Compost teas
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DonBrennon
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Try posting it in the organics thread, most general growers don't use AACT
chemphlegm
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when bored I bubble a handful of fish powder, some organic organicare crumbles, myco powder and water with it, cool, but they get all those things in their soil so I feel its a waste of my time. time vs/results-for me.
DonBrennon
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Compost or EWC
Molasses
Water
Oxygen
That's it
Molasses
Water
Oxygen
That's it
Rambo8577
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I do the DEM tea's
Fat flowers
Natural mystik
Then molasses etc...
I use tru bloom because of the potash
And big time enzymes or slf100 as well,
If the ph is wierd ill use bokashi and kelp meal , to get a little fulvic acid in the mix,
If the ph has been running of fine i just in low mls of ful power
Chunky Stool
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5 gallon bucket
1 oz (2 tbsp) kelp meal
1 oz Alfalfa meal
2 oz Indonesian bat guano, 0-7-0 17% calcium
1 tbsp mag sulfate (epsom salts)
4 oz worm castings
1 oz plant molasses or brown sugar
Bubble 24 hrs, then dilute 50/50 before using.
Your plants will dig it.
1 oz (2 tbsp) kelp meal
1 oz Alfalfa meal
2 oz Indonesian bat guano, 0-7-0 17% calcium
1 tbsp mag sulfate (epsom salts)
4 oz worm castings
1 oz plant molasses or brown sugar
Bubble 24 hrs, then dilute 50/50 before using.
Your plants will dig it.
Rambo8577
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Whats the living bacteria or fungus in your mix?5 gallon bucket
1 oz (2 tbsp) kelp meal
1 oz Alfalfa meal
2 oz Indonesian bat guano, 0-7-0 17% calcium
1 tbsp mag sulfate (epsom salts)
4 oz worm castings
1 oz plant molasses or brown sugar
Bubble 24 hrs, then dilute 50/50 before using.
Your plants will dig it.
Chunky Stool
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Those come from the worm castings. I brew longer if I want it to be bacteria dominant.
Chunky Stool
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I put em on the drain table when they're small (flush/feed), but after they get big with heavy buds, they stay put. I may try a SCROG, but the canopy is already pretty full -- with minimal LST. I'll probably just trim the crap out of them right before the flip to 12/12.
Chunky Stool
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Plants love tea!
I'm running a custom organic soil mix that has enough nutes to get about halfway through flower. I had some problems after the most recent transplant, and nute/microbial tea rescued them from the brink. (I honestly thought two of them wouldn't survive.)
Oh I should mention that for whatever reason, my teas tend to have a higher ph (8 ish)when they are finished brewing. I just add a shot or two of Neptune's Harvest liquid seaweed (0-0-1) to bring the ph back down to ~6.5 before applying.
I'm running a custom organic soil mix that has enough nutes to get about halfway through flower. I had some problems after the most recent transplant, and nute/microbial tea rescued them from the brink. (I honestly thought two of them wouldn't survive.)
Oh I should mention that for whatever reason, my teas tend to have a higher ph (8 ish)when they are finished brewing. I just add a shot or two of Neptune's Harvest liquid seaweed (0-0-1) to bring the ph back down to ~6.5 before applying.
meangreengrowinmachine
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yes this!
Chunky Stool
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Agreed. This is the quintessential microbial tea recipe and works great. I do a hybrid nutrient/microbial tea when my plants need to be fed. But if they look fine, they just get the microbial tea.
meangreengrowinmachine
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what do you mean by "nutrients" though, because as far as I understood using compost teas and any kind of traditional salt based nutrient will basically kill of your micro herd... i guess im asking what are you using as an organic readily available nutrient source?
Chunky Stool
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Nutrients are the kelp (1-0-2), alfalfa (2.5-0.8-2.5), & indonesian bat guano (0-7-0).
I've also got a bag of peruvian seabird guano (12-11-2) but have not tried it yet.
Chunky Stool
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I don't think synthetics actually kill soil microbes. Plants respond to synthetics by changing the soil biology. There was a good thread on RIU about this topic, but I don't remember the name of it.
meangreengrowinmachine
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im using the kelp and alfala in my soil mix but have not gotten in the guanos and they seem pretty high ratioed to me. maybe worth a shot... but i think i would add them to my soil mix and let cook for a month or 2... but sounds like you are having great results with what you are doing man!