Storing guano tea?

Rasta Roy

Rasta Roy

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If I mixed guano with water, put a heating pad underneath, and put an air stone in it for 48 hours. Once its ready...is it like compost tea where it's no longer good after a few hours without air stone? Or does it stay good if I bottle it in a container?

What if I don't bother with the air stone?

I'm trying to make liquid guano like that shit you buy in a bottle. Just for fun.

Any knowledge would be awesome!
 
Richard Drysift

Richard Drysift

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Yes it will go anaerobic in 12 hrs or so without aeration. Same as any EWC tea; use it all up once it's ready but I have put guano/EWC tea in a bottle to give grower friends which was ok- they gave it to plants right away-if you plan to use it within a matter of hours it's ok to bottle it but longer requires aeration
 
Rasta Roy

Rasta Roy

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What if you never aerate in the first place and just leave the guano in a bottle with water to dissolve? Just wondering how the guano company does it if I can't.
 
Richard Drysift

Richard Drysift

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Try it with no aeration...maybe it'll work but I think it will get rancid in a hurry. I don't see how active it could stay without a supply of oxygen but you are right they do sell organic liquid teas; big bloom contains guanos & EWC but I question its bio activity. It's barely alive until you add something like rain water or fresh EWC & bubble it for awhile.
 
Velvet Elvis

Velvet Elvis

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dudettes!!!!

if solution has gone anaerobic, you still get the benefits of the NPK values of the solution. There are microbes and spores that are dormant and wake up when added to your soil too.

Ideally it would be aerated to take full advantage of Microbial life. Up until 10-15 years ago, nobody in the cannabis world undersood microbials. and not many in the lawn and garden world. it is a new realm understanding the bioherd.

bone meal, blood meal, guano, ewc has been used for many many decades for its natural inputs of NPK. and trace minerals
 
Rasta Roy

Rasta Roy

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Definitely gonna keep giving my girls the fresh brewed stuff. But I wanna start making up some bottle concoctions and selling em to the locals but I gotta run tests first and make sure nothing goes bad.

Anyone ever try doing an aerated tea with fish bone meal? Does that make it available any faster?
 
sworth

sworth

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I just read a couple of times, whilst doing my research, that bone was pants in tea so I left it at that and never bothered with it.
I figured that there's plenty of other things to make tea out of (the list of ingredients must run into hundreds..and people's' recipes in the thousands! :lol: )
 
Rasta Roy

Rasta Roy

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Very true! My favorites have guano, worm castings, kelp, and a magnesium supplement (I've used fulvex and huvega but I don't think they make huvega anymore). My girls always look like a million bucks the day after I hit em with it.
 
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