Using urine as a free and effective fertilizer.

[submachinegun]

I figured I would post this, reading how the common reply to the subject has been "gross", etc.

My grandmother used to do this, which great results...

Dilute FRESH urine with water, with a ratio of about 10:1 to start out. Feed as if any other fertilizer, gradually increasing the urine to water. I wouldn't exceed 5:1, but it's all based on what your plants like and can handle so there isn't an exact science.

Urine is a rich source of Nitrogen, Potassium, and Phosphate. Before the flushing toilet, it was VERY common to use human waste as fertilizer. A lot of countries are returning the practice, some using special toilets which divide solid and liquid waste.

Do not store your urine, make sure you use it ASAP. also, you can add a little hydrogen peroxide (2 table spoons per gallon give or take if using 35%, or about 1/2 cup if using 3%). This will aid in the roots getting much needed oxygen, as well as helping kill any harmful bacteria.

Flush for 2 weeks prior to harvest as if using any fertilizer. A lot of store bought ferts contain Urea, so this isn't something i've just made up.

 

[Roseman]

AND we can donate some piss, too!

 

[submachinegun]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/08/AR2007100801028.html

"Cash-strapped farmers shouldn't look far for a source of free fertilizer, according to a new study that finds human urine to be a great source of nitrogen and other minerals. The "yuck" factor aside, scientists who used urine to help raise a bumper crop of cabbages said the practice may not be a bad idea."


"...Urine is a valuable fertilizer which poor people could use to increase yields and not contaminate their environment. It is a resource, not a pollutant, if correctly managed," said Helvi Heinonen-Tanski, leader of a research group at the University of Kuopio's Department of Environmental Sciences in Finland."

"As a result of the findings, the team concluded that urine produced by one person over a year would be enough to grow 160 cabbages -- that's 64 kilograms (141 pounds) more cabbage than could be grown in a similar plot fertilized with commercial fertilizer."

 

[submachinegun]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071008093608.htm

http://ezinearticles.com/?Using-Human-Urine-As-A-Liquid-Fertilizer&id=392596

http://weblogs.newsday.com/features/home/gardendetective_blog/2009/02/fertilizing_vegetables_with_hu.html

http://www.howtodothings.com/home-garden/how-to-use-urine-as-a-fertilizer

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/recycling-pee-to-fertilizer.php

etc etc...


Like I said, try to lose that close minded American mindset...

 

[victozap]

Great post, I don't get why some people are so against urine as a fertilizer. If you water your plant with Hawaiian Punch, the bud won't taste like Hawaiian Punch, just like if you water your plant with piss, it doesn't mean that the bud will taste like piss....

I'm just setting up my guerilla grow now, and I am definetly going to use that urine and hydrogen peroxide recipe you put up there. Thanks for the post.

 

[submachinegun]

Great post, I don't get why some people are so against urine as a fertilizer. If you water your plant with Hawaiian Punch, the bud won't taste like Hawaiian Punch, just like if you water your plant with piss, it doesn't mean that the bud will taste like piss....

I'm just setting up my guerilla grow now, and I am definetly going to use that urine and hydrogen peroxide recipe you put up there. Thanks for the post.

let us know how it works out for you, and I'll do the same! if putting it on seedlings or small cuttings, I'd go with a weaker solution to get things started, maybe like 15:1

 

[Reddragon1986]

Are u sure urine will work? My piss is radioactice after a night on the beer!

 

[submachinegun]

as long as you dont have a urinary tract infection, or something like tuberculous...

 

[victozap]

let us know how it works out for you, and I'll do the same! if putting it on seedlings or small cuttings, I'd go with a weaker solution to get things started, maybe like 15:1

I just started germinating today, so I probably won't start the piss nutes for about a month because I want my seedlings a few weeks old before I start any nutes. I'll definetly let you know how it goes.

Btw, do you have a grow journal? I'm starting one up soon, and I'll just put the piss nutes experiment in there.

 

[newb19547]

good post. I don't find it "gross" or nasty at all . It's the all-natural way to give your plants what you don't use.

 

[Denofearth69]

This is a subject which meets with a lot of resistance, mostly IMO from those who are die hard fans of one chemical fert or another. When I have posted on this subject I invariably get the response " Why would you use urine with so many good fertilizers out there?" I am amazed that these same people will then tell me all about their favorite animal shit that they use. I guess shit is OK while urine seems to freak people out. Oh, and I must ask, " Why would you pay ANY amount of money to get a less effective fertilizer, when urine is free?" Check out this pic of my biggest lady who has never received anything but urine enriched compost teas.
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[fdd2blk]

go collect some cans and buy a jug of nutes.

you know you can wash your face with your own piss? you can drink it as well?

how's that all working out?

 

[sodalite]

the hell with that nutes are very cheap. you dont need all that humbolt sweet purple carboload with ginsing and viagra shit that has been coming out in the last few years. the best nutes you can get with good compost and cheap organic goods. i have a spot outback of my house i piss on when im out drinking beer annd nothing grows there. it used to be lush and all around it is lush but that spot is dead. i drink about once a week.

 

[chronic coinoisseur]

Urine is indeed a legitimate high nitrogen fertilizer. But a fair warning about using hydrogen peroxide...dont do it if your growing organic. It may sterilize and kill harmful bacteria but also kills all good bacteria as well which is the basics for organics. If your growing with chemical fertilizers with readily available n-p-k its fine but if your using organics it will kill off all the bacteria that breaks down the organic compounds which in turn makes n-p-k available to your plants. Just a word of caution

 

[sodalite]

just plain nasty when you can spend a few bucks and get quality products. your urine is not quality sorry. your soil will smell like piss worse piss thats been fermenting. but hey youll keep animals away becouse they also will think its nasty. sorry to be harsh buy some cheap ferts its past summer solstace if you havent been using ferts your cheating yourself already. mine have recieved their last nitrogen for the season. the only nitrogen they will be getting is whats mixed in the soil for now on.

 

[NeOgRa]

just plain nasty when you can spend a few bucks and get quality products. your urine is not quality sorry. your soil will smell like piss worse piss thats been fermenting. but hey youll keep animals away becouse they also will think its nasty. sorry to be harsh buy some cheap ferts its past summer solstace if you havent been using ferts your cheating yourself already. mine have recieved their last nitrogen for the season. the only nitrogen they will be getting is whats mixed in the soil for now on.

I hear ya bro, nothing good comes from piss.

 

[moongirl1000]

I am an organic Gardener. I use Urine on all my plants as a fertilizer.I water it down but don't measure exactly how much I use. It would be very difficult to damage your plants with this.You would be more likely to damage them by over watering than you would with the use of urine. Plants love it!!!
I believe that we are all sold stuff that we don't need. We are much better equip naturally to survive than we realize. All these bottles of potions and lotions we are told that we need. Its just Babylon money making scam that's spoiling the earth.
I use urine in my watering can and Worm casts, seaweed nutrient, Molasses as fertilizer. I make my own compost from garden and kitchen waste.
Sometimes I make a fertilizer out of nettles.; Just common nettles In a 5 litre water bottle fill with water and leave for a few weeks.Added watered down to your watering can plants love this too.
To keep the slugs at bay I scatter broken egg shells and old coffee grounds around my plants which they Hate and to keep the bugs at bay a spray of Garlic water once in a while as a deterrent. My plants look beautiful !!
It feels very rewarding to know I have grown my plants in a totally natural way

 

[FriendlyGuy]

AND we can donate some piss, too!

lol im thinkin he knew that its beneficial but didnt want anyone else to know so he put the images up to sway people the other direction.

 

[Corbat420]

I guess shit is OK while urine seems to freak people out. Oh, and I must ask, " Why would you pay ANY amount of money to get a less effective fertilizer, when urine is free?" Check out this pic of my biggest lady who has never received anything but urine enriched compost teas.

#1 Toxic Cmemicals: human Urine containes close to 50x the toxic chemicals of animal urine.

Exhaustive detailed description of the composition of human urine can be found in NASA Contractor Report No. NASA CR-1802, D. F. Putnam, July 1971[2]. That report provided detailed chemical analyses for inorganic and organic constituents, methods of analysis, chemical and physical properties and its behavior during concentrative processes such as evaporation, distillation and other phisiochemical operations. Urine is an aqueous solution of greater than 95% water, with the remaining constituents, in order of decreasing concentration urea 9.3 g/L, chloride 1.87 g/L, sodium 1.17 g/L, potassium 0.750 g/L, creatinine 0.670 g/L and other dissolved ions, inorganic and organic compounds.

NASA has to be 100% on this, seeing as they have been filtering the astronauts pee for the last 50 years..... i think they probably know more than you.......

#2 Urine Kills the soil biology. it kills the beneficial bacteria and replaces it with the bacteria from our body. Urine was used as an anti-septic for wounds and cuts dating back 1000's of years before WWII. the usine bacteria will convert the other bacteria into urea producing bacteria. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC297400/

Urine from normal individuals was often inhibitory and sometimes bactericidal for growth of these organisms. Antibacterial activity of urine was not related to lack of nutrient material as addition of broth did not decrease inhibitory activity. Antibacterial activity was correlated with osmolality, urea concentration and ammonium concentration, but not with organic acid, sodium, or potassium concentration.

THOSE are the reasons you can't use human urine.

i mean, go ahead and use it. butdont expect to grow ANYTHING out of that ground after 2 years. it salts the land.

go collect some cans and buy a jug of nutes.

you know you can wash your face with your own piss? you can drink it as well?

how's that all working out?

EXACTLY. some of the people just keep on and on about stupid shit...... and they act like ferts are expensive.

 

[allamay1608]

this is awesome. Soo cool great info