using fish in soil to grow better?

highonbud

highonbud

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I heard that you can put fish in the soil and its really healthy for the plant. is this true if so what does it do and how?
if i can use this then i'll grab my pole an go catch a couple of fish.
 
Gopedxr

Gopedxr

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From what i was told by another person on this site when i called him on the phone and told him my friend said " Ya can dig holes next to the plants and put fish guts in the ground next to the holes to feed the plant" Other friends reply to me was " Do you want to smoke fish guts? Its un refined." Stupid old Hippy ways are bad ways".


So this is just what i was told and makes sense sort of to me. Lets see what everyone else has to say so i can can learn to.
 
steverthebeaver81

steverthebeaver81

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Fish contains many essential things for a plant. A fish's skin and meat is a natural source of nitrogen and the bones and lood contain phosphorous. I have heard of many people just sayin to throw a fish and a banana peel(for potassium) into a hole and then put a little dirt and then the pot plant and youll never have to feed it. Personally, I grow indoors and this method seemed a little raunch, so i just went along the same road and got fish emulsions. Much cheaper and well a little less smelly. They still smell but they rock the party. I started using fish emulsions and saw rapid immediate growth. But it sure is disgusting.
 
snew

snew

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It is a great supplement. Indians, excuse me, Native Americans used it centuries ago. I use fish emulsions and I'm sure that whole fish would be a great supplement, maybe better. You could use fresh water fish which would have less salts and lower fat content than salt water. I would suppose that your growing outside since your looking at using fish. Fish stink, fish emulsions stink. You'll have more critters in the mix that you'll want to deal with. You'll attract every thing from field mice to dogs to possums and skunks. I don't worry about it since i'm inside an I have a can filter so no one is smelling it outside that room.
Given you friends theory then if you use bat guano then your weed will taste like bat shit. And I guess my tomatoes taste like cow shit. What about my carrots and onions, they should really should taste like oak leave and worm shit. It sounds good, its just not right.
If you had some where to compost it,it would be great after a couple of years. If you put it in a bokashi mix it would be useful sooner. But safely and effectively using fish would be a lot of work.
 
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jdizzle22

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Reading this makes me wonder if feeding marijuana plants hemp oil mixed in water would do anything. Hemp oil (the kind made from marijuana/hemp seeds I mean) is full of wonderful things for us but I have no idea if they do much for growing plants (I mean obviously the plant put the stuff in the seeds for a reason, but would it do much for mature plants?)
 
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Lebrojes

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Gopedxr said:
From what i was told by another person on this site when i called him on the phone and told him my friend said " Ya can dig holes next to the plants and put fish guts in the ground next to the holes to feed the plant" Other friends reply to me was " Do you want to smoke fish guts? Its un refined." Stupid old Hippy ways are bad ways".


So this is just what i was told and makes sense sort of to me. Lets see what everyone else has to say so i can can learn to.
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That’s what I just did to my plants today
 
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VaSmile

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Putting a fresh fish in my soil seams a bit unrefined and uncontrolled. As stated above fish are chemically simple and made up of lots of good plant food. Between these to feelings I would just fish/eat fish as one would normally and put your heads fins scales and bone in your compost bin for proper decomposition
 
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