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Gardening Area => Advanced Cultivation Techniques => Topic started by: Radium on May 25, 2016, 03:59:51 PM

Title: PROJECT: Pubic hair as soil amendment
Post by: Radium on May 25, 2016, 03:59:51 PM
Seriously  :o :o :o

Advantages & benefits:

Where's my razor? Time to shave!
Title: Re: PROJECT: Pubic hair as soil amendment
Post by: LIBERTYNY on May 25, 2016, 06:55:30 PM
  Shave . . .

I would just pay the barber shop a few $$ to save their floor sweepings for me
Title: Re: PROJECT: Pubic hair as soil amendment
Post by: Radium on May 25, 2016, 07:54:03 PM
I guess straight hair wouldn't work as good as curly hair.
And most people's hair is straight.
Unless you visit a barbershop which mainly services Arabs or Black people.
And that's right, using pubic hair takes a looooong time for saving enough amount :|
Title: Re: PROJECT: Pubic hair as soil amendment
Post by: Radium on May 25, 2016, 10:17:49 PM
I can't wait to try this.
First I will take some compaction-prune soil and divide into two pots, add curly hair to it, water, then compare.
Later I will take a species highly affected by fluffy/compacted nature of soil, and grow in two different pots, then compare.
Title: Re: PROJECT: Pubic hair as soil amendment
Post by: Radium on May 26, 2016, 10:44:18 AM
Another possible benefit:

Due to it's elasticity, it may even prevent the soil compaction caused by tractor wheels and farmer feet pressure.

Due to the coiling in shorter length, African hair is able to resist even the heaviest pressures, and act as inertia-kicking agent in soil, and start the process of returning to the past compaction level after the tractor has left the area.

However, it can just expand an small amount.
While bigger curly hair (like Greek statues) is able to expand far more, it is unable to overcome the inertia itself.

Looks like I'm talking too much again...

In short:

Mixing African and Greek types of curly hair is best for an smooth and lengthy expansion.
Title: Re: PROJECT: Pubic hair as soil amendment
Post by: Radium on May 26, 2016, 01:02:29 PM
BTW, African hair's microscopic surface is uneven and has lots of ditches, whereas Caucasian hair's surface is polished.

So Afro hair wins another point here, by being able to trap more air or water.

The problem with the experiment is that Radium's hair is straight and polished like a baby's arse  :'(
Title: Re: PROJECT: Pubic hair as soil amendment
Post by: happyconcacti on May 26, 2016, 04:02:48 PM
This thread is lacking photos ;)

Title: Re: PROJECT: Pubic hair as soil amendment
Post by: Radium on May 26, 2016, 05:19:01 PM
Alrighty, here you go...

Two cups.
One filled with regular yard soil, the other mixed with hair.

Result pics will be posted as soon as the samples dry up.
Title: Re: PROJECT: Pubic hair as soil amendment
Post by: BubbleCat on October 28, 2016, 05:25:20 AM
Real virgin, real human hair, very african so brazilian ! Much customer satisfaction, such demand ! Best price human hair.

https://m.alibaba.com/product/1408118160/Top-Sale-8A-brazilian-body-wave.html?spm=a2706.7843667.1998817009.9.WPvaAK
Title: Re: PROJECT: Pubic hair as soil amendment
Post by: Mangrove on October 28, 2016, 07:46:44 AM
Real virgin, real human hair, very african so brazilian ! Much customer satisfaction, such demand ! Best peive human hair.

https://m.alibaba.com/product/1408118160/Top-Sale-8A-brazilian-body-wave.html?spm=a2706.7843667.1998817009.9.WPvaAK

That listing is not for pubic hair (nor does it list which gender it was harvested from...); idk if this would apply to the subject of this hairy discussion.
Title: Re: PROJECT: Pubic hair as soil amendment
Post by: bezevo on October 31, 2016, 12:27:41 AM
please please  stop molesting the body hair  ,, let it be free 


wild  free range  pubs are happy  healtypubs
Title: Re: PROJECT: Pubic hair as soil amendment
Post by: Auxin on March 29, 2017, 12:11:14 AM
What, no mushroom substrate tek?

I've heard many people have fungus problems down there, it may be a natural mushroom substrate.
If you use it to culture reishi it may not even effect the flavor.
Title: Re: PROJECT: Pubic hair as soil amendment
Post by: Mangrove on March 29, 2017, 08:15:49 AM
What, no mushroom substrate tek?

I've heard many people have fungus problems down there, it may be a natural mushroom substrate.
If you use it to culture reishi it may not even effect the flavor.

It may promote contamination of samples with (potentially) life-threateningly dangerous microbes and/or fungi, too.... Then again, those contaminants may contain penicillin, too... i'm interested to see who ends up taking that Darwin test...
Title: Re: PROJECT: Pubic hair as soil amendment
Post by: BubbleCat on March 29, 2017, 10:17:44 AM
Afaik 'down there' like all of our skin, is pretty acidic to keep the nasties away. So it should be fairly safe but: If you use as is, your substrate may be way acidic. If you wash before your substrate may not be acidic anymore but the washing could invite mentioned bacteria and fungi.

But personally I wouldnt freak. Canned food is a perfect home for the botolinum, lots of nasties can grow on ordinary potting soil... why exactly would it be worse on hair.

I believe no mushroom is going to grow in the hair tho, washed or not.
Title: Re: PROJECT: Pubic hair as soil amendment
Post by: Mangrove on March 30, 2017, 02:40:28 AM
Why couldn't mushrooms grow on a substrate of compacted self-produced pubic hair? I'm a complete n00b at fungi growing, and would appreciate some enlightenment on this matter...
Title: Re: PROJECT: Pubic hair as soil amendment
Post by: BubbleCat on March 30, 2017, 07:39:19 AM
You at least had to dope it, hair is protein, theoretically allowing fungi to digest it, if the nutrients in hair werent so unavailable. Other than that you only have what naturally sticks onto the hair: A little fat.

Now if youre looking to dope your compressed pube pellets... why not use something completely different to begin with like rock wool ?
Title: Re: PROJECT: Pubic hair as soil amendment
Post by: Mangrove on March 30, 2017, 02:10:16 PM
I found an interesting link on the composition of human hair... (http://www.keratin.com/aa/aa012.shtml) Upon further research, idk if there would be enough nutrients (sans carotene) in it to favor fungi growth... Only a fraction of the amino acids needed to support life are in human hair. Tryptophan is missing, too, so that may cause some problems as well, assuming that substrate gets contaminated with amino acid making bacteria and/or the desired fungi has functional amino acid operons (e.g. TRYP operon) required to make the amino acids the substrate would be lacking. Of course, one could just add excess amino acids and/or other fungal growth factors to the medium if desired.

Another concern is the presence of large amounts of keratin in human hair (AKA what gives it its structure); the cysteine in keratin contains sulfur, which IDK how it would affect fungi growth. I would like to see if one could somehow denature the keratin in order to release excess amino acids for the fungi cultures to feast on; if one wishes to go this route, would denaturing the carotene and/or adding extra amino acids not included in pubic hair to the substrate work (or could we just mix in a little bit of brown rice or whatever normal people use for growing-out fungi)? I'm most likely never going to try this, but I'd love it if someone else tried it out; i'd be very interested in such results...
Title: Re: PROJECT: Pubic hair as soil amendment
Post by: Bigbadwooof on June 05, 2017, 04:00:27 AM
Unfortunately, this would require me to shave my pubes. I don't think I'm ready to engage in techniques so advances as this one.
Title: Re: PROJECT: Pubic hair as soil amendment
Post by: GrowerAndaShower on June 05, 2017, 10:07:07 PM
I'd be willing to give it a shot, but I've been pube-less since 2012.

Would coarse upper leg/thigh hair be an acceptable alternative?

(This thread makes me laugh every time it pops up in unread)
Title: Re: PROJECT: Pubic hair as soil amendment
Post by: geezer on March 16, 2018, 03:27:35 AM
ugghhh, I need a bath

two thoughts

1) does one need a license to open a Brazillian waxing operation?

2) why can't I get crab lice off my mind????
Title: Re: PROJECT: Pubic hair as soil amendment
Post by: Solipsis on August 14, 2019, 06:01:02 PM
Oyster mushrooms could degrade alpha-keratin tho its not easy.

For plants j think they need microorganisms to release the amino acids first which doesn't seem so great to me.

Id use a more biologically stable predigested supplement for my plants haha
Title: Re: PROJECT: Pubic hair as soil amendment
Post by: Mangrove on August 14, 2019, 06:41:31 PM
I hope you're doing well, Radium, wherever you are. We miss you!