Canned Sardines?

honestly it could possibly help.....but i think that the rotting sardines in the soil may cause more problems than good. fish emulsion has no real way of rotting that i know of so it would be a much better route to go than sardines, however adding some to a compost pile may not be that bad of an idea though......
Fdd you might wanna consider a compost pile if you prefer organic buds. I started doing it mainly to recycle the soil I use in pots but I wanted to add nutrients back to the soil that the plants use.

kochab said:

honestly it could possibly help.....but i think that the rotting sardines in the soil may cause more problems than good. fish emulsion has no real way of rotting that i know of so it would be a much better route to go than sardines, however adding some to a compost pile may not be that bad of an idea though......
Fdd you might wanna consider a compost pile if you prefer organic buds. I started doing it mainly to recycle the soil I use in pots but I wanted to add nutrients back to the soil that the plants use.

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we have a 30 gallon composter in our yard. very nice one. big smooth turn handle. it's full. apples, coffee grounds, all my trimmings, a dead fish now....

wtf is that that green trotting thing

fdd2blk said:

we ahve a 30 gallon composter in our yard. very nice one. big smooth turn handle. it's full. apples, coffee grounds, all my trimmings, a dead fish now....

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ahhh ha! so someone else knows the secret!!!!!!!!

I HEARBY CHANGE MY ADVICE. AND STAND CORRECTED
thanks go to fdd because what he just said made me remember this.

actually now that I fucking think about it.
throw those sardiney m/f's up in the blender and mix it with soil to grow in...........
the native americans buried fish in the soil when they planted corn crops.......... and there has to be some fucking benifical reason they wasted a good fish like that. SO Im gonna go with them now actually.

to fdd: lucky you with a composter and all......all i have a pile of old dirt on the ground behind my shed that i throw shit into to rot..... and i have to mix mine with the mexican backhoe.....
(thats a shovel for those that dont know my southern/mountain slang

pure fish oil as an organic additive....makes sense and i've heard of such.....sardines on crackers with some tomatoes and guano......can't beat the taste.

looks like this thread took a 180. lol

fdd2blk said:

apparently no one here has heard of fish emulsion.

get out of the box.

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i have a gallon of alaska fish ish sitting in my grow room



its the only veg nute i'm using =]

well... along with whatever is in the soil already (chicken poo, bat poo, blah blah balh...)

but fish emulsion is a great thing

5-1-1 npk for my stuff... seems to work quite alright =]

lol...i knew i just knew this was coming...the indian corn thing is what i thought of but if yall never checked...dont know if it matters but the nutrition link is posted right on bottom of the pic check it out

i found i ended up with a load of sardine roe when my plants grew

i used it before and it works good.

Lol this thread made me giggle

I think FDD is right, There is obviously something in the fish which the plant can use. My question is, for those of us who do not have a compost pile, is there any other way to make use of the sardines? Would there be any way of extracting (or semi-extracting) the nutrients? I do think that at the very least, you would have to try and wash off most of the salt, otherwise you would get alot of build that would need to be flushed pretty quick. Maybe if you could like boil the fish and then strain it. I don't know, but I think it could be a very good idea.

p.s. I thought fish emulsion was fish excriment, is that true?

oh yeah, don't fish in the sea have a lot of metals in them? Could that hurt the plants (or be good for them for that matter)

i agree that it would work with the exception of one issue.. i'de go fresh only and wash it well.. they use alot of salts and preservatives to make these things stay fresh in that can unrefrigerated so long.. something to think about maybe theres no preservatives but you can bet your ass theres tons of salts, that cant be good..

yea that stuffs salty just buy this fish emulsion only 6 bucks and lasts for a longtime.
1 Qt. Alaska® Fish Fertilizer

i know that rotting fish definatly makes citrus plants start kickin ass in no time.

sounds good too me, I have used liquid fish after transplanting clones to their vegging pots,and at two weeks....works well.


just my imagination, i do not advocate anything remotely illegal.