1.5 dialysis peritoneal solution for plants???? Roses????

[bear3303]

 They sent us a bazillion boxes of 1.2 solution, my husband only uses the 4.5, so we have tons of boxes that they won't take back, and some we had to store out in the garage, and they are for sure not usable cuz of the extreme heat----------so, my question is, could i just take the bags outside and cut them and drain them on the lawn and the plants and roses and stuff??? i hate to waste things, and it seems like the 1.5's would be good for plants------or maybe not, maybe i will kill everything? Anyone tried this? It has magnesium, that's supposed to be good for roses, right???
Cindy

[monrein]

I don't know the answer to your question at all but as a gardener, I'd experiment on a plant that I could afford to "lose" if the experiment failed.  Try it on a patch of lawn too...not hard to repair if the solution kills it.   
Failing that, make a list of all the stuff in there and consult a nursery (plants of course, rather than kids).  Good luck.

[bear3303]

consult a nursery (plants of course, rather than kids)


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
Good advice!!!!! Thank you, I will try it on a patch of the lawn first:)

[Restorer]

I don't know what the sugar would do to the plants. I've only started gardening (in containers) this year, so I'm pretty inexperienced with this kind of thing. Try it, and see what happens. 

[M3Riddler]

They sent us a bazillion boxes of 1.2 solution, my husband only uses the 4.5, so we have tons of boxes that they won't take back, and some we had to store out in the garage, and they are for sure not usable cuz of the extreme heat----------so, my question is, could i just take the bags outside and cut them and drain them on the lawn and the plants and roses and stuff??? i hate to waste things, and it seems like the 1.5's would be good for plants------or maybe not, maybe i will kill everything? Anyone tried this? It has magnesium, that's supposed to be good for roses, right???
Cindy

Bear,

I know baxter will not take them back, but your clinic may want them. They use them for practice and training for new patients.
Regarding the garden,   I was told a while back that the solutions will help to kill weeds. Dont know if its true or not and have never tried it.
Its a shame to see all of that money go down the drain...

///M3R

[bear3303]

I was told a while back that the solutions will help to kill weeds.

UH OH!!!! If it acts as a weed killer, I am thinking that wouldn't bode well for my plants, LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will fer SURE only try this on a small patch of grass at first, LOL!!!!


We have asked the clinic several times to please take these back, but they said by law they can't, but i will ask them if maybe they can take them just for people to practice with, I hadn't thought of that--maybe if we label the boxes for practice only, then it would be OK???
Thank you for that suggestion!!

[billybags]

When we were in Greece and we had a lot of box's left at the hotel as hubby was in their hospital with peritonitis, our box's were donated to the hospital.

[bear3303]

That was cool that yall were able to do that, i wish we could do that here, but we can't--------I can sorta understand, i mean, what if we were psycho, and put poison in the bags or something, or what if we had stored them under adverse conditions, such as the ones in our garage, and then gave that to someone or to the hospital or back to fresnius---they would have no way of knowing, so I do understand, i just hate the waste!!!!

[peleroja]

One of the first things my clinic told me was that a half and half solution of dialysate and water is great for the garden as the dextrose helps plants grow.  Seems logical it would also be good for indoor plants.  I can't think of any reason it would kill weeds.

[Rerun]

The first thing I thought of was sodium.  Salt will sterlize the earth so nothing will grow.

[theone]

I did ask the delivery guy once what to do expiring solution? He said just cut the bag and drain it for lawn food.

[jbeany]

The nurses told me that the expired bags of IV nutrition they fed me for 3 months would make great fertilizer, and the clinic staff who gardened loved to take it home.  It certainly had sodium in it, so I don't how much of concentration difference there is between that and PD fluid.

[george40]

Great for the lawn, but here comes the ants in droves!

[*kana*]

I fed my tomato plant my 2.5 solution for a few weeks.  It didn't kill my plant, but not sure if it made it sweeter or not.  I can't grow a tomato that taste good without tough skin.  Would it have been better without the dialasate?  Who knows.