Peeponics - hydroponics without the chemicals, aquaponics without the fish.

[nephildevil]

just as u can make gunpowder from soil and pee, you can feed plants on it aswell, case u run out of nurtient solution

[esidrdave]

Algae is great, it can also be produced from urine and used as a fertlizer. However, urine is a plant ready fertilizer itself. Running this through a biofilter rock bed will provide all the nutrients needed to grow anything! Algae can also be used as a fertlizer but the biomass can present a problem, in deep water or ebb flow systems. However if you do it with ebb and flow and add worms to the system the system is complete, and a much more closed loop system than anything else conceivable.

[maniacram]

Woow this is interesting. Thinking back this is so obvious.

Now i have some questions, urine contains ammonia right? what do you use to convert it into nitrate? do you have some sort of aerated media with bacteria growing? Thanks a lot for this idea, cant wait to start a project and piss off my parents(pun) :D

[SamuelitoRubio]

Interesting.

[cfl420grower]

question. Im hoping you could give me some advice. How much piss should i mix when making my fertilizer for my marijuana plants, i got a 1gallon milk jug and want to know basicly how much should be added?

STAY HIGH!

[cianoy]

Hi! So how did this experiment go? Did the plants thrive in the "peeponics" system? Did you use anything else for nutrients?

[esidrdave]

@cianoy There's another video in this series that shows the plants after several weeks doing very well. It also compares peeponics with air and without added air. Circulating water is not as important as oxygenation. it will also be helpful to raise duckweed in peeponics systems as duckweed converts ammonia to nitrate.

[BAMFeldman]

It is the dominating source for nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, and holds 50% to 90% of these essential elements. I got that from a website. I'm going to try peeing in my 50 gallon aquaponics tank now, lol. I never expected this.

[esidrdave]

@BAMFeldman It's pretty exciting stuff. Makes you wonder what else it is we see and do every day without thinking 'how a simple lifestyle change can have such a potential positive impact?

[esidrdave]

@esidrdave Exactly! It takes one persons urine for one year to produce 2500 tomato plants, equivalent to 2.5 tons of tomatoes. ONE PERSON!

[esidrdave]

@BAMFeldman How did your peeponics experiment go?

[BAMFeldman]

@esidrdave I had to stop my experiment, as ammonia levels ran too high and killed my fish. I'll try it in the future.

[esidrdave]

@BAMFeldman . Yes, and to all beware, it doesn't take much urine. Maybe a cup or two every two weeks per one or two feet of growing area. Aerate to reduce ammonia, add duckweed, anacharis and watercress or an ebb and flow system to convert ammonia. Surface area in tank will suffice if good aeration, and live plants for aerobic, nitrifying bacteria to colonize.

[BAMFeldman]

urine is the dominating source for the major agricultural nutrients

nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, and holds 50% to 90% of these essential elements

(Larsen and Gujer, 1996) i just found this on a website

[BAMFeldman]

I am doing aquaponics and have a 50 gallon tank. Can i pee in my tank lol? What nutrients are in urine? 

[BAMFeldman]

I am doing aquaponics and have a 50 gallon tank. Can i pee in my tank lol? What nutrients are in urine?

[samann95014]

i converted my dry backyard into lushful garden using my liquid gold. it grows sativa very well too :)

[JDNuvo]

do you use air stones?? try water cress.

[esidrdave]

@JDNuvo I tried water duckweed for ammonia and anacharis for oxygen. Does watercress add considerable amount of oxygen? The results were not difinitive cause I did not have a comparison. Will repeat the test with algae, worm teas and urine as nutrient options this year.

[picklehead7]

In ancient Rome it was considered a boon to have a centurion to pee in your garden as they were well fed and their urine contained a lot of nitrogen.

[picklehead7]

In ancient Rome it was considered a boon to have a centurion to pee in your garden as they were well fed and their urine contained a lot of nitrogen.

[4eyes2sea]

I like what you say about urine therapy... it's so true, you pay attention to what goes in when you drink waters from your own cistern.. but it's like "don't try this at home kids"... much research is good before embarking on UT.. even after drinking it all for a long time, there is so much to clean in the temple, probably because we eat such a dirty world... awesome idea. You inspire me.. ~*~

[esidrdave]

if you do it in a hydro system be sure that there is adequate bacteria to convert the ammonia. if the system is not colonized the ammonia will not be converted. ebb and flow is ideal but deep water is possible too, just need to be chemical free so bacteria thrives.

[jojo808]

awesome . that actually makes perfect sense esi. and you are right about it making one think deeply about what goes in their body,and thats good on its own

[Aimrehtopyh]

I had the same idea a few weeks ago! Once I get a fluidized bed sand biofilter functioning I'm going to try it. I think we should call it piss-ponics, but I'm just a vulgar weirdo.

[jojo808]

this is funny because i have done this in 1 of my hydro systems, must have over done it cuz it burnt my plants and left the water foil and murky .

[esidrdave]

My comment above is in reply to yours. good luck.

[esidrdave]

@jojo808 Hydro systems need a biological filter to convert ammonia to nitrate. That doesn't easily happen as there is likely not much living bacteria in most hydro systems.