bubbled water/molasses/bacteria today, can i leave to sit till morning?

lowblower

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Basically i bubbled today but decided to wait till tomorrow to water. I have to turn the pumps off during night as they are loud, so will the bacteria be ok to just sit in still water over night, and then what? should i bubble again for half hour before watering tomorrow?
thanks im a noob
 
What did you bubble? What micro-organisms? Fermentation microbes can survive in aerobic or anaerobic conditions, if you brewed AACT then the aerobic bacteria will die without the airstone..
 

lowblower

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a mix of anaerobic and aerobic 'myco madness'. I bubbled them for about 6 hours yesterday so i thought the aerobic ones might be able to survuve in the oxygenated water, but they didnt make a 'froth' this morning when i put the pumps back on so i guess they died. i added another 1/2 tsp to each bottle this morning and the froth is bubbling over the top once again so its all good now, just a minor waste
 

lowblower

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just tried a search but nothing came up, can anyone tell me the minimum time required for bubbling a soil bacteria/molasses/organics solution? People say just leave it to bubble for like 12 hours but is that excessive? would 2 hours give just as good results? generally speaking. thanks (just need some mental reassurance lol)
 

Nullis

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The Myco Madness apparently contains several species of Bacillus, a handful of other species of bacteria, a couple Trichoderma varieties and nine varieties of endomycorrhizal fungi. As SpicySativa mentioned, most mycorrhizal fungi is incapable of proliferating absent a suitable plant host. The spores are liable to being destroyed in an AACT, such a product could be added after brewing, just prior to application.

Ideally you brew for 18-36 hours (constant, not intermittently), and this depends, but generally the warmer the environment the less brew time is required. It would be better to use fresh compost, humus or earthworm castings. You could also include bat\seabird guano. Other than that there are various ingredients\meals such as kelp meal (or extract), alfalfa meal, humic acids, etc. that people add in along with the blackstrap molasses which provides minerals and carbohydrates to feed the microbes (mainly simple sugars that feed bacteria).

This is aerated right up until just before it is used, for best results. Again it should be brewed at least 16 hours, if the ambient room temps are like 75F or warmer. Also keep it brewing in a dark environment, should not be in direct sunlight or HID light.
 

SpicySativa

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^^^yup^^^

You really want to avoid letting that brew sit unaerated. I've tracked dissolved oxygen concentrations after turning off the air pump at the end of a brew, and they literally start plummeting instantly. Once the DO levels drop to a certain point, dormant anaerobic and facultative bacteria start to "wake up" and resume growing. These anaerobes produce some substances (alcohols, acids, etc) which are not only toxic to the aerobic microbes you are tryin to grow, they are also toxic to plants. Once the brew has gone anaerobic, it's trash. No point in trying to bring it back to life.
 
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