a guano tea question

[Guest]

i'm planning on using this as my tea:

veg per 5 gals of H2O
1/3 cups of PSG
1/3 cups of N guano
1/3 cups of EWC
5 tbs of bs molasis

flower per 5 gasl of H2O
2/3 cups of PSG
2/3 cups of P guano
2/3 cups of EWC
5 tbs of bs molasis

now my ?, do i dilute a few cups of this tea in water or just outright water with it?

 

[BurnOne]

Nomad Grower-
That looks good. Use that solution (tea) full strength as a "watering". Your "veg" tea should be used every third watering and your flowering tea should be used every watering. The two waterings in veg between your tea feedings should be a solution of worm castings, molasses and water for a worm casting tea. Use 5 gallons of water, 1 cup worm castings and 5 tbs. molasses. Worm casting tea should be all you use on seedlings less than one month old.
You'll need potassium in there too. Use Maxicrop seaweed, Neptune's Harvest seaweed or Earth Juice Meta-K mixed into your teas. Or mix kelp meal into your soil mix @ 1 tbs./gal. or 1/2 cup/cubic foot of soil mix.
And make sure you have used powdered dolomite lime in your soil mix as well for much needed magnesium and calcium. It also raises the pH of acidic peat. Use 2 tbs./gal. or 1 cup/cubic foot of soil.
Burn1

 

[Guest]

thats a big 10-4 on the kelp and d. lime...

appreciate the info...

 

[Nifty]

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[Guest]

thanks...

 

[minds_I]

Hello all,

Perhaps the high P guano I am using in my teas is responsible for my tea pH after bubbling to hover around 8. I add vinegar or a little Alaska fish to bring down the pH.

minds_I

Addendum: I should also note I use liquid kelp which has a pH of 8-8.5., but that after bubbling it stays that high while others have reported thier teas to be around 7.

 

[BurnOne]

My guano teas have gone as high as 9 and I never saw a problem. pH just isn't as big of a factor in organic growing as most people think. The humates in worm castings and compost will buffer the pH of teas and bottled liquid nutes. My PBP ran as low as 4 and I never had a problem. I always poured my PBP into a bubbled bucket of water, worm castings and Liquid Karma.
Burn1

 

[minds_I]

Hello all,

I use pH stix...they are plastic dip sticks not paper. They have two contrasting color mediums on the end of the stick that is very helpful to dial in to a quarter point.

I get about 240 test for about 20 bux delivered.

As to the pens... I am curious about that also. But the up side to the pH stix is that you have no calibration and not replacing probes or cleaning. Just dip, read and toss.

minds_I

 

[green goose]

hope y'all don't mind if i ask a ? do you use more lime when transplanting up? example: your veg mix has 2tbs per g. lime then at transplant to a bigger container, do you add the same 2tbs per g. ?

 

[Dignan]

I use pH stix...they are plastic dip sticks not paper. They have two contrasting color mediums on the end of the stick that is very helpful to dial in to a quarter point.

I get about 240 test for about 20 bux delivered.

I'll second that, fwiw. ^^^^

I have a nice Hanna pH pen but I just got sick of cleaning and calibrating it, not to mention that I'd drip and spill calibration solution all over, etc. So I ordered some Alkalive pH strips from eGay (most health food stores with a supplements department will sell them... designed to measure your urine and saliva pH, for folks who are anal about that stuff).

Those strips are very accurate and like minds_I said, so easy. Dip, wait 15 seconds, toss in the garbage.

I haven't touched my pH pen in a year.

Dignan

 

[BurnOne]

hope y'all don't mind if i ask a ? do you use more lime when transplanting up? example: your veg mix has 2tbs per g. lime then at transplant to a bigger container, do you add the same 2tbs per g. ?

Yes, that's correct. Powdered dolomite lime @ 2 tbs./gal. of mix.
Burn1

 

[green goose]

burnone thx again. i say again because your posts have helped me many times.