Originally Posted by stinkyattic
Believe it or not, watering with urine is far less worrisome than standing cut stems of a bud in food coloring for a couple reasons.
Urine is like, UBER nitrogen. N in more than one chemical form, too! SUPER concentrated plant food. It will kill your plants with over-fert, but the uptake of the nitrogen if the plant lives will just lead to increased chlorophyll harshness in the smoke. Plus it's sterile! People drink it sometimes in emergencies.
It's the question of bypassing the roots and introducing a foreign substance directly into the plant tissue that concerns me the most. Like those experiments you did in school with turning celery blue, lol!
I think of the root system in a way like a safety mechanism whereby the plant uptakes only specific things it requires for its survival. True, some marsh plants are known to be able to uptake heavy metals and incorporate them into their tissues, but that's kind of a tangent.
Well anyway... :D
Cool cool.