coffe grounds and egg shells in soil?

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therollingj

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• May 23, 2013

• #1

Ok so im about to repot my plants and i want to make the best mix of soil with what i have at hand. Already have some good perlite blended soil with no nutes, looking to add some more stuff to make it healthier.

Any ideas of common household things i could use to enhance the oil for some 8 in tall 4 week seedlings?

And with grounds and egg shells do the grounds have to be used? And whats the ratio to soil you should add?

Thanks thej

 

*BUDS

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• May 23, 2013

• #2

Just add some blood and bone maybe some lime and potash. I don't like coffee and eggs in the soil.

 

RedzoneFL

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• May 23, 2013

• #3

If your going to use the eggs, take them and place them on a baking sheet put them in the oven on very low heat for 5mins take them out and put them into a blender and grind it up until its powder, then pour the powder into water and allow it to turn to liquid.

 

cues

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• May 23, 2013

• #4

I've heard (but have no experience of it) that ground eggshells do very little. They simply don't dissolve.
Blood and bone is cool, but be careful. If used outside and there are foxes around, they will dig plants up looking for a corpse.

 

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therollingj

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• May 23, 2013

• #5

Awesome thanks guys. I'm probably gonna be putting them outside but in pots. We do have foxes around. I'll have to make some fences. What kind of blood and bone? Do I have to go buy some special type or can I use some from a t-bone or some ribs? Or would it have to be fish bone? Haha sorry might be a dumb question but I've never worked with it before.

 

WeedFreak78

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• May 23, 2013

• #6

you need to compost this stuff for it to be beneficial,egg shells take awhile to break down, coffee grounds are high in nitrogen, but if added to soil without composting can burn roots

 

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churchhaze

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• May 23, 2013

• #7

Egg shells, limestone, or bone meal are more like soil amendments than feeding nutrients. They add calcium and buffer pH, but they dissolve very slowly. Really, it's the way soil is meant to be done imo, but you should be adding this stuff to your soil mix before you start growing, not during the grow, and that's only if your soil has a low lime content in the first place. A huge portion of the world has way too much lime in the soil to begin with, while others are very low. I'm so glad I don't grow in soil anymore, it's so freaking complicated.

 

cues

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• May 23, 2013

• #8

Church, that's the best comment I have heard in a long time. I spent 4 years at college/uni learning the basics of soil.
I spent about half an hour learning the basics of hydro.

 

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therollingj

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• May 23, 2013

• #9

churchhaze said:

Egg shells, limestone, or bone meal are more like soil amendments than feeding nutrients. They add calcium and buffer pH, but they dissolve very slowly. Really, it's the way soil is meant to be done imo, but you should be adding this stuff to your soil mix before you start growing, not during the grow, and that's only if your soil has a low lime content in the first place. A huge portion of the world has way too much lime in the soil to begin with, while others are very low. I'm so glad I don't grow in soil anymore, it's so freaking complicated.

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The soil im uding has no nutes thats why i was looking to add to it to be healthier but i think i will just use comopost on the top

 

cues

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• May 23, 2013

• #10

One way of keeping foxes away.
2 litre clear plastic bottles, half-filled with water, laid on their sides.
It takes a couple of days to work and I have absolutely no idea how it works but it does.

 

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therollingj

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• May 23, 2013

• #11

cues said:

One way of keeping foxes away.
2 litre clear plastic bottles, half-filled with water, laid on their sides.
It takes a couple of days to work and I have absolutely no idea how it works but it does.

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This sounds crazy foxes are scared of clear plastic bottles? How many a couple lol?

 

cues

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• May 24, 2013

• #12

I used about 5 to cover a 35mX35m area. (a bowling green). An old bowler told me about it.
I really didn't expect it to work but it did!
I think it's either something to do with the reflection or that when moved, the water sloshes around and makes them seem 'alive'.