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Best poop for peppers?

Well, ive seen it happen with my own eyes with beans but they are nitrogen fixing so its not quite the same. His tomato plants looked great and were huge. We used a ton of the same pig crap in our garden one year. Mixed with our yard and kitchen scrap compost pile. The garden was roughly 15ftx70ft. We got loads of maters and peppers.
 
ShowMeDaSauce said:
Well, ive seen it happen with my own eyes with beans but they are nitrogen fixing so its not quite the same. His tomato plants looked great and were huge. We used a ton of the same pig crap in our garden one year. Mixed with our yard and kitchen scrap compost pile. The garden was roughly 15ftx70ft. We got loads of maters and peppers.
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Hard to say what exactly did it. But macroelements don't inhibit or accelerate growth/flowering/fruiting. (hormones and enzymes do that)
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Pig poo isn't the first thing you think of for fertilizer, but it should work just fine. LOL
 
TrentL said:
 
Be careful using straight manure. USDA NOP regulations require a 90 day period to elapse between application of uncomposted manure and harvest of fruits which do not touch the ground, or 120 days for produce which does touch the ground, to reduce the risk of e-coli or other bacterial contamination of produce.
 
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On trust me, I know USDA standards thanks to that movie where a guy grows poop potato on Mars.  Told my wife it would kill him.  We argued and looked it up.  I would NEVER do this, but evidently you can plant potato in fresh poop as long as you wait 120 days to harvest.  Excuse me?  Can that possibly be right?

Anyway, I scrape the bar in the spring and let the pile sit outdoors till the next spring.  Then it goes where the corn goes that year.  The next year, I rotate where the corn goes.  The result is that the barn scraping are two years before they reach anything but corn.  By that time, it is black and you can barely identify the straw n hay.

The chicken poop is an experiment.  Our few chicken free range.  Now that we are doing a CSA and farm stand on property, I am thinking of raising Rhode Island Red for eggs.  Put a fridge in the barn, tell folk to help themselves.  If I do, they will have to be penned up to keep the hens an roos from mating.  That will mean an accumulation of chicken poo.  Have always read the stuff is way too hot for most crops, so figured I would goof around before building pens.

So far so good. 
 
Reading the replies, I think maybe there is something to the idea that pellet poop is best.  Have used goat with great success.  Folk here said rabbit.  We only have one lamb, but the grass grows greener in her pen so figure its good to go.  What they all have in common is that their poop comes out in pellets. 

Worm farming is in the plans, but it is turning into one of those things in the when I get to it category. 
 
I once looked into a commercial fertilizer that was all natural with high NPK, it was human poop. I didn't know the term for this was biosolids, but I asked the company what was in it and they kept avoiding my question which tells me they are not so proud of it lol but I had to google biosolids. No thanks.
 
Human poo is pretty wild... But if you grow up on a farm like I did, you will be familiar with shit sprinklers. That's right... a giant sprinkler head dosing liquid cow manure.
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I'm using chicken manure pellets at the moment. When I was repotting into their final 12L pots, I put handful of pellets at the bottom, covered them with layer of compost then potted the plant as normal. That way, the pellets should break down a little before the roots reaches it and it hopefully won't burn the plant. 
 
 
 
Solid7 - Never seen a poop sprinkler.  Looks more like a poop cannon.  We used to use what we called a shit slinger / shit wagon on the hay fields. Its a trailer that is powered by your tractor's pto that literally slings shit left and right as you ride up and down the field. A shit cannon looks like way too much fun.
 
HotPepper - I remember reading that human waste was used on the gardens at the White House.  Makes a person wonder just how common it is.  I had always understood it was a very bad idea because disease spreads easier between members of the same animal species.  Maybe it is OK when treated, but then how the heck would they claim it is organic?
 
AJ Drew said:
Solid7 - Never seen a poop sprinkler.  Looks more like a poop cannon.  We used to use what we called a shit slinger / shit wagon on the hay fields. Its a trailer that is powered by your tractor's pto that literally slings shit left and right as you ride up and down the field. A shit cannon looks like way too much fun.
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What you speak of is a "honey wagon".  No shit. :D
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That cannon is either pulled into place by a tow line, or the liquid poo can also be pumped through center pivot irrigation.
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That being said, I don't want it to be assumed that I "know my shit".  It's just coincidental!
 
A whole new meaning to " shooting the shit"  :rofl:  :rofl:
 
 
I'm using rabbit shit and composted chicken manure in my containers this year and the plants are loving it so far. I also have two beds with peppers that I added both of those to and they're a nice dark green. 
 
solid7 said:
Human poo is pretty wild... But if you grow up on a farm like I did, you will be familiar with shit sprinklers. That's right... a giant sprinkler head dosing liquid cow manure.
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One of my hunting spots by a dairy does the same thing. They have little ponds that they infuse with manure and pump it onto the crops. It smells terrible when those things are running but the crops look great.
 
Ghostpepperevolution said:
Using free 10 month old horse manure on mine and plants are growing like crazy (2 month old plants do that lol) got cow manure coming this Saturday so thanks to the usda post Ive got to wait 90 days (yay)
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The USDA rule is because if you surface apply, rain can splash it up onto the fruit.  If using fresh, I would also worry about burning.  Thing is, I've also thought that chicken poop would always burn so I guess I dont know shit.
 
AJ Drew said:
 
Thing is, I've also thought that chicken poop would always burn so I guess I dont know shit.
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Nope, not always.  Just if laid down fresh.  But after a few months, it's good to go.
 
solid7 said:
 
Nope, not always.  Just if laid down fresh.  But after a few months, it's good to go.
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Ye that is what I am learning.  I used some aged chicken poop on some test plants, mixed in with the soil, then planted.  No burn.  Doing fine.  Thing is, this means that all the times I read that chicken poop should never be used cause it burns plants, those folk were talking about fresh.  That and the USDA guidelines just seem over the top gross.  Think I am going to stick with my one year in the rain rule.  Besides, it is fun to point out my pile o poop to visitors.  Mmmmmm, just like mom used to make.
 
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