So lemme get this right. You didn't test for any nutrients but make the claim there's no nutrients. So your word against mine I guess? I have my plants on a timed watering cycle and they get the same amount of water every day. So they aren't under watered. I always thought this was BS but gave it a try adding peels to the container my watering system feeds from and absolutely noticed a difference in about a week. Especially in my pepper plants. So having 1 variable change, the bananna peel water verses the regular spring water I normally use, did infact yield me a result. I've only done this once so it's by no means a scientific study but when 10 plants explode a weeks time. That to me is showing a significant advantage over just plain watering.

If you cannot test the water to tell us if it possesses NPK or not I refuse to believe you.

Thank you Dr. Pavlis. I received your Plant science for gardeners as a gift. Great read!

I chop the banana peel real fine and put it in the soil and then it decomposes on its own and the nutrients get released slowly and steadily

Thank you,Bob for your excellent videos.

It does work somewhat, but its very slow and inefficient when you just stuff a fresh peel in the jar. Best to dehydrate several of them and grind it into a powder, then put it in a jar with water, shake it up, and let it sit in the fridge for a while.

Thank you for the info. Very clear explanation.

I'm my personal experience. i got basil from eating pho if anyone knows what that is they give you a side of basil. i took one stem home to grow it's root and put it in indirect sunlight on a bottle with water. then i took fresh bannana with warm water and blend it up with my blend tech cover the lid for a week or 2. i can't remember but then I would pour a shot of it every week to my basil plant. not only was it thriving it also grew flowers and it dropped seeds. at first I wasn't familiar with the seeds dropping and wondered where these specs of dirt were coming from. I was excited of what I learned. i can definitely say it works

How about drying it and pulverizing it? You could then apply it as a dry powder for a long feed or mix it with water for quicker realese?

Thank you very much. Your videos are so interesting! Greetings from Italy!!!

I’m all about “show me the proof🧐”, “show me some science”, “state your case”! I’m not big on fads, viral hive mind following, trends, or unproven claims. At least this guy comes with intelligence, science🤓, and a compelling argument encouraging us to simply use common sense! 🤔 It’s imperative to question EVERYTHING!!!

Thanks dr for your beautiful upload

I intend to use powdered form only, which is meant to work as slow release anyway.

Thank you Robert.❄️💚🙃

I get so happy when you release a new video :) I still have so much to learn :) Thank you.

Use them in the compost where they are most useful! 😊 Having said this, did bury a couple of dried out peels last year with one tomato plant and there was a difference.

I do like to use compost. It seems to help. Can't really see how a banana peel soaked in water would help. Thankyou for your video

Thank you for sharing.

would freezing the peels make the cell walls break faster??

What if the banana peels are boiled in the water then then boiled water is added on the soil along with the peels . After cooling of course 😎 ( i am sure if you boiled a human being some nutrients would come out of it into the water ) ❤

It's like a stomach. Sure you can swallow chunks of food but that makes digestion harder. You can chew it up fine to get the most out of it. Of course it's part of the process. If you are using living soil to grow, this material is being used to feed the soil microbes not the plant, the microbes break it down then worms or fungi make it bioavailable to the plants. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Also I believe making a tea from banana peels is beneficial because bacteria are growing in the water. The water usually has a bubbler that provides oxygen which in turn keeps beneficial bacteria alive. Oxygen also helps break down the material. When you use the tea you are giving it bacteria and nutrients from the broken down matter. I'd be interested to see lab tested nute content for different techniques. I personally prefer to chop up the peel and bury next to plant or use as a mulch. Sure if you are intending to replace mineral ferts with the solution, I understand it wont result as intended but most people doing this are applying to living soil as an innoculant or repopulating technique.

Yeah they have mate!! Just because you didn’t see it. It came out at 2100 ppm using water from the mountain side. That’s perfectly clean and super clean low ppms. I think it definitely enhances your plants life

Good to see a rigorous scientific discussion of banana peel (bp) fertilizer. Would be great to actually test the bp-water for K+ by a lab, or using an aquarium or urine home K+ test kit. Also, drying the peels before use should cause cell rupture and release K+, right? Or, feed bp's to worms and let them do the work of releasing the K+ and PO4 for garden use.

I love to hear all sides of the story and use critical thinking, logic, wisdom, common sense and do empirical experimentations! I appreciate hearing this point of view! It sure does resonate with good old common sense!!!

It’s a good potassium source if you pulverize it properly. This was a sloppy experiment

I’ve never used the tea. I’ve sun dried, turned it into a a powder, and tested it before with the rapitest. The k is really high. It still smells like banana in powder form.

To say "nobody has ever tested this water" shows a general lack of research done, regarding research done on the effects of banana peel water as fertilizer. There are studies that have been completed, with full abstracts, details, experiment groups, conclusions, and cited sources. A quick google will return said research papers.

What about using the actual banana and doing something similar?

What happens if it is immersed in water for long days? Will it release nutrients to immersed water.Many suggest rice water, Dal water are they making us fool

What if you put banana peels in buttermilk?

Prove it-conduct an actual experiment rather than pushing more conjecture

For me it works. I compared it to the one I didn't use banana peels on. It's was pumpkin and I got plenty healthy pumpkin

Maybe he's selling fertilizers

How about sun drying the banana peels then grind to a powder form. Will this work ? Chatgpt say ill will get a 1 - 0.3 - 3.

👍👍👍 Thank you

To test the nutrient content check the ppm

Nice video

Reader's Digest's article says that banana peel won't release nutrients quickly as some people say. There isn't any scientific studies that indicates the banana peel water contains enough nutrients. The article says that blending, boiling banana peel process may release nutrients.

Here's what I do with my banana peels: They get thrown in the scrap bucket along with all the other kitchen waste, from whence they make their way to the outdoor compost bin. There's nothing so special about a banana peel that distinguishes it from other kitchen waste and justifies additional or different processing. If I wanted the nutrients to be available to plants sooner, I would bury the scraps in the garden directly and let them compost in the ground, but I would prefer not to have animals digging up scraps in the garden.

I’ve shredded the banana peels, added 80c water to the bananas in a sealed bucket and left to start to ferment and added fresh aloe juice to the mixture and leave another 24 hours and start using that in diluted mixture for plants and fruits in tubs. I’ve compared using the mixture on several plants and fruits and also compares to using water only and there is a very noticeable difference in plant strength, root maturity and thickness (which I believe is a core element most people neglect?) in turn allowing more water and nutrients to be shuttled and leading to greater results There are elements to consider with anything fermented as well and potential impacts on different soil types and plants. Bacteria can be good and very bad and using fresher batches should mitigate that. I’ve had amazing results using my own chicken bone meal, dry brown onion 🧅 skins, egg shells ground up, aloe Vera with all being free and recycled wastes many throw out. Don’t you just love nature 😊

show us how to extract nutrients and make a plant ready tea then?

Even on things this trivial, question everything!

I don’t know who to believe anymore 😩 I just watched a video of a guy who made banana peel liquid fertilizer and he was talking about how much it helps your plants and explained all the different ways it helps them and talked about all the nutrients in it. And his plants really looked great! 🤷🏻‍♀️

I find it weird that someone will attempt to debunk a practice with no analytical data. I’ve made banana tea for my plants with a banana peel that was fresh from the market (yellow) and one that encased a banana ready for banana bread (black)…IYKYK. The tea made with the yellow peel sat in a glass jar in direct heat and sun for about two weeks. The appearance of the peel did not change much. I tested the solution on a flowering outdoor plant that had two flowers. Within two or three days the plant had a significant/noticeable amount of flowers. The tea with the black peel sat in a glass jar for about a week in indirect sunlight and some heat. When I opened the jar I had to do it slowly as the experience was similar to opening a shaken pop/soda can. I’m not a professional scientist but I know a chemical reaction when I see one. I just tested this solution on my cucumber plants. If banana tea isn’t a thing then I guess my cucumbers will be alright (sarcastically saying)

:) great video

Thank you for your info. I think it is a little good for plant😄, water must contain some part of banana peel, plants maybe can absorb their nutrition after several months, maybe can grow more earthworms...

You're both right and wrong. The way you did the banana water would result in just colored water with maybe some floating bits. You need to scrape off the inner membrane and blend it with water. You don't need to let it sit. It's not going to get better with age like wine. It's not magic. It's not a fertilizer. It's simply carbs. Some sugars and starches. If you already have a healthy soil and you pour this sugar/carb brew in there, it will cause a big bloom in microbes that actually do the work of fertilizing your plant.

Super cool. TY Question: Any benefits to rice water?

Throw the hole Peel in the soil, attracts microbial diversity and the calcium in the peel also increases absorption of nitrogen not to mention trace elements of sulfur manganese and magnesium

4:00 when people in the bathtub or swimming nothing happens, because they are still alive, but when dead body in the water, it'll be a different story

so u say no one tested it to prove it has nutrients. u say it doesn't have nutrients yet u didn't test it either.! so your opinion is no more educated than the other peoples opinions. and it looks like someone did test it because they follow actual science not just spout words. it turns out the npk of dry banana peel is: N 0.6, P 0.4, k 11.5. according to this person who tested it the fresh peels are 1/5 the nutrition of the dry. now , they did not say how they tested it, or what they used to test it. but at least they actually tried to follow the science.

I feel there are nutrients throughout the banana and the peel. Once soaked in water nutrients will leach into the water almost right away. How many nutrients idk. I do know the discoloration of the water is caused by nutrients going into the water. You don't boil beans for 3 days so this gives more time for nutes to be leached out of the banana and into the water. I feel this tea is more effective than water because people have been using it for decades. The response rate for potassium intake has been proven by many people. If you have a potassium problem and you use this tea, it works and many, many growers for 80 years have sworn that it works on their potassium problems and have seen their plants improve with this deficiency.

You don't get it, do you? The banana tea is to feed the Mycorrhizae not the plants.

I don't know about being fertilizer but banana does produce the acid that's used as rooting hormone.

I turn mine into powder and it does work.

I have one of the worst systemic fungal infections anyone could ever imagine. Banana peels have worked better than ANY fungal medication I have taken. Both on my skin and internally, with some cinnamon and thyme. Do your research on bioactivity of banana peels

Can u help me to make micronutrients at home????

Works for me

Each to their own i guess, I've used this method alot &it''s worked Great, This aswell as urine&Water... Lemon plants love it

I can understand where you're coming from, but by your scientific explanation teas should not have any health benefits either, but they do. Perhaps it's your method of soaking the banana peel that's not producing any results in YOUR experiment. How about boiling or soaking the banana peels in hot water like tea leaves are soaked? Wouldn't that produce a different result?

Add boiling water not just norman water it breaks it down differently It’s just common sense bro the wager soaks up the nutrients the potassium ext and you can transfer it to the plants it’s free to do and has worked for a long time no point trying to debunk it so hard lol.. it’s free and easy for anyone to try if it makes them feel better so be it

So does this mean everyone else on here saying it works are lying?

i've been drying peels and then pulverizing in vita blender. Am i wasting my time?

Why are you comparing a dead banana to a living organism?

Potassium is water soluble. Just saying

Whats your take on using urine for fertilizer?

He forgot to boil for 15 minutes

So why don't you do a npk test ?

So u saying even if u boil nottin goin to com out of it get out of here lets boil u lets se ir u dnt leak

BS, I fermented banana peels (more than a month) it works fine.

Yup, this is it..without decomposer nothin work..cuz those microbs and fungi create the miraces..thats it.

You know what would convince me, you NPK testing it instead of providing an opinion

when I first saw the posts on internet about banana peel fertilizer I thought to myself "oh my goodness another myth"

Just dig the banana peals or browning bananas, into the soil. The earthworms will do the rest.

Did you take worms into consideration in this experiment?

I used it on a few house plants and killed some and the others are barely surviving

Dude plants are fantastic because of banana peel water.

Yea because you are supposed to leave it in the water for 2-3 weeks i busted out laughing when you said 3 days

Put them in a blender, speed up the process

To me this is a strawman argument, putting whole banana peels in cold water is unlikely to cause leaching of nutrients so the video is mostly correct regarding this, but why attempt to make the fertilizer this way so you can debunk it? The cell walls of the peel need to be ruptured first (alluded to in the video). I cut up the peel in little pieces, simmered it in water for an hour and tested it with a TDS meter. The reading was approximately 1500 ppm which is perhaps too high to be applied directly to your plants, IDK. Since the meter measures ionic content, I would expect that that it would be directly absorbed by roots without needing to be broken down by microorganisms.

You say without analysing the water to see what's in it, "you don't know if it's a good fertiliser." 1) That is a false statement - you could find out by testing it against normal water on 2 batches of plants. 2) Your whole video is claiming it ISN'T any good, even though you didn't test it so according to you you CAN'T know whether it's good or not! This seems rather silly! Also, personally I have not seen anyone recommending leaving fresh banana peel in cold water for "3 or 4 days" as you have done. I have seen people recommend boiling banana skins in water, which indeed would break down the cell walls and put a lot of soluble minerals into the water. I have also seen people drying the peel then grinding it into power, which also would make the soluble nutrients available both to dissolving in water and also in general to the microorganisms in the soil. I don't know how well either of those work, but they're both categorically different to your 'method' and besides, you seem to have made no effort even regarding your 'method', to go any further than your preconception. Your preconception may or may not be correct, by YOUR OWN standards, without analysis, you're talking about something you don't know. And while you might be unwilling to pay for a test (but still willing to make a video casting yourself as an authority on this matter!), you didn't even bother doing a simple practical test, which would be better anyway than any composition analysis since it is not the composition people are actually mainly interested in - they're interested in the effect on plants, so better to measure that! I do like some of your videos by the way. But this one was illogical.

You too did not submit any technical proof against the banana peel fertilizer.

I bet it doesn’t work at all. Just bugs

For someone, especially who is a Doctor to argue against a process without doing any controlled tests or analytical data to back his information up is kind of contradicting his scientific jargon and appears amateurish to me.

he gave NO PROOF either but gave 2 OPINIONATED examples of rambling. Reputation is everything. how can people trust you without facts

Wait, so you didn't analyze the banana water and telling us this doesn't work. WHAT DID YOU FIND IN THIS BANANA WATER AND WHY WOULDN'T IT WORK.

Blend the peel wait 7 days or more it WORKS!!!

Just a lot of bullshit that’s all you see

*Says nobody has ever tested the nutrient content of water after infusing banana peels in it for a few days, therefore there's no proof that it works.* *Proceeds to say it doesn't work without bringing any proof either.* This is exactly what I don't like about your channel, you're so keen on busting gardening myths, yet you don't bring anything of substance to the conversation and your methods are so laughably flawed that I won't even get into it. If you wanted to be relevant, you'd have run some tests on your banana peel water and shared the results with us. What you're doing is anti-scientific and you don't seem to recognize that you're guilty of making exactly the same mistakes than what the people saying these methods work are doing. Besides that point, your bath analogy is downright wrong. The reason why we don't dissolve in bathwater is because we're still alive. Try leaving a corpse in bathwater for a few days and it'll start infusing and will probably become broth after only a few weeks. If you really wanted to give any of these myths a chance, you would have tried multiple infusions, for example: 3 days, 3 weeks and 3 months, hot water infusion, etc. and then compare the results on them. You could also have touched on the NPK content of banana peels which is 0.6-0.4-11.5 (dried peels) instead and what would be the alternative to make these nutrients available to your plants (fair enough, you touched on compost) but I think that with the audience that this is aimed towards, you should be more clear about it and say: ''Don't waste your time with banana peel tea and do this instead''. I'm holding people on the Internet to a much higher standard than you seem to be holding yourself, yet you claim to have a science background and don't seem to understand the first thing about the scientific method so you need to be called out on your poor methods because you do have a responsibility to back your claims if you want to be taken seriously.

I've been growing plants for a long time. And yes banana does give magnesium and potassium into the water. You can't rely only on banana water or they will become deficant. But yes your grandma was right. Makes plants grow healthier than without.

You need to heat it but not cook it.

This guy has tested nothing. This is all his biased opinion.