NPK values of just about anything

[Chuck]

I thought this might be of interest to all of you organic gardeners out there.
https://www.thenutrientcompany.com/npk-value-of-everything-organic-searchable-database/

 

[zigs]

Good find Chuck

I've stickied it

 

[Rajesh Sethi]

I am not sure but blood meal value might be wrong.

 

[Chuck]

I am not sure but blood meal value might be wrong.

Blood meal is correct at 12. What is wrong is cottonseed meal which is 4-6 instead of 46.

 

[Rajesh Sethi]

Blood meal is correct at 12.

I thought it might contain some P and K, blood meal contains other micronutrients also, don't you think!

 

[Chuck]

I thought it might contain some P and K, blood meal contains other micronutrients also, don't you think!

Yes, blood meal contains a lot of iron plus a bunch of other trace elements but no P or K

 

[ferice]

My are banned using fertilizer that contains NP for the next 3 months. My plants will have to suffer for a little while.

 

[ReslerMomma]

Great resource- thank you for sharing!

 

[DirtMechanic]

This wiki list is laid out as follows;

Source Material, N, P2O5, K2O, CaO, MgO, SO2, Comment

Bloodmeal 13.0% 2.0% 1.0% 0.5% – –
Bone ashes – 35.0% – 46.0% 1.0% 0.5%
Bonemeal 4.0% 22.5% – 33.0% 0.5% 0.5%
Hoof / Hornmeal 14.0% 1.0% – 2.5% – 2.0%
Fishmeal 9.5% 7.0% – 0.5% – –
Wool waste 3.5% 0.5% 2.0% 0.5% – –
Wood ashes – 2.0% 5.0% 33.0% 3.5% 1.0%
Cottonseedashes – 5.5% 27.0% 9.5% 5.0% 2.5%
Cottonseed meal 7.0% 3.0% 2.0% 0.5% 0.5% –
Dried locustor grasshopper 10.0% 1.5% 0.5% 0.5% – –
Leatherwaste 5.5% to 22% – – – – – Milled to a fine dust.[36]
Kelp meal, liquid seaweed 1% – 12% – – – Commercial products available.
Poultrymanure 2% to 5% 2.5% to 3% 1.3% to 3% 4.0% 1.0% 2.0% A liquid compostwhich is sieved to remove solids and checked for pathogens.[35]
Sheepmanure 2.0% 1.5% 3.0% 4.0% 2.0% 1.5% Same as poultry manure.
Goatmanure 1.5% 1.5% 3.0% 2.0% – – Same as poultry manure.
Horsemanure 3% to 6% 1.5% 2% to 5% 1.5% 1.0% 0.5% Same as poultry manure.
Cowmanure 2.0% 1.5% 2.0% 4.0% 1.1% 0.5% Same as poultry manure.
Bat guano 8.0% 40% 29% Trace Trace Trace High in micronutrients.[36]Commercially available.
Bird guano 13% 8% 20% Trace Trace Trace High in micronutrients. Commercially available.

 

[UrbanFarmHobbist]

And what about vermicompost? What I put for my worms to eat will affect the liquid fertilizer?

 

[DirtMechanic]

And what about vermicompost? What I put for my worms to eat will affect the liquid fertilizer?

Only to the extent that their digestive tract influences their fecal output

 

[[email protected]]

I don't understand the blood meal.

one line says...

Fish, Blood & Bone meal

5

5

6.5

then the next one

Blood Meal

12

0

0

Is there a reason why blood meal is listed twice? I feel like I've seen this before, but I'm not sure.

 

[Chuck]

I suppose it means fish blood meal and fish bone meal. Blood Meal is from cattle and hogs.

 

[[email protected]]

ooooooh fish blood meal. Thanks Chuck!

 

[DirtMechanic]

ooooooh fish blood meal. Thanks Chuck!

The fbb is just a pre-blended popular organic combo product. The blood meal is the stand alone component. From what I gather of the boards, it seems more common in Europe but here in the states we get the separated component on the shelf mostly.

 

[YumYum]

In case anyone wants to figure up other things such as food products, you can go to a site like this:

SELF Nutrition Data | Food Facts, Information & Calorie Calculator

nutritiondata.self.com

Search for a food item such as raw bananas. This happens to be the meat not the peels.

Select 100 grams serving size to make calculations easier but I usually use the biggest serving size.

Scroll down to Phosphorus and it is 22 milligrams or 0.022 grams.
0.022 grams / 100 grams serving size = 0.00022 or 0.022% Phosphorus by weight.

Scroll down to Potassium and it is 358 mg or 0.358 grams.
0.358 / 100 = 0.00358 or 0.358% Potassium by weight.

Scroll to Protein and it is 1.1g. This one is a little trickier since protein is about 16% nitrogen so:
1.1 g x 0.16 = 0.176 g of Nitrogen. Then,
0.176 / 100 = 0.00176 or 0.176% Nitrogen by weight.

 

[YumYum]

@Chuck That link you posted has been moved or deleted. Not sure if you can update the link or not.

 

[DirtMechanic]

Just for fun and fire, this fellow extracts the potassium from 10Kg og bananas into its concentrated form.

 

[Meadowlark]

In case anyone wants to figure up other things such as food products, you can go to a site like this:

SELF Nutrition Data | Food Facts, Information & Calorie Calculator

nutritiondata.self.com

I couldn't get that link to work?

I'm highly interested in seeing the numbers for certain covers, e.g specifically Sunn Hemp, alfalfa, soybeans, field peas, Austrian peas, elbon rye, clovers, various cereal grains, etc. Not the amount of nitrogen fixing they do...I have found that information...rather I'm interested in their make up as green manure/mulch.

Appreciate any links on that.

 

[YumYum]

Link appears to not work now for some reason. Must be their server but there are other sites you can look up food nutrition. Those are mainly useful for composting to get an ideal of what you are putting in the pile. Here is another site: https://www.nutritionvalue.org/

Here is crimson clover. Look under nutritional aspects and nutritional aspects. There are other things posted there not exactly sure what.