Ashes, compost, animals

Hey everyone I was wondering a couple things about soil.
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will wood ashes work as a soil mixture
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will compost help with growth
3. if i put a dead animal at the bottom of the pot and cover it with soil will it help make the weed grow faster and stronger




thanx

1. mix some ashes with your soil mix its good for flowering.
2. compost is great mix it with your ashes and soil.
3. id leave the dead animal out it'l stink a very unpleasent strong smell.

haha thanx man
yeah i was thinking the same thing about the animal

African Herbsman said:

3. if i put a dead animal at the bottom of the pot and cover it with soil will it help make the weed grow faster and stronger




thanx

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Only if it is a HUMAN.... muwhahaha... that "franky" weed i blazed that year was the chron, yea boy.

rip franky... *tears*

haha like in how high

dont put an animal in your growing medium. put into a compost pile and once it is decomposed then use it as growing medium.

mstrymxer said:

dont put an animal in your growing medium. put into a compost pile and once it is decomposed then use it as growing medium.

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thats what all soils and compost are rotted plants, insects, and animals.

only 1 teaspoon per gal. wood ash. very strong stuff. but good. 1 time in bloom. compost in vegg.

I read on here that chicken manure breaks down fastest of manures. I have access to an old chicken coop that hasn't had chix for about 3 years. Will this be too broken down to worry about it adding much?? I'm thinking it will still be nutritive dirt, I just may not need to be worried about it being too potent?

I also have blood meal, bone meal, and wood ashes to add. I've read that bone meal and wood ashes raise PH. MY soil is 6.6~ish, is this something I need to worry a lot about? (will it raise it a lot?) I have some lime, I know this helps raise the PH if its low, but will it lower it if its too high?

One last thing: My blood meal is 12-0-0, my bone meal is 0-10-0, how much wood ash would be a good start? Should I add cottonseed meal (4-1-1) for more nitrogen, or am I good? Should I even worry about using manure?

thanks in advance,
peace

The aged chicken manure will not burn. You can mix one cup of it per gallon of soil & get good results. Or better yet make a mild fertilizer tea with it. The NPK should be around 1-1-1 given the amount of time it has had to mellow.
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Bone meal & wood ashes will both push pH upwards. Lime does also, but is not very good at reducing a high pH (over 7.5)
Blood meal is very acidic and will push pH downwards.
Use all with caution (in small doses).
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The best way to do this.... make a fertilizer tea with them. Read this thread for more info.....
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https://www.rollitup.org/organics/93913-making-tea-ez-cheap.html
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In tea form, measuring pH is easiler, than topdressing or direct soil mixing. Just a thought.....
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Hope this helps......
Keep it Real...Organic....
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I know this is an oldy, but I'm wondering if this is the be all end all to the conversation. Does anyone have any different opinions on wood ash?

fthood22 said:

only 1 teaspoon per gal. wood ash. very strong stuff. but good. 1 time in bloom. compost in vegg.

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I have ben looking into the wood ash thing farmers used it for 100s of years.But it can mess with your ph from what im reading.You know how they have the N-P-K when its the K that you will get from the wood ash.back in the day they got it from pot ash they filled a pot with freashhard wood ashes with water and boiled it what ever floated got skimmed and thrown away after the water burnt of what was left was a almost white grey powder ahhhhhhhhh pot ash and it can run 0-0-60 now thats alot of k .But they said it goes threw the soil fast to.i was going to boil it down put it in a one gallon jug and then ad spring water and add ph up or ph down first then add it to the plants befor flowering do a search on potash

i am also very curious about the woodash. also, a guy on here puts dead fish in the bottom of his holes when he does outdoor....some austrailian cat. huge monster plants though.