aerated worm compost tea in a half galon bottles?

Mazer

Mazer

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Dear Gentlefolks,
I am very much interested in brewing some good stuff on a minute scale. I have close to 0 experience with brewing. I read a lot ( too much) an the subject. One thing I learned from the forums is JUST DO IT! I have a tendency to way overthink, plan ahead, do spread sheets, time tables and end up wasting weeks before starting a project.
I don't have the space, nor the need for 5gallon brews. I found some 64oz bottles that I would like to try with.
Has anyone has experience with brewing tiny batches? Any advice?
Banana peel and worm compost are the ones I am wanna try.
Spread the love AND the knowledge.
Trichomly yours,
M.
 
Mazer

Mazer

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Wetdog said:
Have you started a worm bin yet? 'Good stuff' is not likely to be found in a bag AFA castings go.

Feed the banana peels to the worms. They love it and gladly do all the work for free.
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Thanks for the reply Wetdog:). I do have a worm bin. It has been running like crazy for 6 months. I only used the casting for my house plants as they are full of tiny orange/brown mites. They are supposed to be harmless but they sorta kinda freak me out. The idea is that in a tea the little buggers will drown.
I am even thinking of starting a second worm bin so I can have one with high N for vegging and one with high K for flowering. But still. I want to brew tiny amount of teas. 32 or 64 oz max.
Any thoughts?
Peace pon you.
 
Richard Drysift

Richard Drysift

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32ozs? Are you brewing your tea in a big gulp cup? Just grab a cup or 2 of worm castings, a tsp of molasses and a tsp of kelp meal and bubble that for 36 hrs+ in a bucket or bigass big gulp cup with a gal of clean water. It doesn't have to be accurate; any soil mites in there will drown and become proteins.
 
Mazer

Mazer

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Richard Drysift said:
32ozs? Are you brewing your tea in a big gulp cup? Just grab a cup or 2 of worm castings, a tsp of molasses and a tsp of kelp meal and bubble that for 36 hrs+ in a bucket or bigass big gulp cup with a gal of clean water. It doesn't have to be accurate; any soil mites in there will drown and become proteins.
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Yeah, I did just that. 32oz of water, about 2oz of Worm castings (de-wormized) a table spoon of molasses and a teaspoon of kelp. I bubbled it for about 20hrs ( could not wait more) and dilluted one part juice to 4 part water. got about 1.3 gal of surprisingly sweet smelling brown water for the girls. This volume of brew works perfect for me. I will experiment more.
Any suggestion for flowering brews? I have bunch of different minerals, dried plant materials, sea weeds at my disposal.
Trichomly yours,
M
 
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Haven't done teas of any sort for 5 or 6 years now, but will make a VC slurry on occasion. Take a handful or three of VC, a small handful of kelp meal and put in a coffee jug. Add just enough water to make it like thin pancake batter, slosh it around and pour it around the plant. Might need a little more water to get all the dregs out and to make sure it washes down through the mulch. Easy Peasy for hard to top dress/reach plants/containers. Mainly, I just do a top dress and wash it in with a watering.
 
Mazer

Mazer

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Wetdog said:
Haven't done teas of any sort for 5 or 6 years now, but will make a VC slurry on occasion. Take a handful or three of VC, a small handful of kelp meal and put in a coffee jug. Add just enough water to make it like thin pancake batter, slosh it around and pour it around the plant. Might need a little more water to get all the dregs out and to make sure it washes down through the mulch. Easy Peasy for hard to top dress/reach plants/containers. Mainly, I just do a top dress and wash it in with a watering.
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Thanks Wetdog! I will try this!

I just want to mention a video I found after spending about all the spare time I had the past 3 days on the www.logicalgardener.org and http://www.microbeorganics.com.
I gotta to bow down to Tim Wilson! anyhow check it out:
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I have to agree with Tim when he says it is a bit of an overkill. Yet, I am an overkiller myself, so I will try to build a lighter version of the device.
 
Richard Drysift

Richard Drysift

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Vortex brewers are very cool but unnecessary unless you are doing high volumes of aacts. An air hose and a bucket work fine for me but then again this vortex looks like alotta fun to build. Outdoor growers I could see having a need for this and then maybe pumping it right out to the plants but for the average indoor personal grower this is way overkill.
Mazer said:
Yeah, I did just that. 32oz of water, about 2oz of Worm castings (de-wormized) a table spoon of molasses and a teaspoon of kelp. I bubbled it for about 20hrs ( could not wait more) and dilluted one part juice to 4 part water. got about 1.3 gal of surprisingly sweet smelling brown water for the girls. This volume of brew works perfect for me. I will experiment more.
Any suggestion for flowering brews? I have bunch of different minerals, dried plant materials, sea weeds at my disposal.
Trichomly yours,
M
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Trying to understand why you are interested in a vortex brewer when you only want 32oz lol...
I use pretty much the same recipe every time:
EWC
Molasses
Kelp meal
Neptunes Harvest liquid fish
Seabird and/or Bat Guano (optional)

I typically give teas to plants at all different phases of growth at the same time so it's not practical to brew different teas for different phases. I might give a tea 3-4 times during the entire lifespan of a plant in my perpetual grow; teas do not feed in the same way nutrients do. It's more to keep the microbial populations at a high level of activity although it does provide NPK value. I switch on & off between using guanos or not only because what I have on hand right now is high in PK values (5-11-10) which could piss off the fungi. So I only add it into teas for plants in veg or early bloom. I give my plants nothing but straight water after week 6 or 7 of bloom as a rule.
What "juice" are you adding ?
 
Mazer

Mazer

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Richard Drysift said:
Vortex brewers are very cool but unnecessary unless you are doing high volumes of aacts. An air hose and a bucket work fine for me but then again this vortex looks like alotta fun to build. Outdoor growers I could see having a need for this and then maybe pumping it right out to the plants but for the average indoor personal grower this is way overkill.


Trying to understand why you are interested in a vortex brewer when you only want 32oz lol...
I use pretty much the same recipe every time:
EWC
Molasses
Kelp meal
Neptunes Harvest liquid fish
Seabird and/or Bat Guano (optional)

I typically give teas to plants at all different phases of growth at the same time so it's not practical to brew different teas for different phases. I might give a tea 3-4 times during the entire lifespan of a plant in my perpetual grow; teas do not feed in the same way nutrients do. It's more to keep the microbial populations at a high level of activity although it does provide NPK value. I switch on & off between using guanos or not only because what I have on hand right now is high in PK values (5-11-10) which could piss off the fungi. So I only add it into teas for plants in veg or early bloom. I give my plants nothing but straight water after week 6 or 7 of bloom as a rule.


What "juice" are you adding ?
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-that vortex brewer looks just too cool! when I'll manage to spare a few sqf of floor space I'll give it a shot. until then i'll just use my air compressor and some cute air stone...

-I am trying to keep anymal by products away from the ladies. Just a gut feeling that they will do better without. Yet I am thinking that my custom soil might lack some of the macroNutes after a while. Maybe I'll try topdressing with alfalfa/neem meals or similar.

-My bad! I meant diluting the WCT. no actual juice. Having said that, the molasses makes the tea smell peachy and yummy.
 
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