Organic Feeding Schedule "King of the HILL Organic Guano Tea Recipe"

Funkentelechy

Funkentelechy

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Hollatchaboy said:
Is it even legal to have bats?
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Oh yeah, I know several people with bat boxes, but I don't know of anyone trying to collect the guano from them.

The feeding schedule in the first post of this thread got me thinking about it because bat guano is super useful, but unfortunately, sometimes bat habitat is destroyed in the process of collecting the guano on a commercial scale. It would be cool to invent a way to collect it sustainably and provide more places for bats to live at the same time.
 
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FredH

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JimmiP said:
You know you are both committing felonies in your respective states, right?
This is supposed to be about organic feeding schedules.
Please, don't hijack this cats thread to ramble about unrelated things.
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Felonies in our respective states? How so? What country do you reside in? Hijack his thread? Looks like we brought it back to life. But please explain about the felonies.
 
Funkentelechy

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FredH said:
Why is bat guano to be preferred over say chicken manure? Or seabird guano?
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I love chicken manure it can be used in place of any high nitrogen guano. Compared to bat or seabird guano, one difference is that chicken manure/guano is very "hot", meaning that it needs to be composted for at least six months before you use it.

Bat guano is higher in nitrogen so you might use it for veg, both bat and seabird guanos can also be very high in phosphorus with low nitrogen content which would be useful for budding.
Whereas you would use chicken manure as a nitrogen source, or as an all-around fertilizer.

Fossilized seabird guano is probably the best source of micronutrients out of the three due to mineralization during the fossilization process. And, as I mentioned earlier bat guano has higher levels of chitin and chitosan.

Personally out of the three I use mostly composted chicken manure because it works well and I like to reduce the amount of ingredients that I have to buy from somewhere else. I'm slowly replacing "exotic" store-bought ingredients with stuff that I can produce from home. However, as far efficacy is concerned bat and seabird guanos are great.
 
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Funkentelechy said:
I love chicken manure it can be used in place of any high nitrogen guano. Compared to bat or seabird guano, one difference is that chicken manure/guano is very "hot", meaning that it needs to be composted for at least six months before you use it.

Bat guano is higher in nitrogen so you might use it for veg, both bat and seabird guanos can also be very high in phosphorus with low nitrogen content which would be useful for budding.
Whereas you would use chicken manure as a nitrogen source, or as an all-around fertilizer.

Fossilized seabird guano is probably the best source of micronutrients out of the three due to mineralization during the fossilization process. And, as I mentioned earlier bat guano has higher levels of chitin and chitosan.

Personally out of the three I use mostly composted chicken manure because it works well and I like to reduce the amount of ingredients that I have to buy from somewhere else. I'm slowly replacing "exotic" store-bought ingredients with stuff that I can produce from home. However, as far efficacy is concerned bat and seabird guanos are great.
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I like chicken manure too, but I use a different one than most people. This one's not really hot. It's also pretty well balanced. This one's 4-4-3. But chicken manure has lots of Ca in it, so I can't use it all the time. It's good shit though.

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Seabird guano I've noticed is hot. It's good stuff, but I like to mix it with some EWC and let it cook for a few days at least to cool down. That shit really does get hot. I've measured temps above 100 degrees with some shit. I used it straight once in early flower and it burnt some of the pistils. So it was literally burning the roots.
 
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Funkentelechy

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The chicken manure that I use comes from my chickens, fresh chicken manure is hot for a while and requires some composting before use. Good point about the Ca, I feed my chickens oyster shell so there is a lot of calcium present. They also eat a pretty varied diet, I let them free range quite a bit so they eat a lot of bugs, grass, Rasberry leaves, and table scraps.

I didn't know seabird guano could be that hot, that's interesting.
 
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FredH

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Well I have experimented with chicken manure, some processed stuff. Yes it is pretty hot and should be mixed in 3 tablespoons of it per 2 gallons of soil. The Medina brand I think, they reccomend 2 tablespoons per gallon but that was too hot so I cut it back to 1 1/2. I also make a tea using it. I mixed some up 1 part EWC and 2 parts CM. To use it as a serated bacteria starter I put 1/4 cup EWC/CM and 1/4 cup wood ash in four gallons of water and aerate it until the bubbles are going good, usually 24-36 hour. I put 32 ounces of this into each 3 gallon container as soon as i Pot up. For a feed 1/2 cup of the EWC/CM, 1/4 cup bone meal allowed to aerate until all the bubbles are gone and stirred heavily. If the bone meal looks milky it is ready. Usually do this at the beginning of the second month of flower. The last feed will usually be 1/2 cup EWC, and 1/2 cup bone meal aerated until the bone meal looks milky. I do this on the 5th or 6th week of flower.
 
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