TheRoach's First - Soil - Aurora Indica - Organic Grow - 600W

So I was checking the kelp fertilizer ingredients and it lists soy paste, kelp meal, bone meal, humic acid, natural minerals and aminoacids.
 
I made some research regarding a couple new additions to my organic amendment repertoire; cricket meal and cricket frass!!

Cricket meal consists of dehydrated and powdered crickets of the acheta domestica species. It is high in chitin, and contains many nutrients.

Cricket frass is basically cricket manure, dried and ground to a powder. It has a NPK ratio of 4-3-2.


I will buy some acheta domestica crickets to start a cricket farm. This may sound weird but they are very tasty when fried and served with lemon and salt. They are a typical food from my wife's country, and I was looking for a provider of live crickets so I could start rearing them.
I will post some more information later.
 
That's cool. My experience with pet food crickets has been that they're messy and stinky so I am keen to see how it's done. I did like their constant singing.
 
Weaselcracker said:
That's cool. My experience with pet food crickets has been that they're messy and stinky so I am keen to see how it's done. I did like their constant singing.
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I downloaded a manual to rear crickets using multiple 10 gal plastic boxes, I hope that with constant harvesting of the droppings the boxes should remain clean.
Was thinking and I realized just how much I enjoy being able to make my own fertilizers.
Good to have you around weaselcracker!
 
cricket nutritional value

Nutritional composition [%] and energy content [kcal/100 g] based on dry matter

Acheta domesticus (adults)

Protein - 64.38-70.75

Fat - 18.55 - 22.80

Fiber - 16.40 - 19.10 <------ this is the chitin content

Energy content(Kcal/100g) - 455.19

Acheta domesticus (juvenile crickets)

Protein - 55.00

Fat - 9.80

Fiber - 16.40

Acheta domesticus (nymphs)

Protein - 67.25-70.56

Fat - 14.41-17.74

Fiber - 14.92-15.72

Energy content(Kcal/100g) - 414.41

Mineral Composition (mg/100g)

Calcium - 132.14-210(adults), 1290 juvenile crickets, 120.09(nymphs)

Potassium - 1126.62 adults, 1537.12(nymphs)

Magnesium - 80-109.42 adults, 160 juvenile crickets, 98.69 nymphs

Phosphorus - 780-957.79 adults, 790 juvenile crickets, 1100.44 nymphs

Sodium - 435.06 adults, 589.52 nymphs

Iron - 6.27-11.23 adults, 19.68 juvenile crickets, 9.26 nymphs

Zinc - 18.64-21.79 adults, 15.91 juvenile crickets, 29.69 nymphs

Manganese - 2.97-3.73 adults, 5.28 juvenile crickets, 3.89 nymphs

Copper - 0.85-2.01 adults, 0.96 juvenile crickets, 2.23 nymphs

Selenium - 0.06 adults, 0.04 nymphs

Vitamin Content:

Vitamin A - 24.33 mcg(adults)

Vitamin E - 63.96 - 81 IU/kg(adults)

Vitamin C - 9.74(adults)

Vitamin B1 - 0.13 (adults)

Vitamin B2 - 11.07 (adults)

Vitamin B3 - 12.59 (adults)

Vitamin B5 - 7.47 (adults)

Vitamin B7 - 55.19 mcg(adults)

Vitamin B9 0.49 mg (adults)

Vitamins A and C respectively(mcg for Vitamin A, mg for Vitamin C)

Acheta domesticus (nymphs) 0.02-0.23, 25.47-25.50
Acheta domesticus (adults) 0.01-0.20, 23.90 -23.92

Vitamin E

Acheta domesticus (nymphs) 41.92

Vitamin A and E(mcg, IU/kg, respectively)

Acheta domesticus (juvenile crickets)f) 14.13, 71.00

Amino acid content (mg/g protein)

Valine - 48.4-52.2 adults, 49.4-60 nymphs, 57 meal

Arginine - 57.3-61 adults, 61-70.9 nymphs, 78 meal

Histidine - 23.4-22.7 adults, 22.1-25.7 nymphs, 25 meal

Serine - 49.8-52 adults, 41.6-42.9 nymphs, 43 meal

Proline - 54.2-56.1 adults, 55.2-66.1 nymphs, 46 meal

Alanine - 76.9-87.8 adults, 89-101.1 nymphs, 86 meal

Glycine - 45.3-50.7 adults, 52.6-60.6 nymphs, 59 meal

Glutamic Acid - 104.4-104.9 adults, 103.9-117.1 nymphs, 112 meal

Tyrsine - 44-48.8 adults, 55.2-62.9 nymphs, 53 meal

Met + Cys - 22.9-29.3 adults, 21.4-26.4 nymphs, 26 meal

Isoleucine - 36.4-45.9 adults, 40.6-42.9 nymphs, 40 meal

Leucine - 66.7-100 adults, 72.6-95.5 nymphs, 76 meal

Lysine - 51.1-53.7 adults, 53.9-62.3 nymphs, 59 meal

Phenylalanine - 30.2-31.7 adults, 27.9-32 nymphs, 34 meal

Methionine - 14.6-19.6 adults, 13-15.4 nymphs, 17 meal

Cysteine - 8.3-9.8 adults, 8.4-9.1 nymphs, 9 meal

Phenylalanine + Tyrosine - 74.2-80.5 adults, 83.1-94.9 nymphs, 87 meal

Threonine - 31.1-36.1 adults, 35.7-38.9 nymphs, 43 meal

Tryptophan - 6.3-7.6 adults, 5.2-6.3 nymphs

Source for nutritional information:

Rumpold, BA; Schluter, OK. "Nutritional composition and safety aspects

of edible insects." MOLECULAR NUTRITION & FOOD RESEARCH; MAY, 2013; 57; 5; p802-p823
 
Good to have you around too Mr. The Roach. Brewing potions, it's a good time. And 420 - we are a funny bunch here all showing our motherly side fussing over our pet flowers.
 
Last night I applied a very thick soil drench made with Anredera cordifolia, the madeira vine. It produces a goo similar to that of aloe. It is used locally as medicine for broken bones, inflammation, cough and many others. My plants look very happy 9 hours after application. I will continue using this soil drench every two weeks.
 
I dont know, I just read that in an article about it, they say that you eat the leaves raw or steamed their taste reportedly being similar to that of spinach. The root tubers are eaten cooked and are said to taste like potatoes.
This plant has massive amounts of saponines, the gooiest plant I have had contact with (ha, I just used the word gooiest for the first time, I'm flabbergasted). Surprisingly the goo, when pure, dries naturally into a very fine dust. This dust can be rehydrated into more goo. But obtaining the pure goo involves a labor intensive process of cold pressing. It is easier to blend the aerial tubers of the plant and mix with water.
Recently I learned how to make aloe vera powder, I will make some tests later on today to see if something similar can be done with a solution of water and pure Anredera extract.
On another note, I have decided to buy a hobbyist microscope with a rating of 1280x zoom. It will help me warm up with use of lab equipment, as it has been a few years since last time I donned a lab coat. I want to set up a small laboratory with basic equipment so I can experiment and document my findings. This hobbyist microscope I will get has a cool option to mount your smartphone in one of the eyepieces, so you can watch through one of the eye pieces while recording and taking pictures with the other eyepiece.
Nice, I love new toys!
 
if I ever get a chance to do an outdoor grow, im going to buy a rabbit.

my mom had a rabbit when I was a kid. she would throw its dung into her garden. her garden thrived. I know she had a few other amendments but rabbit dung was a primary ingredient. ill have to ask her what else she put in it. I remember her cherry tomatoes being perfect.

I need to move to Colorado, sooner.
 
I'm really diggin how self sufficient you are. I wish I had (on hand) more local amendments. At some point I think I could probably build a soil that is entirely local save fore maybe a few mineral amendments that would be harder to source in small amounts.

Please keep sharing stuff, and if you ever feel like it you can post whatever you want in my thread! I love a good discussion.
 
Thank you very much my friend! I have to provide most of the stuff I use because getting specialized growing stuff here is hard and expensive. I have found that sourcing all that stuff has been very funny and I have met lots of new, interesting people.
I read every single update in your living medicine cabinet thread, very interesting stuff going on. I will start posting more in there. I'm honored by your invitation.
On another note, I feel I have found something important and new with this Anredera soil drench. I'm impressed by the results in less than 48 hrs after application; leaves have increased in size and are pointing up. Plants grew faster after applying the soil drench. The plants grew around 6-8 cm during the first 48 hrs after application. It also cured a slight magnesium deficiency they had (I realm like the word magnesium) Anredera has lots of saponins that act as a surfactant and help water penetrate the soil better. I made a few tests to try and make Anredera powder from the goo. None of them worked and I ended up all gooey. My wife was mad at the chaos I made in the kitchen. At least the goo is very easy to wash. An unexpected result were Anredera candies, made with the goo and sugar. They taste like herbs and have a nice chewy texture. I don't think I would make more of those though.
If any of you guys is interested in growing your own Anredera I would be glad to mail you some aerial tubers. They are the size of peanuts (with their shell on) so they can be easily sent in an envelope. They are also very resilient, and can survive for long periods without water.
I will build a food dehydrator and slowly dehydrate some bulbs and see if I can grind them to a fine powder. That would be a nice development.
Thank you for watching.
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