Banana tee - very low pH

Hi!
I am newbie here, but I am also passionate so would be very gratefull if you could answer my question.

Some info: it's my first grow, I am using all-mix and bio-bizz nutrients.

I made banana-water for extra potassium - 6 banana peels in 1,5 L water. I left it for few days and today I checked the pH level... which is: 3,8-4 pH.

My grow is full organic, and so is banana-water also. Should I be scared for that VERY low pH?? Or is it fine for organics?

(I haven't used mycorryzha)


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I wouldn't give that to my plants. Adding something that acidic could cause an imbalance. Maybe someone else way smarter than me might disagree but I would just toss all that into a compost pile. I mean there's lots of things you can add that are also 100% organic but that does not necessarily justify them being in your soil mix. Do you think your plants really need that if you are already using nutrients?

I would doubt if there is any nutrition in banana peel tea. anaerobic bacteria I would assume yes. I have heard people doing this a few times lately and ??. If you really did need K, sweet potato is loaded with it. Cannabis doesn't use all that much K however and most deficiency of K are due to high amounts of other nutrients

It works for me I use it on my garden as well, anything that's blooming tomatoes cucumbers beets radish. Mind you all those like acid.

I can only share my limited experience. I recently used banana tea on my plant. I made the tea by boiling a chunk of one banana + a small piece of a single peel in water for 6 minutes, straining, cooling & using with my scheduled watering. Then about 80% of my leaves proceeded to go yellow & die within 4 days.

Here are the pics from my grow journal.

I'm growing in a Solo cup & was at Week 7 at the time of application. I didn't use an excessive amount compared to how much I use of other homemade fertilizers. Plant was completely fine before banana tea. I did a flush this week & a bunch of yellow crap came out the bottom. Don't know WHY that stuff was so toxic to my plant--whether it was pH, potassium overload or some other contaminant on the banana itself. I tested the remaining tea today & the pH was 6 according to my strips.

You got the works going with the nutrient line. Get composting instead so you do not have to be feeding or making teas next grow

Moonweed said:

Hi!
I am newbie here, but I am also passionate so would be very gratefull if you could answer my question.

Some info: it's my first grow, I am using all-mix and bio-bizz nutrients.

I made banana-water for extra potassium - 6 banana peels in 1,5 L water. I left it for few days and today I checked the pH level... which is: 3,8-4 pH.

My grow is full organic, and so is banana-water also. Should I be scared for that VERY low pH?? Or is it fine for organics?

(I haven't used mycorryzha)


Need answer a.s.a.p

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

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I’m using banana tea rn and everything I read before using said to dilute it at least 1-5 Most say 1-10

I found it easier to dry and grind the peels into a flour and top dress.

Be careful though, banana peels contain 40%+ potassium.

Keep in mind that there are quite a few pesticides used on bananas... buy organic.

Get yourself a digital pH meter and a bottle of pH UP & pH DOWN...keep your pH in between 6.2 to 6.7 and you'll be fine. Ever since I bought myself these things, kept my pH proper, I've never had any nutrient issues or lockout. Just Sayin'.

Do you mean fpj?

guitarzan said:

Get yourself a digital pH meter and a bottle of pH UP & pH DOWN...keep your pH in between 6.2 to 6.7 and you'll be fine. Ever since I bought myself these things, kept my pH proper, I've never had any nutrient issues or lockout. Just Sayin'.

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you can use 15 liters of ph down or up when the bacteria dominates the medium ph is 6.4 you can look at my diary i used 10 times as much as i usually need to balance my water it didnt want to change 24h and back to 6.4
considering that ph is not the problem probably too much of something else killed the plant as the guy above said they use pesticides and it has 40% potassium maybe that fucked her

Sounds like u made banana vinegar acetic acid is around 3 to 4 does it smel vinegary

friedguy said:

I found it easier to dry and grind the peels into a flour and top dress.

Be careful though, banana peels contain 40%+ potassium.

Keep in mind that there are quite a few pesticides used on bananas... buy organic.

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I know this is an older post but does this work well have you found? I have about a half gallon of dried crushed banana peals stored up and was wondering if I should just top dress these beauties with it or I'd I can make fjp with these dried ones? Or should I just wait and save them for a future worm bin?

I have no conclusive evidence that top dressing dried and crushed banana peels works. It did not attract any pests and it didn't burn my plants. All I grew with it came out great. But I didn't do any scientific tests to see if it made a difference or not.

I've never made FPJ from already dried fruits. Might need to rehydrate?

I'd give it to the worms.

I'm not sure why your pH level for the banana skin tea is only 3 to 4. They say that banana skins have a 9.91 pH. When I check the stuff I made, it was way high, nearly 9 pH, so I tried pH DOWN but it would've took a large amount of it as it didn't work as well as it does for pHing my nutrients + water mixture. Be careful with that banana skin tea, just regarding the pH is what I mean. I ended up throwing mine out because I couldn't get the pH level to between 6.3 to 6.8 like I prefer to keep it at.