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Hi, this is Steve for Expert Village, and today we're going to be talking about the
use of guanos in organic gardening. Guanos are basically the excrement of different animals.
They're used in order to help give the plant the necessary elements they need for growth,
which would be nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorous. There are several different ones on the market.
If you want to start your plants and vegetative growth, a good guano to use would be the Mexican
guano. It's high in the nitrogen, which is good for growth of plants. Then, if you want
to go ahead and flower your plants or fruits and vegetables on them, you want to switch
over to like an Indonesian bat guano or a Jamaican bat guano. Those guanos are higher
in the phosphorous, which plants utilize to put flowers, which in turn will give off fruit
or vegetable. Another good guano that people tend to use is the seabird guano. Peruvian
seabird guano is the one that they tend to have on the market the most. What that one
has is high in nitrogen and phosphorous, so you can use it basically all around. You can
also use all kinds of other guanos, whether it be turkey manure, chicken manure, rabbit
manure...the main thing, you want to make sure they've been aged for awhile so that
they're a little bit more stable. Some guanos you can get like already in a tea form, and
what they do with that is they just put the guano in water and percolate it, then draw
the tea off of it, and bottle it, and use it as a liquid.