humboldy mayan microzyme questions

i got the mayan microzyme stuff the other week, i mostly use all of the humboldt products, but have never used this before. The directions say to use 2 oz oz the microzyme and 2 oz of unsulphered molasses per gallon which i did and aerated it for 4 days i also added the humboldt grow natrual base nutrients to it, it was pretty foamy but i noticed these furry looking chunks floating all around in the bucket and it was covering the airstone just wondered if this was normal to see
i had it sitting in the basement about 5 or so feet from a glass block window and thought maybe it was some kind of algae that grew due to the light , oxygen and bacteria but idk and cant find anything about this stuff showing up anywhere if anyone has any ideas or knows what this is would be great

also i was curious if you can use any type of carb to feed the bacteria

4 days is too long to bubble a "tea". Beyond that, I can't comment on your concoction because I don't know what's in all those mystery bottles you mentioned...

Teas for me usually contain some variation of these 5 simple ingredients; worm castings, molasses, fish hydrolysate, kelp meal, and alfalfa meal. Usually just worm castings and molasses. Bubbling time is 24 hrs, with 48 being the absolute maximum.

Organic success is not measured by how many different mystery concoctions you can hit your plant with in a 3 month period.

Keep it simple...

You already added carbs if you added molasses... And yes, the molasses is added to feed microorganisms.

Man there literaly i think 6 factories in the whole world that produce enzymes. They then sell it bulk to different companies who market it for different uses. The only difference between an enzymatic pond cleaner and growing marketed enzymes is the concentration, the pond cleaner having an at least 10 fold greater concentration and probably about 20 times cheaper lol. Check for yourself. Ive been using pond cleaner for time now with visibly better results than humbolts prozyme.
Oh ye water your compost with enzymes, huuuuuge help!
Spicy Sativa im afraid you could be wrong making your tea brew for only 24 hours. Water temperature, oxigenation levels and available food to organisms play a part on how long a tea can take to brew. In general the longer the compost is kicking about in the water the more nutrients and organisms are extracted from it. I NEVER let my tea brew for less than 48 hours and if the plants dont need watering i just add a bit more molasses to the tea to keep the organisms fed and use it next day.
http://www.nofanj.org/LiteratureRetrieve.aspx?ID=104151 heres some of the best material ive read on brwing. Go to the brewing time section and you will see background for what ive exposed.
Heres my last tea woth a 3 day brew:

if you let your tea brew for more than 3 days. protozoa takes over devouring all bacteria, fungi and enzymes . Creating nitrogen cyclers. I brew my tea's anywhere from 18 hours to 48 hours. Most teas only take a day or 2 to brew til they are ready.

Elain inghams teas take 3 days because she fills a 5 gal bucket with half water and the rest with compost to the top. thats about 0.4 cubic feet of compost. Thats alot. when a couple handfuls will do. she doesn't add kelp, alfalfa, or castings. just straight compost and molasses. It takes more time for all the bacteria to eat up all the food stock and oxygen. The more food stock (molasses) the longer the brew will take.

hyroot said:

if you let your tea brew for more than 3 days. protozoa takes over devouring all bacteria, fungi and enzymes . Creating nitrogen cyclers. I brew my tea's anywhere from 18 hours to 48 hours. Most teas only take a day or 2 to brew til they are ready.

Elain inghams teas take 3 days because she fills a 5 gal bucket with half water and the rest with compost to the top. thats about 0.4 cubic feet of compost. Thats alot. when a couple handfuls will do. she doesn't add kelp, alfalfa, or castings. just straight compost and molasses. It takes more time for all the bacteria to eat up all the food stock and oxygen. The more food stock (molasses) the longer the brew will take.

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Shit 10 liters of compost in 10 litters of water must be like a slurry paste lol
I agree with you on the 2 day mark I do feel however that less than a day or around 1 day is kind of not enough. The reason i let it go 3 is because the plnts didnt need watering so i just put a bit extra food in the brew so that the bacteria dont go to sleep or die.
I use my own compost/worm castings a wee bit of kelp and molasses, do tend to add a bit of guano in flowering only iff the plants have the need.
I love teas so much im even gonna start giving it foliar to my vegetable garden this yearkiss-ass

thanks for the info ill keep to a 48 hour max i have seen some rather quick results as far as just color of the leaves and over all health of the plant looked from this humboldt stuff i dont doubt that there is a cheaper way i grew up on a dairy farm and my parents still own it and have access to alot of old manure and composted things like that so ill have to give that a whirl once this bottle is gone because it was not to expensive but i did not buy a large bottle either
if i know i can use the things form down on our farm then i will and save myself some doe and prolly have a much healthier tea

i also think the bottle says let aerate for 3 - 4 days on it

the humboldt grow natrual said it was good to use in these teaS so i figured hell just add it in anyways i also had asked if you can use any carb source or does it have to be molasses i have always used BLACKSTRAP UNSULPHERED molasses but recently got a carbo load and thought its a carb and why could'nt you if thats wHAt the bacterial is feeding on

I did feed them today form this batch that had been brewing for mad long so i hope it doesnt fuck anything up as i got 2 weeks left on one and about 4 or 5 left on 2 others really this was my first time ever using a bacterial tea concoction and i have definitely learned a few things so thats good and just hope using it today doest ruin anything i guess ill know tommorow of whats to come form letting aerate for that long

Kelp is a carb source and food stock for fungi. Plus nutes and amino acids.

just to update i finally go this humboldt myan micor zyme dialed in and am getting nice results from the teas but yes i would say i was brewing way to long and now dont brew any longer than 48 hours as is suspect thats why i was getting an odd algae looking growth in it also added some compost in a a tea bags i emptied and filled witha compost form my families dairy farm and am really happy with the results