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Canna-butter waste water and pulp to use as amendments

Daypaul
Daypaulstarted grow question 2 years ago
Just made some butter with one of my old harvests and I have the left over water and pulp, anyone have any info on using this in watering. Would there be any benefits past some carbon and maybe nitrogen?
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Sciolistic_Steve
Sciolistic_Steveanswered grow question 2 years ago
a plant doesn't get carbon from roots. It gets co2 from atmosphere. maybe, this would be better in a compost? either case, would more likely feed some microbes which will excrete something plant-useable. would be near impossible to have an idea on ratio of what you are providing nor rate of it without trial and error over time and some deductive hindsight. The butter may make your substrate hydrophobic, which could make watering difficult. if you got a hankering to try it, just do 1 plant or maybe do it outside on 1 plant.
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Daypaul
Daypaulanswered grow question 2 years ago
Word just a thought. To GrowCN I didn't make butter with water sorry if ilthat was confusing. I'm taking the left over water from the butter.you have zero liquid that separates when you make butter?? So I'll at 120-150°f will soak the herb in unsalted butter for 24 hours then strain out herb set butter in fridge then a couple hours later or less you have a separated mixture. Your butter floating on top some liquid. Usually I discard the liquid but I wondered about using a bit in watering. As for the carbon I thought the trim as it decayed in the soil would emit small amounts of carbon not for the plants but microbial life, maybe I was mistaken there as well.
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GrowCN
GrowCNanswered grow question 2 years ago
I don't know how you made canna butter with water but... Usually making canna butter leaves the flower soaked in oil/butter. So, it is not appropriate to use in the garden. If you are somehow extracting with water you could compost the left over flower but it's not much use to a growing plant unless it's composted. Just throw it on your compost pile with the rest of the yard scraps. After making canna butter you are usually left with the plant material soaked in butter. Drain and press gently to extract as much of the butter as possible. Then I find it best to make an edible with the leftovers. Brownies, chocolate cake, granola bars, lasagna... Basically anything that has fat or oil (butter) in the recipe can be made with the left over flower.
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Chudd
Chuddanswered grow question 2 years ago
I would 100% NOT recommend giving that to your plants man. Imagine, when you have a haircut do you take the hair home and make a smoothie from it? No, right?
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 2 years ago
No benefit at all.
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