13/13/13 fertilizer????Good or bad for plants

[Bobcat.Branch]

If the native soil grows pretty good native plants, I would mix it 50-50 with the soil you dug out of the hole along with the perlite. There are so many variables and unknowns with the compost and the soil that’s all just a guessing game anyway! As long as you didn’t have to dig your holes with a rock bar! I think you’ll just have to take your best guess! Or try a hole each way! My guess would be that two year old compost won’t be very hot! Specially, if it is mostly plant material!

Digging holes with a rock bar... That'd be me if I wanted to use what little level ground I have here.

Enough chicken shit will make a soil mix or compost heap go nuclear.

 

[katraiter]

I have some triple 13 fertilizer I was wondering if it would be good to throw some to some of my photos and autos

I use a 24 14 11 in veg and a 9 50 10 in early flower.

That 13 13 13 seems to be a Good in the middle of the road balance , why not? I would try it, just saying! Since you have some in early flower and some In veg could be a good in-between... If you will, For everybody . However I would back it of of the flower ones sooner than later or give them less .

 

[Oldchucky]

Actually... Compost can spontaneously combust, but that's only while it's composting. Microbial activity can get quite hot. It was used in greenhouses to keep them warm. The practice was to have composting material under the tables and benches. I remember my grandfather's greenhouse from my childhood days back in the 1950s. He was an amazing gardener, and he used composting to keep his greenhouse warm in the winter. Walking into it was like walking into a tropical forest because of the heat, the humidity, and the powerful organic aromas.

You ain’t lying! I had a 10 year pile of grass clippings some years ago! On a cold winter day, I got curious and took a big bite out of it with a pitchfork! The steam and the stink came rolling out of it! Walked away from it for a few minutes and when I came back, both dogs were chowing down on it! I ran them out of there, within half an hour, both of them had puked their guts out! And we’re laying there with a mighty satisfied grin on their faces!

 

[LoveGrowingIt]

You ain’t lying! I had a 10 year pile of grass clippings some years ago! On a cold winter day, I got curious and took a big bite out of it with a pitchfork! The steam and the stink came rolling out of it! Walked away from it for a few minutes and when I came back, both dogs were chowing down on it! I ran them out of there, within half an hour, both of them had puked their guts out! And we’re laying there with a mighty satisfied grin on their faces!

I can't say I've heard of dogs eating compost. Ours never did that I can recall. I do know that rats like compost piles. I thought it was for the warmth, but it's likely there's nutrition in there for them, too.

 

[Glomus]

You could use a 13-13-13. especially with a less nutrient rich soil. Recently Im using sunshine #4 with some extra perlite and coco coir and a shit ton of chicken manure. that's it lol. plus some inoculants/b vitamins, kelp meal, dolomite and a few feeds of fish hydrolysate.