Grow directly in fresh sun baked cow poop.
- Thread starter Vedruss
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printer
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Oh, that is too bad. Hope the seeds were cheap.
hillbill
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I did not grow up on a farm but farms all around and Uncles that had dairy farms and friends families were farmers. My mother grew up on a farm. Not much for chemicals and such back then but they knew how to use manure. We always took the oldest first 2 to 4 years old and it was great. Fresh would burn the piss out of about anything.
Rabeats2093
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Turns into “black sand”
Vedruss
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Again I could be very wrong.
I'm sure when people mention not using fresh compost that's because it has already begun aging its not fresh at this point and needs to age longer.
Even when I do a quick Google search on fresh manure the issue that comes up is potential pathogens not burning. And is there for suggested to use 120 days before harvest
MAGpie81
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Manure runoff is what often leads to E. Coli outbreaks from spinach and other vegetables grown in or near runoff.
Good link, good science.
Vedruss
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True
This has been sun baked there are no pathogens.
I did do a test on run off
No coli form
No e coli
No ammonia
Vedruss
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Also No Nitrates were found.
printer
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So you are saying....
Vedruss
Member
So I'm saying fresh cow dung is high nitrogen.
But the organic nitrogen is mostly locked up and unavailable.
The ammonia is highly available but the sun bakes it off
Nitrites are so insignificant because there where no use of fertilizers on cow feed. Plus the sun does remove nitrates.
printer
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....so you are saying you are all good growing in a cow patty? All right then.
Vedruss
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I guess
Its still a guess
Cause every one says I can't
But everything im reading for myself says why not.
spliffendz
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spliffendz
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MAGpie81
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I won’t knock your experiment as I try plenty myself. Please keep us posted.
printer
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I had the bright idea to use coffee grounds to grow in. Added coco and perlite and grew a clone in it. It grew, slowly. It was stunted and eventually I trashed it. It was an experiment. They add coffee grounds to soil, but as with anything too much is too much. I am interested in how yours will work out, but I had a hard time believing a three day old dropping would be dry enough to grow in. In the end they really seem dried enough, doubt there is a infestation risk with them. I can not see buying enough of the little boxes to fill a 2 gallon pot and growing a full sized pot. Or maybe they are cheap where you are. Looked up Manitoba and manure. I only skimmed it, there is some sections on dried manure.
