Help with compost tea

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mushroom head

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Hey there guys found this post on another website...

I have played around with different ingredients in my teas, and found that there are many ways to "mix it up" as it were. The more diverse the ingredients in your tea, the more food sources for the various bacteria/fungi.

I've found that mixing it up is the method that works for me. I like to add EWC, Humic/Fulvic Acid, soluble kelp, Fish Hydrolysate and molasses to all my teas. When I'm flowering, I'll culture fungus in EWC by adding oat flour and letting it sit in a warm place for a few days, then use the culture in the tea.

Remember that phosphorus helps with root development, so some fungal activity is good while in veg also.


So he says that when he is in flowering he will culture fungus in EWC. What is EWC? And how can I culture fungus? It says by adding oat flour and letting it sit in a warm place for a few days, but what in the heck is EWC???
 
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madodah

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mushroom head said:
Hey there guys found this post on another website...

I have played around with different ingredients in my teas, and found that there are many ways to "mix it up" as it were. The more diverse the ingredients in your tea, the more food sources for the various bacteria/fungi.

I've found that mixing it up is the method that works for me. I like to add EWC, Humic/Fulvic Acid, soluble kelp, Fish Hydrolysate and molasses to all my teas. When I'm flowering, I'll culture fungus in EWC by adding oat flour and letting it sit in a warm place for a few days, then use the culture in the tea.

Remember that phosphorus helps with root development, so some fungal activity is good while in veg also.


So he says that when he is in flowering he will culture fungus in EWC. What is EWC? And how can I culture fungus? It says by adding oat flour and letting it sit in a warm place for a few days, but what in the heck is EWC???
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In organic grower vernacular it means earthworm castings.
 
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madodah

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When brewing AACT (actively aerated compost tea) with the proper equipment and ingredients the objective is to produce microbes which rejuvenate and supplement those in a living soil (read non-chemical). Those microbes include fungi but in flowering one wants more fungi than bacteria. There's negligible NPK/fertilizer value in teas but they can be formulated to produce beneficial microbes for both vegetation and flower cycles.
 
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mushroom head

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Thanks, you cant even buy EWC where I live which is gay, closest thing is find some soil with alot of worms in it, and hope they shit alot in it.
 
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madodah

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mushroom head said:
Thanks, you cant even buy EWC where I live which is gay, closest thing is find some soil with alot of worms in it, and hope they shit alot in it.
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Craig's List is normally a good place to find quality EWC. Lots of net sources and many big box stores now carry them.
 
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mushroom head

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Yah, Ive ordered quit a bit already though, dads getting kinda sick ordering stuff for a plant he doesnt even want growing in his backyard hah.

So did this guy add EWC and oatflour to water and bubble it in warm area to get fungi? Or does he just mix EWC with oatflour in a small container and let sit in warm place, then add to tea.
 
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theoatob

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Hi, im pretty new to this and yet to make my own tea. But from researching iv read this regarding phosphorus and mycorrhizeal fungi

"A bad part about mycrorrhizeal fungi is they don't like phosphorus at all!!! High phosphorus will prevent infection and if teh host is infected it will reduce sporation. P levels from 5mg/liter (milligram per liter) to 40 mg/liter is good with around 20 mg/l being optimal. One mg/liter equals basically one PPM (for our purposes)...so over 40ppm of P is bad of mycorrhizeal and that low P is no good for cannabis, esp in flower. On a positive note, if you inoculate the host with spores before you fertilzied with high P it gives the mycos time to reach good infection rates. Then you can use high P and it will effect the mcyo's much less."
 
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