You sound like I offended you a little my friend, I apologize it was not my intention! I wasn't trying to accuse you of anything, my brand loyalty comment was just cause I saw a lot of specific brand name products, and a lot of what I do involves educating people about gardening components and affordable, sustainable inputs. Basically...fish bone meal...is usually fish bone meal...fish bone meal in this scenario could be a number of different organic matter fertilizers, no matter who packages it. And I implore people to inquire about where the product is sourced, and what has the best price. My apologies that it did not come across that way. I was on vacation in London and taking a poop though when I commented...so not the most thought out comment lol. But I just got home after flying for eight hours and then driving for five so maybe this time will be better! I run a compost and horticulture consultant company in Lansing, MI. If you're thinking to yourself "why the fuck does this bastard think he knows what he's talking about?" I apologize I never knew my real father. Lol, a good dark joke to lighten the mood eh?
I'm very familiar with boogie brew! If you watch the growing your greens YouTube channel, John gives a tour of their factory where you can see the Down To Earth products they use to make their product! Very informative!
When I talk about products I wouldn't use in my garden I'm referring to the azomite and the brewer's yeast. The azomite can carry heavy metals that while not some that effects a vegetable crop...in cannabis those metals stick to trichomes and our ingested when smokes...a big no no if you're growing medical cannabis. As far as the yeast, I admit, I'm not sure why you're adding it. It seems like an unnecessary carbohydrate from my understanding of what it is. But my understanding of brewer's yeast might not be the product you're referring to.
From what I know about soil and fertilization, and have done in the grows I've consulted...his explanation of how teas work is kinda fumbly science...this is a common thing you'll witness in the cannabis and home gardening community...and by that I mean the knowledge and explanation of the science isn't wrong...but the action with which the science is implied is misunderstood and presented as fact because...frankly I don't have a good answer for that lol. Mostly it's just because gardening is pretty easy and even if you misunderstood the science you learned...that fact that you cared enough to learn it usually goes hand in hand with being caring gardeners, and it's thankfully hard for caring gardeners to fail! I'm working on a book about it with the aid of a botanist professor friend of mine from the University of Georgia... it's part gardening guide part cultural discussion on the cannabis role and challenges in going from a small illegal crop to a a legitimate big agriculture business! Compelling stuff right?! We are doing all the photography stuff for the book this spring, summer, and fall. Hoping to finish editing this winter and get it published next year. Not trying to say boogie brew guy is a bad dude...but when he's telling you what's going on in the tea he's misunderstanding the necessary environment for the relationships he's describing to take place. The complex relationships that happen in soil can be hard to make happen in teas. We can make compost teas heavy in fungal microbes or bacterial or both...to encourage these relationships to happen in the soil when those components are used..we can not create the environment to make those relationships happen in a tea by adding those components.
I mentioned the distinction between compost and nutrient teas only because a lot of components that are good for nutrient teas, can delay microbe growth and hinder the quality of a compost tea. These include kelp, liquid fish fertilizers stabilized with phosphoric acid, and salt based fertilizers.
But these products all can be used to make successful nutrient teas. Though the salt based fertilizers can discourage proper root to soil relationships and kill off microbe life.
