Greenfingers420UK
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Good day, Does anyone use banana skins as feed? , I have them available as I eat one every day, and it's a shame to waste them.
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Banana peels
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Hi
I won't add it direct to soil. Maybe feed it to a wormfarm or bokashi/compost it first?
I won't add it direct to soil. Maybe feed it to a wormfarm or bokashi/compost it first?
If you have a compost pile sure but it can still get a bit smelly. Adding them into soil or indoors would not be a good ideea. Worms love them, if you can have a pile with earthworms they will go through them much faster, especially if you chop them up. But still, not indoors..
Greenfingers420UK
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Maybe better if dried and broken up into small pieces?
cheers all, I'll have a play
cheers all, I'll have a play
For a while a buddy owned a smoothie shop and I was taking his fruit scraps and making bokashi and feeding it to worms and occasionally burying it near the bottom of the pot. Bananas were a huge part of the mix. The herb I grew at the time was the most flavorful I have ever grown.
Given that we growers tend to find soil mixes that have uncomposted bits in them low quality, I don't know why you would try to obtain that. They will get wet as soon as you put them in there, so as others said will attract critters. Even if no critter problem, you'd get little on terms of nutrition from them during a grow. And they might play with the ph of the media as well. I would avoid. Rotting bannana is also an etylene producer and that's also a plant hormone that controls flowering/ripeness. I would totally not want that in a grow.
Switcher56
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Yeah! I hate them fruit flies.
St. Phatty
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I feed them to animals.
Just cut them up into pieces and mix it into their food.
Very high quality animal feed, full of vitamins.
But start with small quantities, it can be near-psychedelic and also give the animal what may seem like too much energy.
Just cut them up into pieces and mix it into their food.
Very high quality animal feed, full of vitamins.
But start with small quantities, it can be near-psychedelic and also give the animal what may seem like too much energy.
Plookerkingjon
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You can soak them in water for 24 to 48 hours also bring them out and water your mediums with that water then compost them
Plookerkingjon
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Stop listening to naysayers or people that are trying to tell you to stop experimenting because I've seen some of the best growers in the world experiment
Three Berries
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Probably better if you just eat them yourself.
The big question is........Which end do you start the peel from?
The big question is........Which end do you start the peel from?
Plookerkingjon
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Bottom ....... I thought all of us shaved Apes a bananas from the bottom
Greenfingers420UK
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I will carry on with my experiment regardless of what people say, my grow is in a shed so smells and stuff don't bother me.
Thanks all
Thanks all
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Definitely not listening. I'm currently starting an experiment using bokaski with maple leaves, fruit scraps and bunny shit.
Greenfingers420UK
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Sounds interesting @bigtacofarmer
Greenfingers420UK
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I've just reread this, sorry if I sounded pissy, it was not meant that way.I will carry on with my experiment regardless of what people say, my grow is in a shed so smells and stuff don't bother me.
Thanks all
I will let you know what i find
