Specific objectives
To extract potassium from banana peels using an acid
To establish the elemental composition of the extract
To modify the extracted liquid and formulate it into a liquid fertiliser with Epsom salt for specific plants.
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Why not simply incinerate the banana peel and use the ash as a fertilizer?
Dear Joan,
You can easily make potassium fertilizer from banana peels in the following way:
- If you eat lots of bananas, you end up with lots of banana peels. Instead of throwing them out or even composting all of them, you can turn them into a potassium and phosphorus rich fertilizer.
- Place a tray in the oven and lay banana peels on it. Place the banana peels on a tray with the outer skin facing down so that they don't stick to the tray.
- Leave the tray with the banana peels in the oven when you cook other food.Don't turn the oven on just to roast the banana peels.
- After the banana peels are cool, break them up and store them in an airtight container.Use as a fertilizer. The cooked peels will fertilize the plants as they break down.
I agree with the other replies. I am the author that has made bananas a favorite. The data are forthe edible part of the fruit. The non-edible part probably isn't especially rich in potassium compared to grass, tree leaves ans other easily found vegetation.
The non-edible part of banana contains relatively high concentration of potassium when compared to other plants nutrients such as magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, sodium, etc. However, it contains insignificant to zero level of nitrogen which is an essential nutrient. The potassium level in banana peels is certainly above 30% and could be used as fertilizer after composting.
Just to be absolutely pedantic, potassium reacts with water, so potassium itself isn't extracted. Probably the carbonate. That applies to sodium and calcium as well.
is it essential to extract K? you can make banana peel ash by drying and burning the peel and apply as fertilizer
in making the fertilizer with potassium from the peels the main aim is for it to function as catalyst for easy nutrient uptake of plants
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Dear Peter Kapusta, Catalyst processing is degradation of organic compound which contains double bond become hydroxide and H2O, not uptake processing.
when i refered to it as a catalyst it was a way to say that the process of nutrient uptake from the liquid spray will be more faster rather than using the organic waste as it is
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