Soil Food Web Gardening with Compost Teas

heard your municipality started introducing flouride this year Bud. gonna need to get yourself a good filtration system.
 
Wait till you see what the teas do to your buds bro!

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They stink to HIGH HELL! And they look the part too!
3oz per plant on 12/12 FS is the deal!
*pics of Seedsman White Widow nug after 4 days drying!
 
Spring is finally here in the Great White North and Nature has already provided a bountiful harvest for tea extract! Dandelions are the season's first.

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[h=2]Compost Tea Recipes[/h] [h=3]If you are using a municipal source of water, aerate the water for 15-20 min prior to adding ingredients. This will evaporate the chlorine from your water. [/h] To prevent foaming, add 1 tsp. vegetable oil.
* = optional ingredients

Bacterial Tea

  • 4 cups Earthworm Castings or other forms of bacterially dominated compost
  • 2 tbsp. molasses or other complex liquid sugars (honey, agave, natural syrups,or fruit juices)
  • .5 oz Soluble Kelp
  • *1-2 oz. (2-4 tbsp.) liquid plant extract (made from comfrey, nettle, or dandelion)
  • *.5 oz Fish Hydrolysate
  • 4-5 gal Chlorine-free Water
[h=3]Brew for 24 - 48 hours and apply to root or leaf zone; tea must be kept aerated until it is applied.[/h] [h=3][/h] Balanced Tea (Bacteria to Fungi)

  • 2 cups Earthworm Castings or other forms of bacterially dominated compost
  • 2 cups Humus or other form of fungi dominated compost
  • .5 oz Soluble Kelp
  • .5 oz Fish Hydrolysate
  • 1 oz Humic Acids
  • *1-2 oz. (2-4 tbl.) liquid plant extract (made from comfrey, nettle, or dandelion)
  • 4-5 gal Chlorine-free Water
[h=3]Brew for 12 - 48 hours and apply within 72; tea must be kept aerated until it is applied. [/h] [h=3][/h] Fungi Tea

  • 4 cups Humus or mature fungi dominated compost
  • 1 oz Humic Acids
  • .5 oz Fish Hydrolysate
  • .5 oz Soluble Kelp
  • *1 tbsp. Rock Phosphate Powder
  • *2-3 tbsp. flour (oat or wheat)
  • 4-5 gal Chlorine-free Water
[h=3]Brew for 24-48 hours and apply within 72; tea must be aerated up until it is applied. To increase the fungal biomass, treat compost with .5 oz kelp, .25 oz Fish Hydrolysate 24-48 hours before brewing.[/h] [h=3][/h] Other Tea Blends
[h=3]Guano Tea[/h]
  • 4 - 8 tbl. Bat or Seabird Guano of choice
  • *2 tbsp. complex liquid sugars (molasses, honey, agave, natural syrups,or fruit juices)
  • *.5 oz Soluble Kelp
  • 4-5 gal Chlorine-free Water
[h=3]Brew for 12 - 48 hours; tea must be kept aerated until it is applied. Apply to root zone.[/h] [h=3][/h] Alfalfa Tea

  • 1 cup ground Alfalfa meal
  • * 1 - 4 cups Earthworm Castings or mature compost
  • *2 tbsp. molasses or other complex liquid sugars
  • *.5 oz Soluble Kelp
  • 4-5 gal Chlorine-free Water
[h=3]Brew for 12 - 24 hours; tea must be kept aerated until it is applied. Apply to root zone. Alfalfa tea is good source of vitamins A and B; Folic acids, Amino acids, crude proteins, high Nitrogen(N), phosphorus(P), potassium(K), calcium(Ca), magnesium(Mg), sulphur(S), Manganese(Mn), iron(Fe), copper(Cu), boron(B), and zinc(Zn).[/h] [h=3][/h] Liquid Plant Extract

  • 5 Gallon Garden Tea Brewer
  • Young Comfrey, Nettle, and/or Dandelion leaves
  • 4-5galChlorine-free Water
[h=3]Instructions: Fill a 5 gallon bucket (loosely) with chopped/ crushed young Comfrey, Nettle, or Dandelion leaves. Faster fermentation will occur if the stems and leaves are bruised. Fill the rest of the bucket with chlorine free water, cover, place in a shaded area, and brew for 2 weeks in warm weather (70 - 90% water temp) or 4-5 weeks in cool weather (50 - 70%). This mix can sit without active aeration and ferment with time. Warning! If making plant extracted teas without active aeration, teas will smell like an open sewer throughout fermentation and when finished. The end product will be a dark concentrated liquid fertilizer. After the fermentation period strain liquid and squeeze the remnants to extract as much juice as possible. Feed the solid wastes to your compost pile. Filter and store tea in a cool dark place or in refrigeration. All of the above listed plant extracts are an excellent stand-alone fertilizer for many annuals and perennials.[/h]
  • Comfrey tea is a good source of vitamin A and C; calcium(Ca), phosphorus(P), potassium(K), along with many trace minerals.
  • Nettle tea is good source of vitamins A, C, and K; calcium(Ca), magnesium(Mg), phosphorus(P), potassium(K), boron(B), bromine(Br), copper(Cu), iron(Fe), selenium(Se), silicon(Si), and zinc(Zn).
  • Dandelion tea is a good source of vitamins A and C, calcium(Ca), and potassium(K).
[h=3]Application: Filtered liquid extracts should be diluted to a tea color, at a rate of 1 tsp. tea extract to 1 gallon chlorine-free water. Plant extracts can be diluted at ratios up to 15:1 depending on maturity and phase of plant growth (1 part filtered extract to 15 parts water). [/h]
 
yankeegreen said:
Spring is finally here in the Great White North and Nature has already provided a bountiful harvest for tea extract! Dandelions are the season's first.

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Was just looking around at what you would use the dandys for and I just came across the read I just shared.
But you mind sharing your logic in using them bro and how you do so?
I know it helps that you got a free supply too lol :peace:
 
Sincerely420 said:
Was just looking around at what you would use the dandys for and I just came across the read I just shared.
But you mind sharing your logic in using them bro and how you do so?
I know it helps that you got a free supply too lol :peace:
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Dandelion are a deep-root weed and are a good source of vitamins A and C, calcium and Potassium[FONT=times new roman, times]. Not as good as complete as comfrey or nettles, but as you noted, they are a gift and widely available!

At least a couple ways to prepare:

- Take the leaves, stems and flowers (some include the roots), steep them in water few weeks (covered), Pour off the liquid as your extract, dilute and use.
- Another way is to prepare a bucket (5 gal works for me) by drilling some holes in the bottom. Bruise the leaves, stems and flowers first, then dump them in the bucket (with no added water) til the bucket is full. Put something heavy (brick?) on top of the pile to add pressure and cover. Put the bucket inside another bucket without holes to catch the goodness as nature breaks it down. Put the two buckets in a sunny spot. Take concentrate as needed or harvest at one time.[/FONT]
 
Cheers boss :joint:

What up the smell from making extracts? Do you get anything unworthy of being inside lol?
Def. about to break my extract cherry with this next run!
 
Sincerely420 said:
Cheers boss :joint:

What up the smell from making extracts? Do you get anything unworthy of being inside lol?
Def. about to break my extract cherry with this next run!
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Yeah, steeping green stuff can get pretty vile. The 2nd method in the post below is far less smelly than the first, more concentrated extract but much lower yield. I use dandelion tea on my veggies and am moving toward totally organic MJ growing style. Adding Yarrow, Stinging Nettle and Borage to my legit garden this year.
 
Damnit.......I was guessing it could....
Think I'll have to hit the drawing boards to figure out what I'll do about it....I need all things to be indoor friendly pretty much..
Maybe just get a little indoor composter with a carbon filter??

And I'm def. gonna delve into the comfrey and nettle! I pick a little bit up about those earlier on in this thread..

FYI WORLD, MARYLAND IS OFFICIALLY THE 19TH STATE LEGAL FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES!

That's progress for your ASS!
 
To make a good fungal tea you should really give the fungus a head start before adding it to your tea to do this take oat bran or if you have pets dry dog or cat food and grind it up and moisten it and let it sit for a few days. You will see fungus start to grow on it and soon it will be like a chunk of fungus break up the chunk and add that to the tea. Dry dog or cat food are also good compost activators.

Note: you want to see white fungus not black.
 
I just made a tea with compost and molasses and that's it. I'm out of kelp and worm castings. I don't buy humic acids. They are already in compost. The end result of composting anything is humus / humic acid. Same thing.


Sincerely420 said:
FYI WORLD, MARYLAND IS OFFICIALLY THE 19TH STATE LEGAL FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES!

That's progress for your ASS!
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Its been medical there fr a couple years. But unlike cali, az, oregon, washington, nevada, michigan, and Colorado. You have to have a debilitating disease that's on their list. To qualify to be a patient. Same thing with all the other medical States.

When new York goes legal. I'm moving there
 
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