new to teas

i have been running into some problem with non organic nutrients and have been wanting to switch for some time but didnt want to spend the money. now i am willing to spend the money to get started on making some good teas. i have two plants that are in flowering. i have a basic tea recipe but i do not know if it is good or if i should add anything else to it. any input will help me out! thanks

5 gallons water
1/2 cup EWC
1/2 bat guano
1/2 cup sea bird guano

Experiment! It sounds like you have a good base. Find the guanos that give you the nutrition that you are looking for and add some in.

I haven't made it to guanos yet, but I do all my early vegging with EWC tea and then add in some stuff called Earth Syrup as a food for my microbes, but it also contains some goodies and gives you a NPK of something like 2-2-1. I also will add azomite to the mix to get my trace. I like to be able to feed it straight up to my seedlings and clones, so per gallon, I use 1 TBS EWC, 1 TBS Earth Syrup, 1 tsp Azomite. I have had amazing results in veg with this alone on my small plants. Great growth and vigor, and amazing root masses with the fuzziest white roots I've seen in a long while. I will use this as my base and add to it from there.

I was thinking about using Mexican Bat guano and kelp for veg, and seabird in early flower, and then Jamaican later.

I'd start low on the dosages and work up until it works for you.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/compost_tea/ Everything you ever wanted to know bout fermented teas

another great resource: http://www.microbeorganics.com/

for adding some sugars to the tea can one add earth juice catalyst? to feed microbes instead of molasses?

i am now thinking about a more simple tea like the one hyroot posted in the led section.

molasses
old age kelp
acient forest compost
epsom salt

i will probably add some dolomite lime and catalyst

you can make flowering tea with banna peals its relly cheep

i want 2 brew tea next year for out doors, 50gal blue drum painted cammo , 2/3 under the ground 2 chill the rez a a small solar panel way the fuck up in a tree 2 run the pump 2 free my crop. this year i used seabird guano for veg along with seaweednutes, and some biogrow and cal/mag for the transition, im about 2 top feed some bat shit for flower and might try the bananas tea that sounds good. how u make that?

stickyicky0420 said:

you can make flowering tea with banna peals its relly cheep

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how would i make that?

for banana tea you just get a browned banana peel and brew it. not sure for everything ive never done it. i feel it would be most effective if you add compost in to the tea aswell so the microbes can breakdown the potassium from the banana.

i started my first tea today! i made two gallons the recipe im using is per gallon.
1/4 oz eco-nereo kelp
1 tsp epsom salt
1 cup ancient forest compost
1/4 tsp azomite
1/4 tsp dolomite lime
15 ml earth juice catalyst

after typing it up i feel like i made it real light.
i would love any suggestions from you guys

My compost tea bucket has two 4" airstones in the bottom and a 1.5" spherical airstone that goes right into the bag. I fill a 2 gallon paint filter bag with 0.5 cups EWC, 1 cup alpaca beans (look em up), and 1 tbs azomite. I zip tie the bag shut with the airstone and compost inside and drop her in. The most important thing to do is FEED YOUR BUCKET! Give it 1tbsp of molasses every day to make sure the bacteria has something to eat. You can never burn your plants with tea and the results are fuzzy hairs all over your root zone and making your compost last 100 times longer.

I'm gonna try turning my compost bucket into an organic DWC hybrid!