need help. just made my first tea.

DANK PURPY

DANK PURPY

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i used a 100% tea on 2 of my flowering plants. 1 of them is about 5 weeks into flowering and another is less than a month into flowering, and i used 50/50 (diluted with RO water) on my vegging plants. is this ok?
 
DANK PURPY

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my tea mix was 2 1/2 gallons of RO water with the following:
1 tbsp of Peruvian seabird guano 12-11-2
2 tbsp of Indonesian bat guano 0-7-0
3 tbsp of molasses
2 tbsp of organic fish & kelp blend
 
Kind Sir

Kind Sir

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I looked that up, just cuz and saw few people saying its too diluted to begin with and doesnt smell as fishy as they'd think a potent fish&kelp should. Are you happy with it?

@ShLUbY What do you think about his recipe, thought youd be a good resource for this guy.
 
DANK PURPY

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Kind Sir said:
I looked that up, just cuz and saw few people saying its too diluted to begin with and doesnt smell as fishy as they'd think a potent fish&kelp should. Are you happy with it?

@ShLUbY What do you think about his recipe, thought youd be a good resource for this guy.
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it smells like fish horribly. i know fish smells. i worked in a fish market for 2 years recently. its a bad smell takes a few washes to get it off skin. but Ive only used it for about 2 weeks now. i was using with with water and it was working great so i thought i would add some of it in tea. thought to myself it couldn't make it worse right? so far i am happy with it. i might get some more natural like a powder form of just kelp and some fish powder. but i do like it. so far......
 
ShLUbY

ShLUbY

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Kind Sir said:
I looked that up, just cuz and saw few people saying its too diluted to begin with and doesnt smell as fishy as they'd think a potent fish&kelp should. Are you happy with it?

@ShLUbY What do you think about his recipe, thought youd be a good resource for this guy.
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haha, shit... i dunno. i don't make nutrient teas like that. i don't use any bovine, blood, bone, or guano products in my grow. so i'm definitely not the one to ask about that! my nutrient teas will consist of only herbal or kelp products, and rarely fish hydrolysate if ever necessary.
 
Kind Sir

Kind Sir

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ShLUbY said:
haha, shit... i dunno. i don't make nutrient teas like that. i don't use any bovine, blood, bone, or guano products in my grow. so i'm definitely not the one to ask about that! my nutrient teas will consist of only herbal or kelp products, and rarely fish hydrolysate if ever necessary.
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Just knew you were good with organics thats all
 
Richard Drysift

Richard Drysift

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Sounds ok to me. I have yet to burn plants with tea- you can give it to them fairly heavy without burning especially in mid flower. However I wouldn't be adding too much nitrogen so late into flowering. Week 5 is probably fine but I've been told that high N during late bloom can piss off the fungal life. That and 3tsp of molasses might be overkill- not that it should be detrimental to your plants just that you want the bacteria to consume most of it before you give it to your plants. I use about 1 tsp for 3 gal of tea but that's just me. Fish fertilizer should be used sparingly as well because it is soluble & readily available for uptake to the plants as it is- I prefer to give it to my plants in veg or in early flowering again so as to keep the fungal life happy & healthy. As long as you bubbled this for 24+ hrs should be fine even though they likely do not need as much as you are giving them. Cutting it by half was probably a good idea
 
DANK PURPY

DANK PURPY

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Richard Drysift said:
Sounds ok to me. I have yet to burn plants with tea- you can give it to them fairly heavy without burning especially in mid flower. However I wouldn't be adding too much nitrogen so late into flowering. Week 5 is probably fine but I've been told that high N during late bloom can piss off the fungal life. That and 3tsp of molasses might be overkill- not that it should be detrimental to your plants just that you want the bacteria to consume most of it before you give it to your plants. I use about 1 tsp for 3 gal of tea but that's just me. Fish fertilizer should be used sparingly as well because it is soluble & readily available for uptake to the plants as it is- I prefer to give it to my plants in veg or in early flowering again so as to keep the fungal life happy & healthy. As long as you bubbled this for 24+ hrs should be fine even though they likely do not need as much as you are giving them. Cutting it by half was probably a good idea
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thank you so much for the detailed response. Yes I will cut back on the strength by 1/2 or so. Yes it bubbled for 2 days
 
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