Cannabis growing – Guano Guide. Part 1
The following “Guano Guide ” is a unfinished work. It is a project we’ve been working on and adding to for over a year now. And each time we think it’s about finished – we find something more we would like to add. Instead of finding ourselves in a position where we put off posting this info for ever and ever. We’ve made a decision to go forward and put the data up “as is”. In principle this is one part of an even bigger and more all-embracing project. Our last plan is to at last compile our flock’s data and systems and strategies into the final all-embracing guide to organic herb gardening. So without further fanfare. We present for your comments and feedback. A Guano Guide the inside track on Poop The three_little_birds manual on dung it is the guano!
“Birds love the oil rich seeds of this successful plant and in their ecstasies of eating have swallowed many seeds entire. Across the ages cannabis has flown here and there in the bellies of birds and then found itself plopped down on the earth in a pile of poop, prepared to go. ” Bill Drake Marijuana – The Cultivator’s Manual 1979 Some traditional Italian in a proverb-making mood noted, “Hemp will grow anywhere, but without dung, though it were planted in heaven itself, it’s going to be of little use at all. ” How fortunate it is for Hemp to find Heaven in a pile of bird guano. How lucky for the birds to find themselves high.
How lucky for the first males and females to note the way in which the tiny singing creatures became ecstatic after eating the seeds of the tall, robust smelling plant. The planet is tight. ” Bill Drake Marijuana – The Cultivator’s Book 1979 being raised on a tiny family farm, one of the 3 small bird’s earliest memories include whinging to her pa about being besieged by the ghastly hint of wastes from the stock they were raising. ” Lover , that is not smell. That is the scent of money, ” was Dad’s answer. She actually accepted the value of the cattle her folks was raising to make profits which was where Daddy’s money came from. Early on, she also made the link between the farm animals and the mouth watering beef all alone table. She accepted another ironic meaning for her Dad’s statement when one of her first paying roles came shovelling stock barns at a State Fair. And eventually, one day as she appreciated the fine smell of some pretty blooming wildflowers growing in a latterly grazed pasture, she also commenced to grasp the role dung plays as a manure in making our soils rich and productive.
Her Father’s announcing about fertilizer smelling like cash was one or two easy words, as was often true with his knowledge, it held many meanings. The utilization of dung in farming is a longstanding and ancient practice. Dung has been utilized as a soil modification and manure since before humankind first commenced recording words and symbols in writing. Scientists as outstanding as Carl Sagan have recommended the first cultivated rural crop was likely weed. It’s possible the mingling of fertilizer and marijuana goes all of the way back to the beginning of mankind’s tries to grow crops for a purpose, instead of surviving by simple hunting and gathering.
Under the influence of some fine herb, it becomes easy to envision going back in time. Casting backwards, in the mind’s eye we are able to see a clan of winding folks looking like modern man, but leading a primitive hunter-gatherer existence. We will be able to imagine the clan following available game while using regionally available fruits and nuts. These men ( and girls ) weren’t always larger or stronger than the wild animals they competed against for survival, but they were smarter. And during those seasonal migrations, one of those awfully distant ancestors likely spotted that their fave herb plants were prospering particularly well in areas where their winding clan discarded wastes near their seasonal camps. They could have spotted that the herds of animals their clan had been following helped distribute and nourish the plants they favoured. Maybe , as Bill Drake advises, it’s a discovery from a pile of bird guano where it all started. Without regard for where it started, with a touch more thought our ancestors spotted that crops may be fertilized, and even grown with a purpose. Some surmise that this is how farming was born ; that it all commenced with a fortuitously placed pile of guano. In the final analysis folks can call it what they like. Whether or not it’s a fancier name like castings or guano, or one of the commoner names like crap, poop, fertilizer, or dung. In the final analysis it’s all just guano!
The three_little_birds need you to know that it can be terribly good guano. We would like you to know that manures are one of the keys to unlocking the overwhelming potential of eco-friendly gardening. In the immeasurable time before the invention of farming, before man started to until the soil, dead and rotting foliage naturally returned to the earth as rich and fruitful humus. In conventional forms of farming, our ancestors learned to use the elements of animal dung and bedding wastes in a supportable fashion. Before the discovery of chemical fertilizers and insecticides, dung was employed as a resource, not a waste product. Natural humus, built up in the ages before agriculture, got replaced by manure, loaded in nitrogen and other elements that plants rely on. Today, that is now not right.