new to tea mixtures: critique in order

[statusquo]

I was wondering if the following flowering tea mixture would work:
1 gallon water
1 tablespoon molasses
1 tablespoon indo bat guano
earthworm castings (recommendation on how much?)
agricultural lime for calcium perhaps? (if viable, how much?)

I also had some more general questions about making teas. Is the purpose of the airstone just to keep the water mixing somewhat for good aeration? Also do I literally just use a makeshift tea bag (sock/nylon/w.e), and let it sit in room temp water with an airstone?

Any and all suggestions welcome, thanks!

 

[NamelessCitizen]

I'm new to teas as well so I can't necessarily critique your mix but from all that I've read it looks like it's a good, basic flowering tea.

Check the compost tea link in my signature. Very helpful!

Good luck
Nameless

 

[minds_I]

Hello all,

There is a plathora of info on teas...go to the top of the page and check out some of the stickies.

As to your tea.

2 tbsn of ewc/gallon is what I use

I combine all my ingredients into a one gallon milk jug and stick a airhose in and leave it for 24-72 hours.

I do not filter my teas-never been a reason.

minds_I

 

[floppyfundanglr]

i like liquid seaweed and alaskin fish emulsion as well.

 

[HinduKushed_423]

Alaska fish,kelp,molasses,worm castings ,bat guano ,seabird guano ,and nutritional yeast,good healthy compost, all good things in compost and if ya want also micronized soft rock phosphate


if your into making this realy work good ya will have to go out of your way to kicke your brewer oxygenation system up a notch , from what i have read i think ya should take a water pump, plumb it to a pipe tha is above the water at least 8" then make a sprinkler type manifold i myself would use 1/4" holes and have them facing at the water surface below. then ya can ad a air pump but that system should ad allot more then the air pump could ever do.

 

[Guest]

I forgot to mention that the lime doesnt really work in teas. It is not water soluble and I am kind of curious if there might be ill effects of adding dolomite to a live tea.

Don't add lime to teas. Adding powdered dolomite lime in certain situations can help but not to a tea.

I was wondering if the following flowering tea mixture would work:

Not really but maybe. You need the guano if you have not pre-amended your soil to ensure enough phosphorous. If not enough P then you need the guano. Casting recommendation is about 1/2 cup per gallon. The purpose of the airstone is to add air (oxygen) to the tea ensuring aerobic activity.

I've recently gone from salts in hydro to 100% organic in soil and this is something like the fungal tea, importante mid in flower, I'll be making:
1 cup used coffee grounds
1/4 cup powdered (blended) rolled oats
2 tsp soluble yucca extract
1/2 cup castings
Use distilled or RO drinking wawa.

 

[Guest]

The tea you listed although good would not be very suitable at all for a plant that is in full bloom imo.

That really depends on if you need to add phosphorous via a tea or if you've already pre-amended the soil with enough P. Six of one half dozen of anudder. From what I'm learning you need a fungal dominant focused tea later in flowering and not a bacterial focused one as that recipe provides...especially with the alkalizing properties of the lime initially suggested. I think adding lime would be very counterproductive for a tea to be used in flower. You really need something more acid. A more acid enviro favors fungus and they are mainly responsible for processing and transporting phosphorous to the plants. A fungal dominant soil is more on the acid side. I've always read a more acid pH during flower helps promote larger yields and now I know why...a more fungi supportive/dominant enviro. Bacteria drive soil pH up and fungi drive it down.

Something like that...

 

[Guest]

I hear ya Jiggy....that recipe first posted will be fine. I'm pretty new to the organics game. There's ways to properly buffer anything in the mix. I'm not saying the goal is to totally pre amend soil so you only have to water. I'd rather err on the conservative side and make up with some adjustments along the way.

 

[Guest]

status - I use about the same tea, but only 1 tsp of molassass - sometimes a "heaping tsp" but 1/3 to 1/2 of what your using.

I then mix the tea 50-50 with dechlorinated water.

I also use kelp and fish juice, and bubble hash water (room temp)

and a few drops of dish soap 0- but don't use anti-microbial soap - for obvious reasons

 

[swampdank]

i have found mushroom compost and molasses, with a little bat guano and my secret (not really) ingredient is peat humus. humic acid is awesome for innoculating your bacteria.

 

[Guest]

humic acid is awesome for innoculating your bacteria.

From what I understand it's a particular fungi that converts humic acid to fulvic. Inoculate your bacteria with simple sugars (molasses) and stuff like fish ferts also..just a light dose is needed. Yucca for fungi which convert humates to fulvics and fulvics don't need any anything for transport.

 

[Vash]

What is that exactly? Are we talking regular Quaker Oat Meal?

"1/4 cup powdered (blended) rolled oats"

 

[Guest]

What is that exactly? Are we talking regular Quaker Oat Meal?

I would go with a bunch of regular rolled oats from a health food store from the bulk section as they are not precooked like Quaker 'instant'.

 

[snottyp]

i like to keep my worm bins separate, one for flower one for veg. that way i just feed one high nitrogen foods like alfalfa and instead of adding high P guano to the tea i feed it to the worms so they can break it down more. air stones are mondo important in your tea because the amount of oxygen determines what will be growing in it. you want to be careful when your using high levels of molasses in your solution because it will make it very easy for unwanted anaerobic bacteria to explode. the general rule is that the more oxygen in your tea for the longest amount of time will make it so the "good bacteria" will establish over the unwanted. id use two airstones in your tea and make sure to stir it once a day to give it more oxygen and to mix it up. you want to let it bubble out for atleast 24 hours but i let mine go for three days. i throw in LK, worm casts and sweet in my teas and i stir them once a day with a paint mixer on my drill.