Human Urine as Nitrogen Boost

Anyone else piss in a bucket and water their plants with it?
Saves water and you have free fertilizer.

I wouldn’t do it after drinking alcohol or if you’re on medication though.

You can use it pure, or diluted with water or water you’ve used for boiling pasta, or compost tea.

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Needs to be watered down and diluted before use it’s very hot

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Check out nitrogen cycle. You need bacteria to break it down to the form that plants can use.

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Was used by the hippie and grateful dead generation

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Cheech and chong recommended it, I wonder if thats where this nugget comes from? B12 too

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I first saw Brad Lancaster use urine as fertilizer. The whole video is fascinating, it’s mainly about waterharvesting.

Then later I saw Geoff Lawton talk about carbon to nitrogen ratios of various manures including human urine so I thought, yeah, it makes total sense.
But undiluted it’s to be used in moderation. I’ve used undiluted urine as a first dose in my garden just after I turned my lawn into permaculture beds, now I dilute.

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If you are not vegetarian…

BONUS! Free deer repellent! :sunglasses: :+1:

Cheers
G

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Not worth a crap for deer repellent, they’re used to humans being around.

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This past winter I experimented with urine. I had one plant I gave my urine to and it worked great. One cup per gallon of water. It grew some real dank nugs.

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At 10:1 water to urine I thought it made my space smell faintly of pee, though I was growing in a spare bathroom so the smell might have been all in my head.

Either way the plants had a healthy rich green colour.

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It only works if you use it as a foliar feed in late bloom.

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Agent-Dale-Cooper

Knock yourself out. :upside_down_face:

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I don’t want to use my piss but how can you turn down anything that could boost that’s free and readily available? :laughing:

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all i have to say

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Two days after I gave my basil some urine it grew two inches and started flowering.

I once did a run on urine diluted 10:1 with water for veg, and comfrey tea for flower, in promix, with nothing else and it worked surprisingly well!

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Fuck yeah. How often did you feed?

Actually, now that I think about it I was checking ppm(with a cheap uncalibrated pen) and running veg at like 300-400 early on with each watering and gradually increased it to like 800 or so by flip, then started using the comfrey, which I think I was running at 800 or so ppm(according cheapo pen). It was a couple years ago.

I was just getting set up in a new space and I wanted get a baseline of what I could do with very minimal input, turns out quite a lot! I’ve since moved on to full on coots style living soil irrigated with blumats, which is going really well.

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I didn’t understand anything. :upside_down_face:
So how often did you feed the 10:1 solution, once a week?
I’m a very simple man, have mercy.

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