Bonemeal Tea?

Yeah, I'm trying it.

I'll keep you posted.

bonemeal takes a long long brewing time from what I understand, one of the reasons I didn't use it.

Let us know how it works out. Typically, bone meal is mixed into the soil as a slow release (very slow) source of P. Making a tea would require a certain solubility. Out of curiosity, why? Don't get me wrong if nobody experimented, we'd never progress. Just wonderin'.

i use finely ground bonemeal in my teas, dont expect you tea to be strong because of bonemeal, it takes time for that stuff to break down really its better to just mix it in the soil.

Jack Harer said:

Out of curiosity, why? Don't get me wrong if nobody experimented, we'd never progress. Just wonderin'.

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I want to know if it works. This is the best way, I reckon.

polyarcturus said:

i use finely ground bonemeal in my teas, dont expect you tea to be strong because of bonemeal, it takes time for that stuff to break down really its better to just mix it in the soil.

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Doesn't bacteria speed the decomposition process? And isn't tea nothing but a concentration of decompostion bacteria? Ergo, shouldn't a bonemeal tea provide much more phosphorous than plain mixing it into the soil?

Poe Kerbuddons said:

I want to know if it works. This is the best way, I reckon.

Doesn't bacteria speed the decomposition process? And isn't tea nothing but a concentration of decompostion bacteria? Ergo, shouldn't a bonemeal tea provide much more phosphorous than plain mixing it into the soil?

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Great attitude!!. Yeah, one would think so, and once you think about it, it's one of the more soluble forms of P, but then we're comparing bone to rock. I agree with the others, and that to gain the true benefit of Bone meal, it needs to be mixed in for the long term fungal/bacterial action to reduce it.

Poe Kerbuddons said:

Doesn't bacteria speed the decomposition process? And isn't tea nothing but a concentration of decompostion bacteria? Ergo, shouldn't a bonemeal tea provide much more phosphorous than plain mixing it into the soil?

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Maybe if you had the bone meal in your tea brewer for a few months you might find what you're looking for. Most mix bone meal into their soil/compost/medium at let it compost for a month or so before using it. I've seen bottle liquid bone meal, i don't know how its processed it to make it water soluble. Why Bone Meal? As JH pointed out there are better sources of (P) besides bone meal.

Brew it up man, snaps some pictures and lets see what happens! I dig your enthusiasm!

The mycorrhizae will make a little P go a long way. So there really is no need to amp up on P for flowering in any organic grow. But, like Cooter, I'm digging the attitude too!

been brewing bone meal tea for 3 or so years
use the MG organic bone meal, 6-9-0, love the nitrogen in there, with the molasses for potassium, the tea has it all
but it dose take patience, a month of brewing seems to do a nice job
a funky odor goes with he territory, that's funky for a properly aerated tea
if left to go anaerobic, it's foul beyond all belief

Jack Harer said:

Let us know how it works out. Typically, bone meal is mixed into the soil as a slow release (very slow) source of P. Making a tea would require a certain solubility. Out of curiosity, why? Don't get me wrong if nobody experimented, we'd never progress. Just wonderin'.

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Since bones are boiled for (proteinaceous) broth, wouldn't the tea be a bit of an N jolt? cn

Whats up CB? I have no idea what a proteinaceous broth would be, unless you're talking what a lot of chefs use as a soup base? Is bone meal all constituents of the de-fleshed bone, including cartilage, or only the ossified portion? And is there a difference in how fungi/bacteria break down the ossified bone itself as opposed to boiling (extracting)? With enough cartilage present, you'd get a good amount of alginate, so yeah, I would guess you could be right. I guess I assumed Bone meal was just that, ossified bone only. Glad you chimed in here!! How are things up your way? (Other than colder than a witches breasticle?)

Had a moment of paranoia/panic and harvested early, so the bonemeal wilhave to wait for next time.

To answer what seems to be the repeated question of why bonemeal:

I want to keep my growing components as few and simple as possible. I use bloodmeal, bonemeal, alfalfa meal, banana peels, rice and eggshells as my soil additives, with sprinkles of greensand for flavoring. Knowing I can make a tea for all stages using only the differing components of my growing medium just gives me warm tingles in my nethers.