My Organic Tea Recipe Thread. Share Yours

[P.S. i love you]

Per gallon of water:

2 TBS Alfalfa Meal
3 TBS Worm Castings
1 TBS Kelp Meal
1 tsp Molasses

Shake it up in a bottle with good water as many times a day as you can remember too, pour it from container to container to aerate a bit.
I use it within 18 to 24 hours. Beyond that it goes from smelling real earthy and rich (good, especially when it fizzes little bubbles) to smelling like death rolled in mierda. Sorry, but it does. Too stoned=rotten tea...Good Tea=Stoned too good

This of course is just one of MANY variations. Experiment with your own and just use your nose

 

[green as grass]

what is people using for a dillution ratio for a foliar feeding with teas? i use 1 to 3 ratio for soil drenching but havent tried spraying with it?

 

[green as grass]

i think it's crazy that there is 950 view and only 20 replies... comon peeps...
anyway i just started using hi brix molasses and its smells oh so good.

 

[Token Winston]

Nice little recipe.

 

[green as grass]

why thank you. you brew?

 

[HotPhyre]

Well im pretty sure im growing organic!!!

Im using Happy Frog Soil - dude from the hydro store said it was organic and also no bugs!

for veg. cycle im using only mexican bat guano at the moment i feed every other watering with my tea.
i put 1 tbs per gallon of water and let it brew for 8 hrs or so with my air stone.

Its my first grow, its indoor and want it to be organic.

For flowering i picked up bio bizz brand organic nutes, there liquid but i still plan to somewhat brew it for a couple of hours for feeding.

im strating it off this weekend into flowering if u want to check it out the link in my sig.

 

[Mother's Finest]

Personally, I couldn't give just one recipe. The composition of our teas depends on what the plant currently needs. On top of that, the plants love variety. As long as you keep changing the ferts a little, the plants will be much less likely to get too much or too little of anything, especially trace elements.

Using low levels of heat and a good amount of soaking time while brewing will free up the long-term release compounds that aren't quickly absorbed by water. You'll get a much richer brew by putting the ferts in a large pot, adding pure water and turning the stove on its lowest setting for a few hours before straining. As long as you avoid letting the pot get hot enough to steam (@room temp & average humidity), no ferts will be destroyed in the cooking process. Also, just because the pot starts to steam a little doesn't mean the tea is damaged at all, it just means that it's getting close and you should turn the temperature down a bit. Allow the pot to cool before straining.

 

[Matt Rize]

Personally, I couldn't give just one recipe. The composition of our teas depends on what the plant currently needs. On top of that, the plants love variety. As long as you keep changing the ferts a little, the plants will be much less likely to get too much or too little of anything, especially trace elements.

Using low levels of heat and a good amount of soaking time while brewing will free up the long-term release compounds that aren't quickly absorbed by water. You'll get a much richer brew by putting the ferts in a large pot, adding pure water and turning the stove on its lowest setting for a few hours before straining. As long as you avoid letting the pot get hot enough to steam, no ferts will be destroyed in the cooking process. Allow the pot to cool before straining.

Agreed, I prefer to use my rooting heat mats to warm the tea, but that is cause I would never think about doing that to my stock pot. lol

 

[aeviaanah]

interesting tea recipes. this is my first tea, please tell me what you think.

i started a bubba kush in ffof, fed synthetic nutrients for a few weeks. i am not ready to transplant quite yet but i do want to start soil food web. i have been giving plant water only for a few waterings. i have a gallon of water with an airstone in it sitting out to remove chlorine, i then plan on adding 1/2 tbsp of age old grow organics grow powder (8-4-1) directions on package say 1tbsp per gallon of soil....a half tbsp should be ok for a tea right? i was also going to add some ewc but am unsure of how much. i will then let it brew for 24 hours under a heat pad stabilizing temp around 75. sound good? plant will be hungry.

so-
1 gal water
1/2 tbsp age old grow 8-4-1 - derived from meat and bone meal, volcanic rock dust, composted poultry manure, blood meal, bone meal, humic acid
??? earth worm castings
??? fish emulsion

is a gallon jug and a few airstones enough to get microbes goin?
should i add fish emulsion to this mix?
how much ewc?

 

[aeviaanah]

Personally, I couldn't give just one recipe. The composition of our teas depends on what the plant currently needs. On top of that, the plants love variety. As long as you keep changing the ferts a little, the plants will be much less likely to get too much or too little of anything, especially trace elements.

Using low levels of heat and a good amount of soaking time while brewing will free up the long-term release compounds that aren't quickly absorbed by water. You'll get a much richer brew by putting the ferts in a large pot, adding pure water and turning the stove on its lowest setting for a few hours before straining. As long as you avoid letting the pot get hot enough to steam (@room temp & average humidity), no ferts will be destroyed in the cooking process. Also, just because the pot starts to steam a little doesn't mean the tea is damaged at all, it just means that it's getting close and you should turn the temperature down a bit. Allow the pot to cool before straining.

what temp we talkin here?

 

[mamador1r]

1 tbs rabbit poo
1 tbs alfalfa
1 tbs kelp
1 tbs ewc
2 tbs molasses
& when the extra nitrogen is needed
1 tbs fish emulsion

usually this is brewed & applied right from the container, i believe its a 30 something gallon container with excellent results

 

[Mother's Finest]

Around 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Think of it as going for a puddle of water heated by the sun all day in the summer- warm but not hot to the touch. By heating it a little you are speeding up the process and you won't see improved results beyond cooking it about 6hrs.

I'll get off work and make up a tea. Start it on low heat and let it go till bedtime, stirring occasionally and watching for steam. Turn the stove off and go to bed, letting it cool all night, slowly going through the temperature range and picking up substances that disolve better at various temps (letting tea steep). It's cool in the morning and we strain it through certain fabrics that strain well without clogging. Honestly it's exactly how regular tea should be made, just a slightly lower temp and with stirring.

 

[Mazar i Shariff]

Great thread everyone! I look forward to stop buying organic nutes and start creating my own composts & teas from scratch. I may have to buy some stuff here & there, but I know a lot of it I can simply get from my own daily activities & routines.

Some goals for going homemade organic:

1) Take a few walks down the beach and gather some bags of kelp/seaweed. I should be able to find a good bit of crab shells, too.

2) Go fishing and after filleting the catch, I can take the scraps and create a fish emulsion/bone meal with it, OR, toss that into a crab pot and go crabbing. After I dine on some fresh dungeonous, all the shells can be collected to decompose and create a crab meal which my girls love.

3) Create a compost, as I go through things such as eggs, avacados, bananas, ... quite frequently, and the shells & peels just goto waste when they could be making a rich compost.

4) I have multiple grow boxes, some that aren't being used. These would be perfect to throw some mesh wire over the top to keep birds out and purchase a bunch of worms & red wrigglers from a bait shop and toss in there with a bunch of corn meal for them to feed on, and then in no time I can have my own earthworm castings.

 

[aeviaanah]

Around 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Think of it as going for a puddle of water heated by the sun all day in the summer- warm but not hot to the touch. By heating it a little you are speeding up the process and you won't see improved results beyond cooking it about 6hrs.

I'll get off work and make up a tea. Start it on low heat and let it go till bedtime, stirring occasionally and watching for steam. Turn the stove off and go to bed, letting it cool all night, slowly going through the temperature range and picking up substances that disolve better at various temps (letting tea steep). It's cool in the morning and we strain it through certain fabrics that strain well without clogging. Honestly it's exactly how regular tea should be made, just a slightly lower temp and with stirring.

is straining the tea a must?

 

[Mother's Finest]

Not necessarily. Some small issues arise if you don't. First, the base fertilizer will start to pile up on the top of the soil after a few feedings and it won't have the drainage characteristics of good potting soil. Second, after feedings there will be leftover soaked guano in the pot. To keep from throwing good nutrients away, you'd have to squeeze the liquid out of it, which is basicly straining anyway.

 

[Mother's Finest]

I think a good rule of thumb would be that straining is important, but it doesn't need to be dripped through a coffee filter. Some insoluble debris in the final liquid is perfectly fine. We use old, low threadcount sheets. They don't soak up nearly as much liquid as towels & rags, don't clog quickly and are of course washable.

 

[aeviaanah]

I think a good rule of thumb would be that straining is important, but it doesn't need to be dripped through a coffee filter. Some insoluble debris in the final liquid is perfectly fine. We use old, low threadcount sheets. They don't soak up nearly as much liquid as towels & rags, don't clog quickly and are of course washable.

thanks for the information....can you take a look over post #29? make sure i am on the right page...i am getting ready to make my first tea.

 

[TheRuiner]

This is interesting, I have been using a modified version of WhoDatNations brew for a little over a month now, here's what I use:

1 tbsp liquid karma
1 tbsp molasses
1 tbsp of Maxicrops Liquid seaweed
about 1/8 cup of Jamaican Bat Guano, Worm Castings and Peruvian Seabird Guano

all this gets mixed strait into about 2 gallons of well water where it stays for about 24 hours with a air stone running in the bottom, getting stirred occasionally.

Afterwards I dip up what I plan on using for my cannabis plant/plants and pour it out into another wide mouthed gallon container (leaving the bulk of the solids in the bottom of the bucket). I ph the mixture if needed to get it in the correct range and water away (sometimes I cut the tea with more water depending on what the plant can handle). I have given a second life to a burnt plant with this mixture and can't wait to try a similar brew on more plants from start to finish.
I take whats left of the brew and water it down and use it outside in the garden for some of the best organic fruit and vegies ever!

 

[monkeybones]

I just mix blood and bone meal into my soil, and feed Mexican and Indonesian bat guanos as teas, with the ritual dose of superthrive. Haven't tried molasses, but I am going to for my current grow.

 

[Mother's Finest]

When brewing tea you want to leave out any ferts that dissolve easily and entirely in water. They should be added to the mix after straining. For example, Maxicrop completely dissolves very easily in water so nothing would be gained by letting it steep in the pot. You actually run a slightly higher risk of harmful bacteria, rot and the breakdown of beneficial nutrients by letting a mixed MC solution sit around unrefrigerated. In addition, any easily soluble substance you add to the tea will make it somewhat harder for less soluble compounds to be absorbed into the liquid. It's the difference between soaking guano in pure water and soaking it in an already mixed fertilizer solution. Fish Emulsion/Hydrolyzed Fish and Molasses are the only other ferts I'm seeing mentioned in this thread that are easily water soluble and could hinder the absorbtion of other nutrients when making tea. Molasses at least would dissolve better while the liquid is warm, perhaps added just before letting it cool.

Worm castings shouldn't be made into tea as regularly as guanos and such. It's awesome as a soil additive because it slowly releases micronutes over time but the high ratio of trace elements to primary elements means making it into a tea gives the plants a jolt of micronutes. This can be good for them if they need it but not so good in excess. Make every other tea with them, once the WC in the soil start running out towards the end of the flowering period. WC teas also work well with mother plants that haven't had fresh soil in awhile.

How much of each ingredient depends alot on the plants being fed, the concentration of the base fert, how many plants to feed, etc. You'll want to read the directions on ingredients to see how far they'll go, and figure out a rough estimate for how many plants you have and how much water each one's soil will soak up. Even after doing the math, you'll still need to try it out on the plants and see how they like it. You keep adding more ferts in future teas until the plants start to burn and then pull it back some and write down how much they like. It's alot of trial and error fine tuning ferts for your plants and I'm sorry that I can't be more specific on fert ratios.

The Ph of the final solution should be checked and adjusted if need be. Once you have a routine going for tea making, you'll be able to just throw some lime or whatnot into the mix and it'll come out just right.