Compost Tea recipes needed

[turdhole]

Anyone have any good compost tea recipes they would like to share? Ingredients and measurements please.

Thanks.

--turdhole

turdhole Reviewed by turdhole on 05-23-2012. Compost Tea recipes needed Anyone have any good compost tea recipes they would like to share? Ingredients and measurements please. Thanks. --turdhole Rating: 5

[herbyVor]

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Anyone have any good compost tea recipes they would like to share? Ingredients and measurements please.

Thanks.

--turdhole

Hi there,

Got a good recipe (not organic or hand made by any stretch) that will give you a good frothy CFU brew in 24 hours . . . here we go:

20 litres Water (demineralised, ideally RO) or tap water left out and bubbled for at least 24hrs (removes chlorine)
10ml Bud Candy from Advanced Nutrients (Several types of sugars and a few carbos as food for microbes)
5ml Humbolts Honey ES (More natural sugars)
5ml Carbo Load from Advanced Nutrients (Additional carbos)
10ml Golden Nectar Humic Acid from GHE (Activates the Piranha well, conditions the soil and other things)
5 ml Fox Farms Bushdoctor Microbe Brew blinding stuff :thumbsup:
5g Piranha Powder (mix to a thick watery clay in a shot glass with a few drips of water, then added slowly to bucket)
5g Tarantula Powder (mix to a thick watery clay in a shot glass with a few drips of water, then added slowly to bucket)

Leave these ingredients in a bucket with a bubbling air stone in the bottom, a small water pump to keep it all agitated AND, if needs be, an aquarium heater set the mix to somewhere between 22 to 24 deg. C oh yeah, keep the lid on it and ideally keep it our of light's way.

I'm considering adding a Vitamin supplement to the recipe, (AN's B52 or Hesi's SuperVit etc) just to see if it has any effect. Could a Vit supplement in a Tea help???

Any hoo, in 24 to 36 hours you will have a good healthy frothy bucket of goodness ready to serve your root zone . . . . . . I have found my plants can handle A) More regular feeding (coz they burn the feeds up quicker) and B) Stronger feeds . . . . . resulting in perfuse growth and flowering . . . . .

Hope this helps you, or anyone else for that mater . . . ..

Cheers n gone

:bigsmoke:

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[Shovelhandle]

For a two gallon batch add a handful (a 1/4 cup) of compost or composted manure, a handful of Espoma Plant-Tone (or any other Espoma product with the bio-tone 'bugs' in it), a handful of Earth Worm Castings, two tablespoons of molasses. Set in a warm area about 78º F (25º C) and bubble with an aquarium pump/airstones for 24-48 hours. Apply directly to the soil. Leave out the EWC in bloom cycle.

[Esteban1]

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[soma151]

Anyone have any good compost tea recipes they would like to share? Ingredients and measurements please.

Thanks.

--turdhole

We first need to really understand WHAT COMPOST TEA IS? It is not compost leachates, compost extracts, manure teas..These have been used by farmers for years and are good to use on a farm. But what you are looking for is Modern compost tea they are aerobic mixtures and not the same thing. A really good book is Teaming with Microbes and a good web site if Compost Junkie. Happy tea making

[lipps]

Anyone have any good compost tea recipes they would like to share? Ingredients and measurements please.

Thanks.

--turdhole

The reason for making tea is to increase the microbes so the main ingredient is compost or worm castings then you feed those microbes so they eat a lot and excrete the good stuff that your plants need. This takes place naturally in your soil what making tea does is speed it up and concentrate it. Feed the microbes molasses, kelp, glacial dust as a base and add what you want just remember that you are feeding the microbes. You can make different formulas for growth and flowering.

[jwhite4100]

A diverse microbial population in the compost tea or extract is extremely important. Use a humus compost from an aquatic source such as Fishnure that is made from composted fish manure and a small amount of clay. The microbes remain alive and active in the putty-like substance and will immediately dissolve in water.

[catbuds]

Hey! This is all GREAT advice/recipes! The only thing I would add is to switch it up once in a while so you don't miss anything. YEAH! GO ORGANICS!

[CaptainOrganicsCO]

Something I would add (my 2cent) is keep the ewc in the tea early on in bloom the micro beasties love nitrogen still even though the plant is flowering and doesn't need as much and even more importantly quality or fresh EWC are a great way to inoculate your tea so it is really full of life not just nutes.

[catbuds]

I'm a very diverse person, many intrest. While taking horticulture in the 70's, I tried all the modern chemical shit because of curriculum & I'm still ORGANIC! Have always questioned how & why things work, even Mother Nature. Being a lone wolf, I've come up with a lot of my own techniques that work. Usually not the 'norm'. I'll be posting my own techniques as I go, all organic. One thing I got from my grandmother (she died in 1963, so this isn't really new, just not common), is fish tank water from UNTREATED tanks only, no fish meds or salt. Tanks that have been inoculated with a beneficial bacteria is even better. Gold fish make better plant water than tropicals. I'll be going into more detail on this on my grow log later. Guess you all already know about willow water as a rooting hormone? Well in addition to nutes & trace elements in tank water, there's also growth hormones. Compost tea is awesome, but if you limit yourself to just this you'll miss out on someother great organics such as marine biotics. Broaden your horizons & be open to all the wonders Mother Nature has to offer! ~~~ PEACE! ~~~