As far as the city water, I fill up a 5 gallon bucket with water, and let it sit until the next day, before watering my (bucket) garden. That way, some of the chemicals can evaporate out, but also, the water warms up to be a similar temperature to my garden buckets.
Yep, great practice to off-gas chlorine. This won’t however filter chloramines, so check if your city adds them to the water 💪 if so, vitamin C or carbon filtration should work.
Chlorine can be removed that way, but many municipalities also use chlorimine to treat tap water, and it doesn't disapate that way. An RV water filter will remove it, though. They can be screwed right onto your hose or hose bibb.
Amazing video, very informative and engaging. There was no waste of time here like other youtubers do. Many many thanks to show efficient way, it will save money as well as soil health. Please keep uploading. 🥰 Love from India.🥰
🤣I had such a hard time getting my mind around this when I started growing…but there is a ton of facts that support it…and once you see how well it works it stops being weird & just becomes one more way we work together❤️ great vid!🙌🙌
I like it that you are expanding your knowledge to more than just your Revolution garden beds. I have been wondering how to add urine and other healthy nutrients to my soil. This was excellent info...I would love to know how much kelp extract and fulvic acid to add to the gallon of urine/ water mixture.
Great to see ya here on YoutTube, Carolyn. Glad you found this useful. I find one teaspoon of kelp/humic/fulvic to be more than enough for the amount of fertilizer I made in this video (one full watering can). Hope that helps!
Hey Nancy, glad you found it useful. Yep! It is an excellent source of nitrogen for compost, especially if you're short on vegetable scraps or other nitrogen sources. Great question. Keep growing.
Great video! But if I may add a bit to the conversation.. What comes out, is entirely dependent on what’s going in.. What do I mean? I mean it’s only gonna have the ideal nutrients, if you are eating a diet with a substantial amount of those nutrients. So those of you subsisting off of Doritos, microwave dinners, and Diet Coke… Might not get much out of this method.
Very true, Eric. Nitrogen is probably going to be the same given even Doritos have nitrogenous compounds which will show up in urine. However, the trace minerals could be lacking... which is one reason I wash down my doritos with water that has a liquid trace mineral supplement added ;-) (JK I don't eat doritos)
James, thank you so much for the educational videos they are priceless , we are 60 some years old and we love growing the orange hat dwarf tomatoes non gmo from baker in winter.we are using knock off areogardens but the A and B fertilizer that you mix from China is kind of expensive when you are on fixed incomes and not really that great. Would you be so kind to recommend a solution and how to mix it in 1 gallon at a time? Thank you James for the great educational videos. Dale & Pam Baird
i need help some people said "use fresh urine" and some other said "use 6 months aged urine" which one is the right way and not harmful for health ??!!
Good question. There's no difference as far as health goes. Using fresh urine will act as more of a "slow release" fertilizer. Aged urine will be more readily available for microbes to break down. Unless fermenting, 6 months is not necessary for the incubation period. 2 weeks is more than enough. That's it! Keep growing.
Hi. New subscriber here😁. Love your amazing video, i have learned alot oh how to make my own free fertilizer. Next step for me is to actually try it.😅 Thank you so much for the new knowledge. God bless you and your family💜
Good question, Scott. Not really. The ammonia content degrades very slowly over the course of months. Even urine stored for a year still has viability.
I drink it everyday in Argentina they drink all day. A town in China live for over 100 yrs they boil eggs. I have been sharing this with everyone. SHARE SHARE...For a younger skin do 10 min with a towel opens your pores, great shampoo & med for dandruff.
🤔 if I keep it potent and then place it in a liquid fertilizer applicator, the kind that attaches to a garden hose... would it work? For fertilizing a lawn. ... asking for a friend 😅
Hey Amy. It's not. They're the same in nutrient quality. The different hormones per time of month shouldn't impact plants at all, although further study is merited.
Just remember, human urine has a high salt content. For women, a pool noodle on the rim of a 5 gal bucket works well. Fun fact: if you are a meat eater, your urine can help repel herbivores. Sorry vegans but yours won't work for that. Male urine is better than female urine. The actual rate of mix is 10:1 water to urine for mature plants and 20:1 for seedlings. Ascorbic Acid will remove chlorine and chloramine. You can hook up an RV water filter to your garden hose to remove bad things. You can buy and use commercial fertilizers that do not contain nitrogen. Phosphorous, Potash, soil sulfur, Epsom salt, Azomite, etc. If you use potting soil you must add those into the soil plus some form of nitrogen or the plants will starve. Potting soil basically has nothing in it.
Good stuff. However two things: 1. What do you base male urine being better than female urine on? Apart from hormones (which don't impact plants) the nutrient quality is the same. 2. I don't mess with commercial fertilizers. You can get bio-available phos, potassium, sulfur, etc from organic sources... but those are different videos ;-)
@@JamesFryGrowEverywhere I did research into urine a couple years ago. Male urine is a lot more concentrated (in the mornings anyway). This comes from animals marking their territory. Females not so strong so as to not attract predators. Also different mineral makeup rates too. Males generally eat more red meat than females too. In male urine, a metabolized component of that red meat can help drive off herbivores. Can't remember the protein released. A study was done with old women using birth control pills in their plant water. It did impact the plants a bit causing them to flower more. Unfortunately for those old women, Dr's won't prescribe those pills to them as there was no medical reason to do so. My wife's potted plants use potting soil that has nothing in it so she uses Miracle Grow just for those annuals. Plants I do only get minerals, urine, and Alaska Fish Fertilizer. Oh and fall leaves with used coffee grounds when I can get them. Plants I do are food producing. 1/2 of them are sub irrigated (in laundry baskets sitting in unused oil change drain pans). Other 1/2 either in grow bags, direct planting, or in 4 straw bales (which I found out are poisoned with Grazon so nothing grows for long). Been over a year now and those bales are just now breaking down. EASY to see if they need water and easy to fill. That system also helps prevent crawling insects from attacking my plants (those won't or can't swim). I have in the past made comfrey tea. However, due to extreme drought and very HOT summers (record heat), most of my comfrey plants died. I used to treat tap water with ascorbic acid to eliminate chloramine. Then switched to an RV inline water filter to do the job. That is used for plants in the ground. Rain water for everything else. Sorry about the rambling lol
Direct application on plants woun't make the minerals and other substances evaporate. Only water evaporates. And no, it is not gross to drop pee on vegetables and the eat them. Urin from a healthy individual is safe to even drink. More than that, it can be curative. Nice video Brother.
True, they will not evaporate however they can oxidize and that will reduce the potency ;) I agree. Zero risk even if you did shower the veggies with pee.
If you have a nasty weed, like a patch of poison ivy, where you would prefer to be able to venture safely, undiluted urine is a great way to kill it. I remember an account of someone letting their going children whee on the tree where poison ivy grew. The poison ivy died. The tree was fine, since it has far more extensive routes.
You can apply weekly at a minimum, and can scale up to adding more as plants grow and their nitrogen demands increase. Just keep an eye out for signs of "burning" the plants (yellowing leaves). Keep growing!
@@JamesFryGrowEverywhere Also can you share the link of the video here where u mentioned about removing chlorine. I couldn’t find it in other videos or description? Thanks
@@Mister.Doodler Unfortunately, I pulled it from YT to re-film. Sorry about that. Will update it soon enough. In the meantime, the basics are: Use a carbon filter hose attachment, or add a small vitamin C tablet to a bucket of water and let sit for a few hours, or aerate water for 24 hours before using. The ultimate of course being rain water. Hope that helps!
You certainly can. I’ve tried it, however I find urine gives much better results due to all the other micro and macro nutrients. Plus it’s organic and free 😅
Good catch@@mspat8195. The extract has salts removed. While urine can have high levels of salt, I've never seen it increase too much, as measured by an electro conductivity (EC) meter. All good.
I have found that the sodium content in urine isn’t high enough to have an impact. It merits more research depending on diet of the per donor though. Kelp extract has the benefit of all the trace minerals from sea salt without the salt. If you’re making your own kelp extract, a tea with two washes to extract salt water is advisable prior to brewing/fermenting to make extract.
@@JamesFryGrowEverywhere It all depends on the diet of the urine contributor. That has been studied. Nitrogen content also varies by diet. That said, i don't deal with the urine for my uses but I would deal with the salt if I was putting high volumes of urine in one place regularly and not pulling up the plants.
Pee Fun Facts: - Fresh urine is slightly acidic, which most plants love. - Aging urine becomes very high pH (ammonia). If mixed with potash (also high pH), you can accidentally raise your soil pH past neutral. - In the past, urine wasnt only for wounds. Most clothing was "washed" in processed pee. - Urine is one of the main ingredients for niter beds, for making potassium nitrate, a key element in gun powder. - Average fresh urine is 95% water, 5% urea and 5% uric acid. - A diet heavy in salt will increase the salt content of urine. Using that in the same area for years can build up salts in the soil. - Urine and feces were used in compost to make "night soil" for many centuries. Can't do that now a days due to PFAS inside most people. Hope you enjoyed the pee knowledge 😊
It’s not just dog pee. I live in a very secluded part of the country. I save a LOT of gallons of water by not using the toilet inside the house. The grass along my gravel drive will testify to the first sentence.
There are a large number of scientific studies proving the viability of urine as a fertilizer in large scale agriculture, and gardening. One of which is mentioned in this video. No prank.
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As far as the city water, I fill up a 5 gallon bucket with water, and let it sit until the next day, before watering my (bucket) garden. That way, some of the chemicals can evaporate out, but also, the water warms up to be a similar temperature to my garden buckets.
Yep, great practice to off-gas chlorine. This won’t however filter chloramines, so check if your city adds them to the water 💪 if so, vitamin C or carbon filtration should work.
Chlorine can be removed that way, but many municipalities also use chlorimine to treat tap water, and it doesn't disapate that way. An RV water filter will remove it, though. They can be screwed right onto your hose or hose bibb.
It's med I ci ne for everything.
What about prescription medications in the urine?
@@davidbryden7904 will the filter take out chlorine as well? Did you get the filter from an RV shop?
Cut a pool noodle to fit the bucket rim and anyone can sit and do their business
That’s genius !
Amazing video, very informative and engaging.
There was no waste of time here like other youtubers do.
Many many thanks to show efficient way, it will save money as well as soil health.
Please keep uploading.
🥰 Love from India.🥰
Glad you found it valuable :-)
🤣I had such a hard time getting my mind around this when I started growing…but there is a ton of facts that support it…and once you see how well it works it stops being weird & just becomes one more way we work together❤️ great vid!🙌🙌
You deserve a Pee Body Reward for this.
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Oh that’s a bad one.❤❤😊
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Good info James, this is smart and creative and natural and free! Lol great job buddy.
Thanks, John! I agree 100%. One of the best fertilizers on Earth.
Love it definitely will be using it I’ve heard it before but didn’t get an explanation so thanks for the explanation
1 plant beans. Common green bean. Adds nitrogen to the soil as they grow.
What is the black powder you put in? Is it important to use? Or just pee and water make sense?
He said he would put that info in the show notes. Look for "kelp"
I like it that you are expanding your knowledge to more than just your Revolution garden beds. I have been wondering how to add urine and other healthy nutrients to my soil. This was excellent info...I would love to know how much kelp extract and fulvic acid to add to the gallon of urine/ water mixture.
Great to see ya here on YoutTube, Carolyn.
Glad you found this useful.
I find one teaspoon of kelp/humic/fulvic to be more than enough for the amount of fertilizer I made in this video (one full watering can). Hope that helps!
Thank you, James!
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I found this through your email to me, now subbing here, too..
Helpful information and humor---Thank you! If I just add it to my compost pile, will it still work????
Hey Nancy, glad you found it useful. Yep! It is an excellent source of nitrogen for compost, especially if you're short on vegetable scraps or other nitrogen sources. Great question. Keep growing.
Thanks! God bless y'all and keep growing.@@JamesFryGrowEverywhere
I haven’t read comments yet, but you can buy a cheap toilet seat designed specifically for 5 gallon buckets. Great video.
Yep when I was a kids 4 of us peeing in a bucket I’m the one watering the garden. I’m with you all the way James
Great video! But if I may add a bit to the conversation..
What comes out, is entirely dependent on what’s going in.. What do I mean? I mean it’s only gonna have the ideal nutrients, if you are eating a diet with a substantial amount of those nutrients.
So those of you subsisting off of Doritos, microwave dinners, and Diet Coke… Might not get much out of this method.
Very true, Eric. Nitrogen is probably going to be the same given even Doritos have nitrogenous compounds which will show up in urine. However, the trace minerals could be lacking... which is one reason I wash down my doritos with water that has a liquid trace mineral supplement added ;-) (JK I don't eat doritos)
@@JamesFryGrowEverywhere just dip your Doritos in comfrey tea, and you’ll be alright lol
@@eric123426 😂
As a healthy Vegan which, for me, means a complete "circle of life", I also use no 'man'-u-fractured drugs . . . . . So my urine is truly Gold 😘
Well certainly better than those fertilizers. I’ll stick w my worm castings for now 😊. Good vid!
I just found you today 😊, and you are already my favorite 😅! I have seen a video before how Chinese people use urine as fertilizer, I love it
James, thank you so much for the educational videos they are priceless , we are 60 some years old and we love growing the orange hat dwarf tomatoes non gmo from baker in winter.we are using knock off areogardens but the A and B fertilizer that you mix
from China is kind of expensive when you are on fixed incomes and not really that great. Would you be so kind to recommend a solution and how to mix it in 1 gallon at a time? Thank you James for the great educational videos.
Dale & Pam Baird
i need help
some people said "use fresh urine"
and some other said "use 6 months aged urine"
which one is the right way and not harmful for health ??!!
Good question.
There's no difference as far as health goes.
Using fresh urine will act as more of a "slow release" fertilizer.
Aged urine will be more readily available for microbes to break down.
Unless fermenting, 6 months is not necessary for the incubation period. 2 weeks is more than enough.
That's it! Keep growing.
Hi. New subscriber here😁. Love your amazing video, i have learned alot oh how to make my own free fertilizer. Next step for me is to actually try it.😅
Thank you so much for the new knowledge.
God bless you and your family💜
It’s good to also put a fish bubbler at the bottom of the water container to rid the chlorine faster and oxygenate the water.
Indeed. It’s mentioned in the upcoming video 😊
Am I the only one who had to pee just from watching this video? 😂
I can never find the links
Check out the video description and click "more" to expand and you'll find the links :-)
How long does it last? Is there a shelf date?
Good question, Scott. Not really. The ammonia content degrades very slowly over the course of months. Even urine stored for a year still has viability.
I drink it everyday in Argentina they drink all day. A town in China live for over 100 yrs they boil eggs. I have been sharing this with everyone. SHARE SHARE...For a younger skin do 10 min with a towel opens your pores, great shampoo & med for dandruff.
Link to your video that eliminates chlorine from city water please thanks
I actually use urine to jumpstart my compost. It helps it to break down faster.
🤔 if I keep it potent and then place it in a liquid fertilizer applicator, the kind that attaches to a garden hose... would it work? For fertilizing a lawn.
... asking for a friend 😅
Do you recommend this for growing arborvitae trees faster/fuller?
Why is male per better than female pee? Also is there a difference in female pee during her time of the month?
Hey Amy. It's not. They're the same in nutrient quality. The different hormones per time of month shouldn't impact plants at all, although further study is merited.
Just remember, human urine has a high salt content.
For women, a pool noodle on the rim of a 5 gal bucket works well.
Fun fact: if you are a meat eater, your urine can help repel herbivores.
Sorry vegans but yours won't work for that.
Male urine is better than female urine.
The actual rate of mix is 10:1 water to urine for mature plants and 20:1 for seedlings.
Ascorbic Acid will remove chlorine and chloramine.
You can hook up an RV water filter to your garden hose to remove bad things.
You can buy and use commercial fertilizers that do not contain nitrogen. Phosphorous, Potash, soil sulfur, Epsom salt, Azomite, etc.
If you use potting soil you must add those into the soil plus some form of nitrogen or the plants will starve.
Potting soil basically has nothing in it.
Good stuff.
However two things:
1. What do you base male urine being better than female urine on? Apart from hormones (which don't impact plants) the nutrient quality is the same.
2. I don't mess with commercial fertilizers. You can get bio-available phos, potassium, sulfur, etc from organic sources... but those are different videos ;-)
@@JamesFryGrowEverywhere I did research into urine a couple years ago. Male urine is a lot more concentrated (in the mornings anyway). This comes from animals marking their territory.
Females not so strong so as to not attract predators. Also different mineral makeup rates too.
Males generally eat more red meat than females too. In male urine, a metabolized component of that red meat can help drive off herbivores. Can't remember the protein released.
A study was done with old women using birth control pills in their plant water. It did impact the plants a bit causing them to flower more.
Unfortunately for those old women, Dr's won't prescribe those pills to them as there was no medical reason to do so.
My wife's potted plants use potting soil that has nothing in it so she uses Miracle Grow just for those annuals.
Plants I do only get minerals, urine, and Alaska Fish Fertilizer.
Oh and fall leaves with used coffee grounds when I can get them.
Plants I do are food producing.
1/2 of them are sub irrigated (in laundry baskets sitting in unused oil change drain pans). Other 1/2 either in grow bags, direct planting, or in 4 straw bales (which I found out are poisoned with Grazon so nothing grows for long). Been over a year now and those bales are just now breaking down.
EASY to see if they need water and easy to fill.
That system also helps prevent crawling insects from attacking my plants (those won't or can't swim).
I have in the past made comfrey tea. However, due to extreme drought and very HOT summers (record heat), most of my comfrey plants died.
I used to treat tap water with ascorbic acid to eliminate chloramine. Then switched to an RV inline water filter to do the job.
That is used for plants in the ground. Rain water for everything else.
Sorry about the rambling lol
I know what I’m doing to fertilize my yard.
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Sure can.
Direct application on plants woun't make the minerals and other substances evaporate. Only water evaporates. And no, it is not gross to drop pee on vegetables and the eat them. Urin from a healthy individual is safe to even drink. More than that, it can be curative. Nice video Brother.
True, they will not evaporate however they can oxidize and that will reduce the potency ;)
I agree. Zero risk even if you did shower the veggies with pee.
Does well water usually contain chlorine ?
If you have a nasty weed, like a patch of poison ivy, where you would prefer to be able to venture safely, undiluted urine is a great way to kill it. I remember an account of someone letting their going children whee on the tree where poison ivy grew. The poison ivy died. The tree was fine, since it has far more extensive routes.
Absolutely. Another great use for Liquid Gold!
You have an omnidirectional fertilizer Applicator 😂😂😂😂
Plenty more garden puns and analogies where that came from. 😉 Keep growing!
How often to use the fertiliser in the garden ? Thanks
You can apply weekly at a minimum, and can scale up to adding more as plants grow and their nitrogen demands increase. Just keep an eye out for signs of "burning" the plants (yellowing leaves). Keep growing!
@@JamesFryGrowEverywhere thankyou ❤️
@@JamesFryGrowEverywhere Also can you share the link of the video here where u mentioned about removing chlorine. I couldn’t find it in other videos or description? Thanks
@@Mister.Doodler Unfortunately, I pulled it from YT to re-film. Sorry about that. Will update it soon enough.
In the meantime, the basics are:
Use a carbon filter hose attachment, or add a small vitamin C tablet to a bucket of water and let sit for a few hours, or aerate water for 24 hours before using. The ultimate of course being rain water. Hope that helps!
@@JamesFryGrowEverywhere thanks a lot
I’m not eating it, I’m smokin’ it. Woo hoo!
🤣 Keep growing, Phil.
Hey buddy, where’s the link to the “getting rid of chlorine” video?
Sadly, i suspect I already know the answer to this question...
Lemme know 🤷♂️🤙🤙
Thankyou
This video makes me wonder if ammonia could be used as a fertilizer, too. Without turning it into ammonium nitrate, that is.
You certainly can. I’ve tried it, however I find urine gives much better results due to all the other micro and macro nutrients. Plus it’s organic and free 😅
I’ve got carboys and kegs for making beer…..
Pee u !!! Ha ha ha. Thank u for the info. I dont know if i ever use it but it is good to know❤
Hello,i need your assistant on how to get it done
Wonderful now i make my comfrey tea with pee.
No links?...
Yup, works for me ! Just piss on your garden Avery morning good all summer
You know if you fill up a 5 gallon bucket or 55 gallon barrel with tap water and sit it out in the sun it won't be chlorinated for long .
True, as long as it doesn’t have chloramines. Video on this coming next week.
It’s good to also put a fish bubbler at the bottom to rid the chlorine faster and oxygenate the water.
Good stuff. But: urine can be salty, kelp can be salty
🙋♀️ Carol, it's kelp extract
Go to "more", right below the video title & find more info with the links.
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Good catch@@mspat8195. The extract has salts removed. While urine can have high levels of salt, I've never seen it increase too much, as measured by an electro conductivity (EC) meter. All good.
Glad I found this article
Disappointed I take medication
I have found that the sodium content in urine isn’t high enough to have an impact. It merits more research depending on diet of the per donor though. Kelp extract has the benefit of all the trace minerals from sea salt without the salt. If you’re making your own kelp extract, a tea with two washes to extract salt water is advisable prior to brewing/fermenting to make extract.
@@JamesFryGrowEverywhere It all depends on the diet of the urine contributor. That has been studied. Nitrogen content also varies by diet. That said, i don't deal with the urine for my uses but I would deal with the salt if I was putting high volumes of urine in one place regularly and not pulling up the plants.
Shair ❤❤❤
I have heard that you are on Pharmaceutical that can damage your garden. What are you thoughts
This is explicitly mentioned in this video. Did you watch it all the way through?
@@JamesFryGrowEverywhere I did watch it all the way through after I made the comment. I am sorry that I offended you.
@@lesliemelby7633none taken 😊 just want us all to be efficient with our time
Why not just add ammonia?
Doesn’t work as well. Lacks the other macro and micro nutrients. Plus urine is free 😊
Midnight soil?
Only when properly composted 😊
Is that why corn is yellow 😂
Peeing on the green😂
Pee Fun Facts:
- Fresh urine is slightly acidic, which most plants love.
- Aging urine becomes very high pH (ammonia). If mixed with potash (also high pH), you can accidentally raise your soil pH past neutral.
- In the past, urine wasnt only for wounds. Most clothing was "washed" in processed pee.
- Urine is one of the main ingredients for niter beds, for making potassium nitrate, a key element in gun powder.
- Average fresh urine is 95% water, 5% urea and 5% uric acid.
- A diet heavy in salt will increase the salt content of urine. Using that in the same area for years can build up salts in the soil.
- Urine and feces were used in compost to make "night soil" for many centuries. Can't do that now a days due to PFAS inside most people.
Hope you enjoyed the pee knowledge 😊
Uhm. NO. Note to self: don’t go to James’ house for dinner.
So why does dog pee kill grass??
Nitrogen too highly concentrated in one area. Revisit dilution around minute 2:00 of the video.
It’s not just dog pee. I live in a very secluded part of the country. I save a LOT of gallons of water by not using the toilet inside the house. The grass along my gravel drive will testify to the first sentence.
Omnidirectional fertilizer applicator...😂😂😂😂
Hmmm, I use it as a weed killer....
ummmmm then why do my cats always ruin my plants
Nitrogen overdose.
I’ll pass on the veggies.
Are you serious or pulling a prank… WTF 😳
There are a large number of scientific studies proving the viability of urine as a fertilizer in large scale agriculture, and gardening. One of which is mentioned in this video. No prank.
Your mom?! 😳😳
Yup. She’s a pro gardener. Dad too. Both urine fans!
Next your gonna tell us to drink this liquid Gold mixture Right!
No.
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As long as you're fertilizing your plants with #1, why don't you go ahead and dump your #2 on your plants....
That’s a different video for another day.