Egg Shells and Banana Peels-Fertilizer

Has anyone here had experience with adding dried and ground egg shells and banana peals as a top dressing?.
phosphorus, potassium, calcium.
what about borax?- for boron?
And baking soda?- for sodium?
Aleo Vera flesh ground into the water aswell?

@DonTesla @ttystikk @GroErr

thccbdhealth said:

Has anyone here had experience with adding dried and ground egg shells and banana peals as a top dressing?.
phosphorus, potassium, calcium.
what about borax?- for boron?
And baking soda?- for sodium?
Aleo Vera flesh ground into the water aswell?

@DonTesla @ttystikk @GroErr

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I've read that you can brew banana peels in a tea. Not sure what it actually does for the plant though. I think eggs shells are better composted.

Banana peels will attract gnats if you're growing indoors...I prefer to give chopped banana skins to my worms

If I don't just throw all that into my worm bin. I've got an old electric frying pan I use to dehydrate them. Then I grind them up with a mortar and pestle.

bananas are rich in potassium

With mine though. I do coffe grounds. Egg shells. And babana peels.

thccbdhealth said:

Has anyone here had experience with adding dried and ground egg shells and banana peals as a top dressing?.
phosphorus, potassium, calcium.
what about borax?- for boron?
And baking soda?- for sodium?
Aleo Vera flesh ground into the water aswell?

@DonTesla @ttystikk @GroErr

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favourite topdressing for me, other than compost thats homemade and amended with kelp etc then aerated, is garlic peels and comfrey / borage, mj roots ..

although sometimes I use chunks of aloe, as I enjoy it, its more efficient to do a foliar and a drench ..

for boron I use bunny poop I can mail you some lol

I also like a 2" layer of DE Rocks, those are the SHIT
neem meal too, if running low in your mix, grrrrreat stuff

or 2" creeping thyme or red basil, bugs HATE it.

also like planting ginger and garlic bulbs right in the soil and letting those come up, a circle of those planted and booming up around the stem is a BITCH for all pests.. they hate the smells and start to run

Companion planting is the shit Don.

I top dress with water, some chicken shit bi weekly and love
whenever I've used food stuff indoors (that wasnt yearly composted)
issues arise. Never again, chicken pooh calcium and water for the win

I would always feed calcium with a chelate (humic or fulvic) to help carry it into the plant tissues.
Otherwise, calcium is only transported passively at a lowish rate. Doing this at the right ratios will give you almost 100% immunity to white mold.

thccbdhealth said:

Has anyone here had experience with adding dried and ground egg shells and banana peals as a top dressing?.
phosphorus, potassium, calcium.
what about borax?- for boron?
And baking soda?- for sodium?
Aleo Vera flesh ground into the water aswell?

@DonTesla @ttystikk @GroErr

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Ground egg shells will be fine for a top dress, just make sure you get them as fine as you possibly can and even then it'll take a while to decompose. I would recommend Oyster Shell Flour instead, does the same thing but breaks down faster and will buffer your pH as well.

No experience with using the banana teas myself, although one of the stickies in the organic section involves a banana tea and the OP swears by the results. Uses a banana tea weekly in flower up until the last 2 weeks if I'm not mistaken and gets good results, may end up trying this myself.

No idea about baking soda or borax at all, never heard of anyone using any of those so I'd advise against them to be on the side of caution until someone more knowledgeable chimes in. If you're looking for something to provide trace elements and minerals you should look into a product called TM-7, like $15 for a bag that will last you for multiple cycles.

Aloe is amazing, I foliar feed with the stuff once a week while I'm in veg as well as in the first week or two of flower. It's also the only thing I've used for cloning for the last 4 years or so.

And also something that you didn't mention but I can't recommend highly enough is coconut water. It typically comes in 500ml bottles, I use anywhere between 100-250ml of coconut water per gallon of water when they're small. Once they get into the larger pots I dump the entire 500ml bottle into a gallon of water and divide the gallon of coconut water infused water between all of my girls, then proceed to water as normal. Coconut water is a total game changer, makes the plants produce more nodes with shorter distance between them. This is my first grow using the stuff and the growth I'm getting with it is unlike anything I've ever seen before. It's full of all sorts of good stuff; phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, cytokins, and a host of other stuff. Not taking advantage of the stuff while you're in veg is a complete waste based off of what I'm seeing. I've literally only used coconut water and liquid seaweed for feeding during veg, with the occasional top dress of neem meal/EWC as needed.

im a firm believer in egg shells,,i crush to powder some and others are for top dress,best method for banna peels is a 5 gal bucket out in direct sun light in same bucket,coffe,tea,lettuce,celery and all veggie scraps,after a week ready for some tea with 2 handfuls of compost,,my crushed to dust egg shells,,i build a circle about 3 in from stem and if you got slugs or snails trying to keep you from getting stoned or table fair,it cut um a new asshole,,they never make it to stem,,no scientist here,but all them goodies mixed together and brewed in my air lift system for 24 hours,bt the time i get done with the veggie garden and turn around to come out,every thing is praying to the sun

Bananas are one of the most heavily sprayed crops because of a spider that lives in the banana bunches. I would only use organic bananas for this.

Egg shells should be ground to fine powder/dust and I would also only use organic free range eggs for this as well. In commercial white eggs, not only was the egg shell formed in the presence of high amounts of antibiotics and anti this and anti that GM chemicals and growth hormones, but the chicken is force fed GM corn down its throat and lives in cramped sickly conditions. These egg shells would be less nutritious and contain trace amounts of bad stuff.

You are what you eat, and same goes for microbes and plants, dont wanna feed microbes some nasty chems, then plants, then to you in micro doses over time whenever you smoke. Even though I believe the microbes can process and reduce most harmful toxins from these things, I think there will always be traces in cell tissue due to the fact those chems are not natural so natural life leaves it alone.

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dry the banana peels, and grind them up and use them as a form of long term nutrient release. I'm starting to do that now, plan on saving, drying, and shredding banana peel into a fertilizer. its like 40% potassium by weight. great for flower boost! when applying, topdress compost and mix the banana peel in with the compost and whatever else you may need for nutrition, mulch the topdress and water it in. within a week or two it will start to break down and you will have a potassium boost for flower. i'd apply this topdress around week 2-3 in flower so it'll be available during weeks 5-9

What about blending the banana peels into a liquid form. Same as making a tea? I have some aloe and banana that I was going to throw in the vitamix and then dilute with water. Is there any benefit to boiling them instead?