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Pigeon poop in tea?

KaosisI

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New to this organic thing and am wondering how I would go about using some pigeon crap, with some feathers in it, on my plants. I'm guessing because of the high N the veg cycle might be the best time? Was hoping to incorporate it in a tea. Any helpful suggestions would be appreciated.

Btw, while I'm here, I picked up a bottle of Tiger Bloom recently and now found out the thing might kill my microherd. Do I need to dump the TB or can it be used successfully in an organic grow? Many thanks.

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MrFista

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Definately not for teas. Far too many undesirables tea may accelerate the production of.

I'd feed it to worms if i had it, and use their castings on the garden.
 
C

CT Guy

Don't make a tea out of the pigeon poop. Like Mr. Fista said, there's probably a bunch of pathogens in there. You could compost it in theory, but you'd want to find out how much nitrogen is in it first. Personally, I probably wouldn't bother with it, as I seem to think of pigeon poop as being very messy (at least the stuff that hits my car is)!
 

Suby

**AWD** Aficianado
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Pigeons are the rats of the sky so it's at your own risk.
There is a world of difference between fosilized seabird guano ond fresh pigeon poop.
Diet is high up on that list :p.

Tiger Bloom is small doses will be fine for an organic grow.

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KaosisI

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The "poop" I have is from hand-fed birds, very stable diet - believe it or not they only eat at home. I did a quick search which netted me these results, among others(can't seem to add the links? 1 is from garden services dot c0m/fertanal dot h t m l and the other is from a forum located @ Homesteading Today > Country Living Forums > Gardening & Plant Propagation > Pigeon guano as a fertilizer? - a little detective work necessary :( ). My interest was/is of course to see how this specific community utilizes this stuff. Possibly adding it when soil is originally mixed and leaving it for a few weeks, mixing and wetting the soil as needed, so the microherds could break it down? Just thinking out loud.
Thank you for the replies

The Tiger Bloom, in maybe 1/3rd or so does mixed in with a tea or just plain water? Thanks again.
 

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