Could I make liquid fertilizer from this bag of bone meal?

Believe so. Use a cheese cloth in a five gallon bucket with air stone and pump.

 

Just want to say, as long as you mix a properly amended soil, rich in organic matter, you really dont need to be making all these teas you are asking about. You can find a tried and true soil mix in the no-till thread, with which you can grow using water only with the occasional top dress of amendments.
Organics in an ongoing process and your soil will not only improve as it ages but routinely top dressing with dry amendments will insure a steady supply of available nutrients to your plants. With organics you really dont want to be feeding according to plant life stage. In other words we dont feed any different when the plant is in veg or flower but instead rely on a steady input in the form of regular top dressings which will break down over time. Many of these amendments take time to break down, sometimes it can take months for stuff to become available, but with a steady supply this isnt an issue.

Most of us here use the methods and soil recipes descrbed in the no-till with mostly water only, I suggest you read at least 20-30 pages to get an idea of how this works.
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If you still want to dabble in making teas that are more imidiatly available, you might want to look up korean natural farming (KNF) and fermented extracts.
I think
@Prepper420 might be able to point you in the right direction.

 

I used to make teas. Now I just top dress between grows. Less mess, less hassle....same results

 

I wouldn’t use Bone meal personally since it’s a slaughter house byproduct. It’s a very strong fertilizer too, easy to burn your plants with. Making it into a tea would just unlock more available nutrients and almost ensure you’re going to burn your plants. You could check out my soil mix on page 1 of my journal and I make a fermented fruit juice from whole bananas and brown sugar, super simple and easy to do. And, you get big ole frost buds!


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A banana peel tea? I’ve done that before for a 48hr soak, but the fermented fruit juice is a much better option for getting all of the benefits out of the bananas.

 

The tea is just soaking banana peels in water for 48hrs. Can use Humic Acid to really increase absorption and nutrient uptake.

The Fermented Fruit Juice is made with equals parts by weight, fruit and brown sugar. Thin slice whole bananas minus the stem and little bit at the end. Just compost those.

You’ll take the sliced bananas and weigh them out and drop into a large mixing bowl. Weigh out an equal amount of brown sugar and start to mix it in with the banana. It should turn into a brown mush after mixing it fully together. Then load it into mason jars 3/4 full, definitely want to leave some head space.

Set the filled jar(s) in a cool dark place to ferment for 5 days. Strain it using cheese clothe or a metal mesh kitchen strainer. The liquid you harvested should have more sugar added (1/4 cup or so, depends on how much liquid you end up with and then put it in the fridge. The remaining solids I like to dump in a 5gal bucket and water in right away.

I use the finished FFJ at 1 Tbsp per gal, once a week. Weeks 4-7.


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I've always questioned rather bone meal is truelly organic. Having been around farms, slaughter houses and rendering plants, I've seen part of the process. It's very rare an animal is raised organically. Most are shot full of hormones and different types of medicines while being fed genetically modified food. Then once the animal is slaughtered they're carcasses are hauled off to the rendering plant by the semi load, heaped into a pile and whatever products are made from there. Theres no separation between the few carcasses raised organically and the massive intake of carcasses not. Rather it be bone meal, blood meal, even make up, etc. Once past the farm it's impossible to keep track of which animals were raised without anything genetically modified.

 

just passed a local rendering plant. The smell makes your stomach churn. Typically theres semis 3 wide as far as you can see next to the rail cars full of carcasses. Theres a couple large slaughter houses in the area plus more farms then you can count. The large and even larger industrial farms you can completely cut out of producing anything remotely organic or not genetically modified. There are some local small farms that raise natural grain fed animals that dont use modified hormones and antibiotics but they're very few and far between. Mainly raising animals for their family and to sell locally. Regardless large, small, naturally raised or genetically modified all the carcasses end up here, dumped on a huge conveyor and not separated by how they were raised. . From there products like bone meal, animal feed, glue, etc, are made. I know people who work there. I dont know how they do it. I've harvested animals my whole life but that place is just horrific. The people I know who work there have no idea of the history of the animals that come in and I dont see a factory like that caring.

 

Fish bone meal is probably a better choice, than traditional steamed bone meal. I also think it has more micro nutrients and minerals in addition to braking down quicker and thus becoming available to plants quicker.
just my $.02
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I know a guy who worked at a place that was like that except for cows.

He quit and said that everymorning he would show up and some of the baby cows would be dead from exposure to cold and they would just grab them out and toss em in the incinerator by hand.

Truly Psychopathic way of life.


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This rendering plant takes all animals. Pigs, horses, cows, road kill, you name it if it's dead they take it. If the place your friend works at only takes cows they probably specialize in leather products. Cows and calfs die, it's part of life.
This place take animals that die on farms and cant be butchered or wast from slaughter houses. They also take road kill. Say theres a dead bloated deer along side the road that's been rotting for days under the hot summer sun. When the highway department cleans it up, this is where it goes.