1st time making tea...need some advice

randomhero1 said:

Brewing tea is tailored to the plants youre feeding. Ingredients change depending on what plants youre making tea for. I dont use guano in my tea and it works great. Like they said before, this isnt to fertilize your plants, its to help create and distribute bacteria colonies to help the roots take up nutrients better. Its a supplement, not a fertilizer.

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It's actually better than that!
The bacteria ARE the fertiliser!
The more their populations grow, the more they release mineralized nutrients mined from old organic matter. They not only poop and make nutrients available to the plant, but are little nutrient warehouses themselves. Higher level predators, help cycle nutrients faster by consuming and releasing the stored nutrients.

Every little mite or springtail I see in my soil, I picture them as one of those little time release osmocote pellets

As for guano, use it as a source of N if you want, it's a good manure but remember you want to feed the bacteria and grow bacteria, do your fertilization seperately. Either ammend your soil or brew up organic mixes to water in at another time. You can also top dress your guano little by little, so you have less chance of burning your plants.

edit: personally guano vs chicken poo, I'd rather buy the one that's 7$ for 30lb, forget about that exotic mumbo jumbo

Guano is a bit potent. If you brew a tea with too much guano in it you can very well burn the plants, especially young ones. Guano by itself is also a great inoculant (it is biologically active).

Nutrients in aerated composted teas are just largely being cycled continuously or held within the bodies of microbes, like Afka said, but there is more than just bacteria in them (bacteria certainly dominate more often than not*). Nutrients don't disappear as matter can't be created or destroyed!

*Bacteria are adept at utilizing simple carbohydrates such as the simple sugars in molasses. In the presence of an abundant supply of simple sugars bacteria can multiply very rapidly. Bacteria already dominate the earthworm castings, so when you brew a tea with molasses or another source of simple carbs they will surely dominate in the solution. Fungi will also be present, but they wont out-compete the bacteria (or even match them) unless there is an abundant food source that bacteria can't utilize so readily- complex carbohydrates like cellulose, chitin or other complex polymers such as lignin (found along with cellulose in woody materials). Protozoa and nematodes are larger micro-organisms also present in castings and compost and therefore also present in your tea. Both of these kinds of organisms eat bacteria and fungi (and each other), during which mineralized\plant available nutrients are released.

Advanced Nutrients also carries a product called Carbo Load which is simpily food for the benefitial bacteria. Throw some of this in the mix and the medium will explode with bacteria life. I will ALWAYS recommend using powdered products for the higher concentratesnfor sure! Try the bacterias and michrobes from advanced nutrients too like Great White Shark, turantula and pirahna.

I found some blackstrap at the health store. its a lil pricey but if its whats best then ill go with it.

im gonna start using this feed schedule every week. critique it please

feed- 1tsp mexican bat guano, 1tsp kelp meal, 1tsp blackstrap
water two days later
tea- 1tsp EWC, 1tsp blackstrap

then in flower, jamaican bat guano and some earth juice meta-k

is this ok or am I doing it all wrong?

I read you should use Mexican guano in veg and Jamaican during flower. Mexican is high n and Jamaican high p. I am just getting going so I have no experience with this but that is the word on the street

I know that already lol but stick around and learn something.

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Tea is the best stuff on earth besides snaple JK. This the only thing I feed my soil every two weeks nothing but fire comes out my room.

the newbies said:

I found some blackstrap at the health store. its a lil pricey but if its whats best then ill go with it.

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Blackstrap Molasses is available in most any grocery for $2-5 dollars. Just get unsulfured and you'll be fine.

never seen it at walmart, only grandmas and brer rabbit. ill just go with the health store stuff.

what about my feed schedule? should do this every week or every two weeks

Are these ingredients good for a decent tea brew? liquid kelp, mollasses, myco madness, and earth juice grow

why dont you start your own thread. still aint got my questions answered.

the newbies said:

why dont you start your own thread. still aint got my questions answered.

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Haha i went and checked, no you don't have to dilute it because you are brewing BACTERIA AND MICROORGANISMS, not fertilizer.

If you put a shit ton of fertilizer in your tea, then burn your plants with it, because you brewed a strong EC fertilizer rather than bacteria.... Well the harder lessons sink in better

the newbies said:

never seen it at walmart, only grandmas and brer rabbit. ill just go with the health store stuff.

what about my feed schedule? should do this every week or every two weeks

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Not familiar with brer rabbit but whats wrong with Grandmas? Its unsulfured blackstrap molasses.

I buy unsulphered molasses from the feed store for 20 bucks for 5 gallon bucket.

is Grandmas blackstrap? thats what I use right now and so far it seems to give me denser buds

this is only grow 3 so it could just be in my head lol

Check out smart and final.. I get my gmas there for $16 + - per gallon

IM BREWING SOME (GO nutes
+ molasses) RIGHT NOW GONNA WATER TONIGHT I THINK IT WILL BE OK.. we will find out

I think im gonna just stick with the grandmas its unsulphured which is good. blackstrap is too much even though its probaly worth it ill just wait

I still need someone to critique my feed schedule...please and thank you!

wheezer said:

I buy unsulphered molasses from the feed store for 20 bucks for 5 gallon bucket.

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Thats a lot of molasses. I use 4-5 tablespoon in a tea for my whole yard. Damn good deal enough for a 1000 acre farm.