Alaska Fish Fertilizer

DCallahan said:
Curious on the cost of things compared apples to apples.
Peat 3.8 cuft - $16 US
Perlite 4cuft - $18
Promix Bx 3.8cuft -$33
Promix HP 3.8cuft -$36

Store brand Milk $4 gal
Store brand Chicken breast $3 lb.
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Are those prices local. Milk is 2.52 at my local grocery store. BX is like $45.
 
Poplee said:
Looked up at Walmart website. It says it's synthetic. Sounds like they are going in a different direction.
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Oh no, looked up the liquid and it is synthetic also. I had assumed it was natural because it was OMRI listed. I had switched to agro- thrive anyway.
 
DCallahan said:
The method that was shown in that video doesn't produce nearly the same NPK values as the commercially available fish fertilizers.
The magic in fish fertilizers is the micro nutrients and I don't know the concentrations of those.
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Micros is all I’m looking for with any of the fish stuff (although I cheat and I throw in some Micromax). I will have access to a bunch of kokanee (small landlocked salmon) carcasses and guts this summer so I figure why let an awesome free resource go to waste?
 
Just like every time a Restaurant changes menus, the prices go up!! Alaska Fish Fertilizer was $21 for the large bottle last year at Walmart. Now they have a new label and it is $26. So tell me, did the new label come with $5 worth of improvements? I doubt it but can anyone prove me wrong?
 
IAK said:
Micros is all I’m looking for with any of the fish stuff (although I cheat and I throw in some Micromax). I will have access to a bunch of kokanee (small landlocked salmon) carcasses and guts this summer so I figure why let an awesome free resource go to waste?
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Ya dont let a resource go to waste if you want to put the time into it.
I know Alaska is the easy cheap fish fertilizer available, but many people dont know that it is not a whole fish product. It is a by-product of fish oil harvesting that oil that is being stripped out carries a ton of nutrients for plants just as it does for people. Neptunes Harvest is cold processed and they don't strip any oil off of it.
A couple years ago I seriously considered and investigated making fish fertilizer commercially, came up with a recipe, had it laboratory tested, but I decided not to take the big dive on the venture.
A consideration should also be made in concern to the amount of heavy metals growers are applying to their grow beds with heavy use of fish fertilizer. I've seen many voice concerns about micro plastics in different threads but this is the same or greater health consideration. A heavy metal report can be had by contacting the producers.
 
DCallahan said:
Ya dont let a resource go to waste if you want to put the time into it.
I know Alaska is the easy cheap fish fertilizer available, but many people dont know that it is not a whole fish product. It is a by-product of fish oil harvesting that oil that is being stripped out carries a ton of nutrients for plants just as it does for people. Neptunes Harvest is cold processed and they don't strip any oil off of it.
A couple years ago I seriously considered and investigated making fish fertilizer commercially, came up with a recipe, had it laboratory tested, but I decided not to take the big dive on the venture.
A consideration should also be made in concern to the amount of heavy metals growers are applying to their grow beds with heavy use of fish fertilizer. I've seen many voice concerns about micro plastics in different threads but this is the same or greater health consideration. A heavy metal report can be had by contacting the producers.
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This is very interesting. I’ve never considered where the fish come from
 
DCallahan said:
A consideration should also be made in concern to the amount of heavy metals growers are applying to their grow beds with heavy use of fish fertilizer. I've seen many voice concerns about micro plastics in different threads but this is the same or greater health consideration. A heavy metal report can be had by contacting the producers.
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I actually did think about that and that’s one reason I want to use kokanee specifically. Their life cycle is just a couple years, then they spawn and die. Also primarily plankton feeders so they don’t really accumulate metals because they aren’t concentrating it in their bodies like the big boys feeding on baitfish.
 
DCallahan said:
Ya dont let a resource go to waste if you want to put the time into it.
I know Alaska is the easy cheap fish fertilizer available, but many people dont know that it is not a whole fish product. It is a by-product of fish oil harvesting that oil that is being stripped out carries a ton of nutrients for plants just as it does for people. Neptunes Harvest is cold processed and they don't strip any oil off of it.
A couple years ago I seriously considered and investigated making fish fertilizer commercially, came up with a recipe, had it laboratory tested, but I decided not to take the big dive on the venture.
A consideration should also be made in concern to the amount of heavy metals growers are applying to their grow beds with heavy use of fish fertilizer. I've seen many voice concerns about micro plastics in different threads but this is the same or greater health consideration. A heavy metal report can be had by contacting the producers.
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That’s some good info! Thanks for sharing
 
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