So lemme get this right. You didn't test for any nutrients but make the claim there's no nutrients. So your word against mine I guess? I have my plants on a timed watering cycle and they get the same amount of water every day. So they aren't under watered. I always thought this was BS but gave it a try adding peels to the container my watering system feeds from and absolutely noticed a difference in about a week. Especially in my pepper plants. So having 1 variable change, the bananna peel water verses the regular spring water I normally use, did infact yield me a result. I've only done this once so it's by no means a scientific study but when 10 plants explode a weeks time. That to me is showing a significant advantage over just plain watering.
Exactly. I watched this entire video looking for contrary EVIDENCE or the actual testing of the water. So at the very least our plants just receive water but I too have seen slight differences in growth as a result. I'm a newbie so I test it all out simply because I don't know.
I'm my personal experience. i got basil from eating pho if anyone knows what that is they give you a side of basil. i took one stem home to grow it's root and put it in indirect sunlight on a bottle with water. then i took fresh bannana with warm water and blend it up with my blend tech cover the lid for a week or 2. i can't remember but then I would pour a shot of it every week to my basil plant. not only was it thriving it also grew flowers and it dropped seeds. at first I wasn't familiar with the seeds dropping and wondered where these specs of dirt were coming from. I was excited of what I learned. i can definitely say it works
It's like a stomach. Sure you can swallow chunks of food but that makes digestion harder. You can chew it up fine to get the most out of it. Of course it's part of the process. If you are using living soil to grow, this material is being used to feed the soil microbes not the plant, the microbes break it down then worms or fungi make it bioavailable to the plants. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Also I believe making a tea from banana peels is beneficial because bacteria are growing in the water. The water usually has a bubbler that provides oxygen which in turn keeps beneficial bacteria alive. Oxygen also helps break down the material. When you use the tea you are giving it bacteria and nutrients from the broken down matter. I'd be interested to see lab tested nute content for different techniques. I personally prefer to chop up the peel and bury next to plant or use as a mulch. Sure if you are intending to replace mineral ferts with the solution, I understand it wont result as intended but most people doing this are applying to living soil as an innoculant or repopulating technique.
I find it weird that someone will attempt to debunk a practice with no analytical data. I’ve made banana tea for my plants with a banana peel that was fresh from the market (yellow) and one that encased a banana ready for banana bread (black)…IYKYK. The tea made with the yellow peel sat in a glass jar in direct heat and sun for about two weeks. The appearance of the peel did not change much. I tested the solution on a flowering outdoor plant that had two flowers. Within two or three days the plant had a significant/noticeable amount of flowers. The tea with the black peel sat in a glass jar for about a week in indirect sunlight and some heat. When I opened the jar I had to do it slowly as the experience was similar to opening a shaken pop/soda can. I’m not a professional scientist but I know a chemical reaction when I see one. I just tested this solution on my cucumber plants. If banana tea isn’t a thing then I guess my cucumbers will be alright (sarcastically saying)
I love to hear all sides of the story and use critical thinking, logic, wisdom, common sense and do empirical experimentations! I appreciate hearing this point of view! It sure does resonate with good old common sense!!!
Banana peel contain potassium , calcium and magnesium which all necessary nutrients fruit plants need to grow and infact , it is even more advised than chemical or inorganic fertilizer, to use this fertilizer you just need to sock a banana peel or two in water for 7 day and then dilute it with a lot of water or add it to your soil or compost pile and it is accessible to all or you can boil it and add to water
Yeah they have mate!! Just because you didn’t see it. It came out at 2100 ppm using water from the mountain side. That’s perfectly clean and super clean low ppms. I think it definitely enhances your plants life
Makes sense. With weeds, within a week the weeds starts to break down in water and starts to become sloppy and stinky. Eventually you will see those weeds dissappear and completely broken down in that water within weeks. So it makes sense when you say that the banana peel did not decompose in the water and then people already want to use it as fertilizer.
Use them in the compost where they are most useful! 😊 Having said this, did bury a couple of dried out peels last year with one tomato plant and there was a difference.
I’ve shredded the banana peels, added 80c water to the bananas in a sealed bucket and left to start to ferment and added fresh aloe juice to the mixture and leave another 24 hours and start using that in diluted mixture for plants and fruits in tubs. I’ve compared using the mixture on several plants and fruits and also compares to using water only and there is a very noticeable difference in plant strength, root maturity and thickness (which I believe is a core element most people neglect?) in turn allowing more water and nutrients to be shuttled and leading to greater results There are elements to consider with anything fermented as well and potential impacts on different soil types and plants. Bacteria can be good and very bad and using fresher batches should mitigate that. I’ve had amazing results using my own chicken bone meal, dry brown onion 🧅 skins, egg shells ground up, aloe Vera with all being free and recycled wastes many throw out. Don’t you just love nature 😊
It does work somewhat, but its very slow and inefficient when you just stuff a fresh peel in the jar. Best to dehydrate several of them and grind it into a powder, then put it in a jar with water, shake it up, and let it sit in the fridge for a while.
I’ve never used the tea. I’ve sun dried, turned it into a a powder, and tested it before with the rapitest. The k is really high. It still smells like banana in powder form.
I just boiled a diced peel in a quart of water for 30 min. Water is quite dark and tested at 1700 ppm of ionic content which is high, but I don't have proof of the NPK. Boiling the peels breaks the cell walls and allows the nutrients to leak out, with the ionic contents ready to absorbed by the roots.
Good to see a rigorous scientific discussion of banana peel (bp) fertilizer. Would be great to actually test the bp-water for K+ by a lab, or using an aquarium or urine home K+ test kit. Also, drying the peels before use should cause cell rupture and release K+, right? Or, feed bp's to worms and let them do the work of releasing the K+ and PO4 for garden use.
Here's what I do with my banana peels: They get thrown in the scrap bucket along with all the other kitchen waste, from whence they make their way to the outdoor compost bin. There's nothing so special about a banana peel that distinguishes it from other kitchen waste and justifies additional or different processing. If I wanted the nutrients to be available to plants sooner, I would bury the scraps in the garden directly and let them compost in the ground, but I would prefer not to have animals digging up scraps in the garden.
I don’t know who to believe anymore 😩 I just watched a video of a guy who made banana peel liquid fertilizer and he was talking about how much it helps your plants and explained all the different ways it helps them and talked about all the nutrients in it. And his plants really looked great! 🤷🏻♀️
What if the banana peels are boiled in the water then then boiled water is added on the soil along with the peels . After cooling of course 😎 ( i am sure if you boiled a human being some nutrients would come out of it into the water ) ❤
Throw the hole Peel in the soil, attracts microbial diversity and the calcium in the peel also increases absorption of nitrogen not to mention trace elements of sulfur manganese and magnesium
I can tell with my eyes my flowers get a boost every time i do this. You did not put that in 3-4 days ago. I cut mine into tiny squares and put them in a gallon of hot water. Also i put fish fertilizer and earth worm castings to get some microbes to break down that potassium . When i take them out theyre a light brown and all the soft shit on the inside is completely off
I feel there are nutrients throughout the banana and the peel. Once soaked in water nutrients will leach into the water almost right away. How many nutrients idk. I do know the discoloration of the water is caused by nutrients going into the water. You don't boil beans for 3 days so this gives more time for nutes to be leached out of the banana and into the water. I feel this tea is more effective than water because people have been using it for decades. The response rate for potassium intake has been proven by many people. If you have a potassium problem and you use this tea, it works and many, many growers for 80 years have sworn that it works on their potassium problems and have seen their plants improve with this deficiency.
To say "nobody has ever tested this water" shows a general lack of research done, regarding research done on the effects of banana peel water as fertilizer. There are studies that have been completed, with full abstracts, details, experiment groups, conclusions, and cited sources. A quick google will return said research papers.
Reader's Digest's article says that banana peel won't release nutrients quickly as some people say. There isn't any scientific studies that indicates the banana peel water contains enough nutrients. The article says that blending, boiling banana peel process may release nutrients.
leave them long enough and the sugar in banana peel will ferment releasing all nutrients into the brew. It’s called organic fertiliser and it has been done for millennia by farmers across the globe. This guy has no idea what he’s talking about.
so u say no one tested it to prove it has nutrients. u say it doesn't have nutrients yet u didn't test it either.! so your opinion is no more educated than the other peoples opinions. and it looks like someone did test it because they follow actual science not just spout words. it turns out the npk of dry banana peel is: N 0.6, P 0.4, k 11.5. according to this person who tested it the fresh peels are 1/5 the nutrition of the dry. now , they did not say how they tested it, or what they used to test it. but at least they actually tried to follow the science.
I’m all about “show me the proof🧐”, “show me some science”, “state your case”! I’m not big on fads, viral hive mind following, trends, or unproven claims. At least this guy comes with intelligence, science🤓, and a compelling argument encouraging us to simply use common sense! 🤔 It’s imperative to question EVERYTHING!!!
What happens if it is immersed in water for long days? Will it release nutrients to immersed water.Many suggest rice water, Dal water are they making us fool
Add boiling water not just norman water it breaks it down differently It’s just common sense bro the wager soaks up the nutrients the potassium ext and you can transfer it to the plants it’s free to do and has worked for a long time no point trying to debunk it so hard lol.. it’s free and easy for anyone to try if it makes them feel better so be it
I can understand where you're coming from, but by your scientific explanation teas should not have any health benefits either, but they do. Perhaps it's your method of soaking the banana peel that's not producing any results in YOUR experiment. How about boiling or soaking the banana peels in hot water like tea leaves are soaked? Wouldn't that produce a different result?
@@Gardenfundamentals1 I brew beer. Where we steep the grains for at least a hr at a set temperature to release the starches. Just steeping grains at say room temp water won't release much if any. Even then you'd need to grind up the grains. That's why we either buy them as such, or do our own grinding of the grains at home. That way they are cheaper to buy in, and you have more control over the blend of grains used for the wort. Spent grains from brewing beer are pretty good for composting. So I'd say steeped rice would be better used in the compost, than for any supposed goodness in the water itself.
Thank you for your info. I think it is a little good for plant😄, water must contain some part of banana peel, plants maybe can absorb their nutrition after several months, maybe can grow more earthworms...
I've been growing plants for a long time. And yes banana does give magnesium and potassium into the water. You can't rely only on banana water or they will become deficant. But yes your grandma was right. Makes plants grow healthier than without.
I have one of the worst systemic fungal infections anyone could ever imagine. Banana peels have worked better than ANY fungal medication I have taken. Both on my skin and internally, with some cinnamon and thyme. Do your research on bioactivity of banana peels
You're both right and wrong. The way you did the banana water would result in just colored water with maybe some floating bits. You need to scrape off the inner membrane and blend it with water. You don't need to let it sit. It's not going to get better with age like wine. It's not magic. It's not a fertilizer. It's simply carbs. Some sugars and starches. If you already have a healthy soil and you pour this sugar/carb brew in there, it will cause a big bloom in microbes that actually do the work of fertilizing your plant.
If there was anything worthwhile in that water, then all you'd need a year is a handful of banana peels to feed a garden. Have you seen anybody promoting peels do an accurate NPK test? You'd be better off just using urine in the watering can.
@@Gardenfundamentals1 before you make a scientific video trying to debunk this maybe you should invest in the information yourself, how can trace levels of potassium be bad to incorporate into your soil
@@Gardenfundamentals1 Regular watering can work wonders. If banana water works, that's why. Same with any other myth like this. People pay more attention to their watering. You could tell people to soak a magic rock. Then give them the standard watering rules they should already know. And they would see improvements. I see tomatoes range everything from bone dry to standing in 4" of stagnant water on the allotments site each year.
I tried it on some calla lilies one year. My daughter said they didn't look real hahaha, that's how poorly they were doing before. They are under the eaves, so receive minimal rainwater and we were in drought here (australia) at that time.
To me this is a strawman argument, putting whole banana peels in cold water is unlikely to cause leaching of nutrients so the video is mostly correct regarding this, but why attempt to make the fertilizer this way so you can debunk it? The cell walls of the peel need to be ruptured first (alluded to in the video). I cut up the peel in little pieces, simmered it in water for an hour and tested it with a TDS meter. The reading was approximately 1500 ppm which is perhaps too high to be applied directly to your plants, IDK. Since the meter measures ionic content, I would expect that that it would be directly absorbed by roots without needing to be broken down by microorganisms.
You say without analysing the water to see what's in it, "you don't know if it's a good fertiliser." 1) That is a false statement - you could find out by testing it against normal water on 2 batches of plants. 2) Your whole video is claiming it ISN'T any good, even though you didn't test it so according to you you CAN'T know whether it's good or not! This seems rather silly! Also, personally I have not seen anyone recommending leaving fresh banana peel in cold water for "3 or 4 days" as you have done. I have seen people recommend boiling banana skins in water, which indeed would break down the cell walls and put a lot of soluble minerals into the water. I have also seen people drying the peel then grinding it into power, which also would make the soluble nutrients available both to dissolving in water and also in general to the microorganisms in the soil. I don't know how well either of those work, but they're both categorically different to your 'method' and besides, you seem to have made no effort even regarding your 'method', to go any further than your preconception. Your preconception may or may not be correct, by YOUR OWN standards, without analysis, you're talking about something you don't know. And while you might be unwilling to pay for a test (but still willing to make a video casting yourself as an authority on this matter!), you didn't even bother doing a simple practical test, which would be better anyway than any composition analysis since it is not the composition people are actually mainly interested in - they're interested in the effect on plants, so better to measure that! I do like some of your videos by the way. But this one was illogical.
Pay to have it tested yourself, and share your results. You could also donate the money for Robert to have it tested. Or do you think Robert should be forking out cash on a regular basis just to keep you from posting rants?
@@theressomelovelyfilthdownh4329 You have completely ignored every single point I made. What's the point in replying to a comment in that way? Your comment is only negative, with no substance or logic to actually address the points I made.
Not true! We understand the chemical processes of decomposition - they require the peel to be decomposed to release the nutrients. Skins can't release nutrients without decomposing.
Again you too didn’t test or analyze the banana peel water like the others as you said and give the proof about the banana peel fertilizer but you admitted that some potassium may be in the water.
Silly old man. You need to cut it up, put it in a Gallon water container and fill it up with water. Put in a dark place for 24 hours and use it as soon as possible.Where do you think the Amazon is so green not because of the water alone. There's no one to give it fertilizer
For someone, especially who is a Doctor to argue against a process without doing any controlled tests or analytical data to back his information up is kind of contradicting his scientific jargon and appears amateurish to me.
*Says nobody has ever tested the nutrient content of water after infusing banana peels in it for a few days, therefore there's no proof that it works.* *Proceeds to say it doesn't work without bringing any proof either.* This is exactly what I don't like about your channel, you're so keen on busting gardening myths, yet you don't bring anything of substance to the conversation and your methods are so laughably flawed that I won't even get into it. If you wanted to be relevant, you'd have run some tests on your banana peel water and shared the results with us. What you're doing is anti-scientific and you don't seem to recognize that you're guilty of making exactly the same mistakes than what the people saying these methods work are doing. Besides that point, your bath analogy is downright wrong. The reason why we don't dissolve in bathwater is because we're still alive. Try leaving a corpse in bathwater for a few days and it'll start infusing and will probably become broth after only a few weeks. If you really wanted to give any of these myths a chance, you would have tried multiple infusions, for example: 3 days, 3 weeks and 3 months, hot water infusion, etc. and then compare the results on them. You could also have touched on the NPK content of banana peels which is 0.6-0.4-11.5 (dried peels) instead and what would be the alternative to make these nutrients available to your plants (fair enough, you touched on compost) but I think that with the audience that this is aimed towards, you should be more clear about it and say: ''Don't waste your time with banana peel tea and do this instead''. I'm holding people on the Internet to a much higher standard than you seem to be holding yourself, yet you claim to have a science background and don't seem to understand the first thing about the scientific method so you need to be called out on your poor methods because you do have a responsibility to back your claims if you want to be taken seriously.
All those words and yet no evidence to prove anything you said which is pretty damn ironic. If you could leave a dead body in bathwater for a few days and turn it to broth you wouldn't see serial killers using barrels of acid right? Where is your scientific method, all I see is a youtube comment that brings zero substance to the conversation.
. _ . Yikes... this is what happens when you get mad rather than watch the entire video and realize every single point you were going to make is mute before making it.
Here is the analysis of banana peels - but that is not the analysis of the water. www.gardenmyths.com/banana-peels-garden/ I guess you don't strive for high standards either? You did not provide any evidence of what you said.
So lemme get this right. You didn't test for any nutrients but make the claim there's no nutrients. So your word against mine I guess? I have my plants on a timed watering cycle and they get the same amount of water every day. So they aren't under watered. I always thought this was BS but gave it a try adding peels to the container my watering system feeds from and absolutely noticed a difference in about a week. Especially in my pepper plants. So having 1 variable change, the bananna peel water verses the regular spring water I normally use, did infact yield me a result. I've only done this once so it's by no means a scientific study but when 10 plants explode a weeks time. That to me is showing a significant advantage over just plain watering.
Exactly. I watched this entire video looking for contrary EVIDENCE or the actual testing of the water. So at the very least our plants just receive water but I too have seen slight differences in growth as a result. I'm a newbie so I test it all out simply because I don't know.
Dried banana peels:
N: 0.6
P: 0.4
K: 11.5
this 👆👆👆
I'm my personal experience. i got basil from eating pho if anyone knows what that is they give you a side of basil. i took one stem home to grow it's root and put it in indirect sunlight on a bottle with water. then i took fresh bannana with warm water and blend it up with my blend tech cover the lid for a week or 2. i can't remember but then I would pour a shot of it every week to my basil plant. not only was it thriving it also grew flowers and it dropped seeds. at first I wasn't familiar with the seeds dropping and wondered where these specs of dirt were coming from. I was excited of what I learned. i can definitely say it works
I chop the banana peel real fine and put it in the soil and then it decomposes on its own and the nutrients get released slowly and steadily
Great idea
It's like a stomach. Sure you can swallow chunks of food but that makes digestion harder. You can chew it up fine to get the most out of it.
Of course it's part of the process. If you are using living soil to grow, this material is being used to feed the soil microbes not the plant, the microbes break it down then worms or fungi make it bioavailable to the plants.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Also I believe making a tea from banana peels is beneficial because bacteria are growing in the water. The water usually has a bubbler that provides oxygen which in turn keeps beneficial bacteria alive. Oxygen also helps break down the material. When you use the tea you are giving it bacteria and nutrients from the broken down matter.
I'd be interested to see lab tested nute content for different techniques. I personally prefer to chop up the peel and bury next to plant or use as a mulch.
Sure if you are intending to replace mineral ferts with the solution, I understand it wont result as intended but most people doing this are applying to living soil as an innoculant
or repopulating technique.
How about drying it and pulverizing it? You could then apply it as a dry powder for a long feed or mix it with water for quicker realese?
I find it weird that someone will attempt to debunk a practice with no analytical data. I’ve made banana tea for my plants with a banana peel that was fresh from the market (yellow) and one that encased a banana ready for banana bread (black)…IYKYK. The tea made with the yellow peel sat in a glass jar in direct heat and sun for about two weeks. The appearance of the peel did not change much. I tested the solution on a flowering outdoor plant that had two flowers. Within two or three days the plant had a significant/noticeable amount of flowers. The tea with the black peel sat in a glass jar for about a week in indirect sunlight and some heat. When I opened the jar I had to do it slowly as the experience was similar to opening a shaken pop/soda can. I’m not a professional scientist but I know a chemical reaction when I see one. I just tested this solution on my cucumber plants. If banana tea isn’t a thing then I guess my cucumbers will be alright (sarcastically saying)
I love to hear all sides of the story and use critical thinking, logic, wisdom, common sense and do empirical experimentations! I appreciate hearing this point of view! It sure does resonate with good old common sense!!!
Banana peel contain potassium , calcium and magnesium which all necessary nutrients fruit plants need to grow and infact , it is even more advised than chemical or inorganic fertilizer, to use this fertilizer you just need to sock a banana peel or two in water for 7 day and then dilute it with a lot of water or add it to your soil or compost pile and it is accessible to all or you can boil it and add to water
Yeah they have mate!! Just because you didn’t see it. It came out at 2100 ppm using water from the mountain side. That’s perfectly clean and super clean low ppms. I think it definitely enhances your plants life
I did the same and the ppm was about the same,,over 2000 ppms
If you cannot test the water to tell us if it possesses NPK or not I refuse to believe you.
Did he force you? You should air your view with manners next time.
For me it works. I compared it to the one I didn't use banana peels on. It's was pumpkin and I got plenty healthy pumpkin
Makes sense. With weeds, within a week the weeds starts to break down in water and starts to become sloppy and stinky. Eventually you will see those weeds dissappear and completely broken down in that water within weeks. So it makes sense when you say that the banana peel did not decompose in the water and then people already want to use it as fertilizer.
Use them in the compost where they are most useful! 😊
Having said this, did bury a couple of dried out peels last year with one tomato plant and there was a difference.
I’ve shredded the banana peels, added 80c water to the bananas in a sealed bucket and left to start to ferment and added fresh aloe juice to the mixture and leave another 24 hours and start using that in diluted mixture for plants and fruits in tubs. I’ve compared using the mixture on several plants and fruits and also compares to using water only and there is a very noticeable difference in plant strength, root maturity and thickness (which I believe is a core element most people neglect?) in turn allowing more water and nutrients to be shuttled and leading to greater results
There are elements to consider with anything fermented as well and potential impacts on different soil types and plants. Bacteria can be good and very bad and using fresher batches should mitigate that.
I’ve had amazing results using my own chicken bone meal, dry brown onion 🧅 skins, egg shells ground up, aloe Vera with all being free and recycled wastes many throw out.
Don’t you just love nature 😊
Hi, where did you get all this information? I would love to try them all but I don't know the steps.
would freezing the peels make the cell walls break faster??
Thank you Dr. Pavlis. I received your Plant science for gardeners as a gift. Great read!
Thank you very much.
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It does work somewhat, but its very slow and inefficient when you just stuff a fresh peel in the jar. Best to dehydrate several of them and grind it into a powder, then put it in a jar with water, shake it up, and let it sit in the fridge for a while.
It’s a good potassium source if you pulverize it properly. This was a sloppy experiment
I’ve never used the tea. I’ve sun dried, turned it into a a powder, and tested it before with the rapitest. The k is really high. It still smells like banana in powder form.
That is great! Is there any way to test the P as well?
I heard the powder needs 3-6 months to process/release the K into the soil. Really?
I just boiled a diced peel in a quart of water for 30 min. Water is quite dark and tested at 1700 ppm of ionic content which is high, but I don't have proof of the NPK. Boiling the peels breaks the cell walls and allows the nutrients to leak out, with the ionic contents ready to absorbed by the roots.
Prove it-conduct an actual experiment rather than pushing more conjecture
Good to see a rigorous scientific discussion of banana peel (bp) fertilizer. Would be great to actually test the bp-water for K+ by a lab, or using an aquarium or urine home K+ test kit. Also, drying the peels before use should cause cell rupture and release K+, right? Or, feed bp's to worms and let them do the work of releasing the K+ and PO4 for garden use.
Here's what I do with my banana peels: They get thrown in the scrap bucket along with all the other kitchen waste, from whence they make their way to the outdoor compost bin. There's nothing so special about a banana peel that distinguishes it from other kitchen waste and justifies additional or different processing. If I wanted the nutrients to be available to plants sooner, I would bury the scraps in the garden directly and let them compost in the ground, but I would prefer not to have animals digging up scraps in the garden.
4:00 when people in the bathtub or swimming nothing happens, because they are still alive, but when dead body in the water, it'll be a different story
I do like to use compost. It seems to help. Can't really see how a banana peel soaked in water would help. Thankyou for your video
How about sun drying the banana peels then grind to a powder form. Will this work ? Chatgpt say ill will get a 1 - 0.3 - 3.
It definitly works.
I don’t know who to believe anymore 😩 I just watched a video of a guy who made banana peel liquid fertilizer and he was talking about how much it helps your plants and explained all the different ways it helps them and talked about all the nutrients in it. And his plants really looked great! 🤷🏻♀️
What if the banana peels are boiled in the water then then boiled water is added on the soil along with the peels . After cooling of course 😎
( i am sure if you boiled a human being some nutrients would come out of it into the water ) ❤
I was shocked by the ending of your comment until I got to that part of the video
Throw the hole Peel in the soil, attracts microbial diversity and the calcium in the peel also increases absorption of nitrogen not to mention trace elements of sulfur manganese and magnesium
I get so happy when you release a new video :) I still have so much to learn :) Thank you.
I can tell with my eyes my flowers get a boost every time i do this. You did not put that in 3-4 days ago. I cut mine into tiny squares and put them in a gallon of hot water. Also i put fish fertilizer and earth worm castings to get some microbes to break down that potassium . When i take them out theyre a light brown and all the soft shit on the inside is completely off
I feel there are nutrients throughout the banana and the peel. Once soaked in water nutrients will leach into the water almost right away. How many nutrients idk. I do know the discoloration of the water is caused by nutrients going into the water. You don't boil beans for 3 days so this gives more time for nutes to be leached out of the banana and into the water. I feel this tea is more effective than water because people have been using it for decades. The response rate for potassium intake has been proven by many people. If you have a potassium problem and you use this tea, it works and many, many growers for 80 years have sworn that it works on their potassium problems and have seen their plants improve with this deficiency.
To say "nobody has ever tested this water" shows a general lack of research done, regarding research done on the effects of banana peel water as fertilizer. There are studies that have been completed, with full abstracts, details, experiment groups, conclusions, and cited sources. A quick google will return said research papers.
Reader's Digest's article says that banana peel won't release nutrients quickly as some people say. There isn't any scientific studies that indicates the banana peel water contains enough nutrients. The article says that blending, boiling banana peel process may release nutrients.
leave them long enough and the sugar in banana peel will ferment releasing all nutrients into the brew. It’s called organic fertiliser and it has been done for millennia by farmers across the globe. This guy has no idea what he’s talking about.
Thank you Robert.❄️💚🙃
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so u say no one tested it to prove it has nutrients. u say it doesn't have nutrients yet u didn't test it either.! so your opinion is no more educated than the other peoples opinions. and it looks like someone did test it because they follow actual science not just spout words. it turns out the npk of dry banana peel is: N 0.6, P 0.4, k 11.5. according to this person who tested it the fresh peels are 1/5 the nutrition of the dry. now , they did not say how they tested it, or what they used to test it. but at least they actually tried to follow the science.
Each to their own i guess, I've used this method alot &it''s worked Great, This aswell as urine&Water... Lemon plants love it
That is Great - How did you set up the controls? How did you do the measurements?
@@Gardenfundamentals1 Cup of wee for every 2 litre water, trial/error and it's worked
I’m all about “show me the proof🧐”, “show me some science”, “state your case”! I’m not big on fads, viral hive mind following, trends, or unproven claims. At least this guy comes with intelligence, science🤓, and a compelling argument encouraging us to simply use common sense! 🤔
It’s imperative to question EVERYTHING!!!
Maybe he's selling fertilizers
Thank you very much. Your videos are so interesting! Greetings from Italy!!!
Thank you,Bob for your excellent videos.
What about using the actual banana and doing something similar?
To test the nutrient content check the ppm
I intend to use powdered form only, which is meant to work as slow release anyway.
What happens if it is immersed in water for long days? Will it release nutrients to immersed water.Many suggest rice water, Dal water are they making us fool
Even on things this trivial, question everything!
show us how to extract nutrients and make a plant ready tea then?
What if you put banana peels in buttermilk?
Thank you for the info. Very clear explanation.
Thanks dr for your beautiful upload
Add boiling water not just norman water it breaks it down differently It’s just common sense bro the wager soaks up the nutrients the potassium ext and you can transfer it to the plants it’s free to do and has worked for a long time no point trying to debunk it so hard lol.. it’s free and easy for anyone to try if it makes them feel better so be it
I turn mine into powder and it does work.
Thank you for sharing.
You don't get it, do you? The banana tea is to feed the Mycorrhizae not the plants.
This guy has never seen a drunk horse in an apple orchard
I can understand where you're coming from, but by your scientific explanation teas should not have any health benefits either, but they do.
Perhaps it's your method of soaking the banana peel that's not producing any results in YOUR experiment.
How about boiling or soaking the banana peels in hot water like tea leaves are soaked? Wouldn't that produce a different result?
Super cool. TY
Question: Any benefits to rice water?
Video answers question if watched
Not really - some starch to feed microbes.
you have to fermentation before using it.
@@tsumplay3094 I brew beer. It would be the "mash" you'd need to do. Soaking the grains for at least a hr at a set temp.
@@Gardenfundamentals1 I brew beer. Where we steep the grains for at least a hr at a set temperature to release the starches. Just steeping grains at say room temp water won't release much if any.
Even then you'd need to grind up the grains. That's why we either buy them as such, or do our own grinding of the grains at home. That way they are cheaper to buy in, and you have more control over the blend of grains used for the wort.
Spent grains from brewing beer are pretty good for composting. So I'd say steeped rice would be better used in the compost, than for any supposed goodness in the water itself.
Thank you for your info. I think it is a little good for plant😄, water must contain some part of banana peel, plants maybe can absorb their nutrition after several months, maybe can grow more earthworms...
I've been growing plants for a long time. And yes banana does give magnesium and potassium into the water. You can't rely only on banana water or they will become deficant. But yes your grandma was right. Makes plants grow healthier than without.
Can u help me to make micronutrients at home????
Micronutrients are elements - you can't make them.
I have one of the worst systemic fungal infections anyone could ever imagine. Banana peels have worked better than ANY fungal medication I have taken. Both on my skin and internally, with some cinnamon and thyme. Do your research on bioactivity of banana peels
Therefore, do your homework through the National Institute of Health. Live what you're saying. Actions are louder than words
Potassium is water soluble. Just saying
You're both right and wrong.
The way you did the banana water would result in just colored water with maybe some floating bits. You need to scrape off the inner membrane and blend it with water. You don't need to let it sit. It's not going to get better with age like wine.
It's not magic. It's not a fertilizer. It's simply carbs. Some sugars and starches. If you already have a healthy soil and you pour this sugar/carb brew in there, it will cause a big bloom in microbes that actually do the work of fertilizing your plant.
So why don't you do a npk test ?
Because there is no need; the banana peel is still intact.
If there was anything worthwhile in that water, then all you'd need a year is a handful of banana peels to feed a garden. Have you seen anybody promoting peels do an accurate NPK test?
You'd be better off just using urine in the watering can.
If you send me $50 I would be more than happy to get the test done.
How do you think herbal extracts work.first do your test then you can speak.
@@Gardenfundamentals1 before you make a scientific video trying to debunk this maybe you should invest in the information yourself, how can trace levels of potassium be bad to incorporate into your soil
i've been drying peels and then pulverizing in vita blender. Am i wasting my time?
Mostly - but they will compost faster if broken into smaller pieces. But you are talking 3 years instead of 5.
Works for me
I bet you did not do any controls? Without them you don't know it works.
@@Gardenfundamentals1 Regular watering can work wonders. If banana water works, that's why. Same with any other myth like this. People pay more attention to their watering.
You could tell people to soak a magic rock. Then give them the standard watering rules they should already know. And they would see improvements.
I see tomatoes range everything from bone dry to standing in 4" of stagnant water on the allotments site each year.
Whats your take on using urine for fertilizer?
Piss off!
I tried it on some calla lilies one year. My daughter said they didn't look real hahaha, that's how poorly they were doing before. They are under the eaves, so receive minimal rainwater and we were in drought here (australia) at that time.
@@mylesfalconer9183 No piss on
www.gardenmyths.com/urine-safe-garden/
when I first saw the posts on internet about banana peel fertilizer I thought to myself "oh my goodness another myth"
Dude plants are fantastic because of banana peel water.
Did you take worms into consideration in this experiment?
Just dig the banana peals or browning bananas, into the soil. The earthworms will do the rest.
Yup, this is it..without decomposer nothin work..cuz those microbs and fungi create the miraces..thats it.
Why are you comparing a dead banana to a living organism?
To me this is a strawman argument, putting whole banana peels in cold water is unlikely to cause leaching of nutrients so the video is mostly correct regarding this, but why attempt to make the fertilizer this way so you can debunk it? The cell walls of the peel need to be ruptured first (alluded to in the video). I cut up the peel in little pieces, simmered it in water for an hour and tested it with a TDS meter. The reading was approximately 1500 ppm which is perhaps too high to be applied directly to your plants, IDK. Since the meter measures ionic content, I would expect that that it would be directly absorbed by roots without needing to be broken down by microorganisms.
You know what would convince me, you NPK testing it instead of providing an opinion
Yea because you are supposed to leave it in the water for 2-3 weeks i busted out laughing when you said 3 days
I guess you did not read the popular recipes on line!
But does not matter - 3 weeks will give almost the identical results - banana peels and water.
So does this mean everyone else on here saying it works are lying?
Nice video
You say without analysing the water to see what's in it, "you don't know if it's a good fertiliser."
1) That is a false statement - you could find out by testing it against normal water on 2 batches of plants.
2) Your whole video is claiming it ISN'T any good, even though you didn't test it so according to you you CAN'T know whether it's good or not!
This seems rather silly! Also, personally I have not seen anyone recommending leaving fresh banana peel in cold water for "3 or 4 days" as you have done. I have seen people recommend boiling banana skins in water, which indeed would break down the cell walls and put a lot of soluble minerals into the water. I have also seen people drying the peel then grinding it into power, which also would make the soluble nutrients available both to dissolving in water and also in general to the microorganisms in the soil.
I don't know how well either of those work, but they're both categorically different to your 'method' and besides, you seem to have made no effort even regarding your 'method', to go any further than your preconception. Your preconception may or may not be correct, by YOUR OWN standards, without analysis, you're talking about something you don't know. And while you might be unwilling to pay for a test (but still willing to make a video casting yourself as an authority on this matter!), you didn't even bother doing a simple practical test, which would be better anyway than any composition analysis since it is not the composition people are actually mainly interested in - they're interested in the effect on plants, so better to measure that!
I do like some of your videos by the way. But this one was illogical.
Pay to have it tested yourself, and share your results. You could also donate the money for Robert to have it tested. Or do you think Robert should be forking out cash on a regular basis just to keep you from posting rants?
@@theressomelovelyfilthdownh4329 You have completely ignored every single point I made. What's the point in replying to a comment in that way? Your comment is only negative, with no substance or logic to actually address the points I made.
You misse3d the whole point of the video! Watch it again without bias this time.
Robert is a grown man he don’t need nobody babysitting him an specking for him lol let him respond accordingly
@justinsenryu7308 Well said and I agree. Pointless video really.
So u saying even if u boil nottin goin to com out of it get out of here lets boil u lets se ir u dnt leak
You too did not submit any technical proof against the banana peel fertilizer.
Not true! We understand the chemical processes of decomposition - they require the peel to be decomposed to release the nutrients. Skins can't release nutrients without decomposing.
Again you too didn’t test or analyze the banana peel water like the others as you said and give the proof about the banana peel fertilizer but you admitted that some potassium may be in the water.
I used it on a few house plants and killed some and the others are barely surviving
BS, I fermented banana peels (more than a month) it works fine.
He forgot to boil for 15 minutes
👍👍👍 Thank you
he gave NO PROOF either but gave 2 OPINIONATED examples of rambling. Reputation is everything. how can people trust you without facts
The explanation of cell decomposition is well known science.
:) great video
Silly old man. You need to cut it up, put it in a Gallon water container and fill it up with water. Put in a dark place for 24 hours and use it as soon as possible.Where do you think the Amazon is so green not because of the water alone. There's no one to give it fertilizer
For someone, especially who is a Doctor to argue against a process without doing any controlled tests or analytical data to back his information up is kind of contradicting his scientific jargon and appears amateurish to me.
Put them in a blender, speed up the process
Even after blending them - composting has not started.
That analogy with a human living person in water is somewhat idiotic. The bananas is dead and decomposing. You are just talking.
Wait, so you didn't analyze the banana water and telling us this doesn't work. WHAT DID YOU FIND IN THIS BANANA WATER AND WHY WOULDN'T IT WORK.
He explained that the nutrients don't leach out into the water without the cells of the bananas decomposing--which takes months.
I bet it doesn’t work at all. Just bugs
I'm sorry Sir but I think you being paid off by fertilizer companies because we're making our own fertilizer for free
Blend the peel wait 7 days or more it WORKS!!!
Composting takes much longer than that. Just because you can't see the peel - does not means the large molecules are decomposed.
It seems Noel Stokes has not seen the video. It won't work!!! Plants absorb minerals not organic molecules
Just a lot of bullshit that’s all you see
*Says nobody has ever tested the nutrient content of water after infusing banana peels in it for a few days, therefore there's no proof that it works.*
*Proceeds to say it doesn't work without bringing any proof either.*
This is exactly what I don't like about your channel, you're so keen on busting gardening myths, yet you don't bring anything of substance to the conversation and your methods are so laughably flawed that I won't even get into it. If you wanted to be relevant, you'd have run some tests on your banana peel water and shared the results with us. What you're doing is anti-scientific and you don't seem to recognize that you're guilty of making exactly the same mistakes than what the people saying these methods work are doing.
Besides that point, your bath analogy is downright wrong. The reason why we don't dissolve in bathwater is because we're still alive. Try leaving a corpse in bathwater for a few days and it'll start infusing and will probably become broth after only a few weeks.
If you really wanted to give any of these myths a chance, you would have tried multiple infusions, for example: 3 days, 3 weeks and 3 months, hot water infusion, etc. and then compare the results on them. You could also have touched on the NPK content of banana peels which is 0.6-0.4-11.5 (dried peels) instead and what would be the alternative to make these nutrients available to your plants (fair enough, you touched on compost) but I think that with the audience that this is aimed towards, you should be more clear about it and say: ''Don't waste your time with banana peel tea and do this instead''.
I'm holding people on the Internet to a much higher standard than you seem to be holding yourself, yet you claim to have a science background and don't seem to understand the first thing about the scientific method so you need to be called out on your poor methods because you do have a responsibility to back your claims if you want to be taken seriously.
Are you always this combative, and insulting towards people?
@Naked Grills, hear! Hear! You are so right! I kept skipping fwd in order to reach the results ... None to be had.
All those words and yet no evidence to prove anything you said which is pretty damn ironic. If you could leave a dead body in bathwater for a few days and turn it to broth you wouldn't see serial killers using barrels of acid right? Where is your scientific method, all I see is a youtube comment that brings zero substance to the conversation.
. _ . Yikes... this is what happens when you get mad rather than watch the entire video and realize every single point you were going to make is mute before making it.
Here is the analysis of banana peels - but that is not the analysis of the water.
www.gardenmyths.com/banana-peels-garden/
I guess you don't strive for high standards either? You did not provide any evidence of what you said.
Shut up! 😂