Philippine flower farms can use a lot of fish emulsion as natural
fertilizer. Fish emulsion has high organic nitrogen. It's a great soil
conditioner and provides bacterial food to feed the soil's microherd.
You read it right, the soil eats. The soil is actually living. There are
so many microorganisms in the soil, thousands of them, still unnamed by
science. Fish oils also give a substantial supply of beneficial soil
fungi. The fish bones also supply extra calcium.
How do you make the Fish Emulsion?
Use fresh fish scraps from the nearby market, using the juices, sauces or oils that come with these. The liquid is used to breed beneficial microbes and supply extra proteins to the emulsion. You can also use fresh seaweed, which has a lot of nitrogen. These parts are composted in a bucket with other brown matter such as sawdust and leaves. Another medium is to add molasses to the mixture build up microbes, and speed up decomposition. The brown matter molasses controls the odor and absorbs organic nitrogen from the fish. The bucket should be stirred daily to get air into the mixture. Remember air allows for better decomposition and better aerobic microbial growth. The bucket of fish should then made to rot for at least one week.
When all this is over, dilute your fish emulsion at a 1:1 to 1:5 ratio. The fish emulsion can then be used to spray on leaves and drench the soil. Whenever you spray the leaves, you let in small portions of nutrients into the plant through its leaves. Whenever you drench the soil with fish, you build up the soil's microbial activities, supplying lots of nitrogen to the roots and topsoil. What more, using fish emulsion as foliar spray helps get rid of pests too. They hate the fishy smell, no matter how minuscule. Poke holes in the soil to get more oxygen in the soil too, and further increase organic matter decomposition, while increasing the activities of microbes in the soil. Soils love their daily dose of fish meal. The earthworms too!
Don't forget that you can actually make your own homemade version of the fish emulsion for your house plants or garden. The resulting mix is as unique as every flower farm or every garden.
How do you make the Fish Emulsion?
Use fresh fish scraps from the nearby market, using the juices, sauces or oils that come with these. The liquid is used to breed beneficial microbes and supply extra proteins to the emulsion. You can also use fresh seaweed, which has a lot of nitrogen. These parts are composted in a bucket with other brown matter such as sawdust and leaves. Another medium is to add molasses to the mixture build up microbes, and speed up decomposition. The brown matter molasses controls the odor and absorbs organic nitrogen from the fish. The bucket should be stirred daily to get air into the mixture. Remember air allows for better decomposition and better aerobic microbial growth. The bucket of fish should then made to rot for at least one week.
When all this is over, dilute your fish emulsion at a 1:1 to 1:5 ratio. The fish emulsion can then be used to spray on leaves and drench the soil. Whenever you spray the leaves, you let in small portions of nutrients into the plant through its leaves. Whenever you drench the soil with fish, you build up the soil's microbial activities, supplying lots of nitrogen to the roots and topsoil. What more, using fish emulsion as foliar spray helps get rid of pests too. They hate the fishy smell, no matter how minuscule. Poke holes in the soil to get more oxygen in the soil too, and further increase organic matter decomposition, while increasing the activities of microbes in the soil. Soils love their daily dose of fish meal. The earthworms too!
Don't forget that you can actually make your own homemade version of the fish emulsion for your house plants or garden. The resulting mix is as unique as every flower farm or every garden.
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