Vandenberg
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Curious to as to what works for you, how do you do the brew?
What yoodoo?
A picture here is now officialy worth a thousand words.
but yet I keep writing.
I now know that I was probably fooling myself as to adequacy of the little ol' air pumps I have used in the past, I may now have over-compensated with my new build.
I have here my airlift tea brewer style (influenced) recirculating compost tea bubbler I recently built.
It Is constantly recirculating the composts extract as it aggressively creates a turbulent surface area that helps to highly aerate the suspended in a teabag "compost dujour" with its "turbo charged" commercial sized air pump is pushing it @ 1189GPH/75 litres a minute.
A lot of big air-pumps can be had these days for 40 bucks online.
This now nicknamed "Mr Bubbler" hybrid setup would perhaps rock 50+gallons or so easily with or without a taller pipe riser, I would reckon/guess.
I love that it can be easily disassembled and its components can be cleaned/sanitized while conviently using a bottle brush to accomplish that.
I did have to submerge the 1-1/4" riser pipe well below the water surface
( instead of spewing the fluctuating tea surges above the surface in order to help to muffle the now being replicted sound of a little 2cycle motorboat motor idling and justa putt-putting away at the dock, a continuous bub-bub-bub-bub-bub..........sound.)
This design is definitely not recommended for an apartment dweller, unless the neighbors are cool, and even they may tell you to "shut that fucking thing up, we're trying to sleep here". ;-)
I tried to initially build it for a 5gallon bucket but that was too much air action for such a small container,as it turned out, so I stretched her lower pipe out to fit a 20 gallon rectangular trash can.
It's hard to have too much infused oxygen to actively support the creation of these microscopic lifeforms, but apparently I'm going to give it one hell of a try.
I've had excellent results recently using this "open source recipe" product called "Boogie Brew Heavy Harvest Tea that is a very well thought out blend of premium quality organic substances.
"DragonFly Earth Medicine" is another mom and pop operation that produces a line of micronized inoculants of herbs, bacteria, humates, and Endo Mycorrhizae that are worth a look see. The " fat flowers" herbal blend product I think is their best seller, at least it is the best known.
So yep, i have gone and hit the easy button on this and have retired my Ol' cement/fertilizer mixer and am so over buying many large sacks ( to get the discount price) of organics to try to concoct up some magic voodoo satchels to brew.
Lets see your brewers!
Happy Harvests,
Vandenberg
And here's one for the big dogs
www.kisorganics.com
Braniac scientist Mr. "Einstein" Wilson's (thats a compliment) treasure trove of microbial technical information to wade through is over @ the web-site Microbe Organics where it will most likely teach ya a thing or three about micro-critter husbandry + best practices.
What yoodoo?
A picture here is now officialy worth a thousand words.
but yet I keep writing. I now know that I was probably fooling myself as to adequacy of the little ol' air pumps I have used in the past, I may now have over-compensated with my new build.
I have here my airlift tea brewer style (influenced) recirculating compost tea bubbler I recently built.
It Is constantly recirculating the composts extract as it aggressively creates a turbulent surface area that helps to highly aerate the suspended in a teabag "compost dujour" with its "turbo charged" commercial sized air pump is pushing it @ 1189GPH/75 litres a minute.
A lot of big air-pumps can be had these days for 40 bucks online.
This now nicknamed "Mr Bubbler" hybrid setup would perhaps rock 50+gallons or so easily with or without a taller pipe riser, I would reckon/guess.
I love that it can be easily disassembled and its components can be cleaned/sanitized while conviently using a bottle brush to accomplish that.
I did have to submerge the 1-1/4" riser pipe well below the water surface
( instead of spewing the fluctuating tea surges above the surface in order to help to muffle the now being replicted sound of a little 2cycle motorboat motor idling and justa putt-putting away at the dock, a continuous bub-bub-bub-bub-bub..........sound.)
This design is definitely not recommended for an apartment dweller, unless the neighbors are cool, and even they may tell you to "shut that fucking thing up, we're trying to sleep here". ;-)
I tried to initially build it for a 5gallon bucket but that was too much air action for such a small container,as it turned out, so I stretched her lower pipe out to fit a 20 gallon rectangular trash can.
It's hard to have too much infused oxygen to actively support the creation of these microscopic lifeforms, but apparently I'm going to give it one hell of a try.
I've had excellent results recently using this "open source recipe" product called "Boogie Brew Heavy Harvest Tea that is a very well thought out blend of premium quality organic substances.
"DragonFly Earth Medicine" is another mom and pop operation that produces a line of micronized inoculants of herbs, bacteria, humates, and Endo Mycorrhizae that are worth a look see. The " fat flowers" herbal blend product I think is their best seller, at least it is the best known.
So yep, i have gone and hit the easy button on this and have retired my Ol' cement/fertilizer mixer and am so over buying many large sacks ( to get the discount price) of organics to try to concoct up some magic voodoo satchels to brew.
Lets see your brewers!
Happy Harvests,
Vandenberg
And here's one for the big dogs
50 gallon Microbulator (Compost Tea Brewer) - FREE SHIPPING
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www.kisorganics.com
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