The correct way to make an actively aerated compost tea AACT

I thought was was unnecessary but cool enough to post. I want to make a DIY vortex. I'm sick of cleaning air stones. I dont recommend buying any of this btw lol.
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RedCarpetMatches said:
I'm now cutting out the kelp and fish hydrolysate. Those can both be used as feed teas. Like me Mad m8 said earlier, all you need is the compost and BSM. I'll use my "minion" teas for cooking, transplanting, and early flower only. The simpler and cheaper the better. Of course if you have a good third generation mix going, with living mulch, then you won't even need a minion tea. Don't need loud pumps everywhere and running up the power bill. You guys can get unsulfured molasses for 7$ a gallon at most feed stores btw.
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Been getting my Ber Rabbit at grocery store pay top $!, Palm Smack to Forehead for I've been getting my wheat mill run (actually bran) not listed as run but could be I add a cup whole wheat flour to 10 gallons anywise to ensure right biology occurs when adding LAB to make by Bokashi bran.
So I will be making my ACT from fermented (bokashi) waste that will be feed to both a newly built worm bin and I will also utilize compost I will select from my bokashi that I will bury outside to allow the biology in my outdoor garden finish the compost. So it will be interesting to compare select imported red wriggler worm castings verses what the local soil biology.

I should expect a more diverse biology from compost produced in my outdoor soil verses the biology from my worm bin. The benefit from worm bin is I don't have to worry about top dressing and have always readily available nute tea from the run off whereas top dressing from the outside compost leaves possibility bringing something inside I don't necessarily want. Therefore compost from outside will always be prime source of act for its diversity alone.

I acquired OLY fish compost as my primary source for my worm bin, I've also been told adding certain amendments to the food stock for the worms to eat like neem cake and oyster shell are essential for worm health and digestion and reproduction.

Sometimes I feel like Doc in Back to the Future with all the processing of organic matter and amendments, leads me to wonder if this brew would be good fuel source for the Mr Fusion Energy Reactor that powers the Flux Capacitor?

Anywise I think of my Bokashi and Vermicomposting as my Mr Fusion Energy Reactor, as long as it helps my baby girls grow big fat colas I won't need no damm time machine to travel!

DankSwag
 
Abiqua said:
Im done with Neem. I tried to justify to myself since last summer, and usually it works great, but even at half dilutions {Dynagrow was 1st] I was still facing leaf burn. [I have some half un-used neem seed powder I sourced from a local organic food store] I also reconsidered it from an edible perspective and I really don't want it in my medibles. [These are just my experiences]
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I think it is best to use neem cake in your soil as opposed to a foliar spray, it also has great nutrients to feed the soil with.

For those spider mites I hear using a foliar of diatomaceous earth will dry and then the exoskeletons will cut through those bugs and kill them dead.
You can also dust with it, use a mask though.. it is good as well for your pets to kill fleas ticks..

DankSwag
 
hyroot said:
I use 1/4 cup kelp meal per half gallon of water. Bubble for 2 days. Then strain 3 or 4 times. Use the kelp water for the foliar. Then dry out kelp meal, puree and use in a tea or topdress.

I don't buy liquid kelp. I just use dry kelp meal.
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I do the same works great uh?

DankSwag
 
RedCarpetMatches said:
Liquid kelp is one of the biggest H store rip offs. I don't even go to those dumps anymore. Foliars kept my sick seedlings alive for weeks! I really hate the jizz in hand feeling of aloe filet. I'm just gonna try May's suck and spit method.
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RCW,

I keep a bottle of cold water pressed kelp concentrate on hand when I am too tired to deal with preparing.
I plan on growing worms now too for my local store could not get me fresh ECW or worms and other people been asking so I hope to fill a market void there for a little extra $.

Good thing I know the context of last statement there... 'I really hate the jizz in hand feeling of aloe filet. I'm just gonna try May's suck and spit method:"

LMAO ... Out of context I could have so much fun with this statement... jizz feeling in my hand May's suck and spit
Thought we are growing colas' here not boners!

DankSwag
 
RedCarpetMatches said:
Aloe with a neem cake tea are awesome. I make it a little on warm side.
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I heard you had worms...

So I am a little conflicted about the neccessity for bedding, seriously who in the world is shredding cardboard and newspaper for all the freaking redwrigglin sumsofbeaches not the frick me! If they don't have some jackoff creating beds for them outdoors why the hell do I have to make one for them indoors? Sleep on dirt like you freaking do outside you little free loafers, isn't enough I bring you in from the cold and feed your slimy asses?

Anywise really does anyone really find it necessary to make this bed I am told a could compost that is not too mixed in with some rice hulls (just got a shit load of them 50lb for cheap! like 18 buckaroos! Ye freaking ha, love farmers! Feel a special kinship there between us like a fungi symbiotic relationship! I also got some other great deals on pumice, basalt and agsil 16. I think I am going to start my own organic journal detailing the resources I have and how am applying them. Of course the proof will be in the output of flowers.... Hmm now what to name my journal..

It will detail everything everything I am incorporating from what I gained from RIU organic forums and things I have experience knowledge in that I have applied in support of growing organically.

From things to making your own LAB (which is a non brew method for adding Lacto Acid Bateria in mass quality to give your soil bacterial boost without having to wait 24-48 hours for your tea, that is if you have the LAB on had in storage just dillute with h20 sans chorlide and BOOM instant Bactria quicker then them damm seamonkies take to hatch! Composting Bokashi style to worm farming, cloning from aloe, etc anything that has to do with what and how I am applying organic and self sustaining processes to building a health flowering garden that will be known as...


Danks World... Party on Dank, Party on you swaggies out there!
DankSwag
 
I have a 80% success rate first attempt at aloe cloning filet. Cant wait for round two. They been drinking alfalfa /kelp water and are in rapid rooters. , they get aerated in qater for 1 hr then back to dome.
 
DANKSWAG said:
I heard you had worms...

So I am a little conflicted about the neccessity for bedding, seriously who in the world is shredding cardboard and newspaper for all the freaking redwrigglin sumsofbeaches not the frick me! If they don't have some jackoff creating beds for them outdoors why the hell do I have to make one for them indoors? Sleep on dirt like you freaking do outside you little free loafers, isn't enough I bring you in from the cold and feed your slimy asses?

Anywise really does anyone really find it necessary to make this bed I am told a could compost that is not too mixed in with some rice hulls (just got a shit load of them 50lb for cheap! like 18 buckaroos! Ye freaking ha, love farmers! Feel a special kinship there between us like a fungi symbiotic relationship! I also got some other great deals on pumice, basalt and agsil 16. I think I am going to start my own organic journal detailing the resources I have and how am applying them. Of course the proof will be in the output of flowers.... Hmm now what to name my journal..

It will detail everything everything I am incorporating from what I gained from RIU organic forums and things I have experience knowledge in that I have applied in support of growing organically.

From things to making your own LAB (which is a non brew method for adding Lacto Acid Bateria in mass quality to give your soil bacterial boost without having to wait 24-48 hours for your tea, that is if you have the LAB on had in storage just dillute with h20 sans chorlide and BOOM instant Bactria quicker then them damm seamonkies take to hatch! Composting Bokashi style to worm farming, cloning from aloe, etc anything that has to do with what and how I am applying organic and self sustaining processes to building a health flowering garden that will be known as...


Danks World... Party on Dank, Party on you swaggies out there!
DankSwag
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Ill be watching dank.
 
Steelheader3430 said:
Hey Red you got any pics of your vert setup? Are you using screens or letting them grow naturally?
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Sure do buddy. Just babies right now, but I'm getting a good idea how its going to turn out. They def lean towards light, and I've been rotating them daily. As they get bigger I may add some cages, stakes, or whatever. I plan on supercropping toward light too. Going to be fun having 25 two gallon pots around an 860w CMH. Also plan on staggering some if I have too. I have them 6" from 400w HPS for now with no probs. Popped 15 and soaking 10 more now. Going to get a little breeding perpetual thing going. 12/12 from seed. I'll be switching in 2 weeks.
 
So tried an air lift vortex with a 5 gallon bucket. All I bought was four 3/4" elbows, one 3/4" grommet, and 4' of 3/4 inch PVC. I got the airlift and swirling action with an old shitty ecoplus 8 (8 outputs and '20 LPM'). Had to use a bunch of Ts that probably took away a lot of my airflow. After a little more rigging and some R&D ;) I'll post some pics on a very clean, cheap, sexy ass brewer.
 
So I am making an aact and I put fish emulsions into bucket making 2.5 gallons almost 24hrs ago now w bsm I am about to add ewc. I have no vermicompost. Is there anything else I can use to take place of the vermi. Any info is aooreciated thanks fellas and maybe ladies.
 
anzohaze said:
So I am making an aact and I put fish emulsions into bucket making 2.5 gallons almost 24hrs ago now w bsm I am about to add ewc. I have no vermicompost. Is there anything else I can use to take place of the vermi. Any info is aooreciated thanks fellas and maybe ladies.
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Fish emulsion or any other ingredients that weren't listed won't help your cause of multiplying microbes. Use the nutes for a separate tea. You might as well throw in some outdoor soil from woods or under grass...if your not in snow lol. Any humus, compost, or bagged red wiggler castings will do. Next time just humus and BSM. Make sure you have the proper air flow.
 
Ok thanks red I live next to woods so should I get like the higher layers of black dirt just under the oine straw etc or dig a little deeper were its mostly dirt thanks for teaching me showing me the way. I greatly appreciate all of yalls help.
 
I just wanted to say thanks to the OP. I have been doing a ton of reading on going to organics. I had a lot of info mushed around in my head but this thread really cleared it all up for me. Should sticky this imo
 
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