Organic Tea Feeding

So starting growing my first plant, and wanted to go organic with the nutrients. So was wanting some help on a tea for veg and flowering, was looking into maybe a compose tea. I did read a few threads but wanted to see what everyone thought.

P.S. I'm a noob so any help would be welcome, but lets not go too crazy please, LOL simple is better.

First off, change your text color to a more readable one. The green is hard to read.

tea can be as simple as bubbling some organic fertilizer for a few days, or some rabbit poop, or fermented sprouts too, those feed well. your best will come from a fish mush/powder, available for 16 bucks on amazon.
be sure to feed pure water in between tea drops.

Hey batmane420 I use compost teas every two weeks in my grow during Veg and Flower and it works wonders. There are so many different recipes for Compost Teas out there I would suggesting Googling Compost Tea Recipes. If you go with a compost tea make sure it is Aerated you don't want to be brewing anaerobic bacteria. If you have the time I would look into a book written by Elaine R Ingham Phd called " The Compost Tea Brewing Manual ". You should be able to find it online without having to purchase it. She goes into extraordinary detail and even uses microscopes to analyze what bacteria and microbial life she is brewing. That all said here is a easy beginners recipe for a Compost Tea .
In general you only want to bubble your teas for 24-36 hours. I would suggest a recipe similar to the one in the video or chemplegm's suggestions. I would recommend using Worm Castings or some type of manure/compost in a tea bag kind of setup that goes in the bucket as well as adding some Liquid Kelp and maybe some Fish Emulsion ( depending on how you feel about that product ). Also I consider Organic Unsulphered Molasses to be a mandatory ingredient for Compost Teas. It feeds microbial life in the soil and acts as a sugar booster in flower. General applications is 1-2 tbsp per gallon of water in tea. There is a company out there which is called Boogie Brew (http://www.boogiebrew.net/ ) that sells pre-made ingredients that all you have to do is pop into a bucket with aerators. I have used their Teas before with good results but I found I can achieve the same or better results by saving money and critiquing my own recipe to cater to my plants. I hope this all helps. Ps: I dont think the guy on Youtube used a bag for his compost ( which I would suggest )

Your going to spend a fortune on molasses.....If you buy those little pint jars..... Even more so for those little jars labeled "organic" molasses! I go to my local restaurant/bakery supply and buy by the case (4 - 1 gallon jugs that are organic. You can even buy by the single gallon jug for about $18 bucks a gallon. Those little jars of Grandma's or Brer Rabbit brake down to over $40 bucks a gallon! Amazon has Grandma's at over $47 a gallon!

Molasses IS mandatory for any tea that is intended to have living bio counts!

The molasses is the media that feeds the bacterial growth in the TEA when brewed! Not later in the soil, or more accurately, the carbs in the molasses are used up in brewing by feeding the increasing bacterial "herd" created by brewing AACT....

Brewing times are debatable. The best AACT's are done for 36 - 48 hrs! If you remove some from a basic bio teas at 18 hrs and strain it out. You put that in a spray bottle and you have a good PM killer/preventer. Don't do this with a fert tea, or you'll burn the leaves.

As far as adding any form of Kelp to your ingr. before brewing....Is not the best idea! Kelp will reduce the living active Bio counts in the brew by around 42-45%! Add your liquid kelp after you brew, to the tea! You gain on the all important living bio's that the tea is famous for...

You can make a fert tea without molasses. You can do things like brew grass clippings, various animal poo's, differing plant matter, even pee ! these are strictly fert teas and contain no real countable living bio's...

So if you google? Google AACT tea's, Fertilizer teas and cross over by links from those sites you view to others...


Welcome to organic!
Your next step will be researching water only soils....

Have fun

batmane420 said:

So starting growing my first plant, and wanted to go organic with the nutrients. So was wanting some help on a tea for veg and flowering, was looking into maybe a compose tea. I did read a few threads but wanted to see what everyone thought.

P.S. I'm a noob so any help would be welcome, but lets not go too crazy please, LOL simple is better.

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https://www.rollitup.org/t/organic-growing-an-introductory-guide.921380/

I keep it simple and easy to read, should have all the info you need.