Adding Juicer Pulp for natural Nutes?

Zeppelin92

New Member
Hey wondering if anyone has tried mixing pulp from a juicer into their soil as a natural source of nutrients for their plants. I've considered adding kale pulp, spinach, carrot, celery and banana peals to my soil, each has their own beneficial nutrients and since I'm juicing all the time I have plenty. I'm just not sure if it's going to help or hurt. Anyone tried it with good results?
 

MistaRasta

Well-Known Member
Make sure you give it time to compost. If you're putting it in soil it's gonna take a while to break it down.

Do you have a worm bin?
If so throw any and all veggie/fruit scraps in there and the worms will do some work on it and leave you with some amazingly potent ewc.
 

bertaluchi

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If you don't have a worm bin you can make one in 10 min. I made one last weekend for a friend. All you need is one of those rubbermade type plastic containers. Poke some holes in the top and sides and install some sort of spigot for your earth worm tea and your golden. I live in the south-east and we have a shit ton of red wigglers here, so I got mine from my backyard but if you dont have them in your soil go to a fish and tackle shop. They should have them..
 

GrowerGoneWild

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Dont do it, i've been doing somewhat the same thing on some clones in soil. After adding old fruit/veggie juice on the surface of my soil I observed a huge growth of hyphae, (fungus strands) on the top, now its possible I overwatered it but I doubt it. Anyways, it killed one of the clones in soil, eventually a complete loss of turgidy....Totally lost one.. One still survives, it was less established in the container.

Here's my problem with anything with carrot peels or juice... They seem to have a large ammount of mold spores on them, if I dont clean my juicer right away (discharge container).. the carrot peels/pulp seem to populate with spores the quickest. When added to soil, again.. a huge mold/fungus population grows where the juice was added.

Again I've observed this problem in hydro, when sugar based additives are added even in a dead res, you can induce a pythium infection.so doing the same thing adding a spike in sugar(s). I see the effects were negative. So.. excess sugar(s) is a bad idea.

IF you are going to add that stuff, either heavily dilute it with dechorinated tap water ..or compost prior to use.
 
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