Quick tea for nutrients and bacteria, without aristone - possible?

What's up guys. I'm planning an organic grow, and I was wondering if you could make a quick tea in a day or so where the organic material reaches over the water surface so that microbes can get a bit of oxygen that way. Ofcoues this wouldn't be as good as AACT but will it help my plants? I have no place for an AACT rig and I heard the smell can be unbearable.


Thanks.

A good AACT doesn't smell, where as compost simply dumped in water will go anaerobic and start to stink.

https://learn.eartheasy.com/articles/the-best-compost-tea-recipe-to-help-your-plants-thrive/

Also an 'AACT rig' is only as big as the container you put the water in, plus an air pump. Air pumps take up very little space.

A safer way to do it, if you're dead set against doing an AACT is to simply pour your water through compost before you use it immediately. You'd actually get a more diverse set of micro-organisms like this, although they'd be no where near as concentrated as an AACT would be, and you eliminate the chance of breeding the anaerobes.

DonBrennon said:

A good AACT doesn't smell, where as compost simply dumped in water will go anaerobic and start to stink.

https://learn.eartheasy.com/articles/the-best-compost-tea-recipe-to-help-your-plants-thrive/

Also an 'AACT rig' is only as big as the container you put the water in, plus an air pump. Air pumps take up very little space.

A safer way to do it, if you're dead set against doing an AACT is to simply pour your water through compost before you use it immediately. You'd actually get a more diverse set of micro-organisms like this, although they'd be no where near as concentrated as an AACT would be, and you eliminate the chance of breeding the anaerobes.

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Thanks for the reply, would I be able to to the same with banana shells and other uncomposted material?

just top dress

Compost leachates and top dressings

You soak alfalfa and kelp meal for 48 hours strain and root drench. You can do the same with stinging nettles and comfrey as well.

You could run a pond pump, and plumb an air line into that, gives you air and water movement. Best of both, but no air stone.

MrKnotty said:

You soak alfalfa and kelp meal for 48 hours strain and root drench. You can do the same with stinging nettles and comfrey as well.

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I did this using the alfalfa/kelp/neem not too long ago, not with some mj, but with some kale plants I was growing. I treated those plants like shit and didn't have the light on a timer at all/poor watering habits with them and they grew super healthy and big. Also, the best tasting kale I've had all year. Not too sure how much the "teas" helped, but I couldn't kill those things. They even tried growing back multiple times when I dumped the soil in a bin to recycle it all up for future use. Only difference to what knotty does is that I didnt strain, I just threw a tablespoon of one or multiple inputs in a gallon jar of water and then watered with it after 24-48 hours later. I would also stir a few times a day, just to introduce some new oxygen and keep it as aerobic as possible without setting up my pump and air stone. I guess it worked both as a drench and then a light topdressing every time I would use it. The fungi and mites always appeared quickly and made quick work of the particles that made it on top of the soil.

You don't even really need to give teas at all if you just add an active compost to the soil. My plants thrive on just diluted worm leacheate, use no aeration at all.

Richard Drysift said:

You don't even really need to give teas at all if you just add an active compost to the soil. My plants thrive on just diluted worm leacheate, use no aeration at all.

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Thats cool, I will start with planting soil and add compost and some Styrofoam for aeration, then top feed with kelp, bone meal, soy bean meal, sounds good?

Sure. Just use perlite instead of styrofoam. Go easy on the top dress. Heavy on the compost.