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[miekal and <dtv@mwt.net>]

Im not surprised to hear that there are auxins in urine but it is something you have to be careful with how you use.  Ive used  a dilute solution to fertilize container plants (figs, loquats, passionflowers love it) for years.  On the other hand I fertilized a salvia divinorum & I literally watched the cell tissue of the plant break down over the course of 2-3 hours & the whole plant melted into a gooey slime.  As for smell, fresh urine leaves almost no smell & in my many years of using it on my plants Id have to say the girl pee is easier on the nose than boy pee.  & smell is much more of an issue for inside plants.   I would think if you were using it as rooting hormone the smell would get out of control, sitting in open water like that.  But maybe if you were rooting in a medium it would work nicely, I'll give it a try on some figs this spring.

mIEKAL





On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 10:46 AM, hector black wrote:

> I'm sure they're there, but Lon's right about the smell.  I also found that even diluted 50%, urine can kill seedlings so I wonder if the other chemicals present would counteract the auxins.  My experience is that urine should only be used with well esablished, healthy plants.   Seems to me I remember reading somewhere about reverse osmosis where the strength of the solution outside the root draws water out of the plant instead of nutrients into.     Hector Black zone 6
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lon J Rombough
> To: North American Fruit Explorers
> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 4:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] auxins in urine
>
> It would be easier to use something like willow water, and a lot less smelly.
>    And yes, human urine does contain hormones.  So much that the use of birth control and hormone replacement is getting into water systems and causing feminizing of fish populations.
> -Lon Rombough
>
>
> From: buretachi@juno.com
> Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:23:43 EST
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [NAFEX] auxins in urine
>
>
> To start a thread on urine again:
>
> in some reading somewhere, it was noted that auxins are present in human
> urine and probably critter urine too.  Has anyone experimented with
> rooting cuttings with diluted urine?  willing to talk about it?  
>
> Scott
> PA
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