I’m seeing if "homemade" organic fertilizer made of food waste could substitue for commercial fertilizer.
It’s winter so, I’m planting my radishes inside.
I’m using bananas for potassium
beans for nitrogen
and mushrooms for phosporous

and maybe coffee grounds as SEPARATE experiment

I have a question about my "homemade" fertilizer. Since plants need 3 primary nutrients, I don’t know what the ratio for the 3 primary nutrients should be? Should they all be the same?

How often should I apply my homemade one? How much should I apply each time?

I wasn’t sure about this because the commercial one comes with directions so….

About the coffee grounds…
are coffee grounds the moist thing after you make the coffee or is it the thing before I make coffee?
How much would I apply? How often?

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I am taking organic chemistry and I was wondering what is the best way to extract alkaloids from plants such as yohimbe, ephedra, coffee beans, passion flowers and others as well. Any help would be great.
So far I just put powdered coffee beans into Isopropanol and shook it vigorously, but I’m not sure what to do next.
Would I be able to use water+vinegar for the acidified water? Also is there anything else to use besides lye, because I don’t feel safe using that.

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I don’t get it.
Can someone please explain how coffee can be used as a fertilizer?
What does coffee have that makes plants grow?

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PS: these are the first beans from my plants.

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How do they select and process these plants to coffee beans and tea leaves?

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