Using Human Urine as Fertilizer- It's Free and Easy.
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
- Last summer a research assistant from a study being done at the University of Michigan interviewed me about my use of human urine as fertilizer. They had gotten a $3 million grant to investigate the cultural and practical aspects of converting urine into "pee tea" and I have been doing that for over 30 years. This video shows a bare bones approach to recycling human waste and growing beautiful vegetables. According to the U of M one of the hardest aspects of doing it is getting people past the "yuck" factor. Once that happens it makes all the sense in the world. I love my urine diverting composting toilet because water is too valuable to poop and pee in- and you lose all the free fertilizer. You can do this too!
Here's an update from February 2022: www.nature.com/articles/d4158.... The data keeps getting better. The Urine Revolution could help save the world.
My wife said heck no on the urine collecting. She can’t stop me from peeing on the compost pile.
Lol
i have a bucket set outside, off the side of the deck, for my husband...he loves it :)
I keep handy a couple of watering cans with rose applicator and all. When the time comes. Simply pee in there! Add the remain amount of water and water your plants...
No nasty smells, no "handling", no pee storage, etc. all pretty straight forward.
On rainy days, when you don't need to water the plants. Just keep the watering cans outside (where they always are). When the time comes to water the plants. Same thing, fill up the remain with water and water the plants!
When "off season" pee on the compost pile... Done! ;-)
This is nasty
Lmao
Another use is to pour on Fire Ant Hills. I stir up their nest with a stick and the pour on directly and around the edge. Depending on the size of the nest two applications is enough over two days to convince those buggers to move away. Use 100% strength and this is free and not using harmful pesticides.
metal window screen, some gasoline, and a match.
The ultimate dominance move, pee all over their nest
yup
I boil hot water and pour in middle of ant farm.
I use hot water and dish soap. It drowns them all
Remarkable results. It's crazy that we're "rediscovering" something we should have known for 1000s of years.
Conditioning is so thick within society, this really is the tip of the iceberg in my opinion. Unfortunately humans have an addiction to chemicals, and that's no accident. People have no idea how toxic their bodies are and then wonder why they are so sick with cancer or some other chronic illness.
Or it was known but some greedy "philanthropists" buried the truth. How philanthropic of them!
It is a great idea, especially when considering the coming fertilizer shortage.
Great video
this!
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@@h8er11 - Just one caveat - while human urine is very high in nitrogen (N), and relatively high in phosphorous (P), it's quite low in potassium (K). If you're using lots of compost though, in particular composted wood like old rotten logs, then potassium shouldn't be much of an issue. One can also mix stuff like dried banana peels directly into the soil.
Should be safe to sell right. no ecoli o pathogen outbreak to the public.
Thanks
We're gonna have to start paying tax on our own pee before soon
Yeah that is another "revenue stream for the government!" LOL!
@@ZuluLifesaBeech- If only we can collect all government urine poured on taxpayers... global warming or climate emergency will be thing of the far past LOL
Romans did that, they use to collect tax on urine
That is why Bill Gates wants to chip us all.
Or we could just throw the psychopath pedophile war criminals in Washington DC Masquerading as a legitimate government into the trash......
Keep in mind that urine begins to break down as soon as it leaves the body. Fresh urine does not have too much of a smell at all. The longer it sits the stronger the smell becomes as the chemical composition starts to change.
The chore these guys do here in this video has got to be pretty rough but if you take care of your urine daily or at least once every few days its really no big deal at all
It's not that bad.
@@davidjames1724 I have a large property so I dont hit the same spot twice . In the spring its very clear exactly where each batch was deposited over the winter because the orchard grasses are vivid green and twice as high as the reast
@@davidjames1724 It would not be too much at all and probably the best use of the fertility that would otherwise be wasted
@@davidjames1724 If you ever do get a smelly area, just run a sprinkler on it. I stopped having this problem(it was rare anyway) once I started diluting 5 to 1
Yep. I started recently just dedicating one bucket to urinate...after a few times...dilute, water something, repeat. Easy peesy! 🤣😂😋😁
I've started using pee on our garden. One thing to note is that if you sprinkle pee tea on the leaves of your plants, you need that 8-10 parts water to 1 part pee ratio to prevents burning the plant. But if you pour directly on the soil or mulch around a plant, you can safely go with 3:1 ratio or maybe less.
yup
poo is even better , composted it bosts the plants like , big big rockets
@@robertolang9684 and the worms in your guts as well, as everybody old enough told us, where they had to use it after the war. The scientist tell us, that only after two years (!!!) of storing, it is safe to use, not before
Yeah, I know in rural areas of Nepal it's reported famers are using 3:1 water to urine.
Love it! Back to what we’re meant to be and do. Thanks for posting!! Nova Scotia, Canada
I've done 1 part water 1 part urine on test spots on my lawn and it has turned a deep green after a week or two. About as good as I've ever seen a store bought lawn fertilizer perform. I will try 8 to 1 to stretch It out and cover more of my lawn.
Thanks for sharing
How often did you apply?
I can't say enough great things about using pee in my garden. I started using it last year and was blown away by the results. I had amazing luck with tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, cucumbers and basil. My tomato plants were huge. I had one that was over 12 ft. tall. The peppers were around 3-4 ft. tall as well. I don't know if the pee has anything to do with it but I had very few problems with pests or diseases as well.
I bring all of my indoor plants outside for the summer and I use pee on them as well. I don't use it on them while they're inside the house!!
tomatoes love it
It doesn't burn the plants or lawn?
@@kokyk8018 no, not at all. I’ll mix 64 oz. of urine into 5 gallons of water and put on the plants.
@@bobbymcgovern nice I have a couple of gallons trying to age more before I feed my roses
Where I live, the high heat, lack of rain, and high winds make it hard to grow much.
I had a squash plant that looked nearly dead last month so I thought what the heck I’ll try urine on it it came back to life and is still producing squash. It works!
So you eat urine fed squash
This is how nature works
@@mentaltreats5783 I had tomato plants that were all dried up and dump a bucket of a mixture of urine and composted humanure within a couple of weeks it came back to life.
Ahah it’s either shit or piss. Or both
@ilikebacon uh it’s not clean and it can carry pathogens. Best to pasteurize it before using on food you grow to eat. I mean if it’s just you eating it then who cares I guess but if it’s others eating your home grown veg etc then gross if ya not doing some kind of sterilization method before applying you can spread pathogens on to the veg etc. That’s why ya don’t pour it directly onto the plant. Putting on the soil if sufficient. Or even better put it on a compost pile and then let it sit for a while until the compost is ready and you have a very nutritious compost for the plants and the pathogens usually die in the process of composting.
Back in 2012 I was renting a basement in a house and the bathroom was upstairs in the main house and it was weird going up at night to pee so I just peed in a gallon jug and then dumped it next to the tomatoes and it worked great.
Eating urine tomatoes
I just started doing this without really thinking about it. I generally pee in a glass bottle at night because my off grid cabin does not have a toilet and it's winter here now. I just decided a couple of days ago I might as well pour it in a watering can and dilute it to put on my plants. It will be interesting to see how my blueberry plants come along. After living in the bush for a year, peeing in a normal toilet doesn't even feel right anymore.
People have been doing this from way back when but you have done us a favour..thanks.
I use it for composting only. It's great for adding nitrogen to fall leaves to get quick compost instead of slow leaf mold.
Leaf mold is pretty good too
Something about this intrigues the hell out of me.
To those who have property with forest coverage. This is what you do! The Forrest floor is basically compost that has collected in the Forrest floor over millions or the last time it was logged. Get a shovel & scoop up everything on the forest floor. Dead leafs , grass , twigs etc & use the shovel to get the top layer of soil. That soil is not soil It’s compost basically however it needs some nitrogen. So once you have gathered barrels of Forrest floor, take your green grass cuttings and add to it. Also put 3-4 news papers in each barrel & a few cut up card board boxes. (NO COLORED OR GLOSSY PAPERS) if it has a finish on it do not use it. Now all you do is start throwing you veggie & fruit waste that you don’t eat in the barrels. Once you have this combo of stuff in your barrel you then need to dump a 5 gallon bucket of pee in it. Get a metal Rod or something to stir it. This will start a chemical reaction and it will break down in a few months. You don’t have to use a barrel , you can do it right on the ground in a pile. I recommend both. Use the barrels for pee , but also pour several gallons on the pile on the ground. The pile on the ground will break down faster because you will use a pitch fork and stir it and flip it every couple days. You will notice its really hot. When it starts breaking down it’s BECAUSE It’s alive! It will get 140-160 degrees sometimes if you have big piles. But the barrels that you filled with Forrest floor , newspapers and cardboard boxes + green grass cutting you will see go from 100% full to 30% full in a couple months. It breaks down that much. Once it’s done that it’s done. However I would then mix it with your compost pile on the ground as the barrel that was full of pee is full of potassium Nitrate. There is no urine left! It is perfectly safe. The urine is gone when this chemical reaction takes place. If you deer Hunt, trap etc throw you caucuses In your pile and burry them. If you do this you will want to build a small fence around your pile or the animals will dig it out & steal all that nutrients. We set a trap beside our compost pile & the Varmint that tried to steal our Carcasses becomes a carcass lol. The dead animals , fish etc will just make your compost on steroids x10. What I recommend with those who fish, when you clean your fish you want to put all the remains , guts, bones, scales it’s in mason jars or sealed buckets & leave it out in the sun. These you will want sealed with no holes. What your wanting here is it to turn into a black nasty sludge & it will after a few months of being in these containers. Use it as a weekly dose of HOLY COW look at it grow sauce. You get one of those attachments that go on a water hose that allow you to mix things with the water as it comes out. You fill it with this fish sludge & my god it’s the garden of eden.
the biggest tomatoes I ever grew was when we caught Sting rays & use the remains that you don’t eat & put them in a jar to rot. We then pours the sting Ray sludge into our top layer of compost and mixed it up. After planting our garden we then take their top layer and put it around the plants when they are a month or so into the veg process before they start to flower/fruit & you will see your garden explode. I wish I could
Upload photos to the comments, it grew squash & zucchini that were nearly two feet long and over 12 Inches around. Honestly they were too big. Had we known they would be so big we would of planted far less of them.
Also, your veggies that rot from falling on the ground, put them in your next years compost pile. It’s a never ending process of awesomeness. There is no reason to buy expensive miracle grow & compost is way better than MG. And it’s really cheap. In southern Missouri compost is so easy to make you can but an entire pickup truck load worth for $75. An entire truck bed for 75, and delivered for another $50. It would take hundreds of miracle grow bags to equal that and would cost you thousands. Happy gardening , don’t be scared of the pee
Awesome share!! Thanks mate!
Your pretty much explaining JLF and yes it works GREAT
Thank you
I’ve been doing similar work with my own outputs for more than 9 years now and you’re right on it’s a good feeling doing the right thing! What intelligent animal deliberately defalcates in their water supply 🤔
I pee on our compost piles. My wife hates it. Plants love it. Haha
Thank you for sharing your simple and effective method! You gave me a few ideas. Happy gardening.
Collecting urine and using urine as fertiliser is a great way to conserve and save our rivers and therefore environment.
You can also pump out and use septic tank water for plants and gardens
@@Robertjustice101 But you better know what kind of household cleansers and other chemicals are going down the drain into the tank.
I agree this because my grandma did this to her spring onions and it grows very health. But only morning urine with mix of water
@Ramsay Snow thats good idea..
@@CarmiElskerNorge why only morning urine?
the first elimination in the morn is the strongest but the other pee works
@Ramsay Snow did you even watch the video?
My grandfather use the Pee with water in the vegetable garden and fruit orchards and the fruits were so sweet. Amazing stuff
make sure you also pee the fruits just before eating for that pinch of salt
I'm happy that there will be or is going to be fertilizer shortages as most of that crap is synthetic and damages the soil for the most part.
*Some people swear this is the best fertilizer for some certain plants.. But dont tell anyone or they wont want to eat your vegetables*
That is exactly right. They (the university) call it the "yuck factor".
Ross Best i always sneak to the balcony to “fertilise” my soil never told my family what i am doing
@Furn333 You mean no better right :D
Well I’m sure some freaky people might really want my produce if they knew haha
This takes the annoyance out of having to stop whatever you’re doing to go pee.
I never heard of this but a friend told me that it saved people’s life when they had to drink it when they were at a place where there was no food or water. So I guess you got a point after all. Happy gardening ❤❤❤❤
The salt in urine makes it dangerous to drink in anything but small quantities. I could understand someone who is dehydrated using it to wet their lips to reduce the discomfort, but trying to depend on it for even a day is just going to make the situation worse. There's a reason your body is expelling this as waste in the first place. The best you can do in a survival situation is set up a solar still to separate the water content from the salts and to drink the distilled water.
Yes, a lot of people drink it as a recuperation. Amazing results with these people
Sooo... My area growing this year hasn't been so good. I made the joke to my wife, if i have to piss on the damn garden to make it grow it will!....then i found out..i should XD
I will stick with aged chicken poo from the coop. It works great to side dress the plants!
@@animalme537 Avian flu is worse than any human urine.
If we are okay and accepting of the idea of using cow and horse manure on the garden/compost, we can be okay with the idea of using humanurin and humanure on the garden/compost, just have to develop knowledge on how to use these waste products for the good of all :) Recycle, reuse, reuptake
Human feces is dangerous on crops that are to be consumed. Horses and cows have much different diets and digestion than humans.
Also works great on the compost pile to help break down the 'browns'.
yup
I just started doing thia with leaves...can you tell me how offen and how much to put on a wireed pile of 4 ft tall and 5 ft round....tkx!
urine is full of nitrogen and it's exceptionally great for the vegetation stage.
Yes my mom also used that and i learned from it that it’s working the plants grew and the flowers bloom also orchids continue to gave flowers.
I saw collection of human urine in the restrooms 40 years back in Korea.
Charlton Heston used to start his day by going out to the garden at his home at the top of Coldwater Canyon in Beverly Hills, peeing on his plants. He use to love to tell people about it and say how great his plants looked even in a drought. Hated his politics loved the man.
A agree the NRA hasten done enough to stop the erosion of the 2nd amendment. True, the leftys still hate the NRA, but my money is going to true patriots like Gun owners of America.
NO man should live where he cannot walkoutside his front door and pee in the morning in peace.
he was a really good guy for an arch conservative and his second amendment stance was awesome
JA D…hated his politics? Heston was a patriotic American! You must be one of them anti-American Libtards!
I'll have to wait until one of my plants has type II diabetes so it can take advantage of my medications.
No medications for sure!
My kin folk is from the mountains. Back in the day they did this also used it on wood chips to make compost mixed with manure. If ya don't have money your garden won't grow without inputs. add some wood ash it will make it even better
yup
Pee cured my skin condition
This is why the forest is so lush and green thanks to animal poop and urine
Wonderful location & garden! Had no idea Minneapolis had rural areas like yours. I've experimented with diluted urine, haven't used it on my food crops 'yet' but I've used it on ornamentals they are soooo green & healthy! Fantastic to have a FREE fertilizer we can always count on having, no matter how unavailable or expensive purchased resources could become! *As long as the human urine used is medication free {meaning that urine from people taking medication should not be used.}
The evil spirit of george fentanyl floyd roams the mountains of Minneapolis.
Nice concept.i love this
Thanks so much for the 1:8 ratio formula.
Very valuable info for my off grid trees/shrubs.
yup
I have been using urine on my flower garden for 3 years and the deep greens and vibrant colors are amazing. In my further research I read multiple books and learned urine is even more effective on human beings as a food, cure-all medicine, and soap. It has been such a pleasant surprise. Look into it.
Hey Mark, I've a question. Please reply if possible. If a 9 year old urinates on plant once and you don't dilute it, would it hurt that plant? It'd really help me, thanks.
@@deepak842009 need more details, what kind of plant, ground or pot etc. But most likely one time no. A 9 year old doesn't have a large bladder.
"urine is even more effective on human beings as a food, cure-all medicine, and soap"
It is none of these things. The first two are outright lies and downright dangerous. The third might be confusion arising from when laundries used urine as a bleaching agent, often before soap was available (this is how the Romans kept their linen togas white, for example, with laundries usually having buckets outside their doors for passers-by to contribute to).
Just because you read something in multiple books doesn't make it true. There's an entire market of gullible people out there, people who aren't necessarily stupid but have just forgotten much of what they learned at school, ripe for exploitation by cynical authors and publishers willing to churn out anything which will sell. Please don't fall for it. Please don't kill yourself by drinking urine rather than seeing a doctor.
Thank you! This is one of the most helpful videos I’ve found on the topic. I’m wondering how often you use pee tea on your plants… every time you water?
You have to mix pee with wood ash. They are both full of soil nutrients, but the one is too acidic and the other is too basic. Mix together, and you are cooking with gas.
Ive seen people try both just urine and a mix of urine and ashwood.....
The just urine plant did better....but that was tamatos.
@@screamingwarhog tomatoes are like negros, can withstand anything harsh.
Brilliant!
I've been using urine for a few yrs now after hearing about it on some off grid tv series. It works great.
Amazing .....an excellent presentation..thank you,Sir🇨🇦
Be careful with the pee if you are taking certain medications.
Especially don't use pee if you are on antibiotics.
Or if you have an infection.
You can also help convert char into biochar with pee.
Use on trees
Tree seedlings
SHRUBS
FLOWERS
I never use any thing on veggies
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@@usasiamission62 Clean human urine is sterile and the components are bioavailable (means does not need to be converted for plants to use the benefits).
Just dilute 10 parts water to one part pee, water normally.
How do with biochar? Just add and bake?
@@Lattojosh1018 If you made the charcoal, just pee on it.
Stir, then mix into the top few inches of soil.
In winter, no need to mix with water.
Snow/rain will do the work for you by spring time.
If you do not know how to make biochar, there are many many videos on how to do it.
Or you can just buy it premade.
@@crazysquirrel9425 nice! Thanks, I made some charcoal and threw some plant tone in yesterday, same concept?
Fun fact in ancient Japan 🇯🇵 they had people who went around collecting pee to use to grow food. This is part of the reason Japan was super clean back then. Had pee buckets everywhere. People would sell their pee and at times poop.
The people who collected "night soil", were classed as burakumin, or "untouchables".
I have a 5 litre container I piss in, been doing it for a decade, saves water for flushing, though my flush water is rain water harvested fed by gravity.
That's what I call a Golden Shower
Ancient wisdom never fails, great topic
Bollocks. Try praying to the volcano god for your cancer to be cured, and see how far that gets you. Or try drinking mercury to cure toothache.
It works really good on tomatoes. I use it.
Free fertiliser! In Sweden it's called Golden Water.
I think this is a great idea but be aware you pass small amounts of medications through your urine. If you’ve been avoiding sugar though you’re probably not taking any medications.
Not on any medication.
Medication is in minute amounts and the rest of it usually decomposes in the soil.
@@brianfitch5469 That depends entirely on what the medication is.
Some are simply not decomposing like we were lead to believe they would--Prozac being a prime example. Give it a googling.
EXCELLENT!
When he pick up that container in the pee tea bucket, without gloves on , I nearly burst I was laughing so much 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Urine is sterile though. If you get a jelly fish sting, if you put urine over it, it takes the sting out.
How about using my diabetic hubbys urine to kill weeds against the house outside?
Yeah, we couldn't help but imagine it splashing out all over him as he walked down that hill. Why not put a lid on those buckets? But better yet, just run another hose or two down to the garden and into a 55 gal drum down there. If I'd been doing that as long as he says he has, I sure would have come up with an improved system by now.
@@blackbirdflyntolight Urine is sterile. And has many positive health benefits for use on the body, including topically. No reason to be scared of touching it.
@@sourcecreator2222 Did I say I was scared of touching it? I don't recall that, just thought there was a better way of transporting it. Actually we saved our pee and used it in our garden all summer, diluted of course. Took it to the garden on a daily basis in a plastic 1 gal vinegar jug, transferred it into a 5 gal bucket with a spigot for diluting in the garden.
I pee in the sink .i haven't been flushing for 7 yrs. I've saved water.
If you haven't flushed in 7 yrs what about poop or do you use public restrooms for that
Jonathan Moreno not worth it
Truly You are a God amongst Men.
Hope you take the dishes out first. 🤓
@@gratefullygrateful3591 You use a 5 gallion bucket with sawdust each time you poop or pee cover with more sawdust. When the bucket gets full take it out to your compost bin. You let it sit and cook down for 1-2 years in a hot compost to let pathogens die off.
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I was sold on this urine as fertilizer idea… until he started watering the LEAVES of the plant. I had it in my mind that I ONLY apply the pee tea on the dirt.
That’s how I’ll get over the gross factor.
If you were to put those leaves for sale and I knew they were soaked in pee, I can tell you right now I wouldn’t buy any.
This is coming from a guy who deals with pee every working day, as a lab tech.
I wouldn't put it on leaves that would be eaten.
It is apparently good on leaves you are not going to eat (so no, do not put it on lettuce!) especially if the soil is sandy, because leaves can absorb nutrients but when soil is sandy the nutrients drain away too much.
Brainwashing will never end until it stops. You rinse off your vegetables before eating them yes ?
@@cheriebanks1434
Definitely wash my vegetables and fruit. But that doesn’t wash off the icky thoughts. The same applies to eating out of a used, but disinfected bedpan.
Not sure what you mean by brainwash, but okay.
A lot of people are grossed out at the thought that a person is collecting their urine, but...a whole days pee is enough to feed plants for a month.. even when it ferments, it just stinks, as long as the nitrogen doesn't off gas and the pee is kept in an airtight bottle, it is still safe to use. It is very potent stuff. You can throw in dead leaves into a tumbler, and without pee it will take a year to break down. Throw on some undiluted pee one every other day for a couple of weeks and that pile of leaves will be ready to use as compost in as little as a month.
It's the future for Us all. Nature is Perfect. Water is Life and has memory... Why would We pee and deficate in it?
"Nature is Perfect. Water is Life and has memory..."
So full of life that you can drown in two inches of water, and so perfect that saltwater fish can't survive for long in freshwater while freshwater fish can't survive in saltwater.
I don't know what world you live in, but if you go around acting like nature is perfect then you won't stay alive for long. And the water won't remember you at all.
Thanks, I enjoyed.
I been doing the daggone thing, recycling from all sides & both ends. I’m doing both with nothing more than a bucket for “night soil” and an ice cream container quartz or 1/2 gallon size and bottle(s). It’s going to my whole yard eventually. Just garden and next years new portion getting prepared now, haha. (That can get straight urine in the trough of green scraps that will get covered up..then leaves to take and compost and some I will burn, most I won’t.)
That was a great video thanks for that :)
I too pee in a milk jug to make free fertilizer for my back yard garden. Truth be told sometimes I pee directly on the plants 🌱
Thank you for this video I started doing this last year to see if it worked and I was so happy 😄 to see my plants were bigger and produced more God bless you and your family 👪
How often ?
So might sale some or trade some at the farmers market .
Thanks for teaching,Sir
Thanks for the tip on the weeds! I really needed a natural weed killer! How does the pee work on trees and how often do you apply it? Thanks!
boiling water kicks ass on weeds
pee straight on plants will kill them
@@MrGOTAMA420wouldn’t think boiling water would be good for beneficial microbes and worms.
I add dolomite soaked with urine aswell. Soaking the dolomite and turning it into a paste makes it mix up better and it does stop the urine smell within 12 hours. Alternate with a mycrohhzoa mollases mixture and Bob's your Uncle.
As long as the person is healthy and has no Venereal disease
the sun takes care of that
Nice :)
Completely ok. Urine is sterile 99% of the time, has no bacteria, mouth and hands have more bacteria than regulat urine. Urine has tons of Nitrogen, K, Phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, is acidic as well. I just need a guidance re recommended dilution?, I know it has to be diluted some?. Planning to use on bushes outside and oranges trees, I dont have vegetables.
Most common recommended dilution ration seems to be 10 parts water to one part urine.
@ 1:39 and every time you neared the urine...Sounds like a Geiger Meter was set off...lol Those fruits and veggies gonna be some superfoods!
Nice invention dats waste management its great
Golden water...greet from Nigeria .
I'd like to see a trial done with different urine dilution ratios. It's hard to find a source for the ratios often quoted online.
Great for activating biochar. Just one two no mixing and make sure your char is crushed or pulverized. You then add to your compost or soil. Keep in mind its super hot and can burn the roots; sparingly applied. The same with chicken manure, don't bury it.
Great tip!
I gotta try this 😀
For men a liquid laundry detergent jug with the pour spout removed is a good container to pee in. Just pull on the pour spout with pliers and it will come out leaving a large opening and threaded for replacing the cap.
I do the same.
The cap on laundry detergent jugs are not air tight. It's better to use jugs from windshield washer fluid, the opening is smaller but you can always use a funnel.
Hi, can you please clarify the dilution ratio? Many resources say 10:1 for base watering and 20:1 for foliar feeding. Yours is 8:1. Thanks so much!
There are no hard and fast rules to mixing. 8:1 is what I saw somewhere along the way and it has worked fine. 10:1 may be worth trying and it will make the pee go further. Foliar feeding probably should be more dilute. I don't do a lot of that because I don't use a sprayer. just keep using it because it works and it is free.
AWESOME....thanks.
Question: Is this your only plant fertilizer?
Invite friends over for salad and play this video while they eat. jk. Valuable info.
Great idea!
Thanks for the laugh. We use this method. Two years now. I feel awful if we are shopping and need to use a restroom. Good pee wasted. Ideas??
Ok, that's it. I'm buying buckets.
I make several things and mix. I do pee, worm casting tea, and collect weeds I gather into a bucket and let rainwater be on that to ferment for a week, mix a bit of all this together in the end and put into 2ltr bottles to store. I also buy SuperThrive as well for extra vitamins. Works beautifully.
Good for you. That's way more ambitious than what I do.
Thanks for showing us not just tellibng us👍
I'm storing urine and wood ash together in a conteiner to use later. I wonder if it works with drip irrigation. Have you tried that or should I use your technique? Some other videos suggest only to irrigate the soil not the leaves. Good day!
I would think urine and wood ash together would clog up drip irrigation. Mostly I am using it on individual plants so I just hit the soil around the plant. If I am fertilizing a bed where the plants are closer together I will use a sprinkler head.
You actually pour it right on the leaves?! I would have thought just in the soil.
If you pour on the leaves, the plant is able to absorb nutrients a lot quicker than say if you were to fertilize the soil, you have to wait a bit to see results. This is good for people that may have really sandy soil, just water the leaves and they will absorb a ton of nutrients that way :) Just make sure its not too strong of a concentration of course!
@@allanpotocki5972 Plants also absorb nutrients very quickly in the morning AM hours. Best time to use this.
I was gathering dry Pine needles for mulch - and I found the area near the path had nitrates! Dog pee . I got an incredible amount of nitrates - currently in some barrels turning to Tea - and over a To Be Potato Patch. I wanna mention Lasagna Gardening - by gathering Weeds or more easy - gathering large weeds of the same variety to make a layer - then dead leaves or a brown layer - dirt if need be - then green then brown - you can create a Mound - I like using Bricks so I can form down the mound the loose pine needles - it will shrink over time and the potato sprout you put in will turn to a mound of potato - great for small space. I ain't done it but you could catch a lot of sunlight on a big Mound
How did you detect those nitrates in the pine needles? Got a good test kit of some sort? Model/brand you recommend?
@@seattledanr5363 Nope Dogs Pissed there. They just had a white crystal formed under a layer of pine needles - few feet wide long as the road
Also human manure aka shit is amazing for growing plants of all sort but Tomatoes 🍅 and other veggies and my fav is Cannabis she loves human shit 👌
That's what I wanted to know! Nutes are crazy expensive, and money is low. Thanks and Happy Harvest, growmie!
@@tommymcweedface229 You should give it a try my girls are going insane, the strain I got said medium sized and the plant is just about 13feet tall and is as bushy as a appletree🍏 and the tricombs and terps are like snow and frosty❄
Straight pee will rapidly kill moss that is on walks.
That's why my mother didn't get upset when my brother pee-peed in our fields lol
What's really gross is reusing the water for drinking, which is what every city does in USA, the also add chlorine and flouride
Just to make sure, that was straight water at the end, right?
Pee has salt. Over time it can be a problem. I do not discourage its occasional use but be careful using it too often.
Commercial fertilizer has a lot of salt as well.
I have to ask this having done a word-search for "control": did you give the equivalent quantity of water to your control plant? I am not a doubter, I've been recycling solid (easy) and liquid (difficult) human waste for 35 years on the farm where I live. [EDIT] I've read you can overdo the N on pee alone, mix 10g woodash per litre pee tea is one recommendation online, to balance the P and K.
How often do you use the peealizer?
Does it matter how old the pee is? I have read that the ammonia build up from aged pee could cause problems, have you had any problems with this? Thank you
Shouldn't be any problem. You still dillute it with water before watering your plants. Saw one video on youtube that ammonia can kickstart your compost. Cheers
When diluting pee, I use the so called "nitrogen tea" made with grass cuts + water that stands in a tank for 3 - 4 days. Sometimes, I add water with Epson salt that I use to soak my feet... Proportion? One part of urine + 2 parts of nitrogen tea + 5 to 7 parts of rain water. I use this on my fruit trees (prune and apple trees) when they start awakening to let them store nutrients... And I continue every 2 - 3 weeks after, especially after a rain, so the soil is wet and I can use less of that mixture. There's always a shortage of it, because I can 'produce' only a limited amount of urine... :) Results? - Amaizing! A small plum tree (of a classic Italian variety that sits in my orchard for 4 years) produced 2 buckets of the sweetest prunes last year. Since I have 3 such plum trees, I had to give out a half of my harvest and used the second part to make prune jam.
@@bristonknight9315 Yes!!!! This is amazing! I've seen similar results. Definitely going to try that ''tea'' recipe.
@Briston Knight Prune pie or prune bars are my fav. My mom dries prunes, and when she's going to make a pie she rehydrates the prunes by boiling, then takes the seeds out, adds sugar and ground cloves for the filling. Yum....just don't eat too much at one sitting. Hehehe
How often do you fertilize the same plant?