I love the Ancient Forest Humus, in fact I use that instead of EWC every time I make tea.
That recipe looks pretty good so far, but there are a few little adjustments that can be made to make it better. First of all, get yourself some alfalfa meal and throw in 1/4-1/2 cup, alfalfa meal and kelp are some of the things that make compost teas truly great. As you know, compost tea consist of bacteria and fungi, both of which come from different places. Your bacteria will typically come from your guanos/EWC and the like and your fungi will usually come from the plant matter ingredients you use (I.E. humus, seaweed, alfalfa meal). But if you just add a bit of alfalfa meal to the recipe you posted above then you have an excellent base for compost teas! The only thing left to do at this point is make these teas into teas specific for either veg OR flower instead of both, it's not like you can't use the above tea recipe, it's just that it won't work quite as well as teas brewed specifically for the stage of the plant's life.
There are 4 different types of guano, and just get the jamaican guano over the indonesian since they're both for bloom.
- Mexican Guano: Crucial for veg teas, the growth you get and the vibrant colors it gives your ladies make this a MUST. This only goes in the Veg tea, using only 1/3 cup for the first 1-2 weeks, bumping it up to 2/3 cup after that until you go into 12/12. NPK 10-2-0
- Seabird Guano: Used for late veg and the first 4 weeks of bloom, only 1/4-1/3 cup at a time though since this stuff is pretty potent! NPK is 12-11-2, you stop using after week 4-5 of bloom because at this point you want to put more PK and drop the N dose since we want buds and not leaves! Don't worry, because there's tiny amounts of N in the Jamaican guano as well as the kelp/alfalfa meals and EWC. We don't want N completely gone, but it shouldn't be very high at all for the last weeks of bloom.
- Jamaican Guano: Use 1/3 cup for the first 1-2 weeks of bloom, then bump it up to 2/3 cup every week after that until harvest. NPK is 1-10-1 which I find more balanced than the Indonesian at .5-12-.2.
And in case I was a bit vague about it, the measurements I went into above are what go into your stockings/pantyhose along with the dry stuff from the recipe you posted above, you have a really good base compost tea but the guanos will really make them that much better. Make sure your air pumps are powerful enough!
But once you combine the guanos with your recipe and some alfalfa meal your plants will love you. The complete NPK ratios of both are roughly 24-13-2 for veg and 15-21-3 bloom with seabird guano and 2-10-1 without seabird guano. As I'm sure you're noticing, our K levels are pretty low compared to everything else. I like to use Protekt to compensate for this because the silica/potassium boosts really help the plants stay healthy against infection, bugs, or even temp problems by a handful of degrees. Whether it's organic is still up to debate, however the general consensus (according to research I did before I purchased it) is that although it's mostly organic there's a small ingredient in there that prevents an OMRI certification, I forget what ingredient that is though. Protekt has an NPK of 0-0-3 so that'll give you plenty of potassium!
My apologies for the wall of text, but I hope this helped out some.
