hey guys now I understand that you can brew a nutrient tea to feed your plant, or a tea to feed and breed the microbes...
It's probably a dumb and obvious question but are the EWC for the nutrient or microbe tea ?
I want to brew a microbe tea next for my plant that is about 5 weeks into 12-12....I was going to use compost and molasses....But was wondering if compost, EWC, and molasses would be better ?
thanks, SC
you can use a worm casting tea strictly for it's nutrients, almost a waste though, as it's not HUGELY nutrient, (I think it's less than 1/.5/.5, or something like that) it does work well for a light feeding for freshly rooted clones, but you'll get more "bang" for your buck if you use the EWC for the microbe teas, as a nutrient you'd be better off with a different food, a watered down fish emulsion tea works well (but stinky and NOT recommended for outdoor plants, unless you like raccoon/possum/fox/cat/or dogs to dig up your soil....don't ask me how I know.
Worm castings are great, one of my "can't grow without" ingredients, I mean yeah I COULD grow without it, but not the same quality.
Worm castings also work really nice for a top dressing, not exclusively, but with some guano/manure/fish meal mixed in with it, does a good job keeping the topsoil moist also, makes the roots all hairy, peat moss does the same, only with little to no nutrients value, but EWC mixed with a lil bit of bat guano or rabbit manure works REALLY well for plants getting ready to flower or already are flowering, its a nice nitrogen fix for when they usually are running low, depending on the soil mix of course.
sorry for the long-winded answer to your question.