2020, 9:48pm

I think we got baited But its worth the meatloaf flavoured pudding comment… my depends is maxing out…casserole…LMAO Lots of good serious info too.

Dej · February 10, 2020, 10:50pm

Hair has lots of nitrogen.

Grease_Monkey · February 10, 2020, 10:51pm

Dont forget the milk… milk makes the magic happen

ReikoX · February 10, 2020, 10:52pm

The vast majority of the carbon a plant uses for growth comes from the CO2 in the air.

TheShowMeHomie · February 10, 2020, 10:57pm

Can I use multiple people’s and second question please after two months of fermenting do I need let it cool before using it as a dry rub for ribs?

TheShowMeHomie · February 10, 2020, 10:59pm

Outdoors hair is good to keep deer away from plants

Grease_Monkey · February 10, 2020, 11:05pm

Do you only use one spice when you make any other dish? You can… but variety is the spice of life.

The heat helps the dry rub soak in

Grohio · February 10, 2020, 11:16pm

Dude…I dont think your lying. I hope your lying. LMFAO!

vernal · February 11, 2020, 12:13am

Look friend if you wanna spend a dollar to save a dime, fermented this and that’s, human hair, piss, milk, dissolved eggshells, blood, whatever, top dressed composted fermented bokashi extract LAB worm tea juice FPJ, feel free. It’s there and it sorta works and in theory it’s cheap?

But it is so, so much easier to just buy a $20 tub of Veg&Bloom

IDK how much your time is worth.

To me it seems like the “esoteric” side of growing is a hobby unto itself. I just like growing great plants and not working very hard to do it. Maybe I don’t get it.