How do you DIY your own organic fertilizers

[keico]

I am on my second grow.

The first was ok, but I had heat issues and nute lockout from PH problems. The buds were very airy. The smoke was good but I definitely wanted to improve on the next grow.

I decided to go organics using Blazeoneups organic soil recipe. Basically the recipe is as follows.

Sphagnum peat moss with foxfarm soil at a ratio of two to one.

30% perlite
bone meal
blood meal
dolomite lime

I have to say this grow is going great. I have addressed the heat issues, and to my understanding with organic growing PH is not really that much of an issue as opposed to growing chemically.

My question is through my reading I have grown a lot of respect for organic growing.

I have started a worm farm where I am composting the soil from the last grow and have thrown in some shrimp shells (Grond up), Egg Shells (Ground up), lawn cuttings, banana peals, brocolli, green peppers, etc etc. I also threw in a few strawberries, mango, and bananas, that I dehydrated.

I have some oyster shells but haven't quite figured out how to crush them up yet.

But back to my question.

I have read about kelp meal, Fish meal, soil meal, sea weed, etc etc.

I heard you can take sushi raps, grind them up and make kelp meal.

Also seawead from the ocean. Rinse it real good let it dry, and you have seaweed fertilizer.

Now aside from Guano I would like to know if anyone know how to DIY your own organic fertilizer, without having to purchase ones from stores on line,

You know like what can I buy from the grocery store to make my own.

Although my soil mix is considered a super soil, I would like to have some extra stuff just in case towards the end of a plants life cycle I might need to add something

 

[keico]

Pics of my current grow

Pics of my current grow

Wanna share some pics of my current grow.

They were veg for 6 weeks (18hours light 6 hours darkness). Started in jiffy starter disk for one week.

Transplanted in one quart container, then transplanted into 3 gallon square buckets.

I am using 400 watt bulbs (MH then HPS) with cooltube.

Oh this is day three of sexing (12 hours light 12 hours darkness)

Tell me what you think

 

[jaykush]

i grow a lot of my own fertilizers and collect the rest from nature. i use plant meals such as nettles, comfrey, yarrow, dandelion. make my own compost, vermicompost. and collect my own rock powders from local rivers. homemade biological fertilizers are made here as well. will never look back to store bought products.

 

[getawaycar]

those things are gonna stretch like a hot marshmallow stuck to the bottom of a wheelchair. probably going to have to prune up on the bottom or add side lighting.

 

[keico]

those things are gonna stretch like a hot marshmallow stuck to the bottom of a wheelchair. probably going to have to prune up on the bottom or add side lighting.

Yea I know what ya mean.

One of them I had to supercrop. Three others were cut to make more main cola's. But pretty much they are all the same size 20 - 24 inches

 

[pepelepew098]

get a pet rabbit, you will end up with more fertilizer than you will ever need

 

[JackTheGrower]

Sounds like you are on your way.

I was going to write Jay knows plants.. Lot's of threads on what we do.

I use rice and or rice flour and micronize stuff in blender or coffee bean grinder then pepper or flour the soil tops. Most effective use of guano, imo, is in a top dress mix. Hell I even use ground coffee..

Some have used the "shit sock of life" method for making leachate of dry or not so dry materials.

There is some bubbling of materials going on around here and you may read about that in the Black Soldier fly thread. I'm thinking to bottle and store the liquid soon unless it truly can have it's pH raised by bubbling.

Nothing beats raw materials added to the soil and time IMO.

Oh I think I was against Soy Meal.. but that's me.. I'm not liking how many steps it takes to make it "organic."

Oh well..

 

[maryjohn]

it's time for you to get a bokashi kitchen composter. make bokashi bran with lacto b culture or EM or whatever. the culture and cultured bran alone can speed up all your other endeavors, and get you in to culturing things, and the bran makes your worms fornicate extra more. It's a perfect "other thing" imo.

 

[keico]

Sounds like you are on your way.

I was going to write Jay knows plants.. Lot's of threads on what we do.

I use rice and or rice flour and micronize stuff in blender or coffee bean grinder then pepper or flour the soil tops. Most effective use of guano, imo, is in a top dress mix. Hell I even use ground coffee..

Some have used the "shit sock of life" method for making leachate of dry or not so dry materials.

There is some bubbling of materials going on around here and you may read about that in the Black Soldier fly thread. I'm thinking to bottle and store the liquid soon unless it truly can have it's pH raised by bubbling.

Nothing beats raw materials added to the soil and time IMO.

Oh I think I was against Soy Meal.. but that's me.. I'm not liking how many steps it takes to make it "organic."

Oh well..

Hey when you said "black soldier fly", I thought you were referring to a user here on this board.

I can't find the thread on these fly here if you could could you provide the link please

I am also reading up on these critters also