Aact and nutes

Thebanktella

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So I'm busy making me some aact , and what I've read is that is makes microbes and good bacteria , for better soil growth and plant immune system and health and help the plant absorb nutrients more efficiently , does this mean I still need to use nutes on my plant or is the tea the stuff that is the nute?
 

psychedelicdaddi

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The tea is the nutrition if it is compost based. If it were just molasses and a bacteria starter culture, it would be nutritionless.
 

ShLUbY

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So I'm busy making me some aact , and what I've read is that is makes microbes and good bacteria , for better soil growth and plant immune system and health and help the plant absorb nutrients more efficiently , does this mean I still need to use nutes on my plant or is the tea the stuff that is the nute?
if you feed from bottles normally and have no amendments in your soil, you're going to continue to need the bottles of nutrient. the AACT itself does not necessarily help the plant absorb nutrients more efficiently in that situation particularly. plants are perfectly capable of absorbing nutrients on their own if they're in plant available forms (which is what bottles contain, readily available nutrients).

AACT is for boosting microbe populations in the soil, which can indeed improve your medium as they will break down matter into plant available forms... but with that said, if you don't really have any matter that is needed to be broken down, they really wont make that much of a difference. What they will do though, is store nutrients in their bodies, and when they die, they'll become food for other microbes, and waste products of microbes can be taken up by the plant in nutritional forms. But when you water in plant available forms of nutrition (from bottles)... what is the point of all of this? bottles provide the bare essentials that plants need for healthy growth, and if you are a good gardener and know how to keep plants in good health anyway, then again... its really an unnecessary step with a bottle fed regiment.
 

Thebanktella

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if you feed from bottles normally and have no amendments in your soil, you're going to continue to need the bottles of nutrient. the AACT itself does not necessarily help the plant absorb nutrients more efficiently in that situation particularly. plants are perfectly capable of absorbing nutrients on their own if they're in plant available forms (which is what bottles contain, readily available nutrients).

AACT is for boosting microbe populations in the soil, which can indeed improve your medium as they will break down matter into plant available forms... but with that said, if you don't really have any matter that is needed to be broken down, they really wont make that much of a difference. What they will do though, is store nutrients in their bodies, and when they die, they'll become food for other microbes, and waste products of microbes can be taken up by the plant in nutritional forms. But when you water in plant available forms of nutrition (from bottles)... what is the point of all of this? bottles provide the bare essentials that plants need for healthy growth, and if you are a good gardener and know how to keep plants in good health anyway, then again... its really an unnecessary step with a bottle fed regiment.
This is very informative thanks a lot man , gotta really get into learning nutrition properly
 

Thebanktella

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The tea is the nutrition if it is compost based. If it were just molasses and a bacteria starter culture, it would be nutritionless.
How would u make a compost based one instead of just a molasses one ? Cors currently I'm using a worm team and molasses and water mix what else would I need to add?
 

psychedelicdaddi

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How would u make a compost based one instead of just a molasses one ? Cors currently I'm using a worm team and molasses and water mix what else would I need to add?
per 5 gallon pail of water (just do the math for smaller/larger batches):

-5gal water
-scoop 1liter compost and/or worm poop into a panty hose and hang it from the side of the pail
-proceed to actively aerate 12-36hrs
-water you plants with this instead

done
 

Thebanktella

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per 5 gallon pail of water (just do the math for smaller/larger batches):

-5gal water
-scoop 1liter compost and/or worm poop into a panty hose and hang it from the side of the pail
-proceed to actively aerate 12-36hrs
-water you plants with this instead

done
I'll def give that a go bro thanks , and that will give me the nutrients I need ? Here and there obv
 

Thebanktella

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by organic medium you mean amended living soil, water only?
Peatmoss, mushroom compost and vermiculite or perlite , I norm just use seagrow or kelpak as nutes and worm tea/castings .... and recently started using lactobaccilous serum and now trying aact
 
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