Capt.,
I'll be forced to do this over the veggie growing season, too. Mind sharing the recipe for what you consider to be a strong CT? Have you settled on a recipe/ratios that you feel are really rockin' for you?
Peace-
Dig
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Capt.,
I'll be forced to do this over the veggie growing season, too. Mind sharing the recipe for what you consider to be a strong CT? Have you settled on a recipe/ratios that you feel are really rockin' for you?
Peace-
Dig
JuneBugJoe
Member
Well i would say a lot of information in this thread is probably in teaming with microbes, but i dont know because i have not got the book yet... Still looking for somewhere that has the new edition...
I just got the Compost Tea Brewing Manuel from earthfort... Seemed to be the cheapest place that had it...
I just got the Compost Tea Brewing Manuel from earthfort... Seemed to be the cheapest place that had it...
I have just been doubling or tripling up everything. Something like this for a 5 gallon bucket which I will then split 3 ways to make 15 gallons of what I feel is a mild tea once diluted:
1cup EWC
1cup kelp meal
1/2 cup molasses
2 cups fish hydrolysate OR 1cup each of N. bat guano and P. bat guano.
I aerate it for 24 hours then dilute it with aerated rain water before feeding.
Keep in mind this is just for amending when I feel the food is becoming exhausted. Usually in mid to late flowering. Have had no problems,they dig it.
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vonforne
check wth a guy named Tropic he was working with fruit peels he was burning and using.
V
only if you dont have a brewer that cant handle large amounts, for example. say you need 5 gallons, but only have a 1 gallon brewer with air pump. you can dilute that to 5 gallons no problem. it would be better than trying to brew 5 with a 1 gallon pump.
edit: and if you have a nutrient tea not compost tea, you may need to dilute.
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vonforne
just send him a PM
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vonforne
I always dilute to 1\4 strength to start out with. The IBG is not as bad as the PSG.
but that is a heavy dose of P for 3 gallons of water. 1 cup = 16 Tablespoons. So, at 2\3´s you have about 11 TBS. With 3 gallons of water that is 3.3 TBS or so per gallon of water.
I would dilute that mix about 5 to 1 to start.
What strain are you growing?
V
Hi everyone
I'm doing an indoor grow in uruguay of Blue Himalayan Diesel (autoflower dwarf strain)
I have 5-6 seedlings on the go and they are 10 days old and doing well with the following mix:
Peat Moss 40% / Coco 20% / 20% Worm Castings / 20% perlite
Also in there is some Dolomite Lime and Sea Bird Guano
As they are autoflowers, in around 10-14 days I will transplant them from one litre pots to 6.5 litre pots and keep the same soil mixture to hopefully minimise transplant shock. Although I will add Bone meal to the flowering mix.
As I'm in Uruguay I have very limited resources in terms of Fert's and Nute's, I need advice on what I can do to prepare the teas before they go into flowering at the end of next week
Do I need to use compost teas and guano teas or just guano teas ??
Just to be clear, this is for flowering only, as I dont think they need anything else other than water for the first three weeks as everything is going ok so far:
What I have / Can Get:
A Kitchen Composter that I am putting used Banana skins in, so i can make banana tea (I was told this is good to do but have no idea what to do when its ready - ie how much to use and how frequnently)
Chicken Guano (powderded) 2-6-3
Sea Bird Guano dont know NPK
Black Strap Mollasses (Rayners Essentials - crude black strap - not sure if unsulfered)
Worm Castings
NOTHING ELSE I'm afraid !
So......can I make a tea with these ingredients - how exactly do I make it (no air stone here or similar), how often to use it etc etc etc
I should have 6 plants on the go once they flower so as a very rough guess I'm thinking around 2.5L of water per day for all the plants - bearing this in mind what quantity of tea per 2.5L
Looking at the Soma book on organics and adapting his Guano Tea formula, I was thinking of taking 20ml of hot water and into that mixing 1.5g of the chicken guano until dissolved and then adding that to 2.5L of water (PH 6.0) and feeding with that twice a week throughout the flowering, then flushing - How does this sound and do I need to also add a compost tea (seperately) into the mix and what about the banana tea idea !
BTW if you're interested, grow journal is here:
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=167361
and thanks for reading
I'm doing an indoor grow in uruguay of Blue Himalayan Diesel (autoflower dwarf strain)
I have 5-6 seedlings on the go and they are 10 days old and doing well with the following mix:
Peat Moss 40% / Coco 20% / 20% Worm Castings / 20% perlite
Also in there is some Dolomite Lime and Sea Bird Guano
As they are autoflowers, in around 10-14 days I will transplant them from one litre pots to 6.5 litre pots and keep the same soil mixture to hopefully minimise transplant shock. Although I will add Bone meal to the flowering mix.
As I'm in Uruguay I have very limited resources in terms of Fert's and Nute's, I need advice on what I can do to prepare the teas before they go into flowering at the end of next week
Do I need to use compost teas and guano teas or just guano teas ??
Just to be clear, this is for flowering only, as I dont think they need anything else other than water for the first three weeks as everything is going ok so far:
What I have / Can Get:
A Kitchen Composter that I am putting used Banana skins in, so i can make banana tea (I was told this is good to do but have no idea what to do when its ready - ie how much to use and how frequnently)
Chicken Guano (powderded) 2-6-3
Sea Bird Guano dont know NPK
Black Strap Mollasses (Rayners Essentials - crude black strap - not sure if unsulfered)
Worm Castings
NOTHING ELSE I'm afraid !
So......can I make a tea with these ingredients - how exactly do I make it (no air stone here or similar), how often to use it etc etc etc
I should have 6 plants on the go once they flower so as a very rough guess I'm thinking around 2.5L of water per day for all the plants - bearing this in mind what quantity of tea per 2.5L
Looking at the Soma book on organics and adapting his Guano Tea formula, I was thinking of taking 20ml of hot water and into that mixing 1.5g of the chicken guano until dissolved and then adding that to 2.5L of water (PH 6.0) and feeding with that twice a week throughout the flowering, then flushing - How does this sound and do I need to also add a compost tea (seperately) into the mix and what about the banana tea idea !
BTW if you're interested, grow journal is here:
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=167361
and thanks for reading
C
CT Guy
Yeast should be fine...
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C
CT Guy
jcj77d,
Longer answer would be that it may not be terribly beneficial to grow out the fungi, but it's not going to hurt anything. I see yeast cells in my compost tea all the time. Would I intentionally add baker's yeast to my recipe? Probably not...
Longer answer would be that it may not be terribly beneficial to grow out the fungi, but it's not going to hurt anything. I see yeast cells in my compost tea all the time. Would I intentionally add baker's yeast to my recipe? Probably not...
