If you water your plants with the water you collect in your dehumidifier, its like drinking your own urine. perfect nutrition.
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Water from dehumidifier is usually high in heavy metals like lead, depending on the quality of construction. The rads use a lot of lead solder. I wouldn't recommend using that water.
It was supposed to be a joke... I wouldnt suggest a person drink their urine. Good to know though. Now ill never be tempted with the idea of watering my plants with dehumidifier water
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Anecdotally I used to run my dehumidifier drain hose straight to a wick bed under my plants. They loved it. I wouldn't do it now though for reasons mentioned above.
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Strictly for pH adjusting
Everyone here knows I grow seed-to-harvest water-only in soil and don’t feed anything at all (unless you count some rare/random molasses, rice-water, etc. type simple things), so no need for pee-pee jokes from the juveniles...but genuinely surprised to hear that from you.
I swear I recall folks like @Mañ'O'Green recommending to people in need/desperate years ago, and people like @trailanimal, @hecno and others at a minimum talking about using it to turbocharge your compost, etc. Granted if folks aren’t healthy, or they’re on meds, or terrible diet, or growing in their bedroom, or spraying on the plant/fruit itself, etc.; that’s another story, but curious for any scientific reasons against it otherwise, as it seems that not just on some other cannabis forums and in literature, but also in the general farming population, skilled and knowledgeable folks are talking about it more and more as a sustainable, non-synthetic fertilizer at ~5-20/1 dilution-use depending on the plants/trees/environment
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Everyone here knows I grow seed-to-harvest water-only in soil and don’t feed anything at all (unless you count some rare/random molasses, rice-water, etc. type simple things), so no need for pee-pee jokes from the juveniles...but genuinely surprised to hear that from you.
I swear I recall folks like @Mañ'O'Green recommending to people in need/desperate years ago, and people like @trailanimal, @hecno and others at a minimum talking about using it to turbocharge your compost, etc. Granted if folks aren’t healthy, or they’re on meds, or terrible diet, or growing in their bedroom, or spraying on the plant/fruit itself, etc.; that’s another story, but curious for any scientific reasons against it otherwise, as it seems that not just on some other cannabis forums and in literature, but also in the general farming population, skilled and knowledgeable folks are talking about it more and more as a sustainable, non-synthetic fertilizer at ~5-20/1 dilution-use depending on the plants/trees/environment
Urine contains NPK, but it's not a balanced or proportionate amount compared to using an actual fertilizer. It also tends to be rather acidic (with a wide range,) so you'd likely want to buffer it out and dilute it. Then you're left with a really weak NPK solution that you have no idea the concentration of.
I'm sure there's a great argument in there for "desperate times call for desperate measures," but if there are generally accessible and better, more stable options out there within financial reach, there's an argument there as well.
These are also fantastic reasons to not.
Presuming a dehumidifier doesn't have lead or other toxic metal contamination (seems unlikely in a consumer product used indoors), the water condensed by a dehumidifier should be rather pure, low ppm/EC, etc., as pure/clean as rainwater; near as good/pure as RO water. It will be the opposite of "perfect nutrition." - other than water, it'll be zero nutrition.
But dehumidifier water will not be sterile, will have all microbes and particulate matter condensed along with the water from the air. Certainly good enough for plants, better than most tap water in terms of ppm/EC, but likely best not for drinking without some disinfection and/or filtration.
But dehumidifier water will not be sterile, will have all microbes and particulate matter condensed along with the water from the air. Certainly good enough for plants, better than most tap water in terms of ppm/EC, but likely best not for drinking without some disinfection and/or filtration.
The honey bucket goes to the compost daily, greatest part of the volume and weight is pee. The largest component of the compost is grass, green during the growing season, tall straw in the fall. Compost has away of balancing. I add large amounts yearly to my soil. Highest I've seen is 6.8, lowest 6.2. Results speak for themselves.....
