Watering with cold coffee

RavenMochi

RavenMochi

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speaking of though, I have some babies still very early in the grow, I'm going to add coffee to roughly half of them and see if I can notice a difference....oddly enough, I am intrigued by this whole using nutrients from diluted urine thing, might explain why dogs and humans tend to piss on plants, trees, or poles (I figure the subconscious relates them to trees, could be wrong though...) need to learn a bit more about what it adds before I even attempt to go there, don't want to kill my plants on any given nute...

People get to stuck on brand names, the most fertile soils I've ever seen came from the use of compost. Speaking of I find myself in the awkward position of having to buy compost for our garden (non-mj, vegies, fruits, etc.) cuase my compost pile is still to young (moved here fairly recently and the compost I've started, while more than big enough, won't be ready in time to use for fall planting...†L† probably cuase it is so big...doh...
 
kingofqueen

kingofqueen

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If it works so great why doesnt everybody use it? Ask yourself this question when in doubt . If seems to good to be true it probaly is .
 
potpimp

potpimp

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"Right out of the tap" urine is sterile, otherwise you would have a bladder infection (UTI). The flip-side is that urine breeds bacteria very quickly, probably due to it *having* nutrients. If you're doing a soil grow and have a good stable of beneficial microorganisms, that probably would not be a problem. I would never use urine from someone using antibiotics or any other prescription drugs because they remain in the urine and most are still very effective even after going through your digestive system. Maybe you could just pee in your coffee pot and use that on your plants; kill two birds with one stone, LOL.
 
RavenMochi

RavenMochi

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kingofqueen said:
If it works so great why doesnt everybody use it? Ask yourself this question when in doubt . If seems to good to be true it probaly is .
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I didn't hear about people feeding sugar and molasses to there weed until the last 5yrs or so, now there are several threads on using it, but becuase I hadn't heard of it being used, does that mean it wasn't good? I don't fallow your logic, please explain this to me.

Nitrogen huh...nice....was looking for an organic supplement for that....don't like handling piles of blood meal... (don't mind it being in my mix though...go fig....)

so use 1:10 diluted urine to make coffee and dissolve molasses in it...I can do that... ;)
 
GunRunner

GunRunner

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I really don't know about Urine, but logically I can assume it is in fact a good fertilizer, I mean common we learned that at school, how animals benefit their ecosystem through pooping and pissing.

Aquarium water is a great fertilizer too, why else do you think we have Aquaponics?

Aquaponics (pronounced: /ˈækwəˈpɒnɨks/) is a sustainable food production system that combines a traditional aquaculture (raising aquatic animals such as fish, crayfish or prawns in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) in a symbiotic environment. In the aquaculture, effluents accumulate in the water, increasing toxicity for the fish. This water is led to a hydroponic system where the by-products from the aquaculture are filtered out by the plants as vital nutrients, after which the cleansed water is recirculated back to the animals.
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It's all about feeding your plants fish poo :P

What do you think about manure? organic manure is mother nature's best fertilizer ;) Do you question using it on your plants?


Back to the topic of Coffee, my grandmother uses spent ground coffee (what's left after we made coffee from the ground beans) on her Roses and on her Tomatoes and I swear it does wonders to those plants ;)

I have never seen her piss on them directly though :D
 
potpimp

potpimp

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GR, any organic fertilizer is fine as long as it is composted. Piss has been debated hundreds of times and it all boils down you "yeah, you can do it but why?". I think most of it is between the ears. I personally don't want to use human waste to feed my plants; there is a lot better waste, with more beneficial bacterias, available in cow, sheep, rabbit, chicken manure and the various bat guanos and worm castings. I used spent coffee grounds in my grow last year; it's just another organic, easily compostable bean.
 
ylem

ylem

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dude ive watered my plant with everything from sour milk to beer to garlic and cigarettes in old urine. oh yea. its aaaallll good. pretty well anything organic and heavily diluted with water will break down in soil and plants like that shit. do it.
 
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smokey mcsmokester

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I use to sprinkle coffee grounds on top of my soil while in veg... seemed to help them quite a bit... that was years ago before i moved onto better soils...good thread man...
 
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