neeg a good tea for a high n bat guano to add to my feeding program

dopedeeii

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OK I already have sum big girls in 5g pots of sunshine#4advanced peat/coco mix I feed now at prueblendprogrow=pbpg/7 1/2ml per g gh Floragrow=ghfg 7 1/2ml per g liquid karma=OK 7 1/2ml per g gh Floramicros 7 1/2ml per and super thrive twice a mth just to be detailed but I'm getting great results half&half so I would really like to find a good guano vegg booster if possible and would like to know is a tea a instant feed or over time and the draw backs or benefits of useing it I thought to increase beneficial bacteria first off and the extra n I have a bag of gardener's &bloome. Mexican bat guano 10-1-3 I think need to check the bag
 

Nullis

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Not saying this to be a dick: grammar and punctuation go a long way. It helps us to be able to actually want or at least be able to read and understand what it is you're saying. If you are using Liquid Karma you really don't need to use SuperThrive. ST is just a synthetic grow hormone\vitamin concentrate; Liquid Karma contains natural PGRs from kelp extract, vitamins, amino acids and carbohydrates, humic acids, etc.

You can make a simple tea with the Mexican guano, some humus or compost or earthworm castings, and some blackstrap molasses. You could also put Liquid Karma in an AACT as in contains a variety of carbs, humic acids, vitamins, minerals and other compounds microbes can utilize. Bacteria are wonderful, but they are not everything; only in integral part of a larger web. This would include other microbes such as archaea which are a lot like bacteria and for all practical purposes are referred to as bacteria (many are extremophiles which can thrive in very harsh conditions). Then of course there are the fungi which include mold\mildew, yeast and mushrooms (fruiting bodies). There are also protozoans\cilliates and nematodes (microscopic worms) which eat bacteria, fungi and other protozoans\nematodes. Some nematodes are parasitic, some actually parasitize insects and some eat plant roots. There are even fungi which eat nematodes\protozoa, trapping them in their hyphae in structures formed by the mycelium.

All of these organisms play various roles for the soil food web. In the rhizosphere, the plant exudes substances such as carbohydrates to attract microbial activity. The activity nourishes the plant, with usable nutrients, and some microbes play specific roles. All of these organisms are present in healthy soil, compost, humus and earthworm castings although their over-all populations will vary. Usually it is looked at in terms of the populations of bacteria compared to those of fungi. Bacteria can make use of simple carbohydrates such as glucose, fructose and sucrose and they have the advantage of extremely fast, efficient replication and so are able to dominate the substrate.
Bacteria are single celled organisms, and they can only work to decompose the surface of a material. In contrast to fungi, with thread-like hyphae that can penetrate solid materials. Fungi as possess enzymes which allow them to decompose tougher material such as complex carbohydrates like cellulose, starch and chitin, and other tough materials such as lignin. These and other enzymes which most fungi possess, many bacteria do not.

Wrote too much. But anyways, you put a cup of compost\humus\castings per gallon of water and if you are going to use guano it depends on how large the plants are, lighting, etc. Generally you can use a teaspoon to a tablespoon per gallon. The point is that the compost\humus\castings [should] contain good microbial populations, and it will also have good organic matter. I prefer Alaskan humus because of it's biodiversity (tens of thousands of species of bacteria, thousands of species of fungi). The guano will also contain micro-organisms that are dormant, and nutrients. The blackstrap molasses is added to encourage the microbial proliferation, between a couple teaspoons to over a tablepsoon can be used depending on what you are trying to achieve. After 24-36 hours of brewing more of the nutrients will be locked up in the bacterial bio-mass, while others are still in solution\immediately plant available.

If you filter it thru nylon it can be used as a foliar spray. If you made it strong with a lot of guano it should be diluted with water before sprayed onto the plants if they are young. This will coat the leaves with beneficial microbes; and any available nutrients are more quickly absorbed thru the leaves.
 

dopedeeii

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Thks nulls I got the guano brewing now should I add my molasses and brew together r will it ferment
 

dopedeeii

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And for my posting.I'm doing it from my cellphone its work so I try to get it to post best I could
 

The Growery

Active Member
High N Bat guano tea is great but why not just do a EWC brew? or maybe mix ewc and bat guano tea. Add a couple tablespoons of molasses and a tablespoon of kelp/fulvic acid per five gallons to keep the bactera/fungi ratio where it needs to be.
 
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