Egg shells can be consumed as long as they are cleaned and boiled then dried and grided to make a powder that can be added to food. You can also give to chicken to harden their eggs.

You should roast/pan fry the eggshell until brown. That will yield you a much better calphos. Make 1:9 ratio solution of eggshell to vinegar and fermenting it for atleast 3 weeks is a must. Dilute your calphos 10ml/liter of water because of the acidity. If you only need the water-soluble calcium, just roast it, soak it with water. That will make an alkaline water rich in calcium.

@JoyoftheGardenandHome

2 жыл бұрын

Ok, I will do that next time. Thanks

i believe that this substance you've created is calcium acetate, not calcium phosphate. Wikipedia's article on calcium acetate has this recipe

@JoyoftheGardenandHome

2 жыл бұрын

That's interesting, I'll have to look that up...

@fearlyenrage

10 ай бұрын

Information: in vinegar is no phosphor neither in eggshells. To create a phosphate you have to add a phospor to a accepting partner like calcium. Basic chemistry

Putting acetic acid( that is vinegar) with calcium carbonate(egg shells) you obtain calcium acetate, not phosphate, elementar chemistry.

@JoyoftheGardenandHome

7 ай бұрын

We didn't have chemistry till high school, and I failed miserably. I'll change the title if I remember.

@desolz3809

6 ай бұрын

Exactly

@RotatingLocomotive

6 ай бұрын

It's still wrong, remove phosphate and keep acetate without quotes

@JoyoftheGardenandHome

6 ай бұрын

@@RotatingLocomotive but people aren't searching for "calcium acetate".

Can You Delut Dried bone powder in vineger to get more phosphorous and make it solible for fertilizing plants.

@JoyoftheGardenandHome

2 жыл бұрын

From my research, it takes hydrochloric acid, ammonia and other components to extract calcium phosphate from bones. The process to produce bone powder breaks up the phosphorus enough to make it available to the plants slowly. That said, there's no reason why vinegar over many weeks would not produce water soluble calphos. The ratios for application is something you'll have to experiment with.

Do you use this as a supplement or just plant fertilizer?

@JoyoftheGardenandHome

2 жыл бұрын

Mainly as fertilizer for my indoor plants.

is there any other way than using egg shells ???

@JoyoftheGardenandHome

2 жыл бұрын

Seashells would work too, but harder to work with and or come-by

@booksintamil

2 жыл бұрын

@@JoyoftheGardenandHome I found an alternative

It will break down faster if you ground up egg shells to a powder. Just saying

@JoyoftheGardenandHome

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, specially if going in the ground.

Calphos was the Greek god of eggs?

Why not leave more head room for the expansion? This should create less of a mess and more useable product.

@JoyoftheGardenandHome

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, lesson learned...

@jamesfrankland4436

2 жыл бұрын

@@JoyoftheGardenandHome Thanks for a prompt response, oh GREAT video; you have a new sub as of now.

Put them in a blender it's easier