Human poop and urine, perfect nutriment?

Rurumo

Rurumo

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Human sewage "sludge" is one of the most widely used fertilizers in American (and Chinese) conventional agriculture. The funny thing is, I've heard people say they don't eat organic foods because "it's grown in poop." But the reality is, sewage sludge isn't allowed in omri certified crops, only in conventional agriculture. Human feces is by no means a "perfect" fertilizer, like any other feces, it's just one component that might make up a good soil.
 
Star Dog

Star Dog

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Icu420 said:
Has anyone tried this?

"The NPK ratio of human urine varies with diet and each person has a unique profile within that but roughly speaking, an average westerner will produce urine with the proportions at 11:2:4"

Proportion if nutrients leaving the body urine/feces:

Nitrogen 9:1
Potassium 3:1
Phosphorous 1:1

Therefore feces are ~ 1/1/4
Piss is ~10/2/4

Has calmag as well as vitamins & micros. Is adjustable by diet.
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I watched a documentary a couple of weeks ago about human waste, apparently after its composted it doesn't have any bad smell, the crops grown in it were very much healthy.
It was one of the biggest water recycling plants in England, the waste that was generated and composted was used in the farming community as a soil amendment.

In the disgusting wastes they've discovered unknown bacteria forms that can fight serious infections that are immune to modern antibiotics.
They've only scratched the surface with the bacteria available in human waste, the science is still at infancy stage.
It should be available on demand
www.bbc.co.uk

BBC Two - The Secret Science of Sewage

The revolutionary science finding renewable resources and undiscovered life in sewage.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
Arkos

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I read an article once in National Geographic about exactly that, using human poop as fertilizer, it took 20 years of compositing before it was safe for crop's so good luck with that :bigjoint:

Albeit that was 30 years ago so there's no doubt new technology to utilize...
 
Hollatchaboy

Hollatchaboy

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green_machine_two9er said:
There was a really talented and brilliant organic gardener I followed for a while.

he would use urine. But diluted down substantially. Like pee in a bucket snd dill with five gallons of water diluted. Also would preach the important of diet and what go in the body aswhat makes the urine safe. He would eat clean and mostly vegetarian.

Stillllll.... never had the need or desire to go down this road lol.
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Me either....I prefer to "flush" my shit. Lol :hump::bigjoint:
 
Mr Hill

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crimsonecho said:
human shit is not sanitary at all, feces of carnivores carry many pathogens so you must apply heat to it at least to kill those microbes parasites etc, not advisable to use on plants you are planning to consume. urine is somewhat more sanitary, as long as its fresh you can dilute it i guess but it also has sodium in it so it may cause salination on the long run
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What about vegetarian poop?
 
Star Dog

Star Dog

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Arkos said:
I read an article once in National Geographic about exactly that, using human poop as fertilizer, it took 20 years of compositing before it was safe for crop's so good luck with that :bigjoint:

Albeit that was 30 years ago so there's no doubt new technology to utilize...
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As well as the industrial size they also include a organic grower , I can't remember for sure if it was 2 or 3 years before the gardener use it her veggies looked nice and healthy, for the industrial size a bio digester is used in the process to extract methane then used as, a soil amendment.
 
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Icu420

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bk78 said:
Can I mix this with my coco perlite?
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I speculate but i think to get ~10/10/10 mix one can collect urine for a day and mix with 1x bowel movement. Mix and let it cure for 7 day or so to get high ppm in the watery part.

Then one can boil it up and sift it through a filter to get nitrogen dominant liquid which should next to all of the water solubles.

The earthy part should have little to no smell.

The non solubles should be in the earthy waste and if left to dry it would probably be something one could topdress or mix into the medium

Just have to figure out the ph i think and balance with water

I also like wood ash for ph up, has a lot of cal and is like shit almost.

Would be ģood on the shitshow
 
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bk78

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Icu420 said:
I speculate but i think to get ~10/10/10 mix one can collect urine for a day and mix with 1x bowel movement. Mix and let it cure for 7 day or so to get high ppm in the watery part.

Then one can boil it up and sift it through a filter to get nitrogen dominant liquid which should next to all of the water solubles.

The earthy part should have little to no smell.

The non solubles should be in the earthy waste and if left to dry it would probably be something one could topdress or mix into the medium

Just have to figure out the ph i think and balance with water

Would be ģood on the shitshow
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Sweet. Should I just shit and piss in my reservoir and agitate vigorously?
 
insomnia65

insomnia65

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Uranium has tons of uses both medicinal and industry, just not comfortable with it, same goes for imbibing my own shit.
 
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