Using Urine As a Fertilizer

[shawnbfromjersey]

Human feces is a great fertilizer too. It must be treated first to be safe to use. When you flush the toilet your crap gets collected at the watse treatment facility and it is sold to commercial fertilizer companies. They treat the waste using heat and chemicals and sell it. The mayans use to collect there shit and food waste and burn them in a big oven and take the ash and put it on unfertle ground and after doing this for thousands of years they completely terraformed a huge section in the rain forrest into the most fertile land in the world. Don't believe me google mayans teraform

 

[shawnbfromjersey]

It is not advisable to use urine in a dwc. The urine would turn to ammonnia and burn your plants. If you did want to use urine in a dwc you have to add bacteria to break down the ammonnia. Compost tea or worm castings would work as they contain billions of microbes

 

[420God]

I use it and it works great. I don't understand why other people comment saying they'd rather die than try. Ignorance at it's best I guess.

 

[Spanishfly]

What do people think fert is made of anyway it doesn't matter where it came from just what is in it!!

You said it - urine contains high levels of SALT which is toxic to most non-marine plants. So my girls will never get pissed on.

And your pots must smell like a cat litter tray.

 

[iKillpeople]

I gurgle urine, it really helps my lungs.

 

[Spanishfly]

I use it and it works great. I don't understand why other people comment saying they'd rather die than try. Ignorance at it's best I guess.

OK, it works for you, so that is great. But I do sympathise with you trying to make your point. I had a similar load of flak recently when I said I don´t flush because I can´t detect any difference when you do. Like you, I was just recounting my personal experience.

 

[YoungBloodToker]

im going to try it with my grow, ill keep you posted on how to goes

 

[gotdawork]

man Im gonna be smoking the shit I dont wanna piss on it

 

[Klik339]

i've grown healthy plants in my frog tank and they piss n shit all by the base of the plants, i've noticed seeds put in the frog tank germinate faster than when i just germinate them in water. maybe i'll give my piss a try in some of the next plants

 

[Carboniferous C6]

Pissing on the plants is great, I have personally done this since I started growing a couple of years back, they love it and its $free$, don't piss it down the toilet, now that is $waste$ .

Its perfectly good nitrogen and other great things as stated in the first post and you will see the lovely ladies turn nice and $green$. Look at it from a $monetary$ or biological point of view. Plants need chlorophyll for photosynthesis the more chloroplasts the more $energy$ produced, yay for urine. You don't want golden looking plants from nitro deficiencies you want to feed them the liquid gold.

 

[DMZ]

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.

I don't think there's enough Nitrogen in piss to do much. Nitrogen is released from the body usually in it's natural form, a gas. It's the gas that makes up most of your fart.

The major components of the flatus, which are odorless, by percentage are:[4]
Nitrogen: 20–90%
Hydrogen: 0–50%
Carbon dioxide: 10–30%
Oxygen: 0–10%
Methane: 0–10%

EDIT: I didn't read the first post with dietary requirements.

 

[Spanishfly]

The major components of the flatus, which are odorless, by percentage are:[4]
Nitrogen: 20–90%
Hydrogen: 0–50%
Carbon dioxide: 10–30%
Oxygen: 0–10%
Methane: 0–10%

You reckon flatus is odourless???

Feel free to come round me then when I have had a curry and enjoy an odourless sniff of my fart, LOL.

 

[Carboniferous C6]

Yeah but hey like spanishfly says flatus stinks but hey you already knew that, then again so does urine if is too concentrated, hence the dilution. I can't see people using fart gas to feed their plants though, that sounds all kinds of wrong. Have you tried using urine DMZ? Great avatar by the way, got to love breaking bad.

 

[Schotzky]

i dilute my own urine for a source of free nitrogen. it contains very high amounts. your kidneys filter the nitrogen out of your blood and put it in your pee. as long as you water it down at least an 1/8 of a gallon of pee to a half gallon of water. (plus some molasses, guano, and worm castings) for an organic fertilizer. it works amazing. nitrogen can be leached from the soil very fast so adding a little bit of urine to every other water is ok in my opinion. keep an eye on pH tho
IT DOESNT CHANGE THE SMOKE AT ALL WTF PEOPLE! the bacteria in the soil breaks down all of the urine compounds and converts it into the nutrients the plant can use. the nutrients are the microorganisms waste. you are not smoking the pee... pay attention in biology its very simple...

 

[DMZ]

Yeah but hey like spanishfly says flatus stinks but hey you already knew that, then again so does urine if is too concentrated, hence the dilution. I can't see people using fart gas to feed their plants though, that sounds all kinds of wrong. Have you tried using urine DMZ? Great avatar by the way, got to love breaking bad.

I was on the main forum page, and I seen the title of the thread and just had to check it out haha. When I clicked on it, it brought me to this last page which I assumed was the first. It was only after I posted that I realized it was such a long thread.



The urine composition stats are quotes from Wikipedia which is quoting extensive NASA research. I brought it up because N isn't isn't listed as one of the top ingredients of urine. I just couldn't see how urine would provide significant N if it's not present in any great concentration, but then I read the first post.

I brought up farts because I remember that most of it is N. Which led me to believe that the body gets rid of extra N through gas rather than liquid. When it says odorless, it's refering to the specific gases listed. Not the fart in it's entirety.

Anyways, no I haven't tried it personally. It would be cool if someone set up an actual experiment with their plants to see how it effects growth. I'm gonna be on the fence until I see documented results from a reliable experiment.

 

[uberdank]

personally i use my poo as fertilizer for soil and my piss to foliar spray directly on my plants. oh ya and i also condense my farts into my co2 tanks works great!

 

[woodsmaneh!]

So when I saw this post I thought WTF and just kept going, saw it pop up a few more times and did some research into that you sick bastards are up to. Turns out it's a good thing if mixed with water at a rate of 5 to 1. So after reading I now piss in my water before feeding my plants. It just so happens when I fill the 45 gal the running water makes me want to pee must be a sign from god.

I know a woman who uses her tampons, yes after they have been used to make a tea for the plants.

 

[snew]

...

I know a woman who uses her tampons, yes after they have been used to make a tea for the plants.

A little blood meal I suppose.

 

[OB 1]

Funny how people will use bat poo, bird poo, cow poo, worm poo, bacteria poo... but not human urine. Works great outside to keep the deer away and fertilize a bit... just pee near not on the plants.

 

[2amhigh]

Im doing it right now on bagseed. It works fine MAKE SURE YOU DILUTE IT WITH WATER! if you dont thats too strong. But yeah no worries it works fine for nitrogen only,