Heisenberg tea brewing time frame?

ounevinsmoke

ounevinsmoke

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I have used the tea, it works great in my bubble ponics. I usually brew two days and place in fridge like he says.

This go round I decided to let it continue and bubble in my container. It looks more potent and has more substance than usual.

Can someone explain whats going on here from a scientific standpoint. Can I feed this batch again with molasses and expect more fungi and bacteria production?

Thoughts and opinions welcome along with you usual dickhead sarcastic bastards who get off on demeaning people...
 
Heisenberg

Heisenberg

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Diversity is the key to fighting infection. After 48 hours the tea will begin to lose diversity. As time goes on fewer and fewer species will thrive while others dominate. By day 4 or 5 the brew will be mostly protozoa. Adding more ingredients will not help restore the variety. The tea will continue to be okay to use so long as it doesn't stink, but it will be less effective as time goes on. Someone fighting a slime outbreak will get the most usefulness from the tea at around the 48 hour mark.

Also myco's will not germinate and grow until they make contact with roots. The longer the myco spores stay in the tea, the less likely they are to germinate.
 
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GreenThumb666

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Heisenberg said:
Diversity is the key to fighting infection. After 48 hours the tea will begin to lose diversity. As time goes on fewer and fewer species will thrive while others dominate. By day 4 or 5 the brew will be mostly protozoa. Adding more ingredients will not help restore the variety. The tea will continue to be okay to use so long as it doesn't stink, but it will be less effective as time goes on. Someone fighting a slime outbreak will get the most usefulness from the tea at around the 48 hour mark.

Also myco's will not germinate and grow until they make contact with roots. The longer the myco spores stay in the tea, the less likely they are to germinate.
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I'm battling a rot problem with my coco. I reconstituted a coco brick and had most of it sit in a black garbage bag for three weeks, wet as hell in a corner in my basement. I transplanted up from three gallon pots to 7 gallon pots and used the same coco. Within three days, I noticed the root mat went from white to yellow, and when I felt it the roots were mushy and smelled like bad aquarium water and would fall apart easily. The coco must have gotten infected with pythium while it sat.

I flushed them with a couple gallons of water with 5 ml hydrogen peroxide per gallon three times in 24 hours. The day after that I watered them again with 5 ml per gallon h2o2. Pretty sure they were sterile after that. Last night I gave them some tea. Checked them this morning and the mushy roots odor changed from the nasty aquarium odor to an earthy smell, like fresh soil.

How often should I treat them now? I gave them a good amount of tea last night, at least a measuring cup per gallon of water. I have been asking this for two or three days on this forum and nobody will answer me. I looked at the root rot cure forum but I dont see anything about coco and it's 250 pages long.
 
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