Buffaloam Organic Compost Tea

knowmad

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There's a local product that comes in a 1.6 lbs tin called Buffaloam. There's a potting soil they have, but I'm more interested in the compost tea they offer. It's 7.99 at a local Menards. It contains Organic Buffalo Compost, Norwegian Seaweed, and endomycorrhizae. The NPK ratio is 1-1-1, and is "All-Purpose" (Does that mean I can use it throughout the entire grow?)
I just want RIU's thoughts on this.

Also, I am currently using FFOF, and planned on using their nutrient line-up as well. Would it make any sense to use the Buffaloam Compost Tea alonside with the nutrients?

Regards,
KM.
 

blueJ

Active Member
from what i hear the buffaloam compost is good shit, i would use it up until 2 weeks from harvest or so.

If you're using their bottle nutes i might do something like this - feed - tea - water - feed - tea - water, and increase or decrease the amount/frequency of the nute & teas based on observations.

Its weird though that they put the endo mycs in the tea....i guess they could be veering it towards a fungal dominant tea with the endo mycs + seaweed combo and with compost instead of worm castings...
 

knowmad

Active Member
One good reply was all I wanted haha, thanks a ton, appreciated.

Organics is a totally new concept to me, but it's so appealing!
 

Seaneken

New Member
i have some of this tea brewing now with an airstone, was gonna drop some great white and seaweed extract and hopefully get a bunch of bene bacteria going.. did you heat yours up? ive read some people served it warm..
 

kratos015

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Compost teas are a total gimmick imo. More often than not they throw your soil's balance out of whack and cause more problems than anything else. A properly made soil has no need for anything but water and the occasional top dress of organic amendments and compost.

Top dressing allows the plant and the microbes to be in control of things.. but when you make things into a tea you're making everything in the tea readily available to the plant, and if it's too much you're pretty much fucked. Say your soil has good enough NPK ratios to grow plants without any problems or deficiencies.. when you add compost tea to it you run the risk of actually burning your plants and toxicities.

Lets take bat guano for example, something like a 0-8-2 guano or something. When you top dress with guano and water it in, the microbes will slowly decompose the guano and the 0-8-2 NPK ratios will be steadily made available to the plant at the plant's own pace. When you make a tea out of that same guano though, you're essentially jump starting the composting process. Rather than the 0-8-2 guano being made available over an extended period of time at smaller amounts that the plant wants, you're making it immediately available and all at once.

If you find yourself needing to use teas of any sort, your soil likely wasn't made properly in the first place. Brewing teas with organic amendments like alfalfa meal, guanos, etc are akin to synthetic nutrients in the sense that both are made immediately available to the plant, so if you use too much you're in trouble.

HTH and if you have more questions feel free to shoot them my way and I'll answer them to the best of my ability.
 

Gumdrawp

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There's a local product that comes in a 1.6 lbs tin called Buffaloam. There's a potting soil they have, but I'm more interested in the compost tea they offer. It's 7.99 at a local Menards. It contains Organic Buffalo Compost, Norwegian Seaweed, and endomycorrhizae. The NPK ratio is 1-1-1, and is "All-Purpose" (Does that mean I can use it throughout the entire grow?)
I just want RIU's thoughts on this.

Also, I am currently using FFOF, and planned on using their nutrient line-up as well. Would it make any sense to use the Buffaloam Compost Tea alonside with the nutrients?

Regards,
KM.
If you didn't buy the fox farms nutes I'd grab something else. Fox farms is salty as fuck and has a ton of bottles if you wanted to use the full line. It's also not organic. If you do go the fox farms routed definitely feed-tea-water or feed-water-water or you may end up with lockup issues.

If you're looking for organic nutrients there isn't much in the way of bottled nutrients, and top dressing/super soil is the way to go
 

REALSTYLES

Well-Known Member
Compost teas are a total gimmick imo. More often than not they throw your soil's balance out of whack and cause more problems than anything else. A properly made soil has no need for anything but water and the occasional top dress of organic amendments and compost.

Top dressing allows the plant and the microbes to be in control of things.. but when you make things into a tea you're making everything in the tea readily available to the plant, and if it's too much you're pretty much fucked. Say your soil has good enough NPK ratios to grow plants without any problems or deficiencies.. when you add compost tea to it you run the risk of actually burning your plants and toxicities.

Lets take bat guano for example, something like a 0-8-2 guano or something. When you top dress with guano and water it in, the microbes will slowly decompose the guano and the 0-8-2 NPK ratios will be steadily made available to the plant at the plant's own pace. When you make a tea out of that same guano though, you're essentially jump starting the composting process. Rather than the 0-8-2 guano being made available over an extended period of time at smaller amounts that the plant wants, you're making it immediately available and all at once.

If you find yourself needing to use teas of any sort, your soil likely wasn't made properly in the first place. Brewing teas with organic amendments like alfalfa meal, guanos, etc are akin to synthetic nutrients in the sense that both are made immediately available to the plant, so if you use too much you're in trouble.

HTH and if you have more questions feel free to shoot them my way and I'll answer them to the best of my ability.
Well the tea I make is for the soil not the plants lol but you are right about if you need tea for corrections then your soil should have had more amendments in it. I re amend my soil every harvest so I know my soil is good

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I've only given them tea once lol I hit the soil with tea every week to keep the microbial life active in my soil
 

Tom Tucker 313

Active Member
There's a local product that comes in a 1.6 lbs tin called Buffaloam. There's a potting soil they have, but I'm more interested in the compost tea they offer. It's 7.99 at a local Menards. It contains Organic Buffalo Compost, Norwegian Seaweed, and endomycorrhizae. The NPK ratio is 1-1-1, and is "All-Purpose" (Does that mean I can use it throughout the entire grow?)
I just want RIU's thoughts on this.

Also, I am currently using FFOF, and planned on using their nutrient line-up as well. Would it make any sense to use the Buffaloam Compost Tea alonside with the nutrients?

Regards,
KM.
got pics
 
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