Help With Organic Tea. +rep for helpful responce
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khm916
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Flowering Brew:
2/3 cup Peruvian Seabird Guano 11-13-3
1 cup Earth Worm Castings 1-0-6
2/3 cup Indonesian Bat Guano .5-12-.2
1/2 cup alfalfa meal 2.5-1-1
5 TBS Black Strap Molasses
5 TBS Liquid Kelp Extract 0-2-2
Feed Every 3rd watering 3 cups per 5 gallons water.
I feel like this should work nicely anyone have anything to add or subtract?
2/3 cup Peruvian Seabird Guano 11-13-3
1 cup Earth Worm Castings 1-0-6
2/3 cup Indonesian Bat Guano .5-12-.2
1/2 cup alfalfa meal 2.5-1-1
5 TBS Black Strap Molasses
5 TBS Liquid Kelp Extract 0-2-2
Feed Every 3rd watering 3 cups per 5 gallons water.
I feel like this should work nicely anyone have anything to add or subtract?
siccmade420
Active Member
yea definetly get a brewer!!!!!!
You will need a brewer. 18 hours at 75° with a minimum of .4 cubic feet of air per gallon of water per minute (takes an air pump with ~70lpm [liter per minute] capability). Use within six hours of stopping aeration.
I use this for vegetation and flowering:
1 cup earthworm castings
1/4 cup kelp meal
1/4 cup fish hydrolysate
1/2 teaspoon humic acid
1 tablespoon soft rock phosphate
2 tablespoons alfalfa meal
1 teaspoon molasses
Use PVC or air bubblers for the air disperser in the bottom of the bucket as aquarium stones are extremely difficult to properly clean, often resulting in anaerobic bacteria being carried over into the next batch.
weedfiend88
Member
get a product containing trichoderma or myccorhizae, beneficial organisms which form a symbiotic relationship with your plant(s). can have many known benefits including more uptake of nutrients from same dose especially nitrogen and also makes it harder for bad / negative moulds or organisms to take hold. Have just been leaving some (vintage bat) guano to sit in water for a couple of days with the myco and tricho whilst occasionally giving a gentle stir. working on getting an air stone, theres actually a kit I know of for about £20 just for this purpose including beneficial bacteria, molasses and air pump+stone etc which am thinking of buying
Matt Rize
Hashmaster
john evan's bountea kit is super easy and comes with enough ingredients for a few brews. its just a 5 gal bucket, ring diffuser, pump, a few bags of their humisoil, an inocculant, veg fert, and flower fert. again, for simplicity sake the kit is really easy and comes with directions.
i like the home-made brewer above, but also like to cut holes in a lid and use it while brewing.
humboldt nutes makes a cool liquid tea called mayan microzyme, you add 1 tbsp to water with molasses and bubble for three days. super easy and no filtering.
i like the home-made brewer above, but also like to cut holes in a lid and use it while brewing.
humboldt nutes makes a cool liquid tea called mayan microzyme, you add 1 tbsp to water with molasses and bubble for three days. super easy and no filtering.
Several of the commercially packaged teas have been privately tested and show unacceptably low microbe levels and size due to a 3% addition of phosphoric acid, which is the common preservative being utilized to ensure reasonable shelf life.
If one is going to pay retail price for those concoctions the only way they can be used with acceptable performance is by adding compost to the brew to feed and expand microbe life.
I don't understand why people would even bother with them. If one already has a brewer a far superior AACT can easily be brewed for pennies rather than paying outrageous prices for names and marketing claims.
Matt Rize
Hashmaster
Because it is easy, most newbs don't have brewers, some people do not have access to compost, and as a professor I've found most newbs want all-inclusive kits. god you are a hater. don't be mad because my herb is cleaner than yours...
i had a buddy do a whole round on just bountea, it came out great and was simple/cheap to produce.
i'm trying to help here, our differences in opinion does not make either of us right or wrong. keep it positive buddy
and i will add that buying prebrewed teas (like humtea) is a rip off, you have no idea how long they have been brewing or how alive the microbes are.
Because it is easy, most newbs don't have brewers, some people do not have access to compost, and as a professor I've found most newbs want all-inclusive kits. god you are a hater. don't be mad because my herb is cleaner than yours...
i had a buddy do a whole round on just bountea, it came out great and was simple/cheap to produce.
i'm trying to help here, our differences in opinion does not make either of us right or wrong. keep it positive buddy
and i will add that buying prebrewed teas (like humtea) is a rip off, you have no idea how long they have been brewing or how alive the microbes are.
You contradict yourself by calling me a hater for commenting on questionable marketing claims and then adding your opinion that pre-brewed teas are a ripoff.
In botanical science or gardening optimism equals naivete.
Matt Rize
Hashmaster
You are a hater, but that is okay, so am I. It was supposed to be funny...someone is sensitive today. My point about humtea is not to trust the grow store brewer, but to trust a prepackaged time tested system like bountea.
Listen, this guy is obviously a newb, has no brewer currently, and just wants to get started making teas. SO buying premade teas won't teach him anything, and making them from scratch may be too complicated, or he may not have access to quality compost.
KHM916: just get a brew kit and see if it is something you are into. if so, think about sourcing compost for the future to save money. if not, re-sell the kit and move on. keep it simple friends.
DownOnWax
Well-Known Member
Plus NPK values in an AACT are meaningless.
Matt Rize
Hashmaster
What!? Not sure what that means...
Serapis
Well-Known Member
It's amazing the amount of grow related BS products that keep appearing. You can make a great organic tea with a fucking 5 gallon bucket, some rain water, a stretched out tube sock and a few ingredients. The organic solubles go into the sock, tie a knot and drop it in. Liquids, pour into water. Let the soup sit for a day or two, and occasionally stir it.
There is no sense in spending hundreds of dollars to make a damn organic tea.... It's a fucking weed. A brewer? 15 item ingredient list? Give it up already....
Yes weed will do better with some know how and attention, but some of this advice is just plain getting out of hand. You don't need a bunch of fancy shit or a secret tea recipe to grow good weed.
There is no sense in spending hundreds of dollars to make a damn organic tea.... It's a fucking weed. A brewer? 15 item ingredient list? Give it up already....
Yes weed will do better with some know how and attention, but some of this advice is just plain getting out of hand. You don't need a bunch of fancy shit or a secret tea recipe to grow good weed.
Spanishfly
Well-Known Member
Agreed - neither do you need to fiddle endlessly with pH.
3lions
New Member
Some interesting points:
'Acai' is thought of as one of nature’s perfect energy fruits. It is packed full of anti-oxidants, essential amino acids omega acids. The good fats basically. Acai also contains lots of vitamins and minerals like iron and fibre.
White tea is the least artificially processed tea and has the highest antioxidant levels of them all so far as we know. It may actually be the supreme drink of healthiness.
Green Tea – Doesn’t sound very exciting but the benefits of green tea in the human body have proven extremely beneficial, in fact so beneficial that studies have taken place by some that believe that Green Tea holds the key to a longer and healthier life!
Soo, green and white tea with Acai n Cannabis would seem the perfect healthy tea. Elementary dear Watson
'Acai' is thought of as one of nature’s perfect energy fruits. It is packed full of anti-oxidants, essential amino acids omega acids. The good fats basically. Acai also contains lots of vitamins and minerals like iron and fibre.
White tea is the least artificially processed tea and has the highest antioxidant levels of them all so far as we know. It may actually be the supreme drink of healthiness.
Green Tea – Doesn’t sound very exciting but the benefits of green tea in the human body have proven extremely beneficial, in fact so beneficial that studies have taken place by some that believe that Green Tea holds the key to a longer and healthier life!
Soo, green and white tea with Acai n Cannabis would seem the perfect healthy tea.
Elementary dear Watson
Matt Rize
Hashmaster
So ignorant. How many "weeds" have been carefully inbred and backcrossed for hundreds of years, carefully preserving and guiding the genetics. I hate when people say that the amazing CULTIVARS that we grow, bred by professionals over years if not decades, are weeds. Just missing the point all together. The word "weed" came into use as demeaning slang for Cannabis.
The brewers that we are talking about are simply a bucket and an aerator...Why no bubbling your tea?
I admire your DYI attitude otherwise, but have found in class that newbs are usually too scared to try a DYI approach and feel comforted by the simple kit that i suggested. Love the sock, funny image in my head of a big ol' blue striped tube sock full of alaskan humisoil
