Can I use Human Vitamins for the Plants?

jojo

jojo

I have a bunch of Vitamin D or calcium, and one a day vitamins I never use anymore and may be expiring soon...  I was wondering if I can just put these in my compost tea or something...  Will these be beneficial to my plants, or will it kill it?
 
LOL, or else I may just dump them in the trash...  IDK what to do with these vitamins I never use anymore.
 
Yep.  One of the aquaponics tricks I learned is using chelated vitamin gelcaps to offset micronutrient deficiencies in systems...until I learned that you can also offset those by altering the diet of your fish :)
 
Vitamin C would likely be good for altering your pH
 
I've never done it myself but I've even read of people on here using tums or rolaids instead of bonemeal for calcium I would think this would also alter pH
 
Ohh? My mom has calcium tablets for when she fractured her toe. I was thinking of using them but didnt know if i could.
 
jojo said:
I have a bunch of Vitamin D or calcium, and one a day vitamins I never use anymore and may be expiring soon...  I was wondering if I can just put these in my compost tea or something...  Will these be beneficial to my plants, or will it kill it?
 
LOL, or else I may just dump them in the trash...  IDK what to do with these vitamins I never use anymore.
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I was totally gonna ask the same type of question!

Jojo you rock.
 
chalk.
(unflavored tums)
 
The problem with most vitamin caps is----they don't even work in humans.
 
Ask a nurse what "bedpan bullets" are.
 
They don't even dissolve in the hydrocloric acid of your stomache juice, less still in water.
 
If you had a really good calculator, and could deduce the quantity needed for your plants, and figured out how much each vitamin and mineral would be required, and the proper amout of pills needed to get there, without OD'ing them on one or more-----------------------------------------
 
Nahhh.
 
I'll just buy the premix. ;)
 
It would depend on the vitamin, the brand of vitamin, and many other areas of concern, but in short, yes. Some vitamins are water soluble, while others that are put into vitamins for human consumption are made the be fat soluble for hepatic reasons, So it depends on the vitamin. I would stay away from multivitamins, and just go for the vitamins themselves, calcium, Mg, Fe, etc. 
 
As I understand it, humans absorb vitamins, and break them down into minerals. Plants absorb minerals, and build them into vitamins. That's over simplified, of course, but it explains why you don't find ferts that claim they're loaded with vitamins! haha
 
LawrenceJ2007 said:
It would depend on the vitamin, the brand of vitamin, and many other areas of concern, but in short, yes. Some vitamins are water soluble, while others that are put into vitamins for human consumption are made the be fat soluble for hepatic reasons, So it depends on the vitamin. I would stay away from multivitamins, and just go for the vitamins themselves, calcium, Mg, Fe, etc. 
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Chelated vitamins that are found in gelcaps are what work well in aquaponics.  They've been processed to be water soluble, this is particularly handy with iron, one of the most common micronutrient deficiencies using fish water.
 
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