Blood/Bone meal concentrate? HELP.

Discussion in 'Growing Organic Marijuana' started by FullOfMeekrob, Oct 21, 2013.

  1. Im new to this fourm and organic gardening. I have some blood meal and bone meal that i would like to make a concentrate that i could use when i mix my nutes. Does anyone have a recepie or can anyone help me out. Thanks.
    Thanks.

     
  2. A couple of things to comment on. There's no good reason to make a conentrated tea from bone meal. This source of nutrient mix takes some time to break down in order to become available for plant use, excepting that portion that is marked on the label as water soluble in.which case you have the same concerns as you do with the following statement about blood 'meal'.
     
    The 'meal' in blood meal is simly dried blood. Take a Tbsp and put it in a gl a ss of water and stir it up. Pretty gross in and of itself. The concern somes that this source of N is highly water soluble and too much use of it will definitely fry your plant.  Same potential as indicated for the bone meal above.
     
    Your best use of packaged complete fertilizers is to use  less than or equal to label directions. I suggest you trek with caution on your current path.  :bongin:  :bongin:  :bongin:  just a couple of thoughts   :smoking:
     
  3. Reconstituted blood meal.

    Ew.
     
  4.  
    Are these best used as soil additives from jump street instead of a regular nutrient additive? I too am curious.
     
  5. There is no doubt that bone and blood meal make for use as 'fertilizers'. I really don't think a serious cannabis grower - and I'm not inferring or passing judgement on anyone - uses blood meal for a soil additive or a plant fertilizer in an indoor setting. It's a disgusting product IMO and besides, there are many better ways to achieve the same elemental analysis and nutrient profile one would achieve using blood meal by choosing an alternative. People use blood meal and that's why there is a market for it but there are also some rishs to plant health if not used properly. If truly there were a bonafide reason for allowing a soil to "cook" it would be because the indoor gardner used blood meal in her soil mix. The risk is associated with a rapid transition to ammonia gas when the blood meal comes into contact with water and thus "nute burn" - a.k.a. ammonia toxicity. There are much better ways to feed your soil and your plant.
     
    Bone meal on the other hand is a good source of phosphorous and calcium. Depending on the type of animal or fish bones used and how they were processed there might also be trace elements, amino acids, and other nuclear level benefit. I've no issue with using animal byproducts for soil ammendments, I just don't like blood meal becasue it's gross and there's too much risk associated with using it in a soil container IMO.
     
    If you are going to use either or both of these products I strongly recommend review of the usage recommendations and perhaps cut that in half to start with. Key words to look for on products labeled as "fertilizer" are "water soluble". That percentage is available upon contact with soil and/or water. The remaining "insoluble" percentage is that which is required to decompose or cause to be decomposed so then it too becomes "available" (all things being in balance) for plant use.
     
    HTH's... :bongin:  :bongin:  :bongin:  :smoking:
     

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