Buying worm tea. yay or nay?

SpicySativa

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Do you have a 5 gallon bucket sitting somewhere on your property? If so, you DO have room to vermicompost.

Really though, "worm tea" cannot be bottled up and stored like that without losing effectiveness. What makes compost teas great is that they are thriving with active, living microbes. These microbes can't thrive sealed up in a bottle...
 

SpicySativa

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If what you're looking for is microbial diversity (like that in fresh worm castings), you simply aren't going to find it sealed up in a plastic bottle... That plastic bottle will only have a small fraction of the total diversity available in good compost. It will only have the varieties that can sit dormant in a sealed, anaerobic, acidic environment for months on end. Some microbes can do this, many cannot.
 

kratos015

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I saw nay, a big fat nay in fact and this is for several reasons.

Although it is possible to make an EWC tea without brewing it, it's not going to be as good as an aerated EWC tea. There are just too many factors you don't know about this tea. How fresh were the castings used to make this tea? Was it sufficiently aerated? How long has it been sitting in that bottle for? There are just far too many unknowns here, and $20 for a one gallon bottle is a plain rip off and here's why.

http://www.amazon.com/Pure-Organic-EC415-Earthworm-Castings/dp/B00062KQ42/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395112504&sr=8-1&keywords=earthworm+castings

Just buy that bag, I use these all the time and they're wonderful for teas and topdressing as well as amending your soil. You should pretty much always have a spare bag or two of these castings handy just in case! :P Anyway, I'm sure you know how to brew a tea but in case you don't it's quite simple. Just take an old sock, or better yet some cheap pantyhose (Walgreens has them, usually 2 sets of 2 for $1. Highly recommended) and fill it with 1/2 cup to 1 cup of EWC. Let that "teabag" sit in some fresh RO quality water and add 1-2tbsp of blackstrap unsulfered molasses (Brer Rabbit at Target is awesome, $2.79 a bottle can't be beat). Make sure you have enough aeration going on in your bucket and you'll have yourself as much tea as you want to make!

That ad claims it will produce 100 gallons of EWC tea for you. Well, if you use a 5 gallon bucket for brewing then only need to brew 20 5 gallon batches of tea to have as much as that $20. Not only are those 20 batches not diluted like what you're buying, but with a 15lb bag of EWC you'll be able to make a lot more than 20 batches of tea. Using only 1/2 cup-1cup will make your bag go a long ways.

Best of luck with your ventures using teas friend! Be sure to do plenty of research concerning organics so you don't make the same mistakes I did :) Have fun and enjoy your organic quality!
 

ibob

Active Member
thanks u guys yeah i need to do a tea brew for sure!!! and possibly a small worm farm for fresh goodness!!! i want faster vegging and bigger buds i know its gotta be a great way to boost my plants performance.
 

neonknight420

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found this on ebay do yall think this is ligit?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/All-Purpose-Liquid-Worm-Castings-Worm-Tea-ORGANIC-FERTILIZER-Plant-Garden-Lawn-/261411322039?pt=Fertilizer_Soil_Amendments&hash=item3cdd5438b7

i dont have room to vermicipost.
if you have another product in mind for me help please. im doing an indoor soil grow and need another good fert besides my neptunes fish & seaweed and mollasess .THANKS!
Buy a bag of quality EWC, put one cup EWC tbsp molasses a little kelp meal in a gallon of water let bubble and voila.
 
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