Coffee

if your compost smells bad somthings wrong, too wet, not enough carbon..., and bugs are good, they do the work, if your compost heats up properly(145F+) any bad bugs weed seeds or disease die. just what i was taught and practice year round on my organic farm. good find on the coffee grounds good stuff.

BigBudBalls said:

I was in a Starbucks, somewhere in Indiana I think one Sunday morning, and they offered to me the grinds out of the blue. (great 1000+ miles from home and free stuff)


On the compost concept. Indoors or outdoors?
Outdoors leaves you open to bugs and such.
(well, indoors will to, but a whole lot less. But ya gotta deal with the smell.)

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tusseltussel said:

if your compost smells bad somthings wrong, too wet, not enough carbon..., and bugs are good, they do the work, if your compost heats up properly(145F+) any bad bugs weed seeds or disease die. just what i was taught and practice year round on my organic farm. good find on the coffee grounds good stuff.

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thanks for the info

I realize this thread is really old, but i was just searching up info on using coffee grounds as fertilizer. I work at a coffeehouse and I know used grounds are great as fertilizer, because I sometimes give my parents a big 5 lb bag of used espresso grounds and apparently their garden loves it. Our coffee is organic, so theres no worries there (it's also direct trade, for any of those hippies out there interested in that kind of shit ). Anyways, I'm in flowering outside in the ground right now. i'm just wondering what the verdict is... coffee grinds good or bad for chron plants? So far I'm getting very mixed messages. Also, for which stage of growth should i use it? If it's full of nitrogen i'm assuming veg. But if it's good for use in flowering i wouldnt mind giving it a try. Maybe I could mix it with the flowering nutes i just picked up. I'm also wondering if using coffee as a fertilizer would affect the taste. Perhaps I'll give it a try on one of my plants

G'day,great ideas,I put used DRIED grounds into my worm farm,using sparingly, as the gronds can become mouldy if clumped together.

I have old dried espresso grinds, kind of in clumps like pucks from the portafilter. I want to give it a try maybe next year for one plant to see what it does.

so what exactly is the n-p-k of coffee grounds?

I can't remember, but I read it somewhere. It's higher in N from what I remember tho.

n-p-k of coffee grounds N 2.8 P. 32 K .38 check it yo' Primalseeds - % composition of materials

ive personally experimented with coffee grounds as fertz. i wouldn't particularly recomend it.

Apocalyptic Feasting said:

ive personally experimented with coffee grounds as fertz. i wouldn't particularly recomend it.

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you should compost it first theirs nothing alive in a pot of soil to break it down into usable nutes it goes out in the garden or compost it