Placenta. yes, thats right--placenta.

OK, so I'm just gonna reach out and ask if anyone has ever heard about this. My girlfriend is adamant that this is tried and true (like she's ever grown anything in her life [other than her two beautiful girls, of course]).

So our cat had kittens. My girlfriend saved all of the placentas in a little box, and she wants me to put them in the dirt. Like straight up, when I go to pot--perlite, then a little dirt, then placenta, then plant, then a little more dirt.

It seems like there's ten different ways this would be bad. Bacteria (not the kind you want) mold, pests...the list goes on and on.

I'm sure there is some type of research out there somewhere that talks about the benefits of afterbirth for plants (I know they are loaded with good stuff) but she keeps trying to get me to put them in there and I keep refusing BC I can't find any research on it.

So, anybody have experience with a dirty placenta?

I'm sure if it did work you'd have to dry it like jerky first.


Yeah, I just went there.

Really? Hmm I figured somebody would have something to say about this

I just puked a little.

Not the response I was looking for, but I guess I should've seen that one coming

Try this.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?site=&source=hp&ei=lAHLUbvwLcTJ0QWHkoHACQ&q=placenta+used+in+gardening&oq=placenta+used+in+gardening&gs_l=mobile-gws-hp.3...15943.29334.0.29696.28.25.0.3.3.1.564.6365.5j6j2j5j5j1.24.0...0.0...1c.1.18.mobile-gws-hp.8APgtyvqYOk


Talks of people planting trees on top of a placenta burial area.


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Using cat placenta to grow weed..Ummm Strange... Do you think the plant would come out a little furry??

you won't be getting anything useable from placenta that you can't get from conventional nutrients.
what is the reasoning behind this?
some people bury placenta from a newborn to provide nutrient for a tree/plant but I think that has some kind of sentimental value to them although I can't think of wtf that would be. In my mind its just weird to do anything other than dispose of it.

Jondamon, thanks I'll read up on that. I guess she really had heard of it somewhere.

And yeah, I'm pretty sure planting a placenta is weird.

I was thinking the same thing about how at best, it would only provide nutrients that the plant could already get elsewhere, easier. But then I considered that maybe it has some type of special protein or something that helps the plant uptake nutrients, I dunno.

http://www.oocities.org/virtualbirth/placenta.html

Maybe you can talk her into one of the other neat ideas of wtf to do with placentas at that link.

I have my first born placenta in the freezer right now, its doubled up in a hazmat bag, and then in a needle disposable box from the hospital. It is not as weird as you think, My plan was to plant a tree on top of it when we got to our permanent home, lots of people take their placenta home with them. Some cultures actually consume it, but lets leave that to them. Putting dead organic material in your soil has been around for while, you've never heard of fish carcases, crushed shell fish, Blood meal being added to flower beds? I say go for it. Whats the worse that could happen?

For those of you who haven't vomited in your mouth yet, some ideas from that link:

Ah, crap it won't let me copy from the page. Anyways, this woman has great recipes for placenta pizza, placenta lasagna, even a placenta cocktail! (Sounds a little counter-intuitive). She can also make placenta pills, by making a jerky out of the placenta and then grinding it into a powder and putting it in capsules. Goes down best with white wine! (Seriously, this woman obviously knows what she's talking about).

Hazydat620 said:

I have my first born placenta in the freezer right now, its doubled up in a hazmat bag, and then in a needle disposable box from the hospital. It is not as weird as you think, My plan was to plant a tree on top of it when we got to our permanent home, lots of people take their placenta home with them. Some cultures actually consume it, but lets leave that to them. Putting dead organic material in your soil has been around for while, you've never heard of fish carcases, crushed shell fish, Blood meal being added to flower beds? I say go for it. Whats the worse that could happen?

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Yeah, I mean I know that animals usually eat them BC they are definitely rich in nutrients-- probably one of the richest, healthiest forms of organic tissue. I just worry that it would start to rot and cause problems.

ThorGanjason said:

Yeah, I mean I know that animals usually eat them BC they are definitely rich in nutrients-- probably one of the richest, healthiest forms of organic tissue. I just worry that it would start to rot and cause problems.

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If its in the ground, its supposed to decompose more than rot. it will provide nutrients to the soil way longer than any synthetic nutrient. You agree animals eat it, so will the tiny beneficial microbes and critters down in your soil. Talk about organic gardening! now pizza and jerky on the other hand, that takes it to a whole new level that I am not down to explore.

You know the old saying "you are what you eat"?

Think it might apply to plants as well?

Do you want to smoke cat placenta?

Even if it does help, which I think proper nutrients would provide it could anyway, do you really want to smoke it?

People come up with all kind of stupid, and nasty, ideas. Some people think masturbating on their plants helps them.
My question again, do you want to smoke anything that has been fertilized in those kind of ways?

I know this is old thread but I just posted a new thread on the same topic. My wife and I just had a little girl. We did it 100% natural. Unassisted home lotus water birth. Lotus birth is when you don't cut the chord. Instead we washed the placenta and packed it with herbs and salts to keep it fresh then the chord will detach from her belly on its own in a few days. My wife wanted to plant the placenta outside in the yard but we rent and don't plan on staying here long. It won't be special to us to have it in this yard. When we found out people grind it up and make pills with it I thought we should make our own medicine with it as fertilizer. I plan on making powder with the placenta and umbilical chord, then mixing in the soil for the next grow. I'm just trying to find figures somewhere on basic, proposed npk ratios and nutrient release times but this is still very new science in this field. Sorry to post such a long story on an old thread but it's gotta still be relevant to some people if I'm thinking of it, somebody else will too.

I'm speachless.

Lol, I was weirded out by it all a little at first but after catching my baby and holding the placenta fresh out the womb with my bare hands there really isn't any grossness to anything at all anymore. I think that's God's way of naturally preparing us for the dirty diapers. And if the you are what you eat theory applies to growing herb then most people are smoking bat guano and cow manure on the regular. Lol

Reggaefarm Rasta said:

Lol, I was weirded out by it all a little at first but after catching my baby and holding the placenta fresh out the womb with my bare hands there really isn't any grossness to anything at all anymore. I think that's God's way of naturally preparing us for the dirty diapers. And if the you are what you eat theory applies to growing herb then most people are smoking bat guano and cow manure on the regular. Lol

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There is a following of folks who actually cook and eat it!
I'd rather eat liver

I can answer your actual question though!

First off, it must be an organic soil. You have to add it to the soil and compost it (cook it).
You must do the hot cooking method and internal temps (of the soil) need to remain at 130 - 150 F for 5 days. This will destroy any pathogens that maybe in the placenta.
So build your soil and add the placenta and then "cook" it...

End results of the dried and cooked placenta will have almost exactly the same N-P value as chicken manure (composted) but, the K value will be about 1/2 that of the chicken manure. It will also be high in Iron and calcium!

So the composted value would be about 1.2 - .9 - .5

Build your soil with that in mind...

With a raised eyebrow I say....Good Luck!

Reggaefarm Rasta said:

Lol, I was weirded out by it all a little at first but after catching my baby and holding the placenta fresh out the womb with my bare hands there really isn't any grossness to anything at all anymore. I think that's God's way of naturally preparing us for the dirty diapers. And if the you are what you eat theory applies to growing herb then most people are smoking bat guano and cow manure on the regular. Lol

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First I want to say congratulations on your new addition to your family.

Second I read somewhere years ago that their are growth hormones ( HGH ) in the placenta. I don't remember where I read this , but I think it was article on HGH vs steroids. Not plant related but that's all I got.