Bone meal for fertilizer

[Wild Duk]

I know the package says to use it mixed in with the medium that you buried your plants in....But is it posible to mix it up with water use it as a liquid fertilizer that way????.....My hops are already in and about 4 feet tall.....

Just looking for a good fertilizer and I know that this a good organic type....

 

[Jmac]

I have bone meal fertilizer but have not used it yet. I hope someone can reply to your question as well. I heard it will acidify your soil and I don't know what this will do..

 

[david_42]

Bone meal will not dissolve. It is ground bone and breaks down slowly. If you applied it as planned, almost all of it would end up on the top of the soil. You'll be much better off with an actual liquid fertilizer.

Funny how you can take "inorganic" animals, grind their bones, and call it organic.

 

[kjung]

SWMBO and I use bone meal every year when we plant our veggies, but I was hesitant to use it on my hops, being my first time growing hops.
Bone meal is used primarily to strengthen the root system, and we've always had great success when we just toss a SMALL handfull into the hole in the dirt before we plant the veggies.

 

[ATL]

Funny how you can take "inorganic" animals, grind their bones, and call it organic.

how do you figure??, if the animal was raised with the use of anything on the banned substance list for organic farming then the bone meal cannot have the USDA organic label

I'll agree that using bone meal after the hops are already in the ground will not do much, you have to add it when the plants go in the ground

 

[greatfookin]

In the Spring, add blood, and bone meal. The nitrogen from the blood will be used for vegetative growth, and the bone will break down over the season, and give phosphorus to the plants at the time they need it for blossom production.

This mimics the ancient sacrifice of animals to the gods, which they did for a bountiful harvest. Cows, and sheep had their throats slit in the fields, and the blood poured out, and the plants grew like crazy near the sacrifice site, then as the bones were scattered and chewed by critters, and broken down by the weather, they would become available to the plants for nutrients, increasing the yield.