first timer making organic tea.

DANK PURPY

DANK PURPY

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im buying organic molasses, organic fish & kelp blend, Peruvian sea bird guano and Indonesian bat guano. how do i use all these into my grow. iv been researching for days and people have different ways of using them. i bought the air pump and 5 gallon bucket and air stones for tea brewing. I just need to know the feeding schedule. do i just use all them together in a tea 1/week and use just RO water throughout the week. or do i use them separately. i just don't want to damage my plants, or start off too small and end up with deficiencies.
by the way im needing both vegging and flowering tea schedules. please any info or more items i could buy to improve my grow i will greatly appreciate it.
 
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anzohaze

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Read the no till section first few pages fot sure and read the Teas thread by gandalf that will tell you and get you to were you need to be you need to have soil cooking with ammendments before you can use. You need to prepare a supersoil
 
ShLUbY

ShLUbY

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DANK PURPY said:
lol that's the one thing in forgot to add. I also got 15 pound bag of wiggle worm castings
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ancient forest, i hear, is a good source for microbe tea as well. also, instead of the wiggle worms, see if your grow store can get you sunlight supply "mother earth" castings. they're much better than the wiggle worms imo. not that much more money. beats 55$ a bag from roots organic! but those are probably the best you can get other than locally sourced/homemade
 
Dr.4:20

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I'm in a similar boat, trying to feed organically through teas, but my question is, I'm reading about brewing this tea and that tea, feeding this one every 3 days, this one once a week, and so on. But I'm only drying out enough at the moment to water once a week really. Combine all to get the variety? Growing indoors fyi
 
green_machine_two9er

green_machine_two9er

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Aact should be applied once a month. Or 3 weeks. Nutrient teas are completely different. I try to not use any unless needed. Build good soil and compost tea 4-5 times per cycle.
 
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anzohaze

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Dr.4:20 said:
I'm in a similar boat, trying to feed organically through teas, but my question is, I'm reading about brewing this tea and that tea, feeding this one every 3 days, this one once a week, and so on. But I'm only drying out enough at the moment to water once a week really. Combine all to get the variety? Growing indoors fyi
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A tea is not needed every week I feed mine 2 maybe 3 times per grow. If you have a worm bin feed your worms all your soil ammendments and then just top dress with earth worm castings about 3/4inch thick a lil less just a nice tip dress and that's it. Fresh EWC is loaded with microbes which feeds the plants so no tease are really needed unlesss.you have a problems such as a def. For a ewc use 2 handfuls and 3-5-tablespoon of blackstrap molasses and a 5 gal bucket and bubble the hell out of it for 24 hoUrs and use that. No need to dilute unless you use more then 5 gal of water to water with
 
DANK PURPY

DANK PURPY

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ShLUbY said:
ancient forest, i hear, is a good source for microbe tea as well. also, instead of the wiggle worms, see if your grow store can get you sunlight supply "mother earth" castings. they're much better than the wiggle worms imo. not that much more money. beats 55$ a bag from roots organic! but those are probably the best you can get other than locally sourced/homemade
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ill look into that. im not sure if my local stores have any but ill call around
 
DANK PURPY

DANK PURPY

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anzohaze said:
A tea is not needed every week I feed mine 2 maybe 3 times per grow. If you have a worm bin feed your worms all your soil ammendments and then just top dress with earth worm castings about 3/4inch thick a lil less just a nice tip dress and that's it. Fresh EWC is loaded with microbes which feeds the plants so no tease are really needed unlesss.you have a problems such as a def. For a ewc use 2 handfuls and 3-5-tablespoon of blackstrap molasses and a 5 gal bucket and bubble the hell out of it for 24 hoUrs and use that. No need to dilute unless you use more then 5 gal of water to water with
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so should i used the compost tea i make just every so often but always water just using RO water other than the compost tea feedings
 
ShLUbY

ShLUbY

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DANK PURPY said:
so should i used the compost tea i make just every so often but always water just using RO water other than the compost tea feedings
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yeah, basically you're just breeding a population of microbes to put into your soil, and if your soil is good, you should only need to repopulate for strength in numbers 2-3 times per plants lifecycle. once in veg, once when they get flipped and once about week 4 at the latest is what i'm gonna try out. i may not even hit them the second time in flower.
 
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anzohaze

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DANK PURPY said:
so should i used the compost tea i make just every so often but always water just using RO water other than the compost tea feedings
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Yes use a tea every so often like 2 times during veg top dress a week before flower or so and a tea or 2 during flower and that's it and just water. Your just starting out so don't get discouraged as a no till soil will only get better and better so your first run if your ammendments are not completely broken down you may have defs. So a worm bin feed it all ammendments kelp alfalfa including rock dusts like gypsum azomite, bentonite, make sure you have lots of areatiom
 
DANK PURPY

DANK PURPY

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ShLUbY said:
yeah, basically you're just breeding a population of microbes to put into your soil, and if your soil is good, you should only need to repopulate for strength in numbers 2-3 times per plants lifecycle. once in veg, once when they get flipped and once about week 4 at the latest is what i'm gonna try out. i may not even hit them the second time in flower.
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ok gonan try this method out. i hope it will be enough. i doubt ill see any deficiencies going this route
 
DANK PURPY

DANK PURPY

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anzohaze said:
Yes use a tea every so often like 2 times during veg top dress a week before flower or so and a tea or 2 during flower and that's it and just water. Your just starting out so don't get discouraged as a no till soil will only get better and better so your first run if your ammendments are not completely broken down you may have defs. So a worm bin feed it all ammendments kelp alfalfa including rock dusts like gypsum azomite, bentonite, make sure you have lots of areatiom
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cool thanks guys i will keep you updated. ill post of pics of my 2 plants flowering
 
DANK PURPY

DANK PURPY

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i was told to just use tea compost like yall said maybe times out of the entire cycle but to use molasses every week to feed the soil? or the tea compost should give it enough food for weeks?
 
DANK PURPY

DANK PURPY

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ive also been using great white mycorrhizae. can i add that to the tea i make or do i just top the soil with it or use it in a diluted form with just RO
 
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