How Long does veg tea stay good for?

I'm just wondering how long veg tea stays good for? Or what I could do to make it stay good.

in my tea I have worm castings, bat guano, maxi grow (seaweed), liquid karma, Unsulphured molasses.
It has been in a bucket and being air raided for 2 days now and has a heavy foam on top. Can I just leave it like this or do I have to add more ingredients?
Any replies or info helps.

kylerme said:

I'm just wondering how long veg tea stays good for? Or what I could do to make it stay good.

in my tea I have worm castings, bat guano, maxi grow (seaweed), liquid karma, Unsulphured molasses.
It has been in a bucket and being air raided for 2 days now and has a heavy foam on top. Can I just leave it like this or do I have to add more ingredients?
Any replies or info helps.

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Seek shelter in an under ground bunker stat!! j/k

As long as it's being aerated you should be OK for a few days. The microbes will eventually run out of food stock (if you don't add more), and the consensus seems to be that peak microbial populations are achieved in a 48'ish hour window from when you start the brew .... so I would use it up as soon as possible. If you smell any kind of funk beyond a soil and/or molasses type smell, I would discard it. It's not worth risking, imo.

After 4 hours of stopping aeration the aerobic (air breathing) bacteria begin to die off. Your tea will begin to develope more anaerobic bacteria and fungi which can possibly introduce harmful pathogens to your soil. Their is a place for anaerobic teas in organic gardening, but for the sake of keeping things simple anaerobic teas will not benefit what we are using them for. Now, if you keep aerating your tea beyond 24 hours, more beneficial fungi will begin to develope. By the time you reach 36hours your tea should be more fungally dominant, which is an excellent tea for non fruit bearing plants. Throughout this process if your organisms you are cultivating run out of food they will begin to consume each other, you don't want this because when brewing tea, the point is to maximize the amount of beneficial bacteria and fungi. This is what the molasses and or alfalfa meal is for. You can add too much food, and off the top of my head I can't recall the negative effects of overfeeding a tea are. All this info is directly from the book Teaming with Microbes. To know exactly whay is going on in your tea youwould need an exspensive electron microscope (not practical for most of us). So using a tried and true tea, that someone with an electeon microscope has observed and studied, is our best bet to achieving what you want from a tea.

Thanks for the great replies guys! +
Rep to both of you. Right now I can't possible use it all up but I will add some more good every few days.