Worm castings tea

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Autoflowering grower

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I start my tea if worm castings liquid & regular castings , insect frass, molasses & coconut water. I start in RO water, the ph to start is around 6.2. After brewing for 24 hours the PH drops to 4.2-4.9. My questions is so I need to correct the PH after the tea has brewed? I have not corrected & have raised it. Don’t know that I could tell a difference. I have read that to much PH up/down kills off microbes. Kind of defeating the purpose of the tea. What is your guys opinion? Do you ph you worm castings/ compost tea before applying it. The main reason I’m asking this is it takes a lot up PH up to bring it to 6.0-6.8.
 
PadawanWarrior

PadawanWarrior

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Autoflowering grower said:
I start my tea if worm castings liquid & regular castings , insect frass, molasses & coconut water. I start in RO water, the ph to start is around 6.2. After brewing for 24 hours the PH drops to 4.2-4.9. My questions is so I need to correct the PH after the tea has brewed? I have not corrected & have raised it. Don’t know that I could tell a difference. I have read that to much PH up/down kills off microbes. Kind of defeating the purpose of the tea. What is your guys opinion? Do you ph you worm castings/ compost tea before applying it. The main reason I’m asking this is it takes a lot up PH up to bring it to 6.0-6.8.
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Why are you using RO water?
 
crimsonecho

crimsonecho

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don’t ph is not very relevant you’re brewing microbes and you’re gonna dilute it with a lot of water anyway
 
Jjgrow420

Jjgrow420

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PadawanWarrior said:
I thought you used salts.
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I dabble in it all my friend.
Generally I use salts, but I've done organic runs and sometimes do an auto with organic nutes. Always trying stuff. I make lots of teas in the summer for the veggies too. Being a one trick pony only gets you so far.
 
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