Beer is a growers friend... in more ways than one

i have boiled shrooms definetly water soluble at least at higher temps

good info and read.......

Someone please answer this basic question for me. Can the alcohol be dangerous to the plants? Can it possibly stress the plants?

i really dont think it can damage the plant beer is pretty low alcohol. If you think about spilling beer on anything it doesn't have the burn likr hard liquor does, you can't use it as disinfectant, you can't light it on fire.

I fed my ladies some beer last night (i'm in week 3 of flowering) and saw some improvement for real...no placebo effect. I lst'd one of my plants last night which has been struggling a lot and it recovered and pointed toward the light by this morning and the new leaves it grew are looking healthy. I was having serious issues with that plant before with nute burn and lime green leaves finally got growth of some healthy leaves.

Also tried it on my kali mist that was unusually shorty and bushy and it stretched at least an inch overnight.

obviously you can't credit all that to beer, but you can say it didn't hurt and i got healthy growth.

again off topic for a second...how about water curing bud in shroom tea?? I may be getting carried away but everyone is always looking for trippy weed...

Make an lsd tea.

you cant do that

You could use any enzyme that's actually for growing, Hygrozyme, Sensizyme etc, that way you won't be brewing yeast in your soil, or have to worry about nasty stank.

I am going to try the beer thing though, good idea, I see where you're coming from.

I just gave all my babies (except the boys, they don't need the beer, they'll get all rowdy) 1 cup of beer each.

I also made a bone and blood meal tea, and at first the bone meal smelled like chicharrones (mmm.. fried pig skin ), but now it smells like skank. I was gonna let it sit for a week, but I can't take it anymore, they started getting some today. The molasses brew smells so much better (and so does my seaweed extract).

Seamaiden did you get good results from blood and bone meal tea? I used it for a few weeks and burned my plants...I was surprised. I think the bone meal doesn't brew as well as the blood meal and i ended up with a high nitrogen tea but i'm not sure. Going back to bat guanos. Also found that blood meal and bone meal tea attracted flies and ants in my flower bed.

theeggman said:

Seamaiden did you get good results from blood and bone meal tea? I used it for a few weeks and burned my plants...I was surprised. I think the bone meal doesn't brew as well as the blood meal and i ended up with a high nitrogen tea but i'm not sure. Going back to bat guanos. Also found that blood meal and bone meal tea attracted flies and ants in my flower bed.

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Eggman, I can't get rid of this stuff fast enough. It smells like GACK. Lesson learned, this one's right up there with fish emulsion as a foliar spray.

They only got a small dose and that was after getting some beer. I haven't used anything more than blood meal tea before (which also had a... an unpleasant odor). I'm gonna dump it on the rest of my plants that are planted directly into our wonderful red, rocky clay. We already have a real problem with flies this year, don't know what's happened to our hornets and wasps but their numbers are seriously down this year, so I can't say I noticed much of a difference with the porcine product tea with regard to flies.

The bat guanos smell like roses compared to this!

Ya that tea smells god awful. spill even a little bit on yourself and your gonna be in the shower all day.

One more thing about beer as fert i just thought of is that it makes a good PH down. Its got an average PH of something like 4.4 depending on beer (can be down to 4 or high as 5) so another good natrual way to get your water's PH down if you have that issue.

if you want healthy stress free plants don't do this, my buddy put beer in his pots 3rd week of veg and his alkaline levels went to an all time high and out of six plants three super skunks and three ppp's and there stems are so purple there almost black so in case you didn't know this means that there stressed out

this whole thread sounds like a sticky/moldy soil mess you cats are kooky

what about liquor

roodizzle said:

if you want healthy stress free plants don't do this, my buddy put beer in his pots 3rd week of veg and his alkaline levels went to an all time high and out of six plants three super skunks and three ppp's and there stems are so purple there almost black so in case you didn't know this means that there stressed out

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my soil is pretty acidic, so a beer would probably be a good choice in my situation

question here. is it a better idea to open the beer a day in advance, and let the carbonation out? i figure seeing as how unreleased c02 is carbonic acid, which makes the pH lower, and roots need 02, and not the carbonation. the OP said he used beer left over from parties, which probably meant less carbonation
or am i looking at this too simple?

I thought it would be less CO2 as well, until I shook my jugs. FIZZ FIZZ!

When comparing what's in Superthrive and what's in beer, why not use the beer? I'll have to test the pH out of the jugs I use for the leftovers, I gave all the plants all I had. They're doing just fine, by the way. (And the fuckeded up ones have been getting an aspirin spray, been reading some very interesting things on that, but I don't know where there are any willows around, so aspirin it is. I betcha some of the Miwuk might know where to find willow.. jeez, girl, put on your thinking cap!)

A bump-a-rump-dump on this here helpful thread. And a question for those who might know; I've got my girls all well into flowering (most hitting that 60 day mark) and about a gallon and a half of beer. I also have just under a dozen young clones downstairs under 24/0 fluoros (40W shops).

Would you use the beer for the flowering girls, or for the all the young clones?

Seamaiden said:

A bump-a-rump-dump on this here helpful thread. And a question for those who might know; I've got my girls all well into flowering (most hitting that 60 day mark) and about a gallon and a half of beer. I also have just under a dozen young clones downstairs under 24/0 fluoros (40W shops).

Would you use the beer for the flowering girls, or for the all the young clones?

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Seamaiden..... If you let your left over beers go flat, you can feed them to Mary during flowering. It's best done at the end of the day. Mary draws in less, after lights out or the sun sets. The allows the micro-beasties all night to bioconvert (eat & poop out) the simple carbs / sugars in the beer, making them available to Mary as she wakes & takes her first morning draw from the roots.
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I have not used left over beer on clones. My clones have always been to valueble to me, to try it. So, I haven't.
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To answer some of those other questions : No to liquor and flat beer is best - so, yes open & let it vent. I just use left overs from parties. You should always test your soils pH prior to adding need things. If you soil pH is out of limits, adding something that is going to push it even further out of limits, just does not make sense. pH meters are cheap, go spend $ 8, don't guess. You could guess wrong.
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Keep it Real....Organic.....
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i started adding beer last week to one of my girls and my god is she exploding