What is the minimum time for compost tea to be ready

Hello,

Is "ready" meaning that the solution is "anaerobic"?

Are there different procedures or recipes for different lengths of time?

Thanks for the help.

I believe that the object of tea is to desolve the nutes from the material.

Some teas can be used as soon as they are made, like manure tea made from old manure. Some depend on how they are made, like bannana tea. You can cook the skins down to a good tea and use them or let them ferment in a bucket of water.

Be careful not to leave any uncomposted stuff if the tea. It can mold.

One of the best teas I have had was the runoff from a big batch of super soil that got wet.

It depends on what kind of tea you are brewing. Ferments will be anaerobic but aerated teas should be aerobic. You should do some reading on the difference between anaerobic and aerobic because there is some nasty shit that can pop up in anaerobic conditions. Another thing to consider is whether you are after a microbe tea or a nutrient tea. Aerated teas should peak in microbe activity between 24-36 hours depending on temperature.

cannapotimus said:

It depends on what kind of tea you are brewing. Ferments will be anaerobic but aerated teas should be aerobic. You should do some reading on the difference between anaerobic and aerobic because there is some nasty shit that can pop up in anaerobic conditions. Another thing to consider is whether you are after a microbe tea or a nutrient tea. Aerated teas should peak in microbe activity between 24-36 hours depending on temperature.

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Thanks, that's a better answer than I could give. I just try to keep everything as natureal as posible to avoid any problems.

zeem said:

Hello,

Is "ready" meaning that the solution is "anaerobic"?

Are there different procedures or recipes for different lengths of time?

Thanks for the help.

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I haven't been making teas recently, but in the past I used to do it this way...

In a 5gal bucket
- About 4 to 4.5 gal h2o from tap
- Handful of compost from my compost bucket
- Few tablespoons of brown sugar
- about a teaspoon or 2 of compost starter or other beneficial micros starter powder. I used to get samples of these from local grow stores that I would use.
- small aquarium air pump
- In cold climate include aquarium heater set at 80F.

After a few days, it starts smelling like cheese or sourdough. That's when I would apply and start a new batch. Leave a little of the old batch in the bucket when starting the new batch, so the micros are already going. You can use this to keep making teas from the same small sample pack of micros. It will last as long as you want this way. The subsequent batches will be ready faster.

I never made it without airstones.

Good luck!

I usually brew two or 3 throughout the flower cycle and once a month in veg. I take some RO water and add fish hydrolosate, a little molasses and some of that “fish sh!t” (only because I have a ton of sample bottles from the grow shop). I then take a handful of fresh casting and mix those with a some high p guano, kelp meal, alfalfa meal and sometimes some rock dust. Throw it in a reusable coffee filter and bubble it with an air stone for a day and a bit. It should lose the molasses smell after about a day and just smell like a fresh worm bin. The plants love it.
Here’s one that’s brewing right now

cannapotimus said:

I usually brew two or 3 throughout the flower cycle and once a month in veg. I take some RO water and add fish hydrolosate, a little molasses and some of that “fish sh!t” (only because I have a ton of sample bottles from the grow shop). I then take a handful of fresh casting and mix those with a some high p guano, kelp meal, alfalfa meal and sometimes some rock dust. Throw it in a reusable coffee filter and bubble it with an air stone for a day and a bit. It should lose the molasses smell after about a day and just smell like a fresh worm bin. The plants love it.
Here’s one that’s brewing right now
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I like those other things you add to yours. I've used sample bottles of Fish Shit in the mix too.

Hey Everybody! Thanks loads for the variety of important points and concepts. I appreciate the guidance and actionable advice. Gonna put it to work this week.

Sharing the creativity of that super brewer, cannapotimus, really gets the DIY ideas flowing.

I seem to run out of time in my schedule and don't leave myself enough time to properly make tea. Priorities and ordering, ya know. Gotta get better.

Would it be a waste of time and effort to attempt a batch in 18 hours? Or is that just not going to work due to what the microbes and everybody else says about 24-36 hrs? Thanks!

Its ready at a minimum of 5 minutes or until steeping runs clear and a maximum of 1 hour, in a compost extract. No added benefit to AACT unless you are quantifying colony growth with a microscope at certain time interval.