Help?! Fed my ladies a bad tea

So, the ladies are not looking too hot. A lil description of what is going on. I'm a partner on this grow here in North Cali. I come up here 2-3 times a month to help with various things. The ladies have looked great every time I come up but this time when I got here my caramels were droopy and dark green. I thought they just needed a watering, or even maybe had a high nitrogen problem, and would bounce back after watering in the compost tea. Tea got watered in on sunday morning. Little did I know that my partner had been brewing these compost teas and not washing the brewer out. This caused a buildup of all sediment from the tea bags, which, when not in use it just sat and festered. My guess is that it built up a concoction of bad bacteria. This caused this last tea to have a very bad smell to it, at the time, I just blamed the smell on the fish emulsion.

Now with all that said, today when I went out into the garden the majority of the ladies had become lighter green on the tops with the lower portion remained their normal green goddess color. My caramels are what I'm most worried about tho, along with the color difference that the others have, the caramels were very droopy and had some leaf curl. Also, not every caramel is doing this, but the majority is. I included pictures of both.



The row in the middle of the greenhouse is sour d, and has just been lst/topped so that is why she looks weird.


Anyone know whats going on here? Is it the bad tea or something else or a combo or a multiplying effect from several bad teas?

P.S. This is my first post on here. Glad to be a part of the community.

I not sure if the tea is the problem with the plants,wait for someone to jump in.

but you right about the tea,it should be cleaned well after every batch,there is a chance that you have Been breeding bad bacteria.
your teas should either have no smell,smell earthy,or neutral wood like(even with fish emulsion,or guanos)

Flush with lots of h2o and in a day or so some vitamin b nutes...

Kase said:

Flush with lots of h2o and in a day or so some vitamin b nutes...

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the tea is definitely the problem. i think theres a bacteria buildup that coated the roots, locking out everything. flushing today with clearex. wondering if i could mix hygrozyme with the clearex and kill two birds with one stone? either way i'm on the way to solving this problem. thanks for the advice.

The smell you are talking about is a byproduct of anaerobic bacteria. Those bacteria will die when exposed to an oxygen rich environment. From my experience with teas even the ones that sit without being aerated wont cause that sort of damage, although I wouldnt use them I just pour them onto a finishing compost pile so its not a total waste. I have tea brewing in 55 g drums that I use on my plants as well as vegetables, fruit trees etc and as long as an air stone is used its awesome stuff to use. I wouldnt take my opinion as the end all and be all because I am only speaking from what I have learned through trial and error and very little of it is backed up with any sort of credible science. Maybe your issue is to do with fungal/bacterial issues related to too much water or possibly not enough oxygen? Best of luck with the grow man looks like you guys are into some serious stuff there! Much respect and props!