Soil Food Web Gardening with Compost Teas

mr jones15

mr jones15

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First time ever doing compost tea itd been brewing for almost 24 hours although I went out after a couple hours and my pump shut off cause it overheated then turned back on? First time I ever used it so idk if it shut off during the night at all. Anyways does this look right?
 

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mr jones15

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Nothing really, slightly fishy smell but think that's probably the myco chum I added? I used an old bag of bu brew for compost teas and when I say old I bought it 3 years ago and I added a lil bit of leaf compost and soil from the woods to the lil bag and some old worm composting prolly 3 years old as well.
 
hillbill

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Cannnabiss is not really that picky and many other plants love grey water in the garden. I've used old tea and some a bit sour but never saw any negatives. Get your soil near right and water thru and I alternate with clear waterin recycled mix. I do Bubble all sort of things like mulch fines and bottom layer hardwood forest leaf mold, cotton burr compost and of coarse, castings.
 
mr jones15

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Well funny thing is it's not for cannabis, I actually was making it for my new fruit trees and bushes because they're getting munched on and I was hoping to repel the bugs a lil bit and help the plants out in the process. Was going to foliar spray first then feed the plants later.
 
mr jones15

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Greenthumbs256 said:
Looks fine but to be honest with a compost tea pic we really can't tell you if it's good or not that's why the guy above asked what it smelled like!
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Well I think it did work a few of my plants really have taken off after using it and I tries saving some as foliar spray (just a bottles worth) and I'm pretty sure it helped rid a small infestation of mealy bugs it ended up smelling like straight cow sht after a weeks time and the bugs did not like it lol
 
Greenthumbs256

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mr jones15 said:
Well I think it did work a few of my plants really have taken off after using it and I tries saving some as foliar spray (just a bottles worth) and I'm pretty sure it helped rid a small infestation of mealy bugs it ended up smelling like straight cow sht after a weeks time and the bugs did not like it lol
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DO NOT SAVE ANY COMPOST TEA! EVER it goes bad after very very short amount of time! Once you stop bubbling it you need to use it!
 
mr jones15

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I used whatever was left in my spray bottle as a foliar spray it didnt seem to hurt anything they all showed new growth but they are still real young.
 
ibitegirls

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hi all, so my vermifire soil is now a month old and i added the following to it 2-weeks ago:

before flowering (1st tea):

guano grow 5-1-1 (2 tbsp)
guano bloom 0-7-0 (1 tbsp)
kelp meal 2-0.5-2 (1 tbsp)
molasses (1 tbsp)
EWC (5 tbsp)

I'm now two weeks into flowering, should I add the same tea again but reduce guano grow to 1 tbsp? And should I increase guano bloom to 2 tbsp's??
 

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Medicated Bonsai

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ibitegirls said:
hi all, so my vermifire soil is now a month old and i added the following to it 2-weeks ago:

before flowering (1st tea):

guano grow 5-1-1 (2 tbsp)
guano bloom 0-7-0 (1 tbsp)
kelp meal 2-0.5-2 (1 tbsp)
molasses (1 tbsp)
EWC (5 tbsp)

I'm now two weeks into flowering, should I add the same tea again but reduce guano grow to 1 tbsp? And should I increase guano bloom to 2 tbsp's??
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I'm very new to organics and was wondering how much water you used for this mix?
 
ibitegirls

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Medicated Bonsai said:
Do you know if House & Garden's "Roots Excelurator" and "Amino Treatment" is safe for organic grows / compost teas?
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its really hard to say unless you do science experiments on the tea microbes and such. I would email the manufacturer or give them a call to ask, they usually know best and can advise more accurately on these matters
 
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pollen205

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Somewhere I read that foam is good somewhere read that is bad when you see it so what is correct:confused::confused:
Im thinking about worm tea. :bigjoint:
 
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