Coffee grounds?

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YummyBuds

Active Member
My cousin works for Starbucks and tells me he has a regular bassis of customers that pick up their used coffee grounds for planting. Is there any sense to this.....is it some sort of fertilizer, and does it actually contain valuable nutrients?

He tells me they come in all the time carying out bags of the stuff......:neutral:
 
jackinthebox

jackinthebox

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Yes sir! Coffe grounds conatain 2N 0.3P 0.2K Its highly acidic however, and is best used in alkaline soils : ) Good luck buddy
 
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CaptainHowdy

Active Member
Man, i heard the same thing. And I drink a lot of coffee. LIke, unusually so. 2 pots before i go to sleep ya know... will be helpful if its a natural freaking PESTICIDE
 
daydrops

daydrops

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Coffee grounds are best used in a compost pile. worms love it and the high N helps break down the Carbon in the pile into good soil.
 
FilthyFletch

FilthyFletch

Mr I Can Do That For Half
Growing up my parents always took thier grounds saved them and then tilled them into the outside garden soil.It gave the soil a boost attracted worms who aerated the soil and left casting enriiching the entire soil.Inside you d have to monitor the ph more though and you reap less benefits.
 
MrMeagadam

MrMeagadam

Active Member
if your putting coffe grinds in there put washed cruhed egg shells in there as well it will help balence out the ph
 
mattisreal420

mattisreal420

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yea dude coffee grinds!! every spring when i do an outdoor crop i mix them in with my soil mix, my plants love it. i am not sure about mixing it with soil for an indoor crop, but if your outdoors then go for it.
 
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