making blood & bone meal tea?

[marley'man]

i am making tea with blood and bone meal, i have filled a stocking with b&b meal, put it in a bottle and left it, am i making the tea write???
and what can i use it for? can it be used for bloom nutes? or just veg?
do i need to make a bone meal tea for most P&k,
can i add anything else to the tea

 

[Seamaiden]

Oohh.. be prepared, especially with the bone meal. It's gonna fucking STINK. 1 tablespoon/gallon is a basic recipe, needs to set for about a week. You don't mention ratios, so I can't tell you how much to dilute or anything.

You can make teas out of just about anything that has what your girls need. Worm castings and molasses teas are what I use most. Did the blood meal once, it smelled icky, but nowhere nearly as bad as the bone meal tea does.

Anyway, pay attention to the NPK values and use on your plants according to their needs. And I suggest starting weak and working your way up, it's a lot better and prevents burning them.

 

[henrystyle]

i am making tea with blood and bone meal, i have filled a stocking with b&b meal, put it in a bottle and left it, am i making the tea write???
and what can i use it for? can it be used for bloom nutes? or just veg?
do i need to make a bone meal tea for most P&k,
can i add anything else to the tea

easier to use it as a top dressing. mix it in the soil. blood for veg, bone for flowering....works good.

 

[marley'man]

thanks guys

 

[T813308004]

I was planning on using bone meal and blood meal too (blood for veg. bone for flower) but I already have them in the final pots and the soil already mixed so I was gonna put it on the surface and water it in but I'm not sure how much and how often??

 

[Seamaiden]

I start with 1t (small 't' = teaspoon) per gallon pot size of each. It takes about two to four weeks to break down, if I recollect correctly. That's one of the reasons why people make teas, as they take about a week or so to leach nutes and are then more readily available. Problem for me, like I said, was that awful stench.

 

[delstele]

I make a cow poo tea that my ladys love...

 

[T813308004]

I start with 1t (small 't' = teaspoon) per gallon pot size of each. It takes about two to four weeks to break down, if I recollect correctly. That's one of the reasons why people make teas, as they take about a week or so to leach nutes and are then more readily available. Problem for me, like I said, was that awful stench.

Do you just apply it once or do you apply it more than once? And you use blood meal during veg. and bone meal during flower right?? Cuz I was told that you should use blood and bone meal during veg. because blood meal can be used up right away but the bone meal takes a while to break down so it is in a useable form by the time you start to flower.

 

[born2killspam]

It really depends on your soil and/or what other nutrients you're giving them.. Bone meal is pretty much only phosphorus, blood meal is primarily nitrogen.. Sure plants focus on N during veg, and P during flowering, but they still need a bit of the other during each stage too.. Whether that comes from the complimentary meal, or another source is up to you, and your starting recipe for soil..

 

[Seamaiden]

Do you just apply it once or do you apply it more than once? And you use blood meal during veg. and bone meal during flower right?? Cuz I was told that you should use blood and bone meal during veg. because blood meal can be used up right away but the bone meal takes a while to break down so it is in a useable form by the time you start to flower.

I have to keep re-applying it, so I top-dress every two to four weeks, depending on what I'm putting on them and how long it takes to break down. You're right, generally, although I think that they need a slightly more rounded diet, so every two to four feedings I would add something (such as the bone meal during veg) to round things out. There are other things that take even longer to break down, I think greensand takes weeks and weeks. We'll see about my native clay, I just gave my indoor kids a top-dressing that included some sieved clay.