compost tea smelled bad

hi guys first time brewing compost tea. i used my compost, plus dr earth fish bone meal and biobizz biogrow which is mollases and biobloom. left it for 24 hours. has a small funky smell. I used some on my plant as a foliage feed and fed them as well with it. because they were turning yellow so i got desperate and fed them. i guess the compost tea would be anaerobic. which are the bad dudes. would it cause significant harm to my plants which are flowering right now. thanks

It's not good for them, unless the bud molds its not a big deal really, foliar feeding late into flowering sometimes is a bad idea also.

Don't ever use bad tea again though, all sorts of bad shit can be in there.

ghettorigger said:

It's not good for them, unless the bud molds its not a big deal really, foliar feeding late into flowering sometimes is a bad idea also.

Don't ever use bad tea again though, all sorts of bad shit can be in there.

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thanks so i still have some left in the 5 gallon bucket. going to see if the good guys win and it smells good tomorrow. if not should i throw it away in my compost pile to activate it or something... i read that on a page

Try using ewc and alfalfa meal with molasses. I add some mirco organisms I bought to it also and bubble for 24hrs. Gonna be getting hi-brix instead of using molasses heard its better. PPM usually gets to 700 and tons of foam build up.

Yeah if it still smells bad toss it back into the compost bin, let it heat up, and run it's course.

never had a tea I bubble stoned start out smelling funky. We tend to mix the admendmants in, bubble for the day. In the morning in goes the nylon sock with the compost and wormcastings to start the microbial orgy, bubble 24hrs and use. the rest gits dumped on the fruit tree.

5 gallons R/o water
3tbs of soluble kelp
1tbs of amino acids
1tbs of fructose
all of this goes straight into the water then in our teabag goes
1/4 cup Alfafa Meal with microbials
1/4 cup worm castings
1/2 cup compost <--- I make a special pile of composting SuperSoil , making an effort to cultivate a wide variety of (endo-ecto)bacteria with 1 pound of bonide composter starter and 20oz of "liquid vegtable thrive alive" benificial fungi and more microbials are in the alfalfa meal. and just cuz I feel like a honeybadger I toss a handful of plant success granular into too the compost. I also make sure I see good fungus growth before I use.

The bone meal and biogrow shouldn't go in the tea, that's part of the problem. The bone meal is very slow to break down, so it kinda just sits there in the bucket and gets gross and smelly. Use actual molasses as the food source, or agave, corn syrup, etc. You can use things like kelp, alfalfa, compost, forest humus, wormcastings, humic acid...stuff like that is what should be in your tea. Also, you need an air source.

Here's a thread I posted a couple weeks ago on how to make a simple bucket SUPER cheap. Check it out. It's literally 2 steps. And there's a pretty good tea recipe as well.
https://www.rollitup.org/organics/525804-still-wasting-money-bottled-packaged.html

Also, smell your compost before you go and make tea with it. Your compost might already be anaerobic if it is too wet.