Is my tea supposed to foam up?

green_machine_two9er said:

I like Alfalfa due to its effects on tighter nodes? Anyone else experience this. ? Speratijg aact and nutrient solutions is great. Every 14 days I do one Ewc/ molasses tea. And on the opposite weeks I like a kelp, alfalfa, fish emulsion solution. Up until. Halfway through flower then just straight water. And aact

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Love it. It's great for the roots too. Alfalfa is like organic super thrive. Certain goodies in the alfalfa only break down in soil so it's good to have some mixed in to the soil and top dress with and dregs from the tea.

I was given this recipe from my local nor cal hydro shop, and it works GREAT every season. This recipe is a one stop shop! I use this outdoor in roots organic 707 straight out of the bag.

5 GAL. PURE WATER TEA*

Filter bag (optional).
Water pump (optional).
Water heater (optional).

Add 4 gallons water to your 5 gal. bucket that has 2-4 air stones set in the bottom of the bucket. Add in all ingredients except for mycorrhizal fungi to the water. Brew for 24-36 hours. Now add your 5th gallon of water to the solution with your mycorrhizae. Solution can be stored in refrigerator up to 7 days. You can dilute @ 1 cup per gallon or use undiluted.

1 Pound worm castings**

1 Tbs. Ful-power

1 tsp. Ful-humix

1 Tbs. Fish Hydrolysate
12-1-1

2 Tbs. Molasses

1 Tbs. Soluble Seaweed
(kelp extract)
1-0-18

2 Tbs. Earth Juice Catalyst

2 Tbs. Solution Guano
0-8-1

2 Tbs. Mycorrhizae***

Tea should smell earthy, and fresh like good compost or healthy soil. If it smells bad like spoiled milk or rancid, the tea has gone bad(anaerobic) and should be thrown out.

* Make sure your water is free of chlorine, or the microbal life you are trying to breed will be killed!

** You can use worm castings or vermiblend (Castings, compost, kelp, and humus).

*** Add Mycorrhizae at the end of the brewing cycle; the long term aeration will destroy the Mycorrihizal Hyphae.

Use this tea every other feeding. Find a base nutrient to feed with in between tea feedings. The idea is to build up your soil, then break it down, every feeding. Tea, base nutrient, tea, base nutrient, ect. Switch to a bloom base nutrient when you start to see buds, or slightly before they flower.

In the last couple tea feedings, leave out the guano and the fish hydrolysate, to improve taste and smell.

ENJOY!

mathew pixley said:

I'm brewing my my first tea and it's not bubbling. I added a handful of worm castings, a teaspoon of mollasses and a teaspoon of uprising foundation by roots organic. The uprising contains fish bone meal, oyster shell flower, kelp meal, Greensand, rock dust, alfafa meal,feather meal, bat guano, crab meal and a few other things. Its been almost two hours. Will it take a while or are my ingredients messed up?

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most of your ingredients aren't water soluble, just so you know.
If you are doing a microbe tea, stick to compost and/or castings and molasses.
Nothing else.
For nutrient teas you can add all the other fancy stuff, but greensand, feather meal, fishbone meal, oyster flour, crab meal and kelp meal aren't soluble.
Kelp meal is sorta, and maybe some of the crab meal, but for the most part, all those ingredients are just gonna be hanging out in the tea.
Course a teaspoon isn't much.
But just sayin you can use that elsewhere.

also whenever adding kelp you want to brew for 48 hours or so, even without it I brew for at least 24 to get a good head.