Compost Tea recipes.

oldsilvertip55

oldsilvertip55

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PadawanWarrior said:
If we all went to what's left of our forests and took dirt we'd fuck the forests up worse than we already have. I have a soft spot for this shit. I grew up in a heavily wooded forest area in the PNW, and now most of the forests and shit are parking lots, houses, and roads. The remaining little pieces of woods around where I grew up are fucked up and polluted now.

At least we still have some Federal Forests, but those are being neglected now too. I'm not a tree hugger, but I hate seeing the forests get destroyed.
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fields of hemp would help replace a lot of timber and keep it from being cut till its prime.
 
Dirt_McGirrt

Dirt_McGirrt

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I'm using the Roots terp teas. Just grow and bloom. The bloom booster is hard to find and expensive? I dunno it's been what I see on that.
- Roots terp tea
- DTE fish and kelp liquid
- every bene i have even the biopesticide stuff (thrips and mf'in root aphids, still working on annihilating the thrips)
- DTE Humic
- blackstrap (i'm using what's it call the jug full brix stuff)
- couple handfulls of EWC
- Cal/mag a wee bit cause I'm using distilled from the humidifier water
- I've added in some of the others like the Ancient Earth micronutes if i'm feelin like they need it

I don't aerate i just go and give it a good stir in the 5 gallon a couple times a day and use it within like 8-24 hours.


oldsilvertip55 said:
great added to cannabis!
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Phosphorous i wanna say with nettle and . . . . . cal/mag? Horse tails will give ya silica in a tea. Did one up of that and next year I'm thinking I'll try and make a storable natural silica FPJ. Have a massive nettle that will probably come back next year, too. This year I used the flowers and they bloomed in my bokashi and in like this "what can I find in the weeds out back" picking wild prairie plants and shit.

Oh and just pour all the solids that are left in the bucket on your shit as a top dressing. Especially using the Roots or other tea premix powders that have like oyster shell and shit like that. It's going to breakdown for the good good still.
 
natureboygrower

natureboygrower

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Water, compost or ewc, molasses. That's it. Less is more with a compost tea imo.
More importantly than adding a bunch of (possibly useless) product is the aeration time, and without a microscope we're kinda all guessing. 36-42 hours of bubbling followed by immediate use was always my go to.
 
PadawanWarrior

PadawanWarrior

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natureboygrower said:
Water, compost or ewc, molasses. That's it. Less is more with a compost tea imo.
More importantly than adding a bunch of (possibly useless) product is the aeration time, and without a microscope we're kinda all guessing. 36-42 hours of bubbling followed by immediate use was always my go to.
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I'd see nematodes sometimes after brewing. They seemed to like a softer more mild bubble, and around 24-30 hours. That was just with Wiggle Worm and molasses. But I would put EJ in too usually. I'm actually really impressed with the life that was in the Wiggle Worm brand. Just using that took care of gnats for 3 years until I added some different compost and let the soil sit too long without keeping it really active. But Microbe-Lift BMC takes care of them easily.

I took out the filters in my pumps so when I do it it's a tea and topdress at the same time.
 
DrDukePHD

DrDukePHD

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PadawanWarrior said:
I'd see nematodes sometimes after brewing. They seemed to like a softer more mild bubble, and around 24-30 hours. That was just with Wiggle Worm and molasses. But I would put EJ in too usually. I'm actually really impressed with the life that was in the Wiggle Worm brand. Just using that took care of gnats for 3 years until I added some different compost and let the soil sit too long without keeping it really active. But Microbe-Lift BMC takes care of them easily.

I took out the filters in my pumps so when I do it it's a tea and topdress at the same time.
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People need to be reminded to use Microbe-Lift BMC on their houseplants too. The moment your tent is clear those Lil f&%#$^ are regrouping for a counterattack on your kitchen window houseplant. Fungus gnats travel well lol
 
Dirt_McGirrt

Dirt_McGirrt

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I envy the fungus gnat problem. Rice root aphids just wrecked a whole phase of my perpetual and I can't get rid of these thrips. Root aphids though. Thems are the worst. I gotta make a post with these 2 Mephisto auto seedlings that are 3 inches high, like 4 leaf solid flat canopy and one is fuckin flowering. Think I'm going to just spray coloidal on these things since I have some and call it not a complete loss.
 
Dirt_McGirrt

Dirt_McGirrt

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DrDukePHD said:
People need to be reminded to use Microbe-Lift BMC on their houseplants too. The moment your tent is clear those Lil f&%#$^ are regrouping for a counterattack on your kitchen window houseplant. Fungus gnats travel well lol
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Hell I leave yellow sticky traps in my house plants, too. Need to know who's comin into my castle.
 
Drop That Sound

Drop That Sound

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Nope_49595933949 said:
Why? What's the specific benefit? I'm not trying to challenge just genuinely curious.
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Too many benefits to even list about nettles. Amazing plants. Not only are they edible & highly nutritious (8x better than spinach?), they are one of the first tender greens to come up in the spring, and offer a source of food for humans or animals. Tons of health benefits, like fighting off urinary infections, and helping with allergies, etc. They grow in rich soils mostly.

I've been around them my whole life, and can walk through a 9ft tall patch like its no big deal. I'll grab them with my hand and eat raw leaves just to show people they are wussies when they get stung, lol. Once cooked\dried out they lose that effect.

Anyway.. You can put them right in a bucket with water, and let it break down and steep into a tea for a few weeks, and you have possibly the best liquid brewed fertilizer tea you could ask for. Even has anti fungal and anti bacterial properties.
 
Drop That Sound

Drop That Sound

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What I really wanna know, is has anybody here tried using any form of electro-culture methods to try supercharging the microbial growth in a compost tea as it brews?

Like, hooking up electrodes, or even wrapping coils around the bucket to alter magnetic fields, structuring the water, sonic vibrations, beaming it with lasers while adding radioactive waste to make some kind of mutagen.. like when they found the giant dandelions on TMNT the movie.., you know, crazy stuff like that? :eyesmoke:
 
Drop That Sound

Drop That Sound

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I get it.. that highly aerating the water, and feeding the microbes you add to it will rapidly multiply them in a matter of days. Doing what takes nature months to do in hardly any time at all.

But, what if?
 
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Nope_49595933949

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Drop That Sound said:
Too many benefits to even list about nettles. Amazing plants. Not only are they edible & highly nutritious (8x better than spinach?), they are one of the first tender greens to come up in the spring, and offer a source of food for humans or animals. Tons of health benefits, like fighting off urinary infections, and helping with allergies, etc. They grow in rich soils mostly.

I've been around them my whole life, and can walk through a 9ft tall patch like its no big deal. I'll grab them with my hand and eat raw leaves just to show people they are wussies when they get stung, lol. Once cooked\dried out they lose that effect.

Anyway.. You can put them right in a bucket with water, and let it break down and steep into a tea for a few weeks, and you have possibly the best liquid brewed fertilizer tea you could ask for. Even has anti fungal and anti bacterial properties.
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That's awesome information. Thank you.
 
Aloha9808

Aloha9808

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PadawanWarrior said:
Guano tea is great, but it's considered nutrient tea. I prefer to top dress with guano. It's easier. I actually haven't even made a tea in years. Too lazy. I just mix dry amendments with some EWC or compost and pumice and mix it in and water.

Teas are great, but I'm too lazy anymore. I do cheat and add microbes like Rootwise to my water sometimes though. The top dressing probably works about the same, but not as fast. Could even be better since it's getting little doses of microbes constantly vs a huge dose with a tea. I don't know, but it sounds good, :bigjoint:
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I'm just going to experiment . But would river water be a problem?
A tropical river with houses up stream and marine plant life?
 
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