home grown chicken poo

[dustbust]

I understand in final bonsai pots we want to use either 100% inorganic or like a 80/20 mix with organics bark chips.

My question is regarding growing out stock in big grow pots to chop and start initial styling before refinement in a small pot.

I have chickens which produce...well...poop. In the coop I have a nice wood chip (not shavings) mix with poop. I use it on my garden to fertilize and amend my almost pure clay soil with great results. Can I add this mixture with turface at about 80 turface/ 20 chicken poo mix?

 

[Bill S]

Have to make sure the poop gets composted first, other wise my understanding is it's kind of hot and can do the ole" burn" the roots.

 

[Jason]

Rabbits are better

I understand in final bonsai pots we want to use either 100% inorganic or like a 80/20 mix with organics bark chips.

My question is regarding growing out stock in big grow pots to chop and start initial styling before refinement in a small pot.

I have chickens which produce...well...poop. In the coop I have a nice wood chip (not shavings) mix with poop. I use it on my garden to fertilize and amend my almost pure clay soil with great results. Can I add this mixture with turface at about 80 turface/ 20 chicken poo mix?

I'd get a rabbit. Every bonsai enthusiast should have one. They are fertilizer machines. They make better (less nitrogen available or "hot") manure. It is also closer to odorless and comes in these cool little pellets. They look kinda like slow release pellets or perfectly formed poo balls, which makes for pinpoint distribution. I read 2.4:1.4:0.6. No composting required. I'm sure this is a guesstimate but I think it's gold.

The other option is composting the chicken manure. This would be an ok addition used in small increments. I think it's a less perfect option though.

In either case it beats ordering "organic" poop from Japan.

Long live the rabbit.

 

[A Random User]

I think the only prob. might be that no one wants to get close enough
to your trees to actually see what you have done...

 

[Ris]

You guys crap me up lol...

 

[Jason]

I think the only prob. might be that no one wants to get close enough
to your trees to actually see what you have done...

You just kinda brush the soil surface and no one can even tell. The stuff doesn't really stink.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Have to make sure the poop gets composted first, other wise my understanding is it's kind of hot and can do the ole" burn" the roots.

I was going to say the same thing...you had to really make sure its composted...I know someone who uses it on gardens as you say...but had less success in a pot...maybe it needed composted longer was their thinking as well.