Tea ingredients

mr jones15

mr jones15

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So I've been researching tea. At first I found people are saying compost tea has no affect on plants. Then I stumbled across a thread of people adding things like azomite, oats, molasses, humic acid, fish emulsion, etc. Does anybody have any experience with this? Can anybody tell me good ratios to use for making tea if they are actually useful?
 
charface

charface

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mr jones15 said:
And dive in please I want to hear it lol
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According to dr Elaine ingham?
A bacterial tea will be slightly fungal
And vice versa. You cant really only get 100%

So you are looking for a mostly microbial.

Mine looks like this


Measurements are approximate and feel free to go more or less.

3 to 5 gal water. Chlorine free

Maybe 2ish tablespoons molasses.
Remember I brew a short cycle so thats more than enough

Couple cups of some kind of compost,
Earthworm castings work very well.

Table spoon to 1/4 cup cold pressed fish hydroslate?

Tablespoon to 1/4 cup liquid kelp.

I bubble with clean 76f water.
(aquariumheater)
I bubble for 24 hours for my own reasons but others go up to about 36 with this same recipe.

Strain it after its made n spray it on the entire plant.

Pour leftovers in soil.

You can dilute it or not.
I do not
 
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Badfishy1

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The question becomes how long does it take for the fish hydroslate and kelp take to break down to ‘usuable’ minerals... thanks for your recipe
 
charface

charface

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Badfishy1 said:
The question becomes how long does it take for the fish hydroslate and kelp take to break down to ‘usuable’ minerals... thanks for your recipe
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That I left to the experts, I pretty much stole my recipe from the good Dr.
 
charface

charface

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charface said:
That I left to the experts, I pretty much stole my recipe from the good Dr.
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In fact probably go to her site and double check the measurements if you want the real deal.

I just wing mine more or less
Edit, went to her site and her recipe that is posted is different.
I cant remember where I got it then. Lol
 
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mr jones15

mr jones15

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Yea I just want the basics, wanted to hear a few recipes and get gist of what everyone kinda does and go from there.
 
meangreengrowinmachine

meangreengrowinmachine

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charface said:
In fact probably go to her site and double check the measurements if you want the real deal.

I just wing mine more or less
Edit, went to her site and her recipe that is posted is different.
I cant remember where I got it then. Lol
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I was gonna say dang those are much more exact then I use.. I use the same ingredients but its like hand full of ewc, pour some molasses some kelp meal some fish yuk lol
 
meangreengrowinmachine

meangreengrowinmachine

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So what are you all's thoughts on a bubbling system? Do you recommend something that used a large pump to re circulate the water (high end compost tea machines and the replicas) or is an air stone in the bottom of a five gallon bucket ok? (sorry OP to steal the tread)
 
charface

charface

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meangreengrowinmachine said:
So what are you all's thoughts on a bubbling system? Do you recommend something that used a large pump to re circulate the water (high end compost tea machines and the replicas) or is an air stone in the bottom of a five gallon bucket ok? (sorry OP to steal the tread)
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I have always just bubbled but recently bought small pumps to circulate it.

My fear with running it through a pump in the past was that the pump would damage fungi. But again that was just me assuming they would glob together
Naturally and the pump would mess it all up.

Im interested in this question as well
 
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