I put the bananas and water into a blender and blend into fine particles. I do not waste anything. I pour it right around the base of the plant. I also made a tea leaves liquid fertilizer. I love to drink tea. I also pour it around the base of the plant. This is so cool. Why buy fertilizer when YOU can make homemade fertilizer and it's more natural than store bought fertilizer.....I fertilize my tomato plant with these fertilizers and my plant loves them. You should see my aloe plant( it looks like an octopus)....🤣🤣♥️♥️
Thank you for this great video and for the amount of peels you use per quart. Like you said it’s for free. Wow so many flowers buds. Those Peppers look good!
Just to clarify, you make your concentrated mix of 1 qt distilled/rain/boiled water and 3 peels - let sit for 3+ days. Then you dump this in a large bucket to store it. From there, you do a 1:10 ratio of peel concentrate and water to use weekly on your plants. My question is, when dumping your quart into the storage bucket, do you leave each quarts' peels in the large bucket all summer - just continuing to add to the overall peel amount in storage bucket each time? Does this make the concentrated fertilizer significantly stronger at the end of the season? Thank you for the great video. I found it informative and I love your voice. For those few complaining about the length, I hope you ignore them. They can read your great description info, fast forward, or just skip it. You're sharing all this info free after all. I appreciate your time (and Bob Ross vibe!).
Yes I leave the peels in the bucket all summer. I use it fast enough around here I don't think it has time to get more potent. However, I don't think having a higher concentration of potassium would be a bad thing for most flowering plants. I go through a couple 5 gallon buckets of this every year.
I appreciate a video like this. I’m not a great gardener and I need all the help I can get best of all. I need to use things. I already have all around the property and reuse and repurpose and keep my cost down. Thanks so much for sharing.
Thank you, I've got 4 banana peels in a quart jar with water on the counter top now. All my squash are flowering now should I still give them a little anyways?
I had an orchid recently that was in such a bad state the store gave it away , I couldn’t revive it and was on the point of giving up , then I tried a banana fertiliser , I thought I’ll either kill it or cure it, i couldn’t believe it a week later the two leaves that were wrinkled and sad looking were now shin and healthy looking , I now will be using it on this years tomato plants ´.
Great video! Also, you have a wonderful voice. I laughed when you mentioned Bob Ross, because that’s who I was thinking about when you started talking ;-) Happy Gardening!
How long can I let the peels marinate? I just got a whole case of bananas , froze them and saved the peels. If I keep the bucket in my 65° basement , will it help prevent from getting too funky till I can use it all? 😊
I leave them in the bucket and keep adding to it for the entire season. In the fall, I water my plants in my greenhouse with what's left. Any of the sludge in the bottom goes to the compost pile
I'm brand new to this so forgive my question, but regarding rain water collection, I get so much rain here in the Summer in Florida. Do I just leave the five gallon and use that water? How long can I let rain water sit before using it for my plants because I know sitting water grows bacteria. Thank you so much!
We go through a lot of our water quickly. We mix up our fertilizer use from the fertilizer bucket into our watering buckets. We do a ratio of 1 to 10 for most of our fertilizers. I keep a bucket of this fertilizer going for about 9 months out of the year. At the end of the season, I dump what's left into the garden and start again in the spring.
yeah tbh its pretty fucking cool. my weed really like this :) i think part of why it works isnt only potassium but the sugar that the bacteria can eat and flurish. btw AC runoff (if you can collect it) is top shelf plant watering water too :) basically destilled save a bit of dust. i kid you not, here in humid germany this one mobile unit produces enough runoff to keep like 250 liters of soil on my balcony moist, even in 30°c/90°f heat.
Thanks for sharing. What about burying whole bananas in the soil over winter to breakdown in the soil. We often get a glut of bananas from a food bank over winter. I was told I can just bury them.
I have not used it on starting vegetables from scrap cuttings. And I do not use it on seeds. We only use this potassium fertilizer on actively flowering fruit vegetables and plants.
I had a little palm in a pot not moving at all, I finely cut up banana peels and dug them into the pot.,I couldn’t believe how this plant thrived. I also use rain water, it pretty much doubled in size in no time.
I make a 5 gallon bucket of this around Easter and keep adding our banana peels throughout the summer. It has a pleasant smell, so it's not offensive to have around.
I have 3 2 gallon watering cans. 1 quart should be ok .. ? Also, putting young willow shoots cut them into 1 inch peices or 2 extra strkng aspirin pills .. this be amazing for nightshadd plants !!! Like you, im totally organic to to willow peices in its organic form. Thankyou for the video.
One quart of banana peel water would be fine to use with each watering can. I like using the cut willow to make a rooting hormone for starting cuttings.
I watched your video and put my bananas after making the tea into a sealed container in my cool dark pantry. It now has a white layer of film over top. Is this normal? It also doesn't smell great--no longer smells like a yummy banana split 😊
I am trying new things this year and have a fairly large garden.. Can this "tea" be made and stored throughout the winter? I do not compost and am wondering if freezing the tea would still be benefical.
We just eyeball it. To make the fertilizer, we do three banana peels to one quart of water and let it steep for a couple of days. From there we make a 1 to 10 ratio of fertilizer to rainwater. So if you use one cup of fertilizer combine that with 10 cups of rainwater.
I have a banana peel sitting in a jar of water now for more than 3 days, so it is ready to dilute with water and use. I wondered if you also use the dry yeast and sugar with water fertilizer along with this banana.
When making the concentrated banana water, I use 3 banana peels to 1 quart of rain water. After it is allowed to sit and steep, I can mix my concentrate 1:10 for watering my plants. That would be 2 quarts concentrated banana water to a 5 gallon bucket of rain water. This works well for all flowering plants.
Thank you for sharing, I am very excited to start doing this. I have a question, how do you do to avoid having rats eating your plants? I have a vegetable processing factory close to my house and they come visit my backyard at night 😢
Manure is one of our biggest fertilizers we use. Chicken & rabbit manure are the main two. We also mix up our own organic fertilizers using weeds and grass clippings from the garden and yard. This does well too. But for a quick shot of nitrogen to any of our plants, it is hard to beat homemade fish emulsion. We have a video on how to make it. A little bit goes a long way.
I'm not sure. I tend not to fertilize when I transplant. The help alleviate transplant shock we tend to plant in the afternoon or on a cloudy day. Water thoroughly to keep the roots from drying out. This has helped us lessen our losses to transplant shock
Have your soil tested before adding anything to the soil. How much potassium is in banana peel water, if any? Since he did not test the water we don't know.
True, but we look at it as we are making this fertilizer from the discarded part of the snack. I guess essentially considering the peel is ½ of the banana, This fertilizer cost is right at $2 per 5 gallons to make. We can water a lot of plants with a 5 gallon bucket of this fertilizer.
I fertilize my plants with my banana smoothie and I have had no issues with bugs or any fruit flies. So go ahead and just do it....it will be okay, @merrilew
The tomato plants are going to LOVE this fertilizer!
I put the bananas and water into a blender and blend into fine particles. I do not waste anything. I pour it right around the base of the plant. I also made a tea leaves liquid fertilizer. I love to drink tea. I also pour it around the base of the plant. This is so cool. Why buy fertilizer when YOU can make homemade fertilizer and it's more natural than store bought fertilizer.....I fertilize my tomato plant with these fertilizers and my plant loves them. You should see my aloe plant( it looks like an octopus)....🤣🤣♥️♥️
I agree, fertilizer is so expensive and easy to make. It's amazing how well the plants react to natural organic fertilizer.
If you blend up these bananas and water, can you use these for indoor plants also?
Merrilew, sure. Why not?
@@peterjowyk637 I didn’t want to attract fruit flies.
Im new to all this have to found a way to stop fruit flies what indoor plant do u have im looking myself at getting the peace lillies @@merrilew
I watch from the beginning to the end didn’t want to miss any of this great information loved all the information you passed down in this
Thank you for this great video and for the amount of peels you use per quart. Like you said it’s for free. Wow so many flowers buds. Those Peppers look good!
I was sceptical when I first heard of this, but you've convinced me. Thank you. I have sources of N and P, and now I have one for K. I love bananas.
What is your source for P?
@@leejoseph598, phosphorus
Just to clarify, you make your concentrated mix of 1 qt distilled/rain/boiled water and 3 peels - let sit for 3+ days. Then you dump this in a large bucket to store it. From there, you do a 1:10 ratio of peel concentrate and water to use weekly on your plants. My question is, when dumping your quart into the storage bucket, do you leave each quarts' peels in the large bucket all summer - just continuing to add to the overall peel amount in storage bucket each time? Does this make the concentrated fertilizer significantly stronger at the end of the season? Thank you for the great video. I found it informative and I love your voice. For those few complaining about the length, I hope you ignore them. They can read your great description info, fast forward, or just skip it. You're sharing all this info free after all. I appreciate your time (and Bob Ross vibe!).
Yes I leave the peels in the bucket all summer. I use it fast enough around here I don't think it has time to get more potent. However, I don't think having a higher concentration of potassium would be a bad thing for most flowering plants. I go through a couple 5 gallon buckets of this every year.
Man, quick reply sir!! Thank you so much. Really enjoying your channel. Thankful to have found it today.
I use this on my thanksgiving cactus they’re really healthy 😊❤
I appreciate a video like this. I’m not a great gardener and I need all the help I can get best of all. I need to use things. I already have all around the property and reuse and repurpose and keep my cost down. Thanks so much for sharing.
You're welcome
I absolutely enjoyed your video. You are really good at giving instructions for new gardeners thank you
You are very welcome!
I just planted my garden this week. I am going to use your method. I will keep you posted of my results. Thank you.
Awesome, what all did you plant?
Results are positive? 🙂
This works. I do the same for my garden. Thank you very much from Oz 👏🌸
Awesome, what all do you grow down there?
Exquisite! This is the glorious tincture that my plants were begging me to find! I appreciate your video big time!
Yummy for plants ❤
So great ,farming is my life journey Amos Balinda from Uganda.
Thank you. I'll give it a shot and let you know how my plants fare.
Awesome, thanks for watching!
Great idea 💡 thank you !!
Thank you for this interesting video wich is very helful for gardeners may zGod bless you and your work.
Thanks so much. Excited to try this!!
I must say thank you am a first time gardner and zm trying to learn all l can to help me along😊
You are very welcome!
Just made my batch today!😃
I just discovered you and I subscribed! I was wondering why your voice was so soothing! You Do sound like Bob Ross! Thanks for the great information!
Thank you very much!
Yeah he does!
This was great! Thank you.
Thanks for sharing ❤
This is a great video and channel on growing your own bananas btw.
Thank you for this as I have just made my first batch of Banana fertiliser. Cheers Denise- Australia (Newbie to your Channel)
Awesome! this stuff works well.
Wow!!! Awesome information !! Thanks!!!😊
You are very welcome
Great video thanks
I really like your method! Going to try it altho it's August now but plants are still flowering so anything to give them a boost. Thx for the video 😊
You're welcome. We are still feeding our plants with this. As long as they're producing flowers we keep fertilizing
@@nuttygnomehomestead I've been using it and my plants love it! They're still blooming profusely
That was good I'm on over till land. Doing food scrap to get warms
thank you so much for showing this my garden is not doing good working hard to get it tp grow when use fui appricate thank you
You're welcome.
Oh didn't know ya made it to RUclips. Good luck
I appreciate it brother!
Can this method be used on flowering plants as well? Thanks for the info❤Awesome video...Easy to follow!
Absolutely! Any plant that needs potassium will benefit
Thank you, I've got 4 banana peels in a quart jar with water on the counter top now. All my squash are flowering now should I still give them a little anyways?
Absolutely. The added potassium will help with flowering and setting the flowers.
I had an orchid recently that was in such a bad state the store gave it away , I couldn’t revive it and was on the point of giving up , then I tried a banana fertiliser , I thought I’ll either kill it or cure it, i couldn’t believe it a week later the two leaves that were wrinkled and sad looking were now shin and healthy looking , I now will be using it on this years tomato plants ´.
That's great. We use it on everything here on the farm.
Great video! Also, you have a wonderful voice. I laughed when you mentioned Bob Ross, because that’s who I was thinking about when you started talking ;-) Happy Gardening!
Well thank you 😊
This is good
How long does ot take to get flowers on the plants and also is it good for African violets
Usually the plants will start setting flowers quickly if they are mature enough. I have used it on 2 African violets, but a little goes a long way.
How long can I let the peels marinate? I just got a whole case of bananas , froze them and saved the peels. If I keep the bucket in my 65° basement , will it help prevent from getting too funky till I can use it all? 😊
I leave them in the bucket and keep adding to it for the entire season. In the fall, I water my plants in my greenhouse with what's left. Any of the sludge in the bottom goes to the compost pile
@@nuttygnomehomestead thank you 😊
Thank you for your video. Can we use this fertilizer in house plants??? Thank you
Yes, we use it on our house plants.
Thank you for responding
Nice! YES! .... ... I Gander this should work for "certain" INDOOR plants, too? ... he he he.
I use it on all my plants. Tomatoes love it.
do you water your garden with city water?
No, we collect rain water when we can for watering our garden. Otherwise, we pump from our well.
How long does the banana tea last and at what temperature should it be at and doesn't need a lid or can it just sit open bucket? Thank you😊
I've kept a bucket for a full year, but I now just make a new batch in the early spring. It doesn't need a lid. But may attract gnats.
I'm brand new to this so forgive my question, but regarding rain water collection, I get so much rain here in the Summer in Florida. Do I just leave the five gallon and use that water? How long can I let rain water sit before using it for my plants because I know sitting water grows bacteria. Thank you so much!
We go through a lot of our water quickly. We mix up our fertilizer use from the fertilizer bucket into our watering buckets. We do a ratio of 1 to 10 for most of our fertilizers. I keep a bucket of this fertilizer going for about 9 months out of the year. At the end of the season, I dump what's left into the garden and start again in the spring.
yeah tbh its pretty fucking cool. my weed really like this :) i think part of why it works isnt only potassium but the sugar that the bacteria can eat and flurish. btw AC runoff (if you can collect it) is top shelf plant watering water too :) basically destilled save a bit of dust. i kid you not, here in humid germany this one mobile unit produces enough runoff to keep like 250 liters of soil on my balcony moist, even in 30°c/90°f heat.
Just add it a few weeks before flower right?
I'm doing three banana peels for a gallon just to be gentle. Great video. Thank you.
Is it better to start the tea with overripe Bananas or more green?
@@markkromer1238 i give it all the way through flower. you cant really overdo it with the banana if you dont overwater in general
@@markkromer1238 im using whatever ones i have. i think ripe is better because it has more simple sugar for the bacteria in the ground to eat
Thank you
Thanks for sharing. What about burying whole bananas in the soil over winter to breakdown in the soil. We often get a glut of bananas from a food bank over winter. I was told I can just bury them.
Burying them would work too.
@@nuttygnomehomestead ok. That's what I will be doing today 😀
Speed it up to 1.25 to get thru this wordy video.
Those peppers look good I’ve never had much luck growing them , I’m going to try this ,,,thanks
Also works for orchids 😊
Orchids are so beautiful! Yes, this fertilizer works will with basically anything that flowers.
Is it good to use when starting fruit & veggies from store scraps? Can it be used when planting seeds? And how should it be used?
I have not used it on starting vegetables from scrap cuttings. And I do not use it on seeds. We only use this potassium fertilizer on actively flowering fruit vegetables and plants.
I had a little palm in a pot not moving at all, I finely cut up banana peels and dug them into the pot.,I couldn’t believe how this plant thrived. I also use rain water, it pretty much doubled in size in no time.
That's awesome!
Also works for orchids 😊
Thank you for the great video. I have a question. I freeze dried 100 bananas and I’m wondering how to save my peels to last all summer.
I make a 5 gallon bucket of this around Easter and keep adding our banana peels throughout the summer. It has a pleasant smell, so it's not offensive to have around.
You could freeze them if you'd like to save some for later
Could you use faucet water that have set for 24 hrs or longer
Absolutely. When I lived in an apartment, I used tap water.
I have 3 2 gallon watering cans. 1 quart should be ok .. ? Also, putting young willow shoots cut them into 1 inch peices or 2 extra strkng aspirin pills .. this be amazing for nightshadd plants !!! Like you, im totally organic to to willow peices in its organic form. Thankyou for the video.
I wonder if i can eat enough bananas to keep up with fertilizer lol
One quart of banana peel water would be fine to use with each watering can. I like using the cut willow to make a rooting hormone for starting cuttings.
Great video! I've had my quart fermenting for 3 weeks. Is it okay to use it after I dilute?
Absolutely.
Can I do this when my potatoes have their stems up out the ground already and doing well? New ones seem to keep popping up daily
We use this on just about every plant in our garden.
@@nuttygnomehomestead thank you!!
I watched your video and put my bananas after making the tea into a sealed container in my cool dark pantry. It now has a white layer of film over top. Is this normal? It also doesn't smell great--no longer smells like a yummy banana split 😊
They white film is most likely yeast. It can still be used to water your plants.
Great idea, thank you for sharing . God bless 😊 one thing do you dilute this when adding to the garden? I mean like 2 to 1 ratio?
Yes, I do a 1:10 fertilizer to rain water ratio. 1 quart of banana peel water to 10 quarts of rain water. Our tomatoes and peppers love it.
@@nuttygnomehomestead okay thank you
What it I let it sit for two weeks by accident? Can I still use it for indoor plants?
Absolutely. I mix up a batch for my house plants and let it steep all winter.
Can this solution be used on fruit trees?
Yes, any plant that requires potassium. Especially during the time of flowering.
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Do you use it on indoor plants too?
Yes, I use it on anything that flowers or sets fruit.
i tried it and it smells good
It does smell good. And it's amazing how quickly the plants change after getting a drink of this.
I am trying new things this year and have a fairly large garden.. Can this "tea" be made and stored throughout the winter? I do not compost and am wondering if freezing the tea would still be benefical.
Yes, we often store a 5 gallon bucket full in a non heated garage over winter. It gets used first in the spring.
Thanks for sharing!
I have one quart jar and one gallon only so what would my ratio be thx so much
We just eyeball it. To make the fertilizer, we do three banana peels to one quart of water and let it steep for a couple of days. From there we make a 1 to 10 ratio of fertilizer to rainwater. So if you use one cup of fertilizer combine that with 10 cups of rainwater.
I have a banana peel sitting in a jar of water now for more than 3 days, so it is ready to dilute with water and use. I wondered if you also use the dry yeast and sugar with water fertilizer along with this banana.
I don't know, we have not tried that. If you do, please let us know how it works.
If you keep in a dark place and put up well can you keep it for a long time?
Yes, I've been able to keep this over winter.
Does it work on fruit trees papapaya to be exact?
We use it on our potted fruit trees with good success. Basically, anything that flowers will benefit from the banana water.
Great information.
Is it ok to use bananas that aren’t organic?
Yes. It is ok
Thanks for your reply, when I lived in Queensland I grew my own bananas, but now living in Victoria, I can’t (too cold).
Greetings from Australia 🐸🎶
Ever used fermented yeast and sugar? I did the other day and today the leaves on my tomato plants got darker.
Does filtered water work too or does it need to be distilled/rain water?
Yes filtered water is fine
I'm wondering if I can use the water from my dehumidifier? I'm in an apartment and want to try this.
It may have some impurities in it, but I don't see why not.
Can I use this fertilizer when I water the plants or there is a certain number of doing it?
Yes, we use it for any plant that flowers. It works great
I do this too but not on everything I can’t eat that many bananas lol I have mostly flowers on my channel ❤
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Can it help to boil the peels?🤔
I have never tried boiling them. If you do, let me know how it works if you don't mind.
Thank you for sharing
What's the amount of water in the 5 gal with the 2 qt of banana peel/water concentrate? It doesn't like you've filled the 5 gal bucket.
When making the concentrated banana water, I use 3 banana peels to 1 quart of rain water. After it is allowed to sit and steep, I can mix my concentrate 1:10 for watering my plants. That would be 2 quarts concentrated banana water to a 5 gallon bucket of rain water. This works well for all flowering plants.
I do that with all peels.
does the fertilizer prevent pests and diseases too?
No it does not
What do you think of the people saying it causes fungus and pests due to the sweetness from sugars and carbohydrates?
I've not had any issues with either. We even use this on our house plants.
Is banana peels good for chilli plants?
Absolutely! My peppers love them.
Thank you for replying!
Its can use all plants due to its potassium property.
Can you do herbs with this
It is safe for all plants.
Thank you for sharing, I am very excited to start doing this. I have a question, how do you do to avoid having rats eating your plants? I have a vegetable processing factory close to my house and they come visit my backyard at night 😢
Fortunately, we don't have a problem with rats here. Our dog does a pretty good job at running off critters for us.
I want to know if banana water good for humans to drink if you just mash up bananas and use btl water to drink
I never drank it. So I don't know
Do you add a natural nitrogen to fertilize the plants? If so, what do you use?
I've been using the banana water on my plants. Love it! Thank you.
Manure is one of our biggest fertilizers we use. Chicken & rabbit manure are the main two. We also mix up our own organic fertilizers using weeds and grass clippings from the garden and yard. This does well too. But for a quick shot of nitrogen to any of our plants, it is hard to beat homemade fish emulsion. We have a video on how to make it. A little bit goes a long way.
Can it help from transplant shock?
I'm not sure. I tend not to fertilize when I transplant. The help alleviate transplant shock we tend to plant in the afternoon or on a cloudy day. Water thoroughly to keep the roots from drying out. This has helped us lessen our losses to transplant shock
Seaweed solution is reputed to be the best to manage transplant shock. It’s not a fertiliser, but rather a soil conditioner.
Can banana fertizer be used on sweet peppers and bottle brush plant?
Yes, anything plant that blooms the potassium is great for.
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I just made some "banana juice fertilizer" today and some peeks were a little black and my water is dark brown now. 😶😶. WILL IT STILL BE GOOD???😮😮
Yes, It is perfectly fine.
@@nuttygnomehomestead tx 🙂
Have your soil tested before adding anything to the soil. How much potassium is in banana peel water, if any? Since he did not test the water we don't know.
Why not to put chop them in the blender? I do that!
That works too
Regular banana is ok.
Yes. Regular bananas are perfectly fine.
Been feeding plants for about 8 years with banana fertilizer.
It is not free. You have to buy the bananas.
True, but we look at it as we are making this fertilizer from the discarded part of the snack. I guess essentially considering the peel is ½ of the banana, This fertilizer cost is right at $2 per 5 gallons to make. We can water a lot of plants with a 5 gallon bucket of this fertilizer.
It's work for marijuana plants?
If it needs potassium, it should work.
Thank you
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make the video a little shorter please to save viewer time. thanks.
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Thank you for the information
it hurt my plants. I wouldn't do it again.
I'm curious, How did it hurt your plants?
Can you leave em soaking in a 5 gallon tote for like 2 to 4 weeks?
Yes, longer won't hurt.
@@nuttygnomehomesteadbotulism isn't a risk?
@@castmastersoutdoors7762when it store in air tight plastic cane any bacterias are not interests in it
I fertilize my plants with my banana smoothie and I have had no issues with bugs or any fruit flies. So go ahead and just do it....it will be okay, @merrilew
Can you use it on house plants
Absolutely! I use it on a lot of my house plants. Anything that blooms will benefit from the potassium fertilizer.