Fertilizer For Your Guerrilla Grow

I wanted to get some ideas and opinions from other guerrilla growers out there on how to fertilize their crops.

Obviously, there are limitations compared to the backyard or inside grower. I would imagine most people would prefer a liquid or soluble fert that can be mixed with water and applied once every two weeks. This appears common for guerrilla grows.

Here is what I have done:

A dozen plants (Early Misty + Mazar/Afgans) in a heavy clay soil that I treated with lime and mixed in organic bark compost to aid in drainage, the soil around each plant is elevated a few inches to provide additional drainage.

I have been using Mirical Grow Tomato Food and Superthrive for veg, then I planned on using Expert Gardeners Big Bloom (10-50-10) and mollasses for budding.

I wouldn't mind stepping it up and getting some good nutes, especially for the budding phase. My budget is around $50-$75.

I have seen such wonderful crops from the outdoors and I am amazed. I would like to take the steps to maxamize the yield and have comparable results to some of our outdoor growing veterans.

Share your thoughts, I think it can be very helpful to people like myself.

i am a GG but i dont have much more than an hour hike to get to em and since i love watching their progress im always inda forest. this year im gunna be using N bat Guano for veg and P bat Guano for bloom (BMO) and also some worm castings,blood meal, bone meal and the famous garlic/soap/green pepper spray for bugs. but thats just me =)

GodsGarden: Thanks for the input. I have heard so much about bat guano that I have seriously considered using it. Because it is a solid as well as the worm casting and bone meal, how often do you apply it, do you make a tea out of it first? Do you have a recipe for the mix?

I would love to go out to my local garden shop and start buying stuff. I am not an organic fanatic like some, but I would be willing to pay the extra cost to do an all organic grow from here on out.

KeYz said:

GodsGarden: Thanks for the input. I have heard so much about bat guano that I have seriously considered using it. Because it is a solid as well as the worm casting and bone meal, how often do you apply it, do you make a tea out of it first? Do you have a recipe for the mix?

I would love to go out to my local garden shop and start buying stuff. I am not an organic fanatic like some, but I would be willing to pay the extra cost to do an all organic grow from here on out.

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no problem bro.... yea i just make a little shit shake from the bat guano haha and every 3 waterings i fertilize
i dont use a real recipe for the mix just a scoop or two per gallon of water
worm castings/blood&bone meal are new additions to my organic regime this year as a friend recommended so im not sure how often im gunna add these but usually every few waterings its okay to fert

KeYz said:

I would imagine most people would prefer a liquid or soluble fert that can be mixed with water and applied once every two weeks. This appears common for guerrilla grows.

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I plan my Guerrilla grow to avoid making so many trips to feed my plants.

Instead of giving nutes with constant watering I like to amend my soil in the spring with an organic mix. These nutes are time released over the entire season. I dont have to come and feed them constantly.

If I have time I will give them a Guano Tea, or you can cheat and just top dress at flowering time with some P and K fertz, like guano or potash.

i put some fish and fruit at the bottom of the hole i dug for one of mine, it seems to be doing well, and liking whats under it . for some of the others i go out and sprinkle some powdered fert (peter's) around the circumference of the plant. when it rains it washes the fert on down and the plants are fed each time it rains for a while after. if it goes a long time in between rains, i'll go and water myself, but that hasn't been happening much (yet)

im usin MG chicken shit tilled into the soil for veg and a mix of kelp,molases, and organic veg nutes in my water when i get a chance to, prolly like every week and 1/2 to two weeks?

for flower i plan on top dressing with P bat guano (or similar,whtevr cheaper) and kelp,molases, and FF big bloom when i water.

p.s my soil is ammended with topsoil, cow manure, compost, and lime. its kinda different at every spot so i just use my best judgement as what and how much to use.

good luck!

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submachinegun said:

Fox Farm Peace of Mind.

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Which ones do you use and how do you feed it to them?

I was thinking of mixing some bat guano with some horse shit tea and some MG tomato food.

I also like the idea of sprinkling the MG on the top to soak in for the next rain fall.

I found this in my search for an organic tea. From the looks of it, it is for budding, but maybe without the molasses and with some bone meal or high N guano, it can be good for veg.

Organic Budding Tea:

5 gallons water

2 cups bat guano

2 cups worm castings

1 cup fish emulsion

1/4 cup molasses

KeYz said:

Which ones do you use and how do you feed it to them?

I was thinking of mixing some bat guano with some horse shit tea and some MG tomato food.

I also like the idea of sprinkling the MG on the top to soak in for the next rain fall.

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Dont use Chemical and Organic nutes in tandem, they are not compatible.

I actually heard bad things about pig shit. Some say they have parasites that can be bad and it smells bad, as far as shit goes.

You think it is okay just to use bat guano for everything? I could use one with high N for Veg and one with high P for flower.

When I read about teas, they also mention bubbling it and letting the bacteria grow, is this really needed? I could do it, but I would think mixing it with water, then pouring it out would be enough to get it to sink into the soil.

And I had another idea to condition the soil. Since the soil is very clayish, I was thinking about ripping off fresh leaves and tilling that into the soil, it would intially just help in drainage, but could release nutrients over time. Any one consider this?

KeYz said:

I actually heard bad things about pig shit. Some say they have parasites that can be bad and it smells bad, as far as shit goes.

You think it is okay just to use bat guano for everything? I could use one with high N for Veg and one with high P for flower.

When I read about teas, they also mention bubbling it and letting the bacteria grow, is this really needed? I could do it, but I would think mixing it with water, then pouring it out would be enough to get it to sink into the soil.

And I had another idea to condition the soil. Since the soil is very clayish, I was thinking about ripping off fresh leaves and tilling that into the soil, it would intially just help in drainage, but could release nutrients over time. Any one consider this?

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I think pig shit is pretty similar to human shit.

The reason NOT to use it are because it smells foul, and it has lots of nasty bacteria meaning its not ideal to handle etc.

As an actual fetilizer, both are Bomb, ever wondered by farmers often spread Human muck on fields?

Omnivorous shit is good shit for plants.

Jointsmith said:

Ever wondered by farmers often spread Human muck on fields?

Omnivorous shit is good shit for plants.

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Human shit is good fertilizer? I was gonna get some all you can eat sushi tonight... I wonder...

KeYz said:

Human shit is good fertilizer? I was gonna get some all you can eat sushi tonight... I wonder...

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You seriously dont wanna handle that shit though....(no pun intended).

Its like a one way street to desease town.

try mixing a few handfuls of ash from a fire pit into your soil around the area your plants will be. great organic and free way to fertilize along with keeping down ph levels.

My family bought a lot of land 2 years ago. On this land there was a huge pit full of cow shit and even old cow corpses decomposed and only their bones left. This thing was about 6 foot deeo and maybe 10 by 15 foot. Well we got in a big digger and spread this stuff all over a half acre or less site. Now that soil is good soil. I dont think i'll ever have to feed my plants there.

Bud Frosty said:

50-100lbs of fresh pigshit in the bottom of the hole with a good potting soil on top. Pigshit is like NUCLEAR fertilizer.

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Can anyone confirm this?
I have 2 pigs of my own and I just throw their shit in the field for my dad's crops.

Doesn't seem like anybody has mentioned the oldest and best answer (IMHO). Just bury a fish at the very bottom of your planting hole before the soil mix goes in. Plant on top. Try to get it down at least a foot to avoid animals smelling it and digging it up.