Fish scales in soil?

Heard this as a recommendation from my new brother in law. The question is, have you used, or even HEARD of fish scales being used early on in veg? Or any time for that matter?

I almost feel like I’m being punked but he swears by it. Smells fishy to me. Pun intended. Love to hear what everyone thinks on this, there’s all kinds of tricks out there and we all learn something new everyday.

I don't know for sure, but it sounds like the perfect recipe for, "flies in soil"

I can only say my grandparents used to fish a lot in Oklahoma, practically lived on the crappie, bass and catfish they caught, and they would bury the parts of the fish that they didn't cook in their vegetable plots. Got lots of fertilizer value out of the bones, skins, heads, etc. But they were not growing cannabis. I'm guessing that fish parts would contribute mostly nitrogen and a bunch of micronutrients, like fish emulsion does. I have known fish emulsion to do a great job of perking up non-cannabis plants that were kind of stunted or failing to thrive, probably due to micronutrient deficits.

Theres much better options. If you need a soil recipe subcool has a good one to start.

You can buy bulk soil amendments from your local big agriculture supplier . Incliding mycorhizzal and bacterial innoculants.

Sounds like youll get flies in your soil, i know fishermen and theres alwase flies around from old blood and shit that dries into the dirt . Hard to get rid of .

I've use fish and fish scraps for growing. But you want to dig a deep hole and wait a couple weeks before planting in it. About half the time it gets dug up, no matter how deep I buried it.

Scales themselves are keratin, same material as hair and nails (and feathers, etc).
Other than the fact the smell invites cats, dogs, foxes, or what have you to dig it up, should function as a slow nitrogen source.

Scales are a rich source of calcium phosphate.

Don't know about the scales, but I read a post on I think some other forum that the grower was watering from large fish tanks. He said the plants did well on it. That sounds reasonable to me. What might be better than the just scales might be to grind them to power.

I collect the decomposed fish poop when I clean my aquarium filters and all my plants love it

That's about what the other post said. I'd go for it.

ganga gurl420 said:

Scales are a rich source of calcium phosphate.

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Gold fish around the world are now trembling

I eat a tonne of perch through the year and plant there carcasses all over the garden. I stop usually 2 months before planting anything. Fish are one of the fastest animals to decompose by the time I plant the garden all that’s left is a few bones and a few pieces of dried up skin. Works wonders on the vegetables and the weed lol. Some do get dug up by the skunks and cats in the neighbourhood